New York — Lately, a lot many users are discontent that Google Chrome lack support for add-ons. But announcing to the call of distress, Yahoo’s developers have released an experimental version of a Delicious social bookmarking extension for Chrome, which strongly indicates that the technology foundation is coming to fruition in Google’s browser.
“Delicious add-on (alpha version) for Google Chrome is now available,” said Amit Papnai of the Delicious team in a mailing list posting early this week. “This is a light version of the add-on and allows you to sign in and post bookmarks to your Delicious account.”
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The Delicious add-on for Chrome displays the logo on the right hand side of address bar. Clicking it pops up a dialog box as a new miniature Web page.
Add-ons are powerful tools that lets you customize a browser’s interface or add significant features. In an effort to simplify programming difficulties, Chrome’s add-on technology uses the same interface techniques as Web pages, a method Mozilla as adopted for its Jetpack Firefox extensions project at Mozilla Labs.
Delicious allows people stock, tag, describe, and share bookmarks, moreover, add-ons simplifies use of the service directly through the browser.
Nevertheless, maintaining add-ons compatibility can be tough, as the release of Firefox 3.5 Tuesday illustrated.
“We are working on pushing out a new Gears version that supports Firefox 3.5,” Google programmer Aaron Boodman said on a mailing list for Gears early this week, a Firefox add-on that among other things can enable offline access to the Gmail Web application. “We typically wait until the official ‘gold’ release of Firefox is pushed, because otherwise, we keep having to do new builds every time a new release candidate is pushed.”
However, for now it still requires one of the recent versions of Chrome web browser and users would have to enable support for extensions by manually editing the Chrome shortcut.