OK, so I heard about Google’s Chrome browser that is now capable of incorporating cool extensions, but to my dismay I found out that you have to download Chrome’s beta version which is still in a developing stage in order for extensions to work. If you have been using Firefox and Safari and IE 8, then extensions probably aren’t new to you, but the current official Chrome browser doesn’t allow users to add extensions.
Extensions are like extra mini features (software) that third party developers released, and by adding extensions to a browser, a browser can do many more cool things besides the standard features that a particular browser has. Google promises that adding extensions on Chrome will be easy as changing themes for Chrome. There is a new extension that Google is really pushing to let people know about is known as Quick Scroll. It’s best to let Google explains to you what Quick Scroll is since I have not yet tried Quick Scroll myself.
Back to the point of Chrome and extensions, it’s the right move for Google to wholeheartedly working on pushing out the capability of Chrome which is to accept extensions; in my opinion it’s really hard to convince a Firefox’s users or other browsers’ users to switch to Chrome without the extensions that they have been accustomed to in their original browsers. For me personally, I like the appearance of Chrome best, but I like Firefox more as it has the extensions that I need, and in the end I’m still using Firefox.
One last thing I want to rant about the extensions is that security can also be an issue. Extension developers are coming from many walks of life, and you don’t know them personally, and by using the extensions, you are trusting the developers of the extensions; the issue here is that a black-hat hacker can create a malicious extension and release it into the extension directory, people who download a malicious extension is going to have a lot of headaches in relating to why my computer suddenly stops acting normal! This is why we all must be wary about the extensions that we don’t know about enough — this goes for all browsers.
