The Mountain View campus was very busy over the past month or so, integrating Native Client, NaCI for short, which is designed to tap into the processor’s power, allowing web apps, like Facebook, Live Mesh, Google Apps, and Evernote to perform at the same speeds as their desktop application counterparts – like Microsoft Office. Why would Google want to do this, maybe because to make Google Docs, an alternative to Office, run at the same speed on Office on the Chrome OS, Google’s operating system. The Google Chrome version 4.0.220.1, which was released yesterday on the Dev Channel. But it does have one small caveat…it only works on x86 processors, like AMD Athlon or the Intel Core Series. If you are running a 64 bit capable PC, you still have no luck to use NaCI. However, NaCI isn’t new. Google first launched it in holiday 2008, but did not incorporate it into any of their products until now. And still, better, add-ons (or extensions).
Extensions can now appear to the right of the address bar, and to the left of the configuration settings buttons, as shown in this photo below. The extensions are part of BrowserActions:
Via CNET
