Chrome devs often talk about their plugin plans, but I am still unsure what kind of plugins they mean. Are they working in the direction of real firefox-like plugins that can deeply interact with browser engine and interface, or they have no intentions of going beyond current javascript userscripts?
Google-chrome – Any word on “real” plugin plans for Chrome
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Best Answer
The wishlist of extension APIs suggests that they intend to allow deeper interaction with the browser in the future.
A list of more details of some of the proposed APIs is here. Interesting looking ones include the Gleam API that looks like it'll provide an easy interface for interacting with DOM objects.
There is further discussion about the changing design on the Chromium developer mailing list