25 Best Chrome Extensions For Everyone
Right from the launch of Google Chrome, the user base always has an inclined growth. Its undoubtedly the world’s fastest browser.
Google is always a leader in Extensions it has and that is the main reason people stick to it. Today we have collected best Chrome Extensions for everyone.
If you like this article, you might be interested in some of our other articles on Chrome Extensions For Web Developers, Chrome Addons For Power Blogging, Firefox Addons For Everyone, and Chromebook Apps.
X-notifier (Gmail, Hotmail, Yahoo, AOL …)
X-notifier(aka MuNo) checks your webmail accounts and notifies the number of unread emails.
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Turn Off the Lights
With one click on the lamp button, the page will be fading to dark. And automatic focus to the video. Click again, the page will return back as normal.
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YouTube Downloader
Download any video from YouTube. Adds a download button to YouTube video pages.
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Adblock Plus
By preventing the display of ads, Adblock Plus makes browsing the web less taxing on both your computer and your sanity. Adblock Plus is a community-driven open source project that aims to make the internet better for everyone.
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NotScripts
NotScripts gives you a high degree of “NoScript” like control over what javascript, iframes, and plugins runs in your browser to increase security and lower the CPU usage. It is useful to help mitigate some attacks like certain cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerabilities and drive by downloads by blocking the third-party content before it even runs with it’s default deny policy.
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MegaUpload DownloadHelper
MegaUpload Download Helper will monitor time limitations and will auto-start your download.
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Stylish
Stylish lets you easily manage user styles. Add, delete, enable, disable, and organize with a few clicks of a mouse, no code to edit, no obscure configuration to find. Stylish’s companion website, userstyles.org, hosts tens of thousands of user styles made by other Stylish users that you can try. For you technical types out there, think of it this way: Stylish and userstyles.org are to CSS as Greasemonkey and userscripts.org are to JavaScript.
TooManyTabs for Chrome
Ever tried having 20 tabs or more open in Chrome? You can’t even see the favicon of the tabs, not to mention the tab titles! If that happens to you, TooManyTabs is a must-have extension that manages your tabs, reduces your tab overflow, and saves your sanity!
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AddThis
AddThis allows you to instantly share, bookmark, print, or even translate pages with one easy-to-use tool. Start with the most popular services, or customize AddThis with your favorite ways to share – just select “Options” to personalize your list of services. We’ve optimized AddThis to be as fast as it is easy, so you can share whenever you like without slowing down Chrome.
Ghostery
Ghostery sees the “invisible” web, detecting trackers, web bugs, pixels, and beacons placed on web pages by Facebook, Google Analytics, and over 500 other ad networks, behavioral data providers, web publishers – all companies interested in your activity.
WOT
Would you like to know which websites you can trust? The WOT add-on is a crowd-sourced safe surfing tool for your browser. Traffic-light rating symbols show which websites Internet surfers trust for safe surfing, shopping and searching on the web.
Chrome FTP
This extensions allows you to open a local file of your choice or your server and browse it in your web browser in order to download any file. You can save your preferences in the options page in order not to have to re-enter your informations or to bring them back to their original values.
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Cooliris
Meet Cooliris, the 3D Wall that speeds up search on Google Images, Flickr, Facebook, and even your own computer. On our infinite 3D Wall, you can effortlessly scroll though thousands of images and videos in seconds without having to click from page to page.
Daily Links
Daily Links helps you organize your daily routine. You specify which pages to open and what days of the week to load them on. Then just click the Daily Link’s icon and all of today’s pages load in new tabs. This is great for keeping track of web comics, blogs, news, or any site you want to check regularly.
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iMacros for Chrome
iMacros was designed to automate the most repetitious tasks on the web. If there’s an activity you have to do repeatedly, just record it in iMacros. The next time you need to do it, the entire macro will run at the click of a button! With iMacros, you can quickly and easily fill out web forms, remember passwords, create a webmail notifier, and more. You can keep the macros on your computer for your own use, use them within bookmark sync / Xmarks or share them with others by embedding them on your homepage, blog, company Intranet or any social bookmarking service as bookmarklet. The uses are limited only by your imagination!
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Checker Plus for Google Calendar
See your next meetings and the current date on the icon, get desktop event reminders, add events from the popup in month, week or agenda view without ever opening the webpage, gray out past days, PLUS many options!
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Docs PDF/PowerPoint Viewer
By clicking on a link for a supported document format you’ll be taken to the Google Docs Viewer. No more downloading large files and launching another application just to view it. The Google Docs Viewer does not work on files that require a log-in to view, but you can make it ignore specific domains in the options so you will still download the file.
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Silver Bird
Silver Bird is a Twitter extension that allows you to follow your timelines and interact with your Twitter account.
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SocialPlus!
Customize and make Facebook better with SocialPlus! (Skin, don’t like button,VideoChat, emoticons, color, nudge, photo preview … )
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Google Quick Scroll
Google Quick Scroll is a browser extension that helps you find what you are searching for faster. After you click on a Google search result, Quick Scroll may appear on the bottom-right corner of the page, showing one or more bits of text from the page that are relevant to your query. Clicking on the text will take you to that part of the page.
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LastPass
LastPass is a free online password manager and Form Filler that makes your web browsing easier and more secure. You can import from most major password storage vendors (such as RoboForm, 1Password, KeePass, Password Safe, MyPasswordSafe, Sxipper, TurboPasswords, Passpack, Firefox and Internet Explorer’s built-in password manager) and export too.
Springpad
Springpad gives you free notebooks to save anything you want to remember. Save lots of different types of things all in one place Notes and tasks, Bookmarks, Recipes, Books, Movies, and Products, Businesses and Restaurants, Checklists, Shopping Lists and Packing Lists and much more! Springpad syncs everything you save, so you can access it from anywhere!
IE Tab
Use Internet Explorer to display web pages in a Chrome tab. Some sites can only be displayed using IE, and with this extension you can now see those sites without leaving Chrome. Great for web developers who want to test the IE rendering engine, users who use sites with ActiveX controls, and users who want to use the explorer view for local files
FlashBlock
Flashblock is an extension for the Google Chrome that blocks all Flash content from loading. It then leaves placeholders on the webpage that allow you to click to download and then view the Flash content.
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Boomerang for Gmail
Boomerang allows you to schedule messages to be sent or returned at a later date. Write a message now, send it whenever, even if you’re not online. Track messages to make sure you hear back, and schedule reminders right inside Gmail
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Nice, will check them soon.
Also the youtube downloder link is not working.
Good list.
One problem, the youtube downloader link doesnt work. Can you re-upload it?
Ned, it has been updated.
I liked the addThis, also there is a new extension that let’s you see google search results inside facebook which is really neat, check it out:
https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/hhpfhdhkcdkngbomgbfbocoflbflfcac
i think you covered most of the best extensions out there, nice job!
I really like this one:
https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/jafknefnkiolhmhbdpojkpdempbdmfap
It´s quite new but amazingly fast.
Moreover the desktop ntofications include the actual comment, unlike other extensions…
Check out ViewTube – simply the best way to watch (and interact) with videos on Facebook
https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/jpmdfboedkdealhjmnmkdhmgbaeajgfo
Well the mega upload extension is not relevant any more lol.
Anyway, There’s a simple Lightweight extension called “Save & Email MyTabs” Which lets you just enter an email and you get an URL that opens back all your tabs. Great because u can save alot of tab “sessions” or email a friend with usefull information, links he asked, etc.
I added a link :
https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/bnpfkcnkfnmkfpmmokmdjjgaonjiejge
Covered all the popular extensions. Most of them are in my checklist. Excellent post.
You’ve mentioned the youtube downloader… I am also using Moovu extension to save videos and sync them with my iPhone (and iPad), check it out it’s very cool:
https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/jhodopgnkbcmfgggehanaepcofglnboh?utm_source=chrome-ntp-icon
Among all these Chrome Extensions i have only tried X-notifier (Gmail, Hotmail, Yahoo, AOL …) for my email notification and the rest i will try it. Nice share!!!
Wow… Many things are new to me about Google chrome. Have to check them. Well, I tried downloader in YouTube and X-Notifier.hanks for sharing!!