Google Chrome plug-ins incoming!

by admin September 10, 2009 at 5:36 pm

On Firefox but itching to switch to Google Chrome? The big G’s one flaw next to Mozilla’s rapidly bloating browser is lack of easy to use add-ons, but that could soon be about to change, as the search giant’s taken the first big step towards making Google Chrome extensions mainstream.

Google has just announced that it’s turning on extensions (akin to Firefox plug-ins) by default in new developer builds of Google Chrome. Crafty computer pros could turn these features (like Gmail alerts) on before, but this marks the first step in the “launch process” to giving them the greenlight for the official, non-beta version of Google Chrome.

Read more: electricpig.co.uk