An Idea for Chrome Extension Development
One problem people have with Firefox is that sometimes its extensions run amok and gobble up tons of memory or freeze the browser with resource hogging tasks.
Well, ponder this: Currently, Chrome monitors its processes, including individual tabs and plugins.
It doesn’t take a huge stretch of the imagination to project this kind of analysis into the world of extensions. Advanced extension users could spot sources of slowdown in the browser, and Google could provide supplemental tools to help extension developers drill down into nether regions of their extensions to enhance speed and memory usage. As an added bonus, extensions could be tracked individually, allowing the developers to receive live aggregated feedback on their extensions’ performance in the wild.
Imagine — Google Analytics for your Chrome Extensions!
Other hopeful features for Extensions:
* Updates are installed without forcing a browser reboot.
* If individual extensions malfunction, they don’t bring the browser down.
* Extensions are as easy to write as web apps. (CSS/HTML/JS)