Google announced today the launch of the beta portal for Google Chrome extensions. Developers have already submitted some addons in recent weeks. The first extensions are only available for Windows and Linux, but Mac is coming soon. The gallery is currently taking over 300 extensions, some of Google itself,
What Google forgot to mention in its announcement about extensions is that they don’t work with the current stable version of Chrome. You’ll need to download a Chrome beta in order to get them to work.
Popular ones include Chromed Bird, a Twitter feed extension, Shareaholic, Torrent Downloader, and the Google Mail Checker. I tried out,Twitter feed extension and Torrent Downloader.
There are actually two steps:
– First you download the extension, then you click the Install button that automatically appears after the download is complete.
Once that is done, the extension immediately appears in the Chrome browser, right next to the address bar. Uninstalling is just as easy. There’s an Extension menu item under the Tools menu. It opens a list of installed extensions that you can disable or uninstall.
