Google Looks to Add Support for 3rd Party Plug-ins to Chrome

From DailyTech: Microsoft may hold the lion's share of the web browser market with its Internet Explorer browser, but alternative browsers are drawing a cadre of followers. A couple of the alternative web browsers that are available include Mozilla Firefox and Google's Chrome browser.

Google's Chrome browser is still in beta and has less than 1% of the browser market at this time according to InformationWeek. Google and its developers are looking for ways to make the browser more useful and appealing to internet surfers. One of the ways it hopes to improve the browser is via an extension system that allows users to install third-party plug-ins to do things that Google didn’t integrate into the browser.

The ability to add third party extensions is one of the main reasons for the popularity of Mozilla Firefox, which currently holds the record for most downloads in a day and about 20% of the web browser market.

A developer working for Google announced this weekend that Google was looking into enabling third-party browser plug-ins for Chrome. A design document was released that outlined what had to happen to make the ability to add plug-ins available.

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