# Sqrome, a Chrome extension

DevFeed: [Sqrome, a Chrome extension](<https://devfeed.tech/articles/sqrome-a-chrome-extension-15864.md>)

Original publisher: [Read original article](<https://developer.squareup.com/blog/sqrome-a-chrome-extension>)

Author: Square Engineering

Published: 2014-09-05T16:07:00Z

Content type: tutorial

Language: en

Sources: [Square Corner Blog RSS Feed](<https://devfeed.tech/sources/square-corner-blog-rss-feed.md>)

Topics: [Chrome extension](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/chrome-extension.md>), [Chrome](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/chrome.md>), [JavaScript](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/javascript.md>), [CSS](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/css.md>), [HTML](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/html.md>)

Tags: [chrome](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/chrome.md>), [chrome-extension](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/chrome-extension.md>), [css](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/css.md>), [engineering](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/engineering.md>), [html](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/html.md>), [javascript](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/javascript.md>), [manifest](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/manifest.md>), [vpn](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/vpn.md>)

## AI overview

This tutorial describes Sqrome, an internal Chrome extension built during Square's hack week to show colleague information alongside Gmail email threads. It explains the extension's files, manifest, background and content scripts, local caching, directory queries, and internal publication.

## Source excerpt

Tackling a different kind of scaling problem.