When Chrome supports AdBlock, it will be the winner, but until it does, Firefox is the only choice.' 'Chrome is faster until you factor in all the cruft that gets downloaded as ads, then it isn't faster anymore.

'Of all the Firefox plug-ins, this is the one essential one,' said Firefox user Ole Eichhorn. And on Google's issue tracking site for Chromium, a Chrome extensions feature is the top-requested item. In an unscientific CNET News poll about why people don't use Chrome, about 19 percent pointed to the lack of an extensions feature. Features: ForecastFox, FoxyTunes, Web Of Trust, GooglePreview, BugMeNot Download helpers: video helpers, download accelerators, DownThemAll, FlashGot Content filtering: AdBlock, Flashblock, privacy control, parental control

Content enhancements: Skype extension (clickable phone numbers), RealPlayer extension (save video), Autolink (generic microformat data-addresses, phone numbers, etc.) Bookmarking/navigation tools: Delicious Toolbar, StumbleUpon, Web-based history, new tab page clipboard accelerators.

Extensions are a popular feature of Chrome's most likely rival, Mozilla's Firefox, and one very popular extension is AdBlock Plus.Īnd AdBlock makes a specific appearance on the list of extension uses that Google said it would like to support eventually: When Google launched Chrome three months ago, it promised a Chrome extensions framework. 'User-created extensions have been proposed to solve these problems: the addition of features that have specific or limited appeal users coming from other browsers who are used to certain extensions that they can't live without bundling partners who would like to add features to Chromium specific to their bundle.' 'Chromium can't be everything to all people,' according to the document.

The Chrome extensions document, spotlighted Saturday by Google programmer Aaron Boodman, doesn't include a timeline, but it does shed light on why the project is a priority for Chromium, the open-source project behind Chrome. Google has published its plan to build into Chrome what is arguably its most requested feature: the ability to accept extensions that can customize how the open-source Web browser operates.Īnd guess what? Google's dependence on advertising notwithstanding, one of the extension examples the company points to is the ability to block advertisements.

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