Google Starts Charging a Signup Fee For Chrome Extension Developers

Posted by Soulskill on Saturday August 21, 2010 @09:23AM from the got-my-mind-on-my-money dept.

trooperer writes "On Thursday, Google introduced two significant changes in the Google Chrome Extensions Gallery: a developer signup fee and a domain verification system. The signup fee is a one-time payment of $5. The announcement says its purpose is to 'create better safeguards against fraudulent extensions in the gallery and limit the activity of malicious developer accounts.' Developers who already registered with the gallery can continue to update their extensions and publish new items without paying the fee." Google also made available a developer preview for the Chrome Web Store.

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Re:Never fails... by dissy · 2010-08-21 16:27 · Score: 0, Offtopic

That's sort of like saying that you always find something you've lost in the last place you look. That's because once you find it you stop looking.
I always look another two or three places after I find what I am looking for, just to mess with peoples minds.