Chrome Extensions

Chrome Extensions gallery open next week?

It has been widely reported that the official Google Chrome extensions gallery will be opened next week, just in time for Add-on-Con 09, a conference about...well...browser addons and plugins. Google is a 'gold sponsor' of this event and therefore has a big interest in showing off some of its new wares instead of the developer upload screen which is currently in place. What can we, as users of Chrome, expect from this launch? What impact will it have on the browser scene? Well we can be s...

Sogou Cloud Chinese Pinyin

Sogou cloud Chinese pinyin is a Google Chrome extension that allows you to enter Chinese characters inside text boxes using the pinyin method (as opposed to writing each 'stroke' of a character). The extension itself works to synchronize the visibility of the Sogou cloud pinyin input bar across all tabs of the browser. You can see an example of it in action here: As it is in its first iteration, it is quite basic, however it seems to have a wide range of vocabulary stored already, and ...

BlockFlash Plus

BlockFlash Plus is a Google Chrome extension which disables Flash and Silverlight animations and videos in your browser's webpages until you say otherwise. In terms of advertisement blocking, this is a little more 'brute force' than the Adblock+ Chrome extension we looked at previously, however it is just as effective. Whenever you open a webpage with a flash animation or silverlight video, they will automaticaly be neutered until you click on the 'play' button which will be inserted into th...