Latest Chromium builds for Mac OS X support Chrome Extensions

http://build.chromium.org/buildbot/snapshots/chromium-rel-mac/

by tlrobinson • 17 years ago

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MikeCapone• 17 years ago

I'm using it right now, and I was so impressed that it is now my default browser (replacing Safari).

Extensions I'm currently using are: Gmail notifier, Feedly, Goo.gl shortener, Google Translate, and Facebook. All work well, and they don't seem to be slowing down the browser during normal operations.

oscardelben• 17 years ago

The biggest extensions that's still missing is 1password and that's probably the only reason google chrome is not yet my default browser.

PStamatiou• 17 years ago

Same here as well.

Unrelated - I've been using 1Password for about 2 months and am realizing my biggest concern is coming true.. that I'm relying on 1P so much that I'm forgetting all of my passwords. Have you run into this issue?

tengkahwee• 17 years ago

Call me ignorant but what are some of the features in 1password that Keychain doesn't offer?

tumult• 17 years ago

Chromium Mac builds have supported extensions for a couple of months :)

I wrote an extension using Chromium on a Mac http://github.com/tumult/jdic-chrome

It's in need of updating to take advantage of NPAPI (to reduce its giant memory footprint) and the new preferences page feature. Hopefully I'll get find some time to work on it before too long.

tlrobinson• 17 years ago

Oh, I guess I assumed they didn't since the official Chrome betas don't yet.

amoeba• 17 years ago

They took extensions away from Chromium for a few days and re-enabled them a bit ago.

swombat2• 17 years ago

LastPass works. That means I finally can have a working password in Chrome Mac.

Yay!

Good bye Safari!

morphir• 17 years ago

I use a plugin called no-script in firefox - is there any news on when it will be available for Chrome? I will hang on to firefox until I can decide what js to burn my cpu cycles on, thank you.

pavs• 17 years ago

I don't think there is and I don't think there will be. There are limitations with what you can do with Chrome extension, which is why in its current form, extensions like noScript and ABplus (the one that works) and Firebug (not firebuglite) is not possible in chrome. They intentionally did that so that extensions don't hamper browser performance. Unlike Firefox, your chrome browser doesn't get slower with more extensions. Their performance is actually the same.

Another thing to think about, is that one of the biggest selling point with Chrome is it's ability of render scripts faster. If you are going to use an extension like noscript, whats the point of using Chrome? Might as well stick with Firefox.

wfarr• 17 years ago

You don't need Firebug in Chrome, fyi.

The built-in developer tools are WebKit's, which have been far better than Firebug for about the last year now.

jamroom• 17 years ago

I know this sounds small and I'm likely nitpicking, but the one thing that bothers me a bit in chromium is that the entire page "flashes" white for a second while it is loading a page. It seems that when you click on a link it "blanks" the page real quick, then loads. There's no doubt it is fast - but this "flash" on every click is annoying. Am I the only one that sees this? I don't see this in Safari, and I thought they were both based on the same rendering engine.

antirez• 17 years ago

Cool, it was no longer possible to live without an ad blocker for me. Not that I hate advertising so much, but the CPU usage (and battery life) was disastrous with all this flash ads around.

Latest Chromium builds for Mac OS X support Chrome Extensions

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