Chromesoul is a minimalist NetSoul client for Google Chrome. It aim to connect to the NetSoul server and stay active, but does not provide all the functionalities you can expect from a real client.
When you're on the PIE, you're stuck in it unless you are connected to netsoul, and with multiple boot and mobile devices it's a real pain to configure many NetSoul clients. That's why chromesoul is awesome: not only it's a cross-platform NS client, but with the Chrome synchronisation it's automaticaly installed and configured.
Sockets have been introduced in Chromium 24. Therefore, it is required to have a web-browser based on Chromium 24 or newer. At the time of writing, it's available on the [beta channel](http://www.chromium.org/getting-involved/dev-channel). For more informations, please refer to the [Chromium development calendar and release info](http://dev.chromium.org/developers/calendar).
Storing your socks password encrypted is a priority but is not available yet. Yes, the chromesoul dev version is unsafe; so is the official NetSoul server which doesn't store a hash but the password itself (it's required by the NetSoul protocol).
Because the only purpose of this app is to provide an access to internet when you're on the PIE, there is no plan to support messages at this time. Thoses stupid guys who have fun spamming everyone by broadcasting messages are the second reasons why you won't see any message using chromesoul. Maybe one day I'll write a chat interface. Since version 0.2, chromesoul have a dedicated window and is more likely to integrate a chat interface.
