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As of June 2012, there were 750 million total installs of content hosted on Chrome Web Store. [5] Some extension developers have sold their extensions to third-parties who then incorporated adware. [6] [7] In 2014, Google removed two such extensions from Chrome Web Store after many users complained about unwanted pop-up ads. [8]
A helper application is an external viewer program—like IrfanView or Adobe Reader—that displays content retrieved using a web browser. [ 18 ] [ 19 ] Unlike a plugin whose full code would be included in the browser's address space , a helper application is a standalone application. [ 20 ]
Internet Explorer was the first major browser to support extensions, with the release of version 4 in 1997. [7] Firefox has supported extensions since its launch in 2004. Opera and Chrome began supporting extensions in 2009, [8] and Safari did so the following year. Microsoft Edge added extension support in 2016. [9]
Video DownloadHelper is an extension for Firefox and Chrome web browsers. It allows the user to download videos from sites that stream videos through HTTP . The extension was developed by Michel Gutierrez.
In 2017, Mozilla enacted major changes to the application programming interface (API) for extensions in Firefox, replacing the long-standing XUL and XPCOM APIs with the WebExtensions API that is modeled after Google Chrome's API. [2] [3] [4] Thus add-ons that remain compatible with Firefox are now largely compatible with Chrome as well. [5]
A comparison shopping website, sometimes called a price comparison website, price analysis tool, comparison shopping agent, shopbot, aggregator or comparison shopping engine, is a vertical search engine that shoppers use to filter and compare products based on price, features, reviews and other criteria.
Pagespeed extension is an extension of Chrome Browser and is a part of Google Chrome Developer Tools. Visitors who use PageSpeed regularly can view all given metrics by PageSpeed Insights directly in a browser and download webpage resources, optimized according to web performance best practices.
CEF 3 is a multi-process implementation based on the Chromium Content API and has performance similar to Google Chrome. [6] It uses asynchronous messaging to communicate between the main application process and one or more render processes ( Blink + V8 JavaScript engine).