Monday, January 25, 2010

Extensibility + new HTML and JavaScript APIs for Google Chrome

Today's new stable release of Google Chrome for Windows includes a bundle of browser goodness, including extensions and new HTML and JavaScript APIs.

Extensions -- previously available on Google Chrome for Windows on the beta channel -- and are now available to all users. Extensions enable you to provide additional functionality not just on your site, but to bring content and functionality from your site into the browser regardless of what sites the user has open. Google Chrome extensions use the same multiprocess technology that makes the browser fast and more secure, so that extensions won't crash or slow down your browser.


In addition, we're excited to introduce a number of new HTML and JavaScript APIs in Google Chrome, including the Web Storage and Web SQL Database APIs, WebSockets, and more. For more details about these APIs, read further on the Chromium Blog.

If you have questions about the extensions APIs, the extensions discussion group continues to be the best place to get answers. For the new HTML and JavaScript APIs, check out the newly created Chromium HTML5 group. And for those of you who are interested in attending Google I/O, check out the current list of Google Chrome sessions.

7 comments:

  1. firebug as chrome extension will be the next big thing

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  2. Well Firebug Lite for all browsers has already been available for quite some time, and has already been customized for Chrome, it seems:
    https://chrome.google.com/extensions/detail/bnbbfjbeaefgipfjpdabmpadaacmafkj

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  3. If only you could print without margins, I'd say goodbye to FireFox.
    http://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=947

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  4. +1 to Firebug. I for one am VERY excited about this. Chrome's user base is growing much quicker than I ever thought it could.

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  5. very cool & good APIs, thank you very much for sharing.

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  6. Can someone send me an invite for Google Voice please. I thank you in advance.

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