Google Opens Chrome Extensions To Developers, Will Only Review Certain Ones
November 23, 2009 at 18:23 PM EST
As anticipated , Google has taken the first step to launch full extension support for its Chrome browser. Starting today , Google is allowing developers to upload the extensions they are making to the new Extensions Gallery . This gallery isn't yet open for Chrome users to test out, but Google is saying that they will open it to "trusted testers" in the next few days. If you are a developer working on an extension, you can simply agree to Google's terms and upload your extension to the gallery right now. One of those terms is that Google has the right to review your extension before it's published, but they are saying they will only do that if it includes " include an NPAPI component and all content scripts that affect "file://" URLs. " Google goes on to note that " For security reasons, developers of these types of extensions will need to provide some additional information before they can post them in the gallery. " Fair enough.