Google is on the verge of introducing a Web site to showcase its extensions to modify what its browser can do.
The company's newest developer preview edition, Chrome 4.0.249.0, promotes the feature on its opening screen and its new-tab page. "New! Google Chrome currently has extensions and bookmark sync," the page reads, offering a link to a site that's not public yet, chrome.google.com/extensions.
Extensions and support for Mac OS X and Linux are the banner features of Chrome 4.0. It's existing as a beta for Windows, with Mac OS X and Linux beta availability expected in early December. According to the Chromium development calendar, the beta is intended for December 8 release and the steady release of Chrome 4.0 is due January 12.
A number of third-party galleries for Chrome extensions already are obtainable, but programmers for the project have said on mailing lists that a Google site is planned. Previously this year, Google shipped a version of Chrome that pointed to a collection of visual themes prior to the Chrome themes gallery was actually live to the public.
Extensions are a key benefit of one Chrome competitor, Mozilla's Firefox; extensions allow people to customize the browser and add innovative features without burdening the overall project. Firefox is receiving a new extensions framework, Jetpack, starting with version 3.7 owing in the first half of 2010, and Mozilla has just launched its own Jetpack gallery.
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