Chrome: If you've ever wanted to see what people are saying about a web page you're visiting beyond the site's own comments, Chrome extension Twitter Reactions will show you the most recent tweets that are talking about the page.

The idea isn't unlike other universal commenting systems, like Google Sidewiki—but instead of just seeing the comments of Google Toolbar users, you can see what the entire Twitterverse is saying about the page that you're on. It takes a bit of filtering with all the retweets or simple linking going on on Twitter, but it's definitely interesting to see what people are saying beyond the site's integrated comments and who's linking to it—especially if it's your own site or blog (you might be surprised how many people have linked to you on Twitter!).

Who doesn't like eyecandy. Here is a nice 3D tab preview generating extension for Google Chrome. You can browse through your tabs using a simple mouse scroll and it definitely looks beautiful.
 

• Picture speaks more than words and the screenshots above makes it more than clear to you(I hope). 

The Dev channel has been updated to 5.0.317.0 for Windows

• [r37939] (Windows/Linux) Do not select a word by right-click on an editable field in a web page (Issue: 8841)
• [r37411] (Extensions) Adds a new experimental processes module to the extensions API. (Issue: 32303)

• Automatic translation does not work for Chinese language sites (Issue: 43803)
• Uninstall problem on Google Chrome and Chromium (Issue: 34652)
• Crashes following the installing of a current Beta/Stable release after an uninstall (Issues 34794, 34688).
• Multiple exceptions can occur, related to the Content Settings UI. (Issue: 34692)
• When "Ask me ..." is set, cookies are still set without asking. (Issue: 34693)
• Pop-up settings changed in bubble are not saved. (Issue: 34781)

If you are using Google Chrome, there are times when you might want to quickly take a screenshot of a page without having to open a third party utility. Today we take a look at the Webpage Screenshot extension for Chrome which will save a screenshot of any webpage in PNG format.

Sometimes obtaining a screenshot of a webpage can be a bit of work depending on whether you need only a portion of it or the whole thing. If you do not want to take the time to launch another screenshot utility, this extension works well in a pinch.

Webpage Screenshot in Action

As soon as you find a webpage that you would like a screenshot of click on the “Toolbar Icon” to open this drop-down window. Notice that there are three types of screenshots that you can take: a Resized Window (specific pixel size), a Visible Area Screenshot, or the Entire Webpage.

On a recent Google Chrome post one of our commenters -- MoneyMike -- lamented the apparent passing of one of Chrome's popular UI features in recent nightly builds: pinned tabs.

I, too, noticed the change recently and wondered what was going on. There's been plenty of discussion amongst Chrome developers, and it boils down to an evolutionary step for Chrome and the introduction of app tabs. The arrival of phantom tabs recently is also part of the change.

To clear the air, I pinged Google's Eitan Bencuya to see if he could shed any light on the situation. Here's his response:

"As you know, all of these features are still pretty experimental (they're not even in the dev channel yet) and we're trying out different approaches to see what works. In this case this is part of a larger set of tweaks we are making related to extensions but we haven't yet fleshed out all the details of app tabs specifically."

Do you use Google Notebook on a daily basis and need an easy way to access it while browsing in Google Chrome? Then you will definitely want to have a look at the “add 2 Google Notebook” extension.

Installation & Setup

Before you can finish adding the extension to Chrome you will need to confirm the installation…click “Install” to complete the process.

As soon as the installation process has finished you will see your new “Toolbar Button” and a brief extension management message. There are no options to worry with and you can immediately get started on adding those new notes.

Chromed Bird twitter extension for Google Chrome(Chromium) can do everything one ever expects to do with a Twitter extension and more. I wanted an extension with similar functionality for Facebook. And I got Facebook To-Go. I have to say, Chromed Bird and Facebook To-Go is an awesome must-have combination of social media extensions for Google Chrome.

Mozilla Firefox’s most wanted add-on FireBug is now available in google chrome.

Firebug Lite is not a substitute for Firebug, or Chrome Developer Tools. It is a tool to be used in conjunction with these tools. Firebug Lite provides the rich visual representation we are used to see in Firebug when it comes to HTML elements, DOM elements, and Box Model shading. It provides also some cool features like inspecting HTML elemements with your mouse, and live editing CSS properties. Firebug Lite 1.3.0 beta for Google Chrome is basically the same you’ll see when using the bookmarlet.

click here to install firebug for google chrome

The Google Chrome browser is making some great strides to take over the browser game. One of the areas where it lacks right out of the proverbial “box” is its inability to handle RSS. Until recently when Chrome users on Windows machines were given the ability to add extensions, you would have to (gulp) copy and paste the feed into your reader. Pretty archaic I know.

In the short time extensions have been available for the Chrome browser, quite a few add-ons have popped up to alleviate the RSS deficiencies. Below are 13 different extensions to ease your RSS withdrawal. Granted many of these do the same basic function, each can add something unique. By no means do you need every extension on the list, but its nice to have more than one option to try.

1. Google Reader Subscribe

This extension does exactly what the name implies. When you visit a page with a feed, you will see a Google Reader icon in the Chrome browser address bar.

Remember The Milk is one of the most popular to-do list services available. The Remember The Milk for Gmail extension adds a RTM Task Pane to Gmail that can be easily accessed in Google Chrome.

Installation & Tweaking

Before you can complete the install process you will need to confirm the installation…click “Install” to finish adding the extension to Chrome.

Note: Even though the extension page states that your account’s language setting must be U.S. English we had no problems whatsoever with a British English setting.

Once the extension has been added to your browser you will see a brief extension management message. There are no “in-browser” options for you to worry with on the “Chrome Extensions Page”.

As soon as you open your Gmail account you will find that wonderful Remember The Milk Task Pane waiting for you and ready to use.

Google Chrome: Setting a web site to refresh is old hat, but what if you want to refresh multiple sites and keep an eye on all of them? Revolver-Tabs refreshes and rotates your browser tabs.

Revolver-Tabs is a Google Chrome extension that allows you to refresh not just one, but all of your browser tabs, at set intervals. In addition to reloading the page it rotates through the tabs one by one so that the individually refreshed sites are displayed without any interaction from you.

Although the author designed the extension to be used for standalone kiosks or during presentations—both great uses for it—it's also just as useful for keeping tabs on auction sites, status and announcement pages, and other frequently updated sites without any interaction. It's a great candidate to get tossed on your second monitor for watching sites that don't have RSS feeds or that you want to get immediate feedback from without waiting for RSS delays.

While the primary focus of the upcoming Google Chromium OS is the netbook form factor, this doesn’t mean Google isn’t considering other form factors for the browser-based OS. If you head on over to http://dev.chromium.org/chromium-os/user-experience/form-factors, you’ll find a variety of possible form factors for the Chromium OS – everything from tablets to laptops to desktop systems to large-screen displays. For each form factor, Google outlines the changes to the user interface one might expect with the Chromium OS.

On the netbook front, one would expect:

Fresh pictures of Google's Chrome Operating System running on a tablet computer are dominating high-tech talk today. Here's a glimpse:

People are anxious to see what Chrome OS can do. Sundar Pichai, vice president of product management at Google, said Chrome OS is slated to appear on netbooks first in the November-December 2010 timeframe.

There's already talk of an integrated media player running in the Chrome Web browser and OS.

Technologies that do in the browser what Microsoft has done with an on-premise download look attractive to a lot of people these days. Call it cloud envy.

Here is what one can do on a Chrome OS tablet:

So let's step back and consider the early, early airing of a Chrome OS user interface, on the Chromium developer Web site here by Google Chrome User Interface Lead Glen Larson.

Google Chrome: It's easy to fill up the tab bar in Chrome to the point where you can't read the tab titles or easily find what you're looking for. VerticalTab lets you view tabs in a list and search, sort, and more.

VerticalTabs places a small icon in the Chrome toolbar next to the address box. Clicking on the icon displays all your tabs in a vertical list where you can select tabs or drag and drop them via mouse input or using keyboard shortcuts. In the options menu you can change the width and size of the vertical tab display and toggle the tab-count display on and off.

VerticalTabs is free and works wherever Google Chrome does. Have a favorite extension for wrangling tabs? Let's hear about it in the comments.

Linux

• [r37017] Preliminary desktop notifications support. (Why not libnotify? See our technical FAQ.) (Issue: 23954)
• [r37193] Use GTK+ selection colors when using GTK theme mode. (Issue: 25831)
• [r37201] We now also will load plugins from ~/.config/$PRODUCT_NAME/Plugins. (Issue: 22261)
• Improved complex text support, fixing a number of bugs in Hebrew/Arabic/Hindi/etc. display.

Since debuting in December, more than 2,000 extensions have been created for Google Chrome. Now, Chrome users have access to about 40,000 more, thanks to support for Greasemonkey scripts in Chrome 4.0 for Windows and the Chrome Developer builds for Mac and Linux.

We’ve covered Greasemonkey and the browser-awesome it can provide in the past, but if you aren’t familiar, the plugin (originally for Firefox) allows site-specific JavaScript user scripts to run on a page, providing additional options and functionality. So, for example, you can install a script that will give additional YouTube viewing or download options or pipe-in data from other sources and display it alongside other content.

In Chrome 4.0, you can go to Userscripts.org, the big clearinghouse for Greasemonkey scripts, and install many of the more than 40,000 scripts directly in Chrome (about 15-25% of the scripts won’t work yet). On the backend, Chrome will convert those scripts into a Chrome Extension, which you can then manage and uninstall the scripts with ease.

This is a huge boon for productivity lovers. Greasemonkey scripts are a great way to add easy functionality to web pages and the fact that they can be installed and uninstalled the same way as regular Chrome Extensions flat-out rocks. If you are running the development version of Chrome for Mac (or the Chromium Nightly Builds) or the beta for the Linux version of Chrome, you should also have Greasemonkey support.

The Greasemonkey extension has long been one of our favorite tools for Firefox, allowing us to bend the web to our will with light and simple scripts written in JavaScript. Now most Greasemonkey scripts work in Chrome, no extension required.

In fact, when you install a userscript in Chrome, it actually installs as though it's a regular old extension. That means, as the original Greasemonkey developer and Google employee Aaron Boodman points out on the official Chromium Blog, that Chrome users now have roughly 40,000 more extensions to add to the list.

Some scripts won't work with Chrome just yet because of differences between Firefox and Chrome, but it looks like that number is somewhere around 15-20%. Not bad, Chrome. It's getting more and more tempting to consider Chrome as a viable Firefox alternative every day.

The improved support for userscripts should work on any Chrome version over 4, which includes the stable version on Windows and both of the beta versions on OS X and Linux. If you'd like to try out a few good userscripts—for Chrome or Firefox—our list of the top 10 Greasemonkey user scripts is a good place to get started.