Google expects to have their newly released Chrome extensions to work on the beta release of Chrome for Mac by end of week. Since its release on Monday, Mac users have been relying of a few tricks and workarounds to make the awaited extensions work on their beloved platform. Support for extensions should be rolled out natively for Chromium this week, with full extension support in Chrome - the official release - by early 2010.

On a side note, the number of Chrome extensions more than doubled yesterday, hitting the 480 mark (up from 180). That is incredibly fast. This is because “extensions are just web pages,” a Google engineer noted.