Jolicloud, the Linux based operating system optimized for netbooks, has announced to adopt Google Chrome technology to power the rendering of web apps.

The latest Dev Channel of Google Chrome has a new feature: Geolocation, which enables location-aware browsing. This allows websites to identify user’s geographical location and serve content accordingly.

Official extension gallery of Google Chrome is currently facing an outage. The site results a 500 server error.

Users can run Firefox in Safe Mode, that disables all add-ons and themes temporarily. Though, the Google Chrome does not offer a similar feature, you can use Chrome in incognito mode to temporarily disable all extensions easily.

A new feature in latest Dev channel release of Chrome browser automatically suggests translation, whenever you visit a web page displayed in a language other than your default language.

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

Quick Google is a useful Chrome extension. You can search Google without leaving the current page and see a preview of each result.

Google Chrome extension for Google Dictionary is a useful tool. Just double click any word and see its definition in a small pop-up bubble.

YouTube recently announced much awaited feature: support for HTML5. Here is how you can see YouTube videos in HTML5 format.

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.

MonkeyFly integrates some really awesome features to twitter’s web interface. Users can create tweetdeck like columns, upload image directly to twitpic etc. MonkeyFly is available as userscript, Firefox add-on and Chrome extension.

This greasemonkey script will add a virtual keyboard to textareas, input boxes and password fields. Hence, you can work safely on others’ computers and avoid keyloggers easily.

Multi-process is one of the most attractive features of Google Chrome. Mozilla has started implementing multi-process in Firefox.

At first instant, Chrome extensions feel exciting but the fact is that they are still in early development stages. Most of them are just Chrome versions of popular Firefox add-ons.