Chrome Extensions

Google Chrome extensions gallery open to public

After the announcement that the Google Chrome browser extensions gallery was open to developers last week, today saw the launch to the public of the ability to download the addons that it has been filling its site with. The first impression of the gallery is that it is certainly easy to navigate, with lists of 'Today's Top Picks' (which seem to be editorial choices by the Google team), a list of the Most Popular extensions (by number of users) and then 'Featured plugins'. Interestingly th...

Mappy

Mappy is a Google Chrome extension that integrates with Google maps to give you fast, direct access to a map of the first address you encounter on a webpage. It is extremely fast, efficient and (as it was made by Google as a sample Chrome browser extensions) error free. Many of the addons that we have begun to see for the Chrome browser are about taking 'steps' out of the process of data retrieval for users. With Mappy, we can see that Google recognizes many people go to a website, find a...

What are Google Chrome Extensions?

One question that many people are asking is “What are Google Chrome extensions?”. This site is dedicated to finding, reviewing and sharing the best extensions for Google Chrome, so we better describe exactly what they are and what they do. Chrome is a very fast browser, and has been ever since it was released. This is thanks, in part, to the lack of 3rd-party developed software which both Firefox and Internet Explorer use as 'addons' to their software. These addons can add functionality t...