Google Chrome Getting Extensions Soon
Written by Josh on Saturday, September 20th, 2008A couple weeks ago I posted that a developer had already discovered it was possible to run Firefox GreaseMonkey Scripts in Google Chrome and released Grease Metal to do just that.
InformationWeek announced today that according to Google Chrome Engineer Ojan Vafai the idea is for the browser to support both scripts and extensions:
"There’s two different kinds of add-ons," Vafai said. "The Firefox things extend your browser, so to speak, and then there are user scripts. We intend to do both of those in Google Chrome”
Does anything about this remind you of the Car industry? The panel discussion involving Mozilla CTO Brendan Eich, Microsoft Platform Architect Chris Wilson and Google engineer Vafai resulted in each company acknowledging the strengths of their competitors and stating their own progress in that direction.
Extensions for Chrome, Standards support for IE, Tab isolation for Firefox.
Looks like they’ve all got something to work on and the real winners are us, the users who have 4 major companies all pushing each other to innovate and improve their products.
Interestingly though is Vafai’s comment about extensions in Firefox; “there are problems with instability". That’s something Google wants to avoid and perhaps explains the delay.
Tags: Extensions, Scripts
Posted in Browsers, Chrome, Firefox, Internet Explorer
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Review on — September 21, 2008, 2:46 pm