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A lot of people were expecting support for extensions on Google Chrome and voila! You can now try your hands ona few official Google Chrome Extensions now. The extensions are pretty basic, but the fact that Google Chrome now officially supports them is exciting. In this post, I’m going to take you in a walkthrough on how to go about installing these sample Google Chrome addons.

Enable and Download Google Chrome Extensions

First, go to Google Chrome options and make sure you have the anonymous usage statistics option checked.

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In order to install these sample extensions, you need to be subscribed to the Dev channel of Google Chrome. And for that, you need to download this little 100 KB Google Chrome Channel Changer, run it and choose the Dev option and press Update. Make sure Google Chrome isn’t running when you do this.

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Now, go to Google Chrome, click on the rightmost Settings button and click About Google Chrome. In the window that pops up, hit Update Now. Once the update is complete you’ll get the following message:

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Click OK and close Google Chrome.

If you have a Google Chrome shortcut in your desktop, edit the shortcut to add the --enable-extensions parameter. Double click on the shortcut to open Google Chrome.

Google Chrome Addons

Go to this page and click on the Install link for any extension. You’ll get a dialog asking you to confirm your action. Click OK.

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In the screenshot below, you can see the Gmail checker addon in action. It displays a small bar at the bottom of the page that shows the number of unread emails in your Gmail inbox.

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That’s how you enable extensions in Google Chrome. Let us know in the comments if you have any questions.

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Written by Shankar Ganesh

May 13th, 2009 at 6:10 pm

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  • http://aravindjose.com/blog/ Aravind Jose T.

    The parameter to be added to the shortcut is broken.
    Is it
    -enable extensions
    ?

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    [...] Thanks to Killer Tech Tips for the instructions. [...]

  • http://www.mitchmckenna.com Mitchell McKenna

    Note: You have to turn “Ask where to save each file before downloading” OFF if you want it to prompt you for installing extensions. I’m assuming they will fix this in the future.

  • g

    is there Adblocker for Chrome? we neeeeeeeeeeeeeeed it!!!

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    [...] you need to do is follow the steps mentioned here in this post and then download the Pagerank extension from here to install it. It works as [...]

  • http://www.shankarganesh.com Shankar Ganesh

    @Aravind Jose: I’ve updated the post to make things clearer a bit. I’ve also added a screenshot.

  • http://www.winsoftnews.com/2009/05/13/download-sample-google-chrome-extensions-9285 Download Sample Google Chrome Extensions | Windows, Technology, Computers, Software News – WinSoftNews

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  • Ponraj B. Perumal

    This is very good information. BTW, how do I uninstall a plugin which I don’t need anymore?

    Thanks for the reply.

  • http://sluhost.com sal

    I installed Chrome, then discovered I need the 4.0 beta for a lot the exensions to work

  • http://dodekana.wordpress.com/2010/01/17/hello-world/ Install extensions in Google Chrome « Dodekana's Mind

    [...] Thanks to Killer Tech Tips for the instructions. [...]