What's New in Extensions?
Google Chrome 6
- New APIs
- The context menus API allows you to
add context menus to pages or specific objects on a page
- The cookies API allows you to manage the
browser's cookie system
- The idle API allows you to detect when the
machine's idle state changes
- Manifest changes
- The geolocation permission
gives an extension access to the user's physical location
- Match patterns can now select all
schemes or all URLs
- Access to file:/// URLs no longer triggers the "access to your machine"
security warning, but now requires user opt-in from the extensions
management page
- Additions to existing APIs
- New experimental APIs
- The omnibox API allows you to
add functionality to the browser's address bar
- The infobars API allows you
to add a UI panel across the top of a tab