Chrome gaining rapid market share in India

BANGALORE, INDIA: “India is a rapidly growing market for Google Chrome, which has around 40million users across the globe,” said Rajdeep Dua from Google Developer Relations Team. He was taking a session at Spark IT 2010.

Google has come with Google Chrome Extensions, which are programs that enhance Chrome functionalities. Written in HTML, CSS and JavaScript, Chrome Extensions is integrated using simple APIs and developed iteratively.

Dua said that there were four basic types of extensions - Browser Action, Page Action, Content Script - scripts which modify the DOM of the underlying HTML page, and Theme.

According to him, every extension has a background page, Chrome also has a fully fledged local storage.