I am just diving into Chromium this week, I've built 64-bit Chromium
on Ubuntu Jaunty and playing with debugging. I'm super excited about
extensions -- the html/css/js-based design is brilliant -- and I loved
Aaron's Google I/O presentation about extensions.
While extensions show up in the Chromium Task Manager fine, they are
not quite working in the about:memory page (Task Manager -> Stats for
nerds). I vaguely remember that about:memory might not be exposed in
Chrome and I'm not saying this needs attention, but I thought I'd just
jot down my notes.
When I installed the Gmail Checker extension, it was listed as "Tab"
with no title. Then when I clicked on it to open gmail, the gmail page
was listed under that same Tab in such a way that there was no
indication anymore that the single renderer process had both the
extension and the gmail page, i.e. it now looked like the other Tabs
with a single page listed under them. Upon closing the gmail page it
went back to being a blank unnamed Tab.
As another side note I saw that the extension's script was temporarily
using window.open instead of chrome.tabs.create:
<code>// This should work, but is crashing in current dev build. Fixed
on trunk.
// chrome.tabs.create({url: gmail});
window.open(gmail);</code>
And I wondered if this impacted whether the gmail page would be opened
in the same process as the extension. It reminds me of what Darin
Fisher described in his presentation about how gmail nulls out the
originating object in order to tell Chrome to use a new process for
the new tab which is important especially for other domains and
unrelated URLs.
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