Extensions in Chrome are pretty nifty. They offer a one-click installation method and the browser doesn’t even need to be restarted for the changed to take place (are you taking notes Mozilla?). But this is nothing OS X and Linux users should be jealous of… since they got extensions back in December.

Something they should be jealous about is the bookmark sync feature. This new ability lets Chrome users sync their bookmarks with their Google account and maintain the same bookmarks across different computers. Sounds familiar? delicious.com (formally http://del.icio.us) has offered the same service for a few years now – but with the inconvenience of having to log into a web-based service to add and access your favorites. Google has simplified that by auto-magically syncing the bookmarks to your Google Docs account.

At the moment, the only one-up that poor Delicious.com still has is that you can share these links with others. While theoretically you could simply share the “Google Chrome” folder that gets created in your Google Docs file… Google has disabled the ’share folder’ feature for it. But it’s only a matter of time before Google deems Delicious.com as useless and no longer necessary.

The plan is to give some technical background information as well as show off some demos, we’re told. More notably, they will be giving a “complete overview” of the new OS, which they say will launch next year. [src: TechChrunch]

Could we finally be getting some juicy details about Chrome OS? Tune back in tomorrow to find out.

We have all seen Google come out with great services and success of these can even be shown by the company’s stock price of 315.76 (up 5.18% even with the current market status). Chrome currently accounts for 3.1% of the market and that is just while it is in its beta stage. That is more then Apple’s Safari (2.7%), which has been released for a good deal of time now.

Many people, especially web developers, are sick and tired of the compatibility issues with Internet Explorer and are welcoming Chrome with open arms as another standards compliant browser. Now with word that Chrome may be leaving beta status soon, what should we expect? Hopefully some toolbars. For many people, that has been the only thing holding them back. But on the browser front, people switching to Chrome are going to have to switch from something.

Personally, I think the main reason IE holds such power right now is due to its loyal base of users who don’t know better and just use what is on their computer. These people will not switch unless they are shown the light.  As Gizmodo puts it:

“What does it take? Cash money. Many of you know that Google is the reason Firefox did so well in the first place: As far back as 2005, Google was paying major dollars to those who referred Firefox downloads that included the Google Toolbar. But Firefox never seems to have had the cash to buy its way to the PC makers’ desktops. The kind of payola that puts heinous crapware on Dells, HPs and other PCs will soon be put to work in the new browser war, one where Microsoft will for the first time have a serious threat on its home turf.”

Hopefully the combination of cash, simplicity, ease of use, and “new generation” clout will give Chrome the advantage it needs to beat Microsoft out of its thrown for the better good of…pardon the corniness… “webkind”.