The biggest feature in Google Chrome 4 was without doubt the built in extension engine that allowed Chrome users to easily install and use extensions. What the developers forgot to mention in the release announcement was that Greasemonkey userscript support was also added to the web browser.
Userscripts are small scripts that change elements on the [...]
Google Chrome 4 Natively Supports Greasemonkey Scripts
Hide Extension Buttons In Google Chrome
Now that a stable version of Google Chrome with extension support has been released to the public it is time to concentrate on some of the usability issues in the web browser. One of these usability issues is that most extensions add buttons to the Google Chrome toolbar. This toolbar can fill pretty quickly with [...]
Google Chrome Website Monitor
More and more extensions that have once only been available for the Firefox web browser are released for the Google Chrome web browser. The latest to join the ranks is the Page Monitor add-on for Google Chrome which offers a similar functionality as the popular Firefox add-on Update Scanner.
The program offers two options of [...]
Popular Firefox Add-Ons And Their Google Chrome Equivalent
Google’s Chrome web browser has developed into an interesting competitive browser that brings several new features to the table that Firefox does not including better security thanks to its multi-process system and speed thanks to its faster engines. But there are also elements that Firefox is currently having the advantage with the most important being [...]
Discover Similar Pages With Google Similar Pages For Chrome
One of the advantages of the Google Chrome browser is that Google is actively developing extensions for it. That’s an advantage because it ensures that users do not have to worry (that much) about data security and that popular Google services are available as extensions for the web browser. Google Similar Pages is an add-on [...]
Google Chrome History Manager
Google Chrome’s web history manager displays a neat list of visited websites sorted by date with options to search for specific pages using the search form at the top of the screen. The listing can get very crowded as the Chrome browser records the access of every page on every domain that the user has [...]
Where Do You Go For Declined Google Chrome Extensions
The release of the official Google Chrome extensions gallery was a big step for Google and the web browser. The Google browser lacked a central location for extensions, something that Mozilla offered at the official Mozilla website for Firefox users or Microsoft at the Internet Explorer 8 website. With the release came first reports that [...]
Official Google Chrome Extensions Website Opens Its Doors
One of the things that kept extension development and especially distribution behind (Firefox) was a missing official website that would host the majority of extensions for the Google browser. Google Chrome users who wanted to use extensions had to rely on third party websites to find some that they could use and install.
This has [...]