The Google Chrome Browser gmail, mouse gesture and twitter (chritter) extensions

I've been trying Google's Chrome Browser pretty much since it first came out. The user experience is slick - it's fast and putting tabs in the top window bar frees up much needed real estate. But there are features keeping me from using it daily.

Nowadays I'm debugging flex apps in Firefox and I want a separate browser for my normal usage, and it turns out Chrome's developer release now supports extensions after all! The selection is very limited but still make a huge difference.

• Mouse gestures: this is my only must have extension.
• Gmail notifier: I like having a small, unobtrusive notifier in the browser bar rather than as, say, a separate icon in my Windows task bar.
• Twitter: yeah, I'm one of those people. This extension is in its early stages though - it cycles through tweets but doesn't allow you to see them all at once, or reply. It's probably not a great substitute for your own favorite twitter app. But one thing it has over some others is it uses the new oauth mechanism rather than logging you in. So it doesn't need to send your login info over the wire, in the clear, like firestatus and (I think) TwitterFox do.

So here's how you get yourself some Google Chrome Goodness in a few easy steps.

1. Get the dev channel of Chrome: download and install the installer for the Dev channel at http://www.google.com/chrome/eula.html?extra=devchannel. That did it for me but if you want more info go here http://dev.chromium.org/getting-involved/dev-channel.
2. In your shortcut for Chrome add the following "--enable-extensions" and restart Chrome. So if you're in Windows Land like me your shortcut looks like this: "C:\Documents and Settings\tmckernan\Local Settings\Application Data\Google\Chrome\Application\chrome.exe" --enable-extensions
3. Click on each link for each extension you want.
4. Mouse gestures:
   http://chromegestures.googlecode.com/files/ChromeGestures.crx
   OR for more info: http://code.google.com/p/chromegestures/
5. Gmail Notifier:
   http://dev.chromium.org/developers/design-documents/extensions/samples/gmail.crx?attredirects=0
   OR for more info: http://dev.chromium.org/developers/design-documents/extensions/samples
6. Twitter (chritter):
   http://groups.google.com/group/chromium-extensions/attach/13398294b26b48be/chritter.crx?part=4
   OR for more info: http://groups.google.com/group/chromium-extensions/browse_thread/thread/75a02aa146fcfabd
7. Restart Chrome and enjoy the Goodness!