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<h2>Contents</h2>
<ol>
<li>
- <a href="#gallery">Publishing to the Extensions gallery</a>
+ <a href="#gallery">Publishing to the Extensions Gallery</a>
<ol>
<li style="display: none; ">
<a>h3Name</a>
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<div id="pageData-showTOC" class="pageData">true</div>
<p>
-Google provides a free hosting service: the
-<a href="http://chrome.google.com/extensions">Extensions gallery</a>.
-Another option is hosting your extension on other servers,
-instead of or in addition to using Google's gallery.
+Until the
+<a href="http://code.google.com/chrome/webstore/">Chrome Web Store</a>
+is available to the public,
+you can host your extension
+using the <a href="https://chrome.google.com/extensions">Extensions Gallery</a>.
+Once the store is public,
+the gallery's contents will be merged into the store.
+Another option
+is hosting your extension on other servers.
+</p>
+
+<p>
This page gives tips for using the gallery,
as well as details on how to host extensions on your own server.
</p>
-<h2 id="gallery">Publishing to the Extensions gallery</h2>
+<h2 id="gallery">Publishing to the Extensions Gallery</h2>
+
+<p>
+To publish extensions,
+you first need to pay a one-time
+<a href="http://blog.chromium.org/2010/08/security-improvements-and-registration.html">$5 developer registration fee</a>.
+</p>
+
+<p class="note">
+<b>Note:</b>
+If you used the Chrome Developer Dashboard before
+the first developer preview release of the Chrome Web Store —
+to publish an extension, for example —
+you don't need to pay the fee.
+</p>
<p>
Publishing to the gallery is easy,
@@ -317,7 +339,7 @@ if you take a little time to prepare:
<ul>
<li> Visit the
- <a href="http://chrome.google.com/extensions">gallery</a>
+ <a href="https://chrome.google.com/extensions">gallery</a>
and look at similar extensions' pages.
Your extension's page should look at least as good as theirs. </li>
<li> Consider creating a support site for your extension,