Google's Chrome Browser will eventually have extensions, but they will be tightly monitored
Since Google's Chrome web browser launched last September, it has garnered a small market share (roughly one percent, depending on the study you read). Chrome has embraced a lot of principles that has made the Mozilla Firefox browser so popular: It's fast and open to web developers to improve it.
But Chrome has yet to replicate the extension of "add-on" features that allow normal users to embed more functionality on top of their browser, as Firefox has done so famously. Created by third-party developers, a typical add-on (or extension) might help you preview web-pages or view how many messages you have in your Gmail, for example.
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Since Google's Chrome web browser launched last September, it has garnered a small market share (roughly one percent, depending on the study you read). Chrome has embraced a lot of principles that has made the Mozilla Firefox browser so popular: It's fast and open to web developers to improve it.
But Chrome has yet to replicate the extension of "add-on" features that allow normal users to embed more functionality on top of their browser, as Firefox has done so famously. Created by third-party developers, a typical add-on (or extension) might help you preview web-pages or view how many messages you have in your Gmail, for example.
More: http://www.computerworld.com/action/article.do?command=viewArticleBasic&articleId=9133599