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The Last Days of Desktop: Chrome Welcomes Third Party Extensions

ReadWriteWeb  Nov 23 09

Google Chrome has begun taking submissions from third party developers. In a blog post written earlier today, Google is asking developers to contribute to the Chrome extensions gallery - an act that will put third party applications on both the Chrome browser and eventually the operating system.

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ReadWriteWeb covered the company's first official extensions in the Spring. Since then Google announced the Chrome OS. As explained in the Chrome OS launch, "Every app you write for the web is a Google Chrome OS app." By embracing 3rd party extensions, Google is one step closer to rendering desktop operating systems obsolete. Full story...

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