I have taken my digg AdBlocker script I originally made for greasemonkey and have made it available for Google Chrome users.
Install the digg AdBlocker extension for Google Chrome here:
https://chrome.google.com/extensions/detail/gclmekogkkggoehdimnceffmboanpibn
Check out the source here:
http://tdupree.com/chrome/digg_adblocker/chrome_digg_adblocker_source.zip
I finally got around to cleaning up my Google Chrome version of Hacker News OnePage. You can install it for your Chrome browser over at the Google Chrome Extensions gallery.
Install Hacker News OnePage for Google Chrome:
https://chrome.google.com/extensions/detail/plldnnbdlbgbiknjebohmlggcbicghlj
Check out the source code:
http://tdupree.com/chrome/chrome_onepage/chrome_hn_onepage_source.zip
EDIT: Check here for updates to the Google Chrome Hacker News OnePage extension.
Google just recently released Chrome v3.0, and the developer builds in the dev channel now have extensions turned on by default (no need to append –enable-extensions to the exe target). The extensions system for Chrome is getting nicer and nicer (just check out chrome://extensions in your Chrome browser). I have a working version of Hacker News OnePage that I have tested with dev channel build 4.0.206.1. I assume that it will also work fine with the new 3.0 stable release if you have extensions enabled.
EDIT: Check here for updates to Hacker News OnePage
A new update to Chrome brought a better packaging system for extensions, but also broke all the extensions packaged with the old system. So here are the new Hacker News and Digg extensions that will work with chrome.
Hacker News OnePage (install): Provides users with the ability to browse Hacker News articles and comments without leaving the page. source - manifest
Digg AdBlocker (install): Removes ads from digg. source - manifest
Update (7/10/09): I fixed the extensions to work with the new update to Chrome, find them here.
Today I decided to convert some of my Greasemonkey Scripts to Chrome Extensions. I converted my Digg AdBlocker, Hacker News OnePage, and Hacker News Comments scripts. It turned out to be quite easy, I barely had to change anything to get them running as Chrome Extensions. I packaged them using the python script Google supplied, so they are easy for anyone to install.
To use the extensions, you first need to be running the dev build of Google Chrome, you can get it here. Then ad --enable-extensions to your Chrome command line. Do this by right clicking your Chrome shortcut and choosing “properties”. Then in the “Target:” field add a space after the file path and then add the command. It should like similar to “C:\...your..path..\chrome.exe --enable-extensions“.
Click the following install links and Chrome will ask you if you wish to install the extension. There are also links to view the source and JSON manifest of the extensions.
Hacker News OnePage (install): Provides users with the ability to browse Hacker News articles and comments without leaving the page. source - manifest
Hacker News Comments Footer (install): Adds a footer to the end of the comments pages to give a visual cue of the end of page. source - manifest
Digg AdBlocker (install): Removes ads from digg. source - manifest
To view your installed extensions, or to uninstall an extension visit this address in Chrome: chrome://extensions/
A while back Google added SMS capabilities to the Google Talk client built into Gmail, but it was a bit buggy so they took it away. Yesterday they announced they again added the feature. The Google talk client in Gmail is getting more and more robust, especially with the addition of video chat a month ago. While all of the new features are really nice, it does leave me wishing that they would add them to the dedicated desktop app or at least to the pop out Gtalk client (which I could then wrap in an Adobe Air app or something).
Ever looked at your address bar while reading your email in Gmail and noticed that the page wasn’t encrypted (”http” and not “https”)? Google sends you to a secure page to login, but by default sends you to an un-encrypted page to view and send emails. I’m not too sure why they do this, but there is a simple hack around it.
If you want to always browse your e-mail with high-grade encryption (AES-256 256 bit), a more secure encryption than most banks use, just change you Gmail bookmark to point to https://mail.google.com/mail/. You will be sent to a secure page to login, and once you are authenticated, you session will remain encrypted while you read/send mail.
Update: Google added the ability for Gmail users to always have https enabled. You can enable this feature by clicking on “settings” at the top of the page and choosing “Always use https” under “Browser Connections”. You can read the google blog post about it here. You can read the instructions on how to do it here.
