The universal edit button first became a reality in the summer of 2008, initially as an extension for the Firefox browser. But compared to the grand vision of a truly universal edit button, one limited to Firefox users was merely the beginning.
AboutUs is just one member of a diverse group that came together to create the button. Our ultimate goal is native support across all browsers, just like RSS. That’s still a long way ahead, but another important milestone has been reached with the addition of an extension for Google’s Chrome browser.
Chrome and the Chromium open source project its built on are rapidly growing in popularity, but it only recently unveiled support for advanced features like extensions and bookmark syncing.
The universal edit button for Chrome was created by Justin Forest [Thanks Justin!], and it’s working but still fairly experimental. Mac users in particular may have trouble getting it to function.
Even if there are still some bugs to be worked out, the community around the universal edit button is very lucky to have a Chrome extension at this point.
To download the new Chrome extension, you can either visit UniversalEditButton.org or the project’s home on Google Code.
Update: This afternoon Google announced the launch of an extensions gallery for Chrome. Be sure to watch for the universal edit button there once it’s open to everyone.
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