Uploaded December 2025 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago
Dive into the major advancements that shaped Chrome Extensions and the Chrome Web Store throughout 2025. Oliver covers a year of innovation, detailing the full transition to Manifest V3, the introduction of powerful new platform APIs, and the robust integration of built-in AI capabilities like the Prompt, Summarizer, Translator, and Language Detector APIs. Learn about the evolution of user script management, improvements to the Side Panel API, and how these changes are fostering a more innovative and secure extension ecosystem.
Chapters:
0:00 - Introduction
1:29 - January
1:50 - February
2:12 - March
2:31 - April
2:47 - May
3:00 - June
3:42 - July
4:01 - August
4:18 - September
4:40 - October
5:01 - November
5:38 - December
Watch more Developer Mode → https://goo.gle/dev-mode
Subscribe to Chrome for Developers → https://goo.gle/ChromeDevs
#ChromeForDevelopers #Chrome
Speaker: Oliver Dunk
Products Mentioned: Chrome
Dive into the major advancements that shaped Chrome Extensions and the Chrome Web Store throughout 2025. Oliver covers a year of innovation, detailing the full transition to Manifest V3, the introduction of powerful new platform APIs, and the robust integration of built-in AI capabilities like the Prompt, Summarizer, Translator, and Language Detector APIs. Learn about the evolution of user script management, improvements to the Side Panel API, and how these changes are fostering a more innovative and secure extension ecosystem.
Chapters:
0:00 - Introduction
1:29 - January
1:50 - February
2:12 - March
2:31 - April
2:47 - May
3:00 - June
3:42 - July
4:01 - August
4:18 - September
4:40 - October
5:01 - November
5:38 - December
Watch more Developer Mode → https://goo.gle/dev-mode
Subscribe to Chrome for Developers → https://goo.gle/ChromeDevs
#ChromeForDevelopers #Chrome
Speaker: Oliver Dunk
Products Mentioned: Chrome


![Modernizing the Pinterest carousel: 90% less code with native CSS
How do you build a web that inspires 600 million users? At Pinterest, the Close Up experience is core to how users discover ideas. But over time, the JavaScript powering carousel experience became a patchwork of 2,000 lines of code—resulting in noticeable lag and jank for users.
In this video, Pinterest engineers Calvin and Anuja walk through how they swapped legacy JavaScript for modern CSS carousels and View Transitions. The results? A 90% reduction in code, a 15% improvement in page load time, and a smoother, native-feeling UI.
Chapters:
[0:07] Inspiring 600 Million Users
[0:10] Meet the team: Engineering at Pinterest
[0:21] The legacy carousel: 2,000 Lines of JavaScript
[0:49] The Experiment: Converting to CSS carousel
[1:22] Results: 90% less code, 15% less load time.
[1:36] Scaling success everywhere
[2:03] View Transitions: Smooth animations are now possible
📚Resources:
Make accessible carousels → https://goo.gle/4aTpGtc
Carousels with CSS → https://goo.gle/3YuWhOv
Scoped View Transitions → https://goo.gle/3XuZMUX
View Transition API → https://goo.gle/3MzVngY
Watch more “Re-Imagine the web” → https://goo.gle/re-imagine-the-web
Subscribe to Chrome for Developers → https://goo.gle/ChromeDevs
#Chrome #Pinterest #webui
Products Mentioned: Chrome, Pinterest, web platform, web development, CSS, CSS carousels, CSS primitives, View Transitions Modernizing the Pinterest carousel: 90% less code with native CSS](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/oWJPu3yvfp8/mqdefault.jpg)







