This neat little contraption goes 5 steps ahead of the Gmail Notifier Google put out as a Sample Extension. Not only does it show if your inbox has any new messages, Click on the sweat little icon and a box will pop-up on the page (NOT a pop-up dialog) and present you with your folders in your Hotmail account highlighting any of the folders that have unread emails in them, just like mail.live.com !!! Except click on a folder…. And that folder opens up in a new window.

Current Version: 6.3
Download Link: https://dl.getdropbox.com/u/1703837/Hotmail.crx
Browser Compatibility : 3.0.193.0 or Later

Features:
* Displays Unread emails in the inbox on the toolstrip
* Clicking the Extension on the toolstrip opens up a popup window with a list of Folders in your Account
* Clicking a folder in the popup causes that folder to open in a new chrome window

Issues Fixed in latest release:
All Fixes
* Fixed the Popup UI issue when opened, but before folders are shown, replaced with loading screen. [r7]
* Made the Folder View have a smaller minimum Width as per harrispo’s request. will still expand according to folder size if it is greater than the min-size of the folder container. [r8]
* Made the first run of the extension quicker, and fixed the IFrame non-sense bug (It the extension never worked after ver 4 and before 6.3) you probably encountered this. [r10][r14][r15]
* Cleaned up the Trunk at Google Code, no Fixes. [r11][r12]

KNOWN BUGS:
Please report all bugs Here.

PLEASE NOTE:

If Windows Live Mail DOES NOT LOAD in Chrome (as well as my extension) you will need to add *.live.com to IE’s Trusted Sites list in IE settings for Windows Live Mail and my extension to work
In order to get it to work, you first have to log on to Hotmail in Google Chrome.
The extension will most probably ONLY work if you have login set to automatic for Hotmail.

Screenshots:

Popup Opened:

• Uses two methods to block Flash and Silverlight elements to ensure they are blocked
• Uses a logo to cover animations (complete with mouse-over effect)
• Supports whitelist (add url to “var exclude”)
• Runs instantly

http://userscripts.org/scripts/show/56912

In Google Chrome, the Omnibox feature combines a browser’s address bar and search box into one single area at the top of the browser window. You can also use it to bookmark websites and see security information about your current webpage. Here are all the ways you can use the address bar:

1. Go to web address

Type the URL of the web page (e.g. http://www.chromefans.org), then press Enter key or click the Go to … icon button at the end of the bar.

2. Search the web

Enter a search term there, and you’ll generate a search that hits your default search engine:

3. Create a bookmark

If you come across an interesting webpage that you’d like to revisit at a later point, click the star icon to create a bookmark.

• Edit the bookmark’s name in the Name field.
• By default, the bookmark is filed in the bookmark folder that was most recently used. Use the Folder drop-down menu to choose where you want to store the bookmark.
• Undo the addition of the bookmark by clicking Remove.
• If you want to change the bookmark’s URL, click Edit. Other, click Close to add the bookmark.

4. Search your bookmarks and browsing history

Whenever you type in the address bar, Google Chrome automatically searches your browsing history and shows you websites in your history that match what you’ve entered. The address bar can also automatically show you suggestions of related search terms and websites.

5. See the security status for the page you’re on

Improved search functionality is not where the power of the Omnibox ends, however. It’s also a tool to help you know that you’re surfing on safe websites. For example, if you enter a website that is secured using SSL security, you’ll notice that the “https” that indicates a secure website appears in green. If there’s a problem with the security, you’ll see the “https” in red with a slash through it.

Google has recently released a plugin for Internet Explorer that renders web pages using Google Chrome. The plugin, called Google Chrome Frame, is open-source and the code is publicly available.

By looking at the code, it’s obvious that the plugin is not limited to Internet Explorer. There’s also a NPAPI plugin, which should work in browsers that support NPAPI: Firefox, Safari, Opera and other browsers. Here’s a comment from one of the Chrome Frame files:

“ChromeFrameNPAPI: Implementation of the NPAPI plugin, which is responsible for hosting a chrome frame, i.e. an iframe like widget which hosts the the chrome window. This object delegates to Chrome.exe (via the Chrome IPC-based automation mechanism) for the actual rendering”.

A post from the Chromium blog explained the purpose of Google’s plugin: “With Google Chrome Frame, developers can now take advantage of the latest open web technologies, even in Internet Explorer. From a faster Javascript engine, to support for current web technologies like HTML5’s offline capabilities and <canvas>, to modern CSS/Layout handling, Google Chrome Frame enables these features within IE with no additional coding or testing for different browser versions.”

Instead of asking users to download a different browser, Google and other companies that develop complex web applications can ask users to install Google Chrome Frame. This way, Google Chrome runs invisibly inside another browser.

source: googlesystem

Good news for extension developers: as of today, extensions are turned on by default on Google Chrome’s dev channel.

Extensions are small pieces of software that developers can write to customize the way Google Chrome works. We’ve been working on enabling extensions for a while, but until now, they were hidden behind a developer flag. As of today, this is no longer true. If you’re on the dev channel, you can try installing some of our sample extensions.

Removing the flag is the first step in our launch process, and it means we’re ready for a few more people to start using extensions– the kind of adventurous people who populate the dev channel. For this release, we focused on getting most of the basic infrastructure and security pieces in place, in particular our new permission system. However, you should still be cautious and only install extensions from developers you trust.

Going forward, we are working hard towards a release on the Beta Channel. The UI is likely to change as we bring it up to Google Chrome’s high standard, and we’re still finishing up a few APIs. We’ve also enlisted some help to get extensions up to speed on Mac and Linux.

From the beginning, we’ve strived to make extensions super easy to develop. If you’d like to give it a try, you’ll find everything you need to get started in our brand new documentation. If you’ve already written an extension, make sure to read this post about some recent changes.

Bubble Translate is an extension for Google Chrome / Chromium which you can use to translate text inline. The translated text will then be displayed in a stylish bubble:

Basically, to use this extension, you just have to select the text to translate and click the Toolstrip Icon or by using using your keyboard: Crtl + Select text (this can be change through Bubble Translate settings).

Bubble Translate does what it’s supposed to and works like a charm for translating text inside webpages (inline), by using Google Translate with multi-language support. But please note that you need the latest dev build of Chromium / Google Chrome for using this extension.

You could also try Sunday Morning jQuery bookmarklet for a similar effect (works for most browsers), but without installing anything.

Download Bubble Translate

• Backup your Chrome bookmarks if you want to keep them
• Create a chrome shortcut with the command-line option –enable-extensions
• Download google-bookmarks.crx (link at the end of the post) – Chrome will prompt you to install the extension.
• The extension will automatically download your bookmarks on browser startup
• Tags will be converted to folders
  • Tags with “/” in them will be converted to nested folders, e.g. “fred/barney” will create a folder fred, with a subfolder barney
  • The tag “Bookmarks bar” will add the bookmark to the bookmarks bar. This can be combined with “/” to create folders on the bookmarks bar.
  • Unlabeled bookmarks, and folders other than Bookmarks bar will go into “Other Bookmarks”
• The extension adds a star icon to your omnibox. The colour of this star changes as follows:
  • Red: You are not logged in, or there are problems downloading bookmarks. If the former, click on the star to open the login page.
  • Yellow: This page is already bookmarked – click on the star to edit.
  • Clear: Click on the star to bookmark this page in Google Bookmarks. Changes are then re-downloaded to the browser.
• To resync at any time, click the star, then choose “Refresh” from the menu at the top of the window.
• To access options, click the star, then choose “Options” from the menu
• This is a one-way sync only, it will not upload any Chrome bookmarks to Google. Always make changes on Google Bookmarks rather than Chrome to ensure your changes are kept.

I really liked Google Chrome. It is fast and has a clean interface. One thing that was preventing me from switching to it is the lack of support for Delicious, where I keep my Web tags.

While we wait for extension support, there is a way to achieve good enough integration that makes Delicious usable from Chrome.

Tagging pages

To be able to tag pages on Delicious from Chrome we can use a bookmarklet. Instructions:

• Open the Delicious bookmarklets help page.
• Press Control+B to show Chrome’s bookmarks bar.
• Still in the Bookmarklets page, locate the instructions for Safari.
• Drag the two links into your bookmarks bar.

Searching pages

You can use Chrome’s Omnibox to search inside your Delicious tags:

• Right-click in the Omnibox and select Edit search engines.
• In the Search Engines dialog press the Add button.
• Fill the form as follows:
  • Name: Delicious
  • Keywork: d
  • URL: http://delicious.com/search?context=userposts&p=%s&lc=1&u=your_user_name
• Press OK to close the form.

Now on your Omnibox you can type “d”, the space bar, and your search term, like this:

d python

And a search page in Delicious will be shown.

Google Bookmarks

You can also integrate Google Bookmarks using the same technique described here.

Conclusion

I agree this is not as great as the Delicious extension for Firefox. But I think it is convenient enough to enable me to try switching to Chrome as my primary browser.

• Dev channel (for 32-bit systems): google-chrome-unstable_current_i386.deb
• Dev channel (for 64-bit systems): google-chrome-unstable_current_amd64.deb

Note: Installing Google Chrome will add the Google repository so your system will automatically keep Chrome up to date. If you don’t want Google’s repository, do “sudo touch /etc/default/google-chrome” before installing the package.

Also: Chromium is the open-source project behind Google Chrome so do not mix them.

Enabling Flash plugin for Google Chrome is similar to Chromium, create a directory named “plugins” (without the quotes) in /opt/google/chrome/ and then create a symbolic link to your flash player .so library into your /opt/google/chrome/plugins (simply copy & paste the following commands into a terminal):

sudo mkdir /opt/google/chrome/plugins/
cd /opt/google/chrome/plugins/
ln -s /usr/lib/flashplugin-installer/libflashplayer.so

Then start Google Chrome like this:

/opt/google/chrome/google-chrome --enable-plugins %U

You can add a shortcut to your Gnome panel by going to Applications > Internet, right click Google Chrome and select “Add to panel“, then right click the panel icon, click “Properties” and then in the “Command” field, paste the above command.