Chrome extensions

RIAs come in many shapes and sizes. One of them is browser plugins, extensions, add-ons or whatever you want to call them. Firefox' succes is largely attributed to the many addons that independant developers have created (https://addons.mozilla.org).

Google Chrome hopes to repeat that succes with it's upcoming v4 release:

http://code.google.com/chrome/extensions/index.html

Note that you need the newest beta release to develop and use these extensions.

The development itself is very straight forward, just like in firefox, using javascript, html and css. The documentation and tutorials found in the link above are quite good, so no need for me to go through it all here.

Now, all you need is that great idea... Simple: just go to addons.mozilla.org and browse the many addons available, I'm quite sure you will quickly find a few that you'd like for Chrome to have as well. Maybe in refined and better way?