Google Chrome eventually will support add-ons and user scripts à la Firefox add-ons and Greasemonkey, Google engineer Ojan Vafai said during a panel discussion on the future of Web browsers at Web 2.0 Expo in New York. “There's two different kinds of add-ons,” Vafai said. “The Firefox things extend your browser, so to speak, and then there are user scripts. We intend to do both of those in Google Chrome.” Greasemonkey's founder, Aaron Boodman, actually works on the Google Chrome team.

Vafai cautioned that Google will work hard to make sure its add-on paradigm keeps Chrome stable. “We hope to do them right,” he said. “As many people notice in Firefox add-ones, there are problems with instability.”

Source:→ InformationWeek