# Hugging Face — How to Use Transformers.js in a Chrome Extension

- Company: Hugging Face (huggingface.co)
- Announced: 2026-04-23T00:00:00+00:00
- Category: developer-tool-release
- Subject: Platform
- Models affected: Gemma 4 E2B, onnx-community/gemma-4-E2B-it-ONNX, onnx-community/all-MiniLM-L6-v2-ONNX
- Source: https://huggingface.co/blog/transformersjs-chrome-extension
- Record: https://forck.live/items/1513-how-to-use-transformers-js-in-a-chrome-extension

Hugging Face published a guide for developers on how to use Transformers.js in a Chrome extension, based on their recently released demo extension powered by Gemma 4 E2B. The guide covers Manifest V3 architecture, model loading, messaging, and download/cache lifecycle.

## Evidence

Verbatim from https://huggingface.co/blog/transformersjs-chrome-extension:

> We recently released a Transformers.js demo browser extension powered by Gemma 4 E2B to help users navigate the web. While building it, we ran into several practical observations about Manifest V3 runtimes, model loading, and messaging that are worth sharing.

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