<p>After test driving Google Chrome for 30 minutes or so, I like it, even if it seems bare-bones at the moment.  The obvious way to add a few things I can't live without would be through plugins.  Does anyone have any links to resources on how to get started building a plugin/addon for Chrome?  Thanks.</p>

[{'answer_id': 40699, 'author': '1729', 'author_id': 4319, 'author_profile': 'https://Stackoverflow.com/users/4319', 'pm_score': 2, 'selected': False, 'text': "<p>Chrome does support the netscape plugin api, but that is for displaying certain kinds of content.</p>\n\n<p>You seem to be after a extention api, really firefox is the only major browser to encourage and support third party extentions to browsing capability (that aren't simply new toolbars)</p>\n\n<p>Nothing in the developer documentation points to a browser enhancing api - google seem to want to keep a tight reign on the look and feel of the application.</p>\n\n<p>You might find a more conclusive answer on the development site:</p>\n\n<p>dev.chromium.org, and some of the developers might be on irc on #chromium on freenode.</p>\n"}, {'answer_id': 41566, 'author': 'Danimal', 'author_id': 2757, 'author_profile': 'https://Stackoverflow.com/users/2757', 'pm_score': 4, 'selected': True, 'text': '<p><a href="http://www.mattcutts.com/blog/common-google-chrome-objections/" rel="nofollow noreferrer">Matt Cutts</a> (the Google\n SEO guru)  has a Q&amp;A about chrome, and\n writes about it: </p>\n\n<blockquote>Q: But I can’t install extension X! Google Chrome is dead to me if I can’t use extension X!<br/>\nA: Then you’ll have to use another browser for a while. Google Chrome currently doesn’t support browser extensions (it does support plug-ins, such as Flash). I’m sure that extensions/add-ons are something that the Chrome team would like to do down the road, but the Chrome team will be a bit busy for a while, what with the feedback from the launch plus working on Mac and Linux support. I’d suggest that you give Google Chrome a try for a few days to see if enjoy browsing even without extension X. A lot of really cool extension-like behaviors such as resize-able textareas and drag-and-drop file upload are already built into Google Chrome.\n</blockquote>\n'}, {'answer_id': 54493, 'author': 'hendry', 'author_id': 4534, 'author_profile': 'https://Stackoverflow.com/users/4534', 'pm_score': 3, 'selected': False, 'text': '<p>Chromium supports <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NPAPI" rel="nofollow noreferrer">NPAPI</a> plugins which is harder to program compared to Firefox extensions. However NPAPI has better performance and is more versatile.</p>\n\n<p>Checkout this <a href="http://git.webvm.net/?p=npsimple" rel="nofollow noreferrer">minimalistic example of an NPAPI plugin.</a></p>\n'}, {'answer_id': 1431669, 'author': 'Sandeep Datta', 'author_id': 39648, 'author_profile': 'https://Stackoverflow.com/users/39648', 'pm_score': 3, 'selected': False, 'text': '<blockquote>\n<p>Q: But I can’t install extension X! Google Chrome is dead to me if I can’t use extension X!</p>\n<p>A: No worries! Now google chrome has extensions too. Look <a href="https://chrome.google.com/extensions/?hl=en" rel="nofollow noreferrer">here</a>.</p>\n</blockquote>\n<p>If anyone\'s interested in chrome extension development here is a <a href="http://code.google.com/chrome/extensions/index.html" rel="nofollow noreferrer">link</a> to the latest extension developers documentation page for Google chrome.</p>\n<p>NOTE: Plugins (NPAPI) and extensions(JS Based) are not the same</p>\n<p>From the doc...</p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Extensions are small software programs\nthat can modify and enhance the\nfunctionality of Google Chrome.</p>\n<p>You write them using web technologies\nlike HTML, JavaScript, and CSS. So if\nyou know how to write web pages, you\nalready know most of what you need to\nknow to write extensions.</p>\n</blockquote>\n'}, {'answer_id': 2969750, 'author': 'virtualsue', 'author_id': 196521, 'author_profile': 'https://Stackoverflow.com/users/196521', 'pm_score': 2, 'selected': False, 'text': '<p>Chrome now supports extensions and themes.  <a href="http://code.google.com/chrome/extensions/index.html" rel="nofollow noreferrer">Here</a> is the documentation for developing extensions, and <a href="http://code.google.com/p/chromium/wiki/ThemeCreationGuide" rel="nofollow noreferrer">this</a> is a page which describes theme creation.</p>\n'}, {'answer_id': 11890937, 'author': 'ChrisW', 'author_id': 49942, 'author_profile': 'https://Stackoverflow.com/users/49942', 'pm_score': 0, 'selected': False, 'text': '<p>The accepted answer is out of date. A couple of useful URLs:</p>\n\n<ul>\n<li>For developers: <a href="http://developer.chrome.com/extensions/index.html" rel="nofollow">http://developer.chrome.com/extensions/index.html</a></li>\n<li>For end users: <a href="https://chrome.google.com/webstore/category/home?hl=en-US" rel="nofollow">https://chrome.google.com/webstore/category/home?hl=en-US</a></li>\n</ul>\n\n<p>There\'s a difference between a \'plugin\' and an \'extension\'. Chrome supports NPAPI plugins:</p>\n\n<ul>\n<li><a href="http://developer.chrome.com/extensions/npapi.html" rel="nofollow">http://developer.chrome.com/extensions/npapi.html</a></li>\n</ul>\n\n<p>Chrome may also support a new Pepper Plugin API (ppapi):</p>\n\n<ul>\n<li><a href="http://code.google.com/p/ppapi/" rel="nofollow">http://code.google.com/p/ppapi/</a></li>\n</ul>\n'}]
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