Google To Block Local Chrome Extensions On Windows Starting In January

An anonymous reader writes "Google today announced it will block local Chrome extensions starting in January, but only on the Windows platform. This means that next year, Windows users will only be able to install extensions for the company's browser from the Chrome Web Store. The changes will affect both Chrome's stable and beta channels on Windows. Google says it will continue to support local extension installs on its Dev and Canary channels, as well as installs via Enterprise policy. Chrome apps are not affected at all and will continue to be supported normally."

Walled Garden: One brick at a time....

[EvilSS]

Did Google recently buy a brick factory because they seem to be trying to slowly build a wall around their not-quite-as-open-as-it-once-was garden. Between this and some of the stuff they are pulling with Android (Play Store, API lock-ins) and Chromecast they seem to be all about turning down the openness lately. Come to think of it, that seems to be a trend (Skype, Twitter APIs off the top of my head, then of course that fruit company) lately.

So, who wants to fork.

[Anonymous Coward]

Oh, wait, you can just use Chromium and stop crying.

Anyone that uses Chrome and bitches deserves to suffer. You do not need automatic updates.
In fact, automatic updates are more of a pain than anything. There is a reason nobody uses forced updating in business, because developers are asshats that constantly break their own shit and then everyone suffers because of it.
Chromium devs are some of the worst for that too. I can't count how many times "stable" updates broke the browser back in the earlier days, jesus christ what the hell were you guys doing?

If they do, however, block it on Chromium, I am serious in the forking question, I can easily drop my life and work on it. Fuck Google. Don't piss me off, I'm bitter, determined and lifeless outside of code.

Re:I stopped using Chrome

[Lee_Dailey]

howdy y'all,

the google folks are aware of the upcoming "australis" abomination and are not worried about firefox at all. [*sigh ...*]

the firefox devs are crippling the addon system, crippling the customization system, removing the addon bar/status bar, blocking putting icons anywhere other than on the navigation toolbar, and generally ripping out the things that make firefox so completely customizable.

all this in the name of "simplicity" and "making customization more accessible to more users".

actually, it's being done in the name of stripping out things they don't like to maintain while still adding all that developer tools stuff that otta be in an extension.

i suspect that i will switch to seamonkey when australis comes out on firefox.

take care,
lee

Welcome to the Google Walled Garden of evil

[goombah99]

Google's catch phrase "don't be evil" reminds me of the famous Outerlimits Episode where the aliens come "TO serve Man", and it turns out that's the title of their cook book.

So google walls its garden. The walls seem to be taller than apples. FOr example, try installing linux on a chromebook. Sure you can do it but every single time it falls asleep or boots the screen it says after wake"You are running in an insecure mode, press the space bar". If press the spacebar, it erases the hard drive and re-installs chrome from scratch. Thus it's practically impossible to run Linux in any stable way on a chrome book. Yes it runs, but it's like having a set of rotating knives permanently surrounding the on-off switch. They just don't want you to do this, while they want to take credit for having an "open" platform. ( by comparisons Apples are happy to boot to linux, no rotating knives thrust at you upon wake from sleep.)

Now they crank down on the path you can use to install extensions.

Google has become not only more severe than apple but they also sell all your private info.

  Google actually meant "Don't settle for being merely Evil".