make available on chrome

[CouldBeThis]

make available on chrome

issue: make available on chrome

useful general readings

• Building a cross-browser extension

• Getting Started Tutorial - Google Chrome

• Distribution Overview

• Publish in the Chrome Web Store

3rd party install impossible

External installation

Windows and Mac installs must come from Chrome Web Store: As of Chrome 33, no external installs are allowed from a path to a local .crx on Windows (see Protecting Windows users from malicious extensions). As of Chrome 44, no external installs are allowed from a path to a local .crx on Mac (see Continuing to protect Chrome users from malicious extensions).

account for chrome publishing

• [ ] register as a Chrome Web Store developer

  • [ ] pay a one-time registration fee = US$5

  note: No MasterCard or PayPal available as payment methods

mobile

For mobile users, you can easily convert your products into native apps for Android and iOS using Apache Cordova.

[CouldBeThis]

I have decided not to do this at this time. I thought I would for the sake of completeness. Reading through their documentation reminded me of just how much I dislike google.

• They make you pay $5 for the privilege of improving their product
• All the documentation centers around making money for them and the dev. Difficult to find how to do anything else. Had to search to determine how to publish free extensions as this is not even mentioned in most places. Made me feel icky.
• I won't use it