Web of Trust extension comes to Chrome
Google's browser now has an extension to use the Web of Trust, a project that lets people rate the trustworthiness of Web sites and see how others have rated them.
The open-source plug-in previously worked only with Firefox and Internet Explorer, but now a version is available for the new developer preview version of Chrome, according to a blog post.
The Web of Trust extension lets people rate Web pages. Clicking an icon in the lower left corner of Chrome pops up this interface.
(Credit: Screenshot by Stephen Shankland/CNETIt's one of a host of relatively widely used extensions available on other browsers but now on their way to Chrome, whose extensions framework is just getting off the ground. There also are extensions (called add-ons in the Firefox realm) for Delicious and Xmarks, for example.
The extension takes advantage of the newer "mole" feature that lets windows pop up from the bottom of the screen. (The "mole" term originated with the work Google's Gmail team on instant-message windows; closing a number of them is like playing Whack-a-Mole.) However, Web of Trust programmers are considering using a newer extensions possibility called browser actions, which builds an extension interface into a button that appears along the top of the Chrome window.
"Browser Actions look promising though and we're looking forward to using them in future," said programmer Sami Tolvanen in a mailing list announcement. He also offered a list of suggestions for the Chrome extensions interface.
Separately, Google announced a new developer preview version, Chrome 4.0.221.6 for Windows, 4.0.221.8 for Mac OS X, and 4.0.221.8 for Linux. In the Windows version is a new browser action feature, pop-up windows.
been a year and they have maybe less than 5 addons..and they are completly unusefull ,
add to that some really ugly themes , and so many lies about it ultra speed which is just a complete BS
..why w'd i use chrome and have google's ads in my inbox, my messenger , my desktop, and maybe if i check my ***** i'll find one or two of their ads !
Elegant, fast, safe and sexy!
The download speed is GOOD that I think...
As 0zSpit says google is a monopoly now trying to control the web as just as M$ is, using their spy-ware. Chrome will never see ad-block or No-script.
1. Install
2. Go to the Wrench, Options, Under the Hood
3. Clear out all of the lovely tracking cookies it comes installed with
4. Change cookie options to only save cookies from sites you visit
5. Run Malwarebytes, SUPERAntiSpyware, and Iobit Security 360 to make sure all tracking cookies are gone.
6. Install Privoxy to block ads
7. Change Internet Options to run through a proxy
8. Install WOT to surf safely
9. Use Chrome for about an hour
10. Uninstall
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by rogerpack2005
October 12, 2009 11:35 AM PDT
- I'm not so sure that WoT is open source though.
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