You can now handle redirects with chrome.webRequest

[Kerrick]

http://code.google.com/chrome/extensions/webRequest.html

Hook into onBeforeRedirect and use that URL instead. It's out of experimental now. :)

[mhweaver]

Woooo!! I threw together a patch a while back that used the experimental version. It seemed to work pretty well and it was pretty simple. If/when I get a chance, I'll see about tracking that down

[chromakode]

Thanks Kerrick!