<div id="pageData-name" class="pageData">Developer's Guide</div>
<p>
These pages assume you've completed
the <a href="getstarted.html">Getting Started</a> tutorial
and <a href="overview.html">Overview</a>.
Unless otherwise stated, everything in this page
applies to packaged apps, as well as extensions.
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<td colspan="2"><h4>Changing the Google Chrome chrome</h4></td>
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<td> <a href="browserAction.html">Browser Actions</a> </td>
<td> Add icons to the toolbar <em>(extensions only)</em> </td>
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<td> <a href="notifications.html">Desktop Notifications</a> </td>
<td> Notify users of important events </td>
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<td> <a href="omnibox.html">Omnibox</a> </td>
<td> Add a keyword to the address bar </td>
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<td> <a href="options.html">Options Pages</a> </td>
<td> Let users customize your extension </td>
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<td> <a href="override.html">Override Pages</a> </td>
<td> Implement your own version of standard browser pages
such as the New Tab page</td>
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<td> <a href="pageAction.html">Page Actions</a> </td>
<td> Add temporary icons inside the address bar <em>(extensions only)</em> </td>
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<td> <a href="themes.html">Themes</a> </td>
<td> Change the overall appearance of the browser </td>
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<td colspan="2"><h4>Interacting with Google Chrome in other ways</h4></td>
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<td> <a href="bookmarks.html">Bookmarks</a> </td>
<td> Create, organize, and otherwise manipulate the user's bookmarks </td>
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<td> <a href="cookies.html">Cookies</a> </td>
<td> Explore and modify the browser's cookie system </td>
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<td> <a href="events.html">Events</a> </td>
<td> Detect when something interesting happens </td>
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<td> <a href="history.html">History</a> </td>
<td> Interact with the browser's record of visited pages </td>
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<td> <a href="tabs.html">Tabs</a> </td>
<td> Create, modify, and rearrange tabs in the browser </td>
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<td> <a href="windows.html">Windows</a> </td>
<td> Create, modify, and rearrange windows in the browser </td>
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<td colspan="2"><h4>Implementing the innards of your extension</h4></td>
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<td> <a href="a11y.html">Accessibility (a11y)</a> </td>
<td> Make your extension accessible to people with disabilities </td>
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<td> <a href="background_pages.html">Background Pages</a> </td>
<td> Put all the common code for your extension in a single place </td>
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<td> <a href="content_scripts.html">Content Scripts</a> </td>
<td> Run JavaScript code in the context of web pages </td>
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<td> <a href="xhr.html">Cross-Origin XHR</a> </td>
<td> Use XMLHttpRequest to send and receive data from remote servers </td>
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<td> <a href="i18n.html">Internationalization</a> </td>
<td> Deal with language and locale </td>
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<td> <a href="messaging.html">Message Passing</a> </td>
<td> Communicate from a content script to its parent extension,
or vice versa</td>
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<td> <a href="npapi.html">NPAPI Plugins</a> </td>
<td> Load native binary code </td>
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<td colspan="2"><h4>Finishing and distributing your extension</h4></td>
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<td> <a href="autoupdate.html">Autoupdating</a> </td>
<td> Update extensions automatically </td>
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<td> <a href="hosting.html">Hosting</a> </td>
<td> Host extensions on Google servers or your own </td>
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<td> <a href="external_extensions.html">Other Deployment Options</a> </td>
<td> Distribute extensions on your network or with other software </td>
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<td> <a href="packaging.html">Packaging</a> </td>
<td> Create a <code>.crx</code> file so you can distribute your extension </td>
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