Wednesday, 9 December 2009

Chrome beta 4: extensions are now active

On the last version 4 beta of Google Chrome, the extensions were finally selected. To take advantage, it must therefore necessarily begin by installing the latest version of test, including download links are given below:
• Windows
• Mac OS X
• Linux

Once the browser up, the rest is fairly simple. In the wrench menu, you have to click on Extensions:

We then come to a page that references all of those have been installed. Since this is the first time, none of this, and Chrome gives you an active link to the catalog of extensions.

In this case, we tested the installation of Google Mail Checker, whose role is to display a small icon to the right of the address bar to warn of the receipt of mail in Gmail:


Once the extension in place, it automatically fills his role:

Extensions currently the most popular are:
• Google Mail Checker
• Google Translate for quick access to tools to translate the firm
• AdThwart based on Adblock Plus to block advertisements on websites
• RSS Subscription Extension for a quick button to add a feed to a list
• Xmarks at the base a popular Firefox extension to synchronize bookmarks
• Chrome Bird, a Twitter client built