I don't know anything about Chrome extensions but I know that typical bookmarklets function in all browsers. So my question is: why? Why not just using bookmarklet as is?
Brilliant! thanks. I've been planning on converting some of my markdown bookmarklets for blogging (<a href="http://5typos.net/post/259552063/bookmarklets-for-text-manipulation" rel="nofollow">http://5typos.net/post/259552063/bookmarklets-for-text-manip...</a>) for some time, but was too lazy to checkout the specs. No excuse now.
I've always been annoyed in Firefox and now apparently Chrome that you cannot just have a simple, single-file extension if you don't need any external files.<p>Why can't it just regex the manifest, etc. from the extension header in a comment field.