Google Chrome celebrated its first birthday last week (just a few days before TechPP’s)! And by looking at the comments for that article, it was clear many people preferred Firefox over Chrome basically due to the option of choosing innumerable add-ons and extensions available on Firefox. However there are some extensions on Chrome as well, that make your experience with using it easier and loving.
These extensions, whilst useful, aren’t quite to the standard of Firefox’s offerings yet, be it in quality or quantity, but the early development is showing that Chrome users can now enjoy super-fast loading times and minimal footprints along with the option of using third party add-ons.
22 Most Popular & Most useful Google Chrome Extensions
1. Google Chrome Backup Extension
Google Chrome backup add-on creates, backups, restores and manages Chrome profiles. All history, bookmarks and related stuff are maintained very easily with this add-on. So in case there is a system crash or accidental deletion, you can easily restore or get back the lost settings in Google Chrome.
Download Google Chrome Backup add-on
This Google Chrome extension enables you to view two different web pages in a single tab. A single tab will split into from the middle such that in each half you can see two different sites side by side. Particularly useful if multitasking or undertaking some research.
Download Dual View plugin for Google Chrome
3. XChrome
Download XChrome add-on for Google Chrome
This is a theme manager for Google Chrome browser. Now you can change the theme to suit your mood just with a click of a button. A must add-on if you are a fan of customization!
This is a popular Google Chrome extension that will clean all the ads present in web page such that you can view web pages ad free. It even helps to remove all the ads from Youtube videos or webpages and present you clean ad free page.
Download Adsweep ad-blocker for Google Chrome
5. Gmail This
It is basically a bookmarklet which lets you to mail the content of a web page through Gmail. Just select the content that you want to mail and press this bookmarklet Gmail composer window will open with the selected content now you can directly type in the email address to whom you want to send it and click send just like you do to send mails using Gmail.
This tiny extension embeds a little notification icon in your toolstripwhich will alert you when you receive a new email! A click on the alert take you directly to the GMail window.
Download Gmail Checker extension
7. Google Talk From Your Browser
This little script allows you to add a GTalk icon to your launcher which, when run, opens up a window that simply requires your login and password to get you chatting.
Download GTalk plugin for Google Chrome
8. Session Saver – Session Management tool
Session Saver is a session manager that lets you save and manage multiple sessions. It will help you to you save, manage and reload multiple sessions.
Download Session Saver extension for Google Chrome
9. Google Page Rank/ Alexa Rank Checker
This clean and simple extension will display the current page rank of the opened website in the Google Chrome Status Bar.
Download Google Page rank / Alexa Rank checker
10. Cleeki
Cleeki is a perfect pal if you need to launch search/share/publish tasks based on any content in your browser. Just select some text, and Cleeki can search/share/publish the content and preview the results immediately. Cleeki can also preview a hyperlink without open a new window/tab.
Download Cleeki for Google Chrome
11. ChromeMailer
ChormeMailer is an application to send emails via Gmail, either directly or when you click on the links mailto: instead of opening another mail client.
Download Chrome Mailer Extension for Google Chrome
12. ChromePass
ChromePass add-on recovers usernames and passwords that are stored on Google Chrome browser. Simply install this add-on plugin and retrieve all the details.
Download ChromePass extension for Google Chrome
13. TPGoogleReader
This extension reside in the toolstrip and alerts you as to how many feeds you have unread inside your Google Reader account. Besides doing this, it also adds an RSS icon to your address bar allowing you to subscribe to a sites RSS feed with your Google account.
Download TPGoogleReader extension for Chrome
14. Chrome Gestures
Chrome Gestures addon adds a number of mouse gestures to Chrome browser.
Download Chrome Gestures addon
15. Sticky Notes
Chrome Sticky Notes adds an inbuilt notepad to Chrome which can be launched by clicking on the little notepad icon on the toolstrip. You get the option to save your sticky note for future reference, and you can view it even if you restart your browser.
Download Sticky notes extension for Chrome
16. Chritter
Chritter is a Chrome Twitter notifier which shows recent tweets in the toolstrip, fetches new tweets every 5 minutes and linkifies http://links, @usernames and #hashtags
Download Chritter for Google Chrome
17. Chrome.fm
18. Greasemetal
Greasemetal Extension can be said as the Firefox Greasemonkey addon for Google Chrome. Greasemonkey addon is for firefox which let you to run userscripts (user defined javascripts to modify the webpages being displayed).
Download Greasemetal extension for Google Chrome
19. Drag n Go Plugin
With Drag n Go Plugin you dont need to right-click and then select “Open in New Tab“ to open new links in background tab or foreground. All you need to do is to just drag the links to very small distance and drop it.
Download Drag-n-go plugin for Google Chrome
It retrieves the number of notifications from your Facebook account. You have to be logged in to Facebook for this extension to work.
Download Facebook Notifications plugin for Google Chrome
21. Aniweather
Detailed weather report in the browser’s toolstrip. Also available as a Firefox addon.
Download Aniweather plugin for Google Chrome
22. Google Chrome Extension Manager
Now with all those amazing extensions installed onto your browser, you can enable, disable or delete the extensions from the application itself by installing this add-on!
Download Google Chrome Extension Manager
So, which add-on you found as the most useful? Do you know of any other useful Google chrome extension? Feel free to share them in the comments below.
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September 12th, 2009 at 2:39 pm
chrome es super uso mucho tiempo ……
September 12th, 2009 at 4:45 pm
oh… that’s really good now Google chrome real competitor for Firefox
thanks for the good post ..
September 12th, 2009 at 4:48 pm
Awesome post, I just heart Chrome.
September 12th, 2009 at 5:01 pm
a like this
thanks for share
September 12th, 2009 at 5:50 pm
Cool , That’s Nice Collection of Chrome Plugins ..It’s More power that before may be try it in coming days
September 12th, 2009 at 7:41 pm
I loved FF because of wide ext, given enough time we will end up happily killing FF.
Nice collections!
September 12th, 2009 at 11:33 pm
This is great. It looks like Chrome’s extensions are more useful and a lot more than Opera’s.
September 13th, 2009 at 11:18 am
Nice, add on i was not using chrome because add on not available like mozilla.
September 13th, 2009 at 11:38 am
This is really a very gud list buddy…..
September 13th, 2009 at 12:28 pm
Wow, I didn’t know that there are already these many extensions for Chrome. I thought there only are 3-5 extensions out there
September 14th, 2009 at 6:13 pm
People use FF because the variety of add-ons it offers.If Google continues to provide such add-on, then Google chrome might replace the Firefox.
September 15th, 2009 at 2:15 pm
Looks like most of them are Google product oriented extensions. This is where Firefox is really established and broad.
September 16th, 2009 at 8:59 pm
I need pagerank and alexa rank checker, how do I actually install these addons.
September 18th, 2009 at 11:56 pm
thanks! A shame greasemetal doesn’t work anymore with the latest builds…
September 21st, 2009 at 7:02 pm
TPGoogleReader is the best for me.
Thanks you for Google Chrome Extensions.
September 23rd, 2009 at 3:33 am
great list! been looking for these. fwiw avira tagged the chromepass as a virus. figure it might be due to the behaviors of passwords etc. notified programmer, but figured i’d ask if anyone had problems etc
Warning
In order not to compromise your security, this page will not be accessed
A virus or unwanted program has been detected
in the HTTP data on the requested page.
Requested URL: http://www.nirsoft.net/utils/chromepass.zip
Information Contains recognition pattern of the SPR/PSW.NetPass.FX.3 program
Generated by AntiVir WebGuard 9.0.5.0, AVE 8.2.1.19, VDF 7.1.6.16
September 25th, 2009 at 7:58 am
i think chrome is really growing into something special, thanks for sharing.
October 9th, 2009 at 9:00 pm
Nice post.. I have a question, I have a problem with the facebook notifications, I think is maybe because I use the version of Chrome 4.0.213.1, but in the estension bar, where it suposed to be the notification’s number, only appear ‘(Login)’, and I am logged in… Can you explain to me why it doesn’t work?
October 31st, 2009 at 1:14 am
Just Installed Google chrome PR checker extension ..badly needed it..
November 17th, 2009 at 7:55 pm
Looking for an alternative to FireFox, since Mozilla just sold their souls to the devil by including microsucks DRM, I have to believe it must have been forced upon them, I cant believe they would willingly do so evil a thing. In any case Chrome and chromium are also out for the same reasons, searching for alternatives.
November 29th, 2009 at 12:03 pm
This is a great post. Thanks
November 30th, 2009 at 3:18 am
Hey, you should make 23
please check my extension SEO toolbar for chrome at http://www.seomator.com.
It’s a SEO extension useful to every webmaster.
November 30th, 2009 at 5:05 pm
Please add iMacros for Chrome to your list – its a great form filler and password manager: http://www.iopus.com/imacros/chrome/
December 8th, 2009 at 1:35 pm
Yeh! excellent article.i’ve been using google chrome as a long time but i dont know google chrome having this kind of future.its best
December 9th, 2009 at 10:58 am
Thanks for this lovely share. The extensions are really cool and helpful..
now it will give a tough competition to Firefox. Personally I liked ChromeMailer and Chrome Fm
December 11th, 2009 at 8:39 am
Most of them are useful. Thanks alot for the collection.
December 28th, 2009 at 9:11 pm
ChiaraMail OpenComments extension for Google Chrome browser empowers consumers
December 27, 2009 – Kensington, CA— ChiaraMail announced today the availability of OpenComments, an extension for the popular Chrome browser developed by Internet search giant Google, Inc. OpenComments is the first product on the market that enables consumers’ opinions about a product or service to be associated with a business’s Web site. Due to special features in the Chrome extensions toolkit that enables the technology required by the extension, the OpenComments extension will be initially available only for Chrome.
“We’re very excited about the launch of OpenComments for Chrome”, says ChiaraMail President Robert Uomini. “This is a truly revolutionary product because, for the first time, it directly links users’ opinions about a business or its Web site to the site itself. This means that anyone with an OpenComments-enabled Chrome browser who navigates to a site will know about all the comments that had been written about it, good or bad. In this way, consumers are empowered in a way unlike any they had had in the past”.
The OpenComments extension may be downloaded from the Google Web site, at https://chrome.google.com/extensions/detail/afeoipghnipcpkgbeagnlkhhibkcghmh. Uomini can be reached at his offices in cyberspace via robert.uomini@chiaramail.com
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January 11th, 2010 at 8:29 am
cool，I like Google Chrome Backup Extension
January 13th, 2010 at 9:13 am
U have covered most of the important extensions which will be useful in daily life.. Thanks for the share..
January 16th, 2010 at 12:16 pm
Google Chrome is my 2nd favorite browsers. This is great list.
January 25th, 2010 at 8:58 pm
Thanks for recommending these great extensions
January 30th, 2010 at 7:59 pm
Namaste Raju!
Chrome extensions are not just about being useful
My friend and I have developed a new extnesion – totally free – it shows you a hot new girl every time you open a new tab (CTRL+T)
You may wanna check it out at;
http://www.webvolcano.com/babe
P.S. It’s totally safe for work!
Thanks Raju!
Andy
January 31st, 2010 at 5:12 pm
How about Chrome SEO, it’s the only extension I needed to move from Firefox?
https://chrome.google.com/extensions/detail/oangcciaeihlfmhppegpdceadpfaoclj
February 5th, 2010 at 1:27 am
now here is something i got to play with google chromw,i guess it will soon surpass all the browsers.thnx a lot gave food for my weekend.
February 9th, 2010 at 3:20 pm