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Google has recently introduced some important changes in the official chrome extension gallery. I asked few questions regarding these changes to the Chrome Team, and got satisfactory reply from Arne Roomann-Kurrik.

It is hard to believe, but Google has introduced a developer signup fee to make the browser much safer (?). From now, if a developer wants to publish his extension, theme or app (Chrome App Store coming soon) in the official extension gallery – he is required to pay developer signup fee

The updated Safari browser, Safari 5.0.1, supports extensions and small widgets that can be added to the browser by the users to customize their web surfing experience.

Screen Capture is the latest extension for Google Chrome to take screenshots of the web pages. It supports horizontal and vertical scroll when capturing the entire web page.

This add-on, Mozilla Sniffer, sends all submitted password field form data to a remote location. Hence, it tries to steal passwords of users who have installed this malicious add-on.

Chrome extension gallery is currently hosting an extension “ESET Key Finder”, which claims its feature as: Find the keys for antivirus ESET Smart Security and NOD32. Daily keys updating.

The latest dev channel of Google Chrome browser (version 6.0.437.1 for Windows and Linux and 6.0.437.2 for Mac) has integrated a very useful feature: extension syncing!

Google UK has released an awesome video on YouTube to promote Chrome extensions. This commercial describes features of Google Chrome extensions.

Simple Adblock enables Internet Explorer users to block annoying advertisements and tracking scripts from web pages, and makes web surfing safer and secure.

Whenever you install an add-on, you need to restart the Firefox to complete the changes. Now, Mozilla developers are working on this problem, and the add-ons developed on Jetpack platform will not require restarting in future.

Mozilla has launched a new campaign “Rock Your Firefox” to promote best Firefox add-ons. “Rock Your Firefox” will feature reviews of most useful Firefox add-ons.

This add-on for Firefox is capable of clipping text and images to Microsoft OneNote. All text and images hence clipped to OneNote will be saved as a new page in unfiled notes section.

Using this Firefox add-on, you can visit links anonymously via Anonymouse.org. It creates an entry in right click menu to open links anonymously.

If you read the related blogpost on official Google Chrome blog, you may notice its title “Over 1,500 new features for Google Chrome”.

Pastebin extension for Google Chrome is the fastest way to share source codes online. It supports plain text, HTML, Python, Java, PHP, JavaScript, C, Perl and many other programming languages.

Install eQuake Alert to get alerts of earthquakes, and Firefox will shake in proportion to the magnitude of earthquake. A cool Firefox add-on.

Finally, there is a Firefox add-on for creating goo.gl short URLs without Google toolbar. Install it to create short links using goo.gl (new url shortening service from Google) in seconds.