http://chrome.blogspot.com/2010/12/browse-for-good-cause.html
I already have it installed and just by opening tabs to browse websites, I have planted 1 tree.
(I installed it shortly before midnight my time, so it allowed me to send it when the time hit 12am) If you use Chrome I recommend you give it a shot!
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Whether it’s bug fixes to the Chromium open source project, dazzling apps and extensions arriving daily in our Web Store, or boundary-pushing Chrome experiments -- the Chrome community never fails to inspire us with their awesomeness.
This holiday, we wanted to enable the Chrome community to work together for a good cause. Starting today, we invite you to support five worthy causes by counting and “donating” the tabs you open in Chrome.
Everyone’s total tabs will determine a charitable donation made on behalf of the Chrome community, up to one million dollars. Here's what your tabs can do:
10 tabs = 1 tree planted
10 tabs = 1 book published and donated
25 tabs = 1 vaccination treatment provided
100 tabs = 1 square foot of shelter built
200 tabs = 1 person's clean water for a year
To find out more about this effort and the organizations we're partnering with, visit google.com/chrome/intl/en/p/cause/.
Want to participate?
Get the Chrome for a Cause extension
Browse the web with Chrome between December 15 - 19
At the end of each day, you’ll be prompted to click on the extension to submit your tabs
Choose which charity you’d like to support with that day’s tabs -- you can always support the same charity, or pick a different one each day
Next week, we’ll be sharing the details of the good deeds you’ve enacted. In the meantime, browse away!
This holiday, we wanted to enable the Chrome community to work together for a good cause. Starting today, we invite you to support five worthy causes by counting and “donating” the tabs you open in Chrome.
Everyone’s total tabs will determine a charitable donation made on behalf of the Chrome community, up to one million dollars. Here's what your tabs can do:
10 tabs = 1 tree planted
10 tabs = 1 book published and donated
25 tabs = 1 vaccination treatment provided
100 tabs = 1 square foot of shelter built
200 tabs = 1 person's clean water for a year
To find out more about this effort and the organizations we're partnering with, visit google.com/chrome/intl/en/p/cause/.
Want to participate?
Get the Chrome for a Cause extension
Browse the web with Chrome between December 15 - 19
At the end of each day, you’ll be prompted to click on the extension to submit your tabs
Choose which charity you’d like to support with that day’s tabs -- you can always support the same charity, or pick a different one each day
Next week, we’ll be sharing the details of the good deeds you’ve enacted. In the meantime, browse away!
I already have it installed and just by opening tabs to browse websites, I have planted 1 tree.
(I installed it shortly before midnight my time, so it allowed me to send it when the time hit 12am) If you use Chrome I recommend you give it a shot!
Chrome is a marvelous triumph of browser engineering, making my job easier and the RPR look nicer than any other browser. Although Firefox doesn't do a bad job either.
I love this idea, I am definitely going to try installing the plugin tonight.
I love this idea, I am definitely going to try installing the plugin tonight.
When you hit x tabs, there's a popup at the bottom right that tells you what you can donate. Just now I got a popup telling me "You just earned enough tabs to donate a tree or a published book!"
I've had this for about 15 minutes, and I have 60 tabs recorded 
. Thanks for sharing this, Sanne!
. Thanks for sharing this, Sanne!
dude, everybody get this and hit up wikipedia + tv tropes
world's problems = solved
world's problems = solved
The donation spree has ended! I have donated a few dozen trees, clean water for several people and some vaccinations! 
This was fun, I hope Google will do something like this in the future!
This was fun, I hope Google will do something like this in the future!
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