>> Ladies and gentlemen, please welcome Google
Chrome Project Management Director Brian Rakowski. >> RAKOWSKI: Hello, everybody. It’s so nice
to see everybody here to hear about extensions. It looks a little bit crowded back there.
There’s lots of room up here. Don’t be shy. There’s room in the front if you need
a little bit more space. We have a lot to talk about here. We’re going to talk about
extensions and what we released yesterday. But before we do that, I want to take a couple
of minutes to talk about the browser in Chrome and what it means to us at Google. So we set
out to build a browser because browsers are so important to us. We think that a browser
is the most important piece of software on your computer. We spend all day in front of
browsers everyday. I’m sure a lot of you do, too. All of our users come to us to through
the browser, and we wanted to make sure that there was a really rock-solid set of fundamentals
that supported the browser and gave us a great platform to build on, and also a great user
experience. So, with that in mind, we set out to make a browser that was fundamentally
faster, safer, and more stable than what we’ve seen before. So, with that in mind, we’ve
put a lot of effort in to some of our core technology. V8 helps us with speed. Our multi-process
architecture helps us with stability. And our sandboxing technology helps us with security.
All these things are very, very important to us. They also help us with extensions.
And you’ll hear more about that as we get a little bit further into the presentation.
So far, the response to Chrome has been amazing. We’ve been overwhelmed by how positively
people have responded. We’ve got over 40 million regular users of Chrome. We’re blown
away by the response there. We have continued to improve on our core fundamentals of speed,
security, stability. You can see here that our performance on JavaScript execution has
improved by 150% since we first launched the browser; something we’re very proud of.
We’ve also worked on DOM manipulations. For pages that try to manipulate the DOM through
JavaScript, we’ve made huge strides in the last release; so we’re very proud of that
as well. We’re also rounding out the feature set. There’s a bunch of features that we
consider to be basic features that a browser needs. And we’ve been rounding those out
for the last four releases of the browser. We’ve also added a little bit some more
frivolous features, I guess; something a little bit more fun in themes. In case you have an
urge to put Mariah Carey's face on your browser, you can now do that. People seem to really
like that feature. So, we’ve made a lot of progress in the last year. We’re really
proud of what we’ve done. A big gap for the last year has been our lack of support
for Mac and Linux. We can finally cross that off the list. And, of course, the other big
gap is extensions. And that’s what we’re here to talk today. We’ve also made a huge
investment in the platform. We want the platform to be more powerful in terms of what users
can see and what developers can deliver to users on the platform. So we’ve made a huge
investment in HTML5. We're delivering lots of capabilities there. We’ve also made a
big investment in developer tools, and that team is to deliver some cool enhancements
to developer tools. And you’ll see some of that in the talk that Aaron and Erik are
going to deliver. But we’re going to spend all of our--the rest of the time talking about
extensions. And extensions are incredibly important to us. When we built Chrome, we
wanted to focus on creating a very simple user experience that evoke the Google aesthetic
of being very powerful but didn’t have a lot of features that got in your way. It wasn’t
intimidating in any way. And that was our core--one of our core principles of simplicity,
or as we like to say, content not Chrome. But when we started to work on extensions,
we wanted to adhere to that same aesthetics. So you’ll see throughout the talk some of
the work we’ve done to make sure that that stayed as simple as possible. Now, one of
the things we learned as we started to hear our users’ feedback after the first year
of Chrome was that every user has the handful of extensions or handful of features that
they cannot live without. But those same features to 90% of users are called bloat. So, our
answer to that is extensions. And this is an area we’re very serious. We’re going
to put a lot of effort into making extensions more and more powerful over time. But the
start we have is phenomenal. And without anymore background, I’m going to hand it over to
Erik and Aaron to talk about what we set out to build, how we built it, and how it all
works. So, here, we have Aaron Boodman and Erik Kay to talk about the rest of it.
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