Yea but Chrome will accept any .crx file if you drop it onto the extensions tab. So it would in effect be the same thing, just a bit nicer for the user since th

Yea but Chrome will accept any .crx file if you drop it onto the extensions tab. So it would in effect be the same thing, just a bit nicer for the user since they don't have to extract a zip and then browse to where it was extracted and load the extension.