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Making Your First Google Chrome Extension
- ulf 16y agoWhen you compare this with the much more complicated process in Firefox you cannot help but congratulate the Google guys for making this happen. Well done!
- Tutorialzine 16y agoAbsolutely agree. Making extensions for chrome is pure pleasure compared to Firefox. I think Google has a good strategy here..
- csomar 16y agoNo comparison between both. Can I change the URL bar in Google Chrome and add an icon or something to it? No! Can I change the refresh button to something else, add new functionality to the start page? No! Google Chrome Extensions are just simple HTML5 apps in a small screen, that you access them through clicking an icon. So they can't be complicated. In Firefox it's a different thing, you have access to the whole browser and you can change anything. You can even integrate "DLL (C code)".
- WesleyJohnson 16y agoI'm pretty sure Chrome Extensions allow you to integrate DLLs into your extension. Maybe this isn't the same thing you were referring to? http://code.google.com/chrome/extensions/npapi.html http://code.google.com/chrome/extensions/npapi.html
- tomjen3 16y agoMaybe not, but on the other hand you can do more than your comment hint at. I should know, I currently run both Adblock and Flashblock.
- csomar 16y agoThat's because Extensions can be GreaseMonkey Scripts, so they can change a page (or a specific page) HTML.
- WesleyJohnson 16y agoChrome Extensions could alter/add page content before they integrated the ability to run GreaseMonkey Scripts.
- mcantelon 16y agoIt's very helpful, when learning how Chrome Extensions work, to download existing extensions, find where on your OS they are stored, then check out their code.
- hassenben 16y agoExcept when they are Google extensions and the JS is obfuscated + compressed + encoded and therefore completely useless.