It's starting, people. Big name browser addon developers are starting to show Google Chrome some love. So far, we've seen AdSweep, RoboForm, LastPass (a personal favorite), and a few others.

Web of Trust is now onboard as well, announcing the release of their extension today. I've written about WOT before -- it's a great addition for anyone wanting a bit of added security and safety when they browse. It's listed in my 6 Windows tools to prevent PC problems on your own and 14 useful Firefox addons.

A number of Download Squad readers have been echoing the same sentiment in recent posts about Google's browser: as soon as LastPass is available, we're leaving Firefox for good.

Well, gang, grab your parachutes, it's time to bail! The LastPass crew has released an alpha version of their Google Chrome extension, and it rocks. Check out the screens after the break!

Yes, Google, you can proudly herald this one as a major victory for your browser in my books. If other Javascript benchmarks haven't been anything you could get excited about, maybe this one will do it. Ben Firshman's Javascript NES emulator runs best in Google Chrome.

Google Chrome has had Userscripts support for a long time. Unfortunately, a lot of the really great Userscripts are designed with Greasemonkey for Firefox in mind, meaning you miss out if you're using Chrome.

PBtweet, on the other hand, works just fine in webkit-based browsers like Chrome and Safari and it brings a more powerful interface to Twitter's web client.

Filed under: Windows, Freeware, Browsers

Like Google Chrome, but wish it had just a few more features like support for mouse gestures and the ability to use the Internet Explorer rendering engine to access some web pages that don't play well with Webkit? ChromePlus is a browser built on Chrome that does all those things, plus a few more. It also has the following features:

• Double click a tab to close a page
• Drag a link on any page to a new point on the page to open link in a new tab
• Support for download tools in the right-click context menu

Filed under: Google, Browsers

Filed under: Google, Open Source, Beta, Browsers

Though the recent release of Firefox 3.6 alpha 1 didn't prioritize support for Windows 7's jumplists, Google has flicked the switch in the latest developer channel build of Chrome.

Filed under: Google, Open Source, Beta, Browsers

The Mac version of Google's Chrome browser, although not yet officially released by Google, is getting nightly builds in the form of Chromium. As Chromium adds more features that are already available in the Windows version of the Chrome, it makes that it would also get its own portable version. Like Portable Google Chrome for Windows, which we've reported on in the past, Portable Google Chrome for Mac is a version of the browser that you can load up from a USB key.

The portable version of Chromium loads from a ChromeLoader app that makes sure your settings save on your portable media, so you can take them with you anywhere. It's a good time to try Chromium, since important features like Flash, popup blocking and full screen mode have been implemented over the past couple of weeks. The developer's blog is in German, so you may find it helpful to try this version, via Google Translate.

If you want to use Google Chrome but are concerned or have questions about Google's policies for collecting usage data, you might want to giveIron a try.

Iron, developed by German software company SRWare is Chrome stripped of all the user ID information that gave the German governmentcause for concern.