Any way to port Firefox Extensions to Google Chrome/Chromium?

[HappinessNow]

I know when Flock first came out there was an easy way to port extensions from Firefox to Flock...anyway to do this with Chrome/Chromium?

Anybody know of a good how to for building Chromium extensions?

I thought I would try and port a few Firefox Extensions from Firefox to Google Chrome/Chromium:

Here's a quick list of extensions that need to be ported:


1. BookBurro
2. Flagfox
3. Scroll Search Engines
4. Secure login
5. Speeddial
6. Add to search bar

[Mr. Devil]

http://code.google.com/chrome/extensions/index.html might be a a good starting place.

[lovinglinux]

http://code.google.com/chrome/extensions/index.html might be a a good starting place.

Also...

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/developers

[Paqman]

I know when Flock first came out there was an easy way to port extensions from Firefox to Flock...

Er, that's because Flock is Firefox.

[speedwell68]

Er, that's because Flock is Firefox.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flock_%28web_browser%29

[joey-elijah]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flock_%28web_browser%29

Well done for confirming flock is essentially just firefox.

@ O/P - Why do you need a speeddial extension ported when Chrome has one built in? Even if you don't like the native chrome speed dial there are 3 or four otehr speed dials/new tab homepages for Chrome already - i fail to see what yet another one could possibly offer that the ones already available don't - aside from choice.

I do want secure login to arrive for Chrome - that'd be ace.

[Paqman]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flock_%28web_browser%29

Not quite sure what your point is, but mine was that since Flock is based on Firefox, there shouldn't be too much mashing with the code hammer required to the extensions to work. Whereas Chrome(ium) is a different browser entirely, so you'd expect it to be harder.


Why do you need a speeddial extension ported when Chrome has one built in?

I wondered that too. Chrome's implementation of it is far better than any of the equivalent FF extensions, too.

[mztriz]

While I don't know how to port firefox extensions, I just found out the other day that you can natively install Grease Monkey scripts. So if you wanted to use that you can now :)