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How to...

The following are guides to specific extension development tasks. For beginner guides, see our Getting Started tutorials. For in-depth knowledge about what extensions can do and how they work, see the Develop guide.

Categories

Design the user interface

• Support accessibility

• Use favicons

• Localize your extension

• Notify users

• Extend DevTools

Use the web platform

• Handle files on Chrome OS

• Add geolocation to retrieve the user's location

• Record audio and capture the screen

• Use WebSockets in service workers

• Use WebHID in extensions

• Use WebUSB in extensions

• Real-time Updates in Extensions

• Register your extension for an origin trial

Integrate external APIs

• Use Google Analytics 4

• Use OAuth 2.0 to authenticate users with Google

Protect privacy and stay secure

• Use eval() in sandboxed iframes

Distribute for enterprise and Linux users

• Self-host an extension

• Use alternate installation methods

Test and debug extensions

• Test Chrome Extensions with Puppeteer

• Build end-to-end tests

• Write unit tests