Developers

With the latest version, what I would like to call the Best Google Chrome Version ever, the Google Browser now supports Greasemonkey scripts natively. Some of you might be jumping with joy now, and for others who are wondering what this stuff means, here is a small intro

What is Greasemonkey

Greasemonkey is a Firefox extension  that allows developers to customize web pages using simple JavaScript. Greasemonkey can be used for adding new functions to web pages (for example, embedding price comparison in Amazon.com web pages), fixing rendering bugs, combining data from multiple webpages, and numerous other purposes. Read More Here

So, What’s the Deal ?

If you read carefully, on Firefox, you need to install an extension before you add any Greasemonkey script. However, Google Chrome has this feature “inbuiilt”, ie, it works without installing any extension. there’s over 40,000 scripts on userscripts.org alone. You can install any of them to your Chrome Browser too !

Installation is quick and easy, just like installing an extension. That’s because under the covers, the user script is actually converted into an extension. This means that management tasks like disabling and uninstalling work just like they do with extensions.

Note that user scripts are powerful software and have full access to your private data on any web site. So, for example, they could read all your web mail or access your online bank. Be sure to read the comments on any user scripts in order to decide whether you trust the author with this power.

Source: blog.chromium.org

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Google Chrome Extensions Gallery

Google Chrome Extensions gallery has now more than 1500 extensions ! Congratulations, Google chrome team, and all developers out there !!

Here is what an extension is, Google’s Own words ..

Extensions are little programs, created by developers, which add useful functionality to the browser and to the websites you visit. Some provide you with alerts and notifications, others let you easily access your favorite web services from icons next to your address bar, and there are lots more.

Now, a short video explaining how to use Extensions

chrome extensions  Google Chrome Extensions now in your Language !

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Starting with Google Chrome developer channel release 4.0.288.1 and beta channel release 4.0.249.64 for Windows, an internationalization (i18n) framework for Google Chrome Extensions is available and enabled by default.

This will help developers to use different languages for their extensions. To localize the extension manifest, extract all user-visible strings into message catalogs, and define the default locale.

Are you a developer  ? For instructions on how to do this, and for more details, see the documentation.

Google Chrome Official Release ( Dev ) for Mac and Linux !!

And finally …..  sorry, I feel I need to add another “finalllyyyy” ( because, it took sooo long ) we have official releases of Google Chrome Linux and Mac OSX. But wait, why am I so excited ? There is no need to be that much excited yet, since this is a developer version, where [...]

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Google Launches Chrome Experiments

Google Chrome handles Javascripts at their best. Google is trying to take advantage of this ability, to push their product forward. With the release of the new website Chrome Experiments, Google presents Javascripts created by developers around the world. You can be one of them !! What is Chrome Experiments ? The website says …. [...]

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