Hello everyone,

The extensions posse would like to point out that as of today's dev channel
release (2.0.180.0), extensions are starting to be a bit more useful. We can
now put little bits of UI in the chrome of Chrome, and some of the APIs are
starting to come together.
There is still quite a ways to go, but if you're interested in building
extensions for Chrome, this might be a good time to start taking a
look. There are some docs and samples here:

<http://dev.chromium.org/developers/design-documents/extensions/howto>
http://dev.chromium.org/developers/design-documents/extensions/howto
http://dev.chromium.org/developers/design-documents/extensions/samples

Following in what is apparently a tradition[1], one of our samples is a
builtbot monitor. Here is what it looks like when it is running:

[image: buildbot1.png]

And when you mouseover it, it expands to give some more detail:
[image: buildbot2.png]

I have found this to be useful, but I mostly keep it installed for the
awesome swoopy animation when you mouseover. It can't be captured in still
images -- you really must install and experience it in person.


*NOTE*
*
*
If you were already playing with the extension system, there are some
breaking changes in this release:

* All APIs are now at "chrome.foo.bar() instead of chromium.foo.bar()".
* There were many other random renames. See the latest docs which should be
up to date.


Thanks!

- TEP


[1] https://developer.mozilla.org/en/Creating_a_Mozilla_Extension

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