Google Chrome is fast becoming like Firefox and Greasemonkey with its future support for Add-ons and Plug-ins.

According to Aaron Boodman, Greasemonkey founder and a member of the Google Chrome team said that Chrome will use both add-ons that extend browser features and use scripts.

Google Chrome is the latest browser to hit the web, and within a few weeks from its release it already reached almost 2 million downloads. Many users believe that Chrome will soon be a serious competitor of Mozilla Firefox and Microsoft Internet Explorer as it offers different features such as browser tab isolation.

Suggestions and ideas as to how Google Chrome add-ons should include are already pouring in. Experts of other browser groups are interested in the development of the open source browser made by the big G. Among most notable feature of Chrome are its tabs.

Brendan Eich, Mozilla CTO is studying the Chrome’s stability using tabs and he is very positive on the developments on the latest browser. “There are good process-isolation tricks that Chrome does that we’re looking into, so we’re simply going to look at better isolation techniques for security and integrity,” he said.

Source: InformationWeek

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I guess you’ve already heard that Google has recently joined the Web Browser wagon by throwing Chrome out in the open for all to see and download. While it has yet to be thoroughly tested by many experts (not to mention hackers), many are already claiming that it has surpassed IE and Firefox in several aspects.

For one thing, the browser packs and travels to cyberspace lightly. The setup file is just half a megabyte while the full blown up package is just a fraction if IE7’s size. The same is true for its design. Minimalist would appreciate the seemingly simple (or bare) design of Google Chrome.

This doesn’t mean that the User Interface is virtually non-existent due to its very simple layout. On the contrary, Chrome’s UI is one of the things that its maker can be proud of. Many have been clamoring for thumbnail views of their frequently-visited pages to be displayed in the UI. Unfortunately, Firefox, IE, and the other browsers ignored this.

Shifting to Chrome is easy. There’s no need to manually import bookmarks, usernames, passwords, and other data that you normally need or provide. The Google browser automatically downloads all of these during the installation process. You could immediately use it right after planting it in your hard drive.

While Chrome has been getting good reviews so far, don’t put your full trust on it just yet. Believe me, security issues will sprout soon. It will take a lot of time (as did Firefox and IE) for Chrome to fully cement its walls against malware attacks.

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