The wait is over, Google Chrome extensions are here for everybody, bar Mac users, and the online Extensions Gallery is now live with over 300 extensions at the time of launch. More than a year after Chrome was launched, the single most requested feature is now fully-fleshed and supported in the latest Beta builds of the browser which were released for all platforms today.
“We’re launching extensions in the beta channel for Windows and Linux (Mac is in progress). We’re also opening our gallery, which, as of now, contains more than 300 extensions!,” Erik Kay and Aaron Boodman, Google software engineers wrote. “An extension system has been one of our most requested features for Google Chrome. It’s a tribute to Mozilla and the Firefox project that nowadays, users just expect all browsers to have built-in extensibility.”
“Today, we’re really happy to release a beta of extensions that begins to deliver on our initial vision. Extensions are as easy to create as webpages. Users can install and uninstall them quickly without restart, and extensions have a great polished look that fits in with Google Chrome’s minimalist aesthetic,” they explained.
Now, users of the latest Chrome Beta for Windows and Linux and, of course, those of the dev builds for all platforms can visit t… (read more)