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Dear Google Chrome Linux fans, here is a small tutorial on how to install Google Chrome on your latest Fedora operating system. Thanks Sijo, for sharing this with me.

First step:

Create a file /etc/yum.repos.d/google-chrome.repo with the contents below

[google-chrome]
name=google-chrome
baseurl=http://dl.google.com/linux/rpm/stable/i386
enabled=1
gpgcheck=0

Install chrome : Go to command line and type

yum install google-chrome

That should install google chrome on your computer. I also found a video tutorial showing how to do this, in somewhat similar manner.

The last fedora version that I used was FC10, one year back. I changed to Ubuntu after that just for a change, Fedora is also a great linux distribution for those who wanted to do some serious Linux computing !

chrome extensions

If you start playing around with Google Chrome Extensions, you will end up installing many extensions, like me.

Each time you need to change something on extensions or uninstall any, you will need to go to menu > extensions .  “Extensions” extension will add an menu button to your chrome toolbar, where you will get access to your installed extensions with single mouse click ! See the image ?

Useful Isn’t it ? Download and Install it here.

Yes, Google Chrome’s official extensions gallery is now live. With more than 300 extensions, this is a cool place for you to hang out, and take your chrome browser for a ride.

I have been using extensions on my developer version of chrome for past few weeks. ( running developer version helps me bring you more news about chrome at the earliest ! ). It was a nice experience, and will take your browser to the next level.

I really enjoyed  the google taks plugin, the google reader plugin, and the pagerank plugin etc.  I will be testing more plugins in coming days.

Just like extensions taking chrome to next level, the extensions gallery will take chromestory.com also to new level. I will be writing more about plugins in coming days, and will help you dive deeper in to the extensions gallery that google launched.  I will bring you more plugin use, plugin reviews etc.

Stay tuned. !

Chrome RSS Extension

The first thing I complained about Google Chrome was the lack of RSS feed icon on the address bar.  When I am on a page, or a blog, an RSS feed icon next to the site URL is the easiest way to subscribe to the RSS feed. While using Chrome, I had to copy paste the URL of the website or blog to Google Reader, and subscribe from there.

Not anymore !

Google has introduced a new extension, which will come pre-installed in Google Chrome. The extension “adds a button to the URL bar when a page has a feed that can be subscribed to”. When you click on the orange button, the extension previews the feed and it lets you subscribe using a feed reader.

Since extensions are already working on the Development version of Google Chrome, and was recently pushed to beta versions too, we will soon see extensions working on your browser  too. Things will be more interesting with Extensions  support !

via googlesystem.blogspot.com

The latest update from Google Chrome team, is showing version number as 3.0.x, on the Dev version of Google Chrome on my laptop. So, I would guess that Google Chrome team is busy developing version 3.0 of Google Chrome.

So, Extensions on Chrome 3.0 ?

Yes, extensions are already working on Dev versions of Google Chrome. However, it needs an additional step ( adding –enable-extensions to your target code ) at the moment. Why ? Because, the extensions UI ( user interface ) is not ready yet.

When extensions UI is ready, you will simply need to click on extensions that you need from Chrome’s extension gallery, in order to install them. So, Extensions are almost there, and Google versions started showing 3.0 already, what does that say ? Google Chrome Version 3.0 = Extensions ?