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Top 10 Google Chrome Extensions / Plugins

Posted by Jaxov on September 15, 2009

When Google Chrome entered into the world of web-browsers, it lacked both extensions and Greasemonkey support. But now it supports both Gresemonkey scripts and extensions. Here is a list of top 10 Google Chrome plugins through which you can really enhance your browsing experience in Google Chrome. We have already shared how you can use these extensions (Windows | Linux) and Greasemonkey scripts (Windows | Linux) in Google Chrome. Still if you want to know how you can install Google Chrome CRX extensions then proceed here.

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AdSweep

AdSweep is a Google Chrome extension through which you can get rid of advertisements while surfing web. AdSweep works just like a Firefox extension Adblock Plus. What it basically do is that it defines such CSS rules which hide the elements showing advertisements on the webpage.

AdSweep

Official Page | Download AdSweep.crx | Optional : Download AdSweep.user.js

Gmail Checker

It displays how many unread emails are there in your Gmail inbox. This small information is shown in toolstrip of Google Chrome.

Gmail Checker

Official Page | Download Gmail.crx

PageRank

PageRank is well-known criteria to check the popularity of a webpage. This is one of the most used extensions by all SEO experts / bloggers. Every time you load a new webpage, it shows its PageRank in the toolstrip.

PageRank

Official Page | Download PageRank.crx | Our Review

TwitterFx

TwitterFx is extremely cool twitter extension for Google Chrome which allows you to tweet right from your Google Chrome toolstrip. You can also read tweets of the people you follow without even opening twitter.com. All tweets scroll in your toolstrip just like a news feed.

TwitterFx

It requires some basic installation instructions which you can find here.

Official Page | Download TwitterFx.zip | Our Review

Chrome.fm

With Chrome.fm extension, you can listen music from your Last.fm account via toolstrip. You have got five control buttons in toolstrip i-e play, next, skip, stop, love and ban button.

Chrome.fm

Official Page | Download Chromefm.crx

Facebook Notifications

Retrieves the number of notifications from your Facebook account. You have to be logged in to Facebook for this extension to work. Its a must install for Facebook fans.

Facebook Notifications

Official Page | Download Facebook.crx

Chrome Clock

Chrome Clock is an alarm clock which runs on the toolstrip of your Google Chrome browser.

Chrome Clock

Official Page | Download ChromeClock.crx

Chrome Gestures

Adds a number of mouse gestures to Chrome.

Chrome Gestures

Official Page | Download ChromeGestures.crx

Aniweather

Detailed weather report in the browser’s toolstrip. Also available as a Firefox addon.

Aniweather

Official Page | Downlaod Aniweather.crx

Flashblock

Blocks all Flash content from loading. It then leaves placeholders on the webpage that allows you to view the Flash content.

Flash Block

Official Page | Download Flashblock.crx

Here is another one created by me

Chrome whos.amung.us

Access whos.amung.us counter of your website / blog in your Chrome's toolstrip. Enjoy

Official Page | Download From Here | Instructions To Install

Please do mention in comments if you have got any other Google Chrome extension worth sharing.



  • Lopa

    Virtual Piano: http://bit.ly/cxDGbu

  • http://autopen.info Autopen

    You might want to take a look at Autopen - Email Signatures http://bit.ly/8EaeCL It is a full featured email signatures app for gmail/google apps. Has a great rich text editor, unilimited signatures, different signature defaults for different email addresses and a sync service that will keep your signatures synchronized between different computers.

  • http://newdigits.blogspot.com New Digits

    Yes these extensions from chrome will really useful to get email and social networking updates, shopping, listening to music ... wow ! great features right from our browser with single click.

  • mantrik

    "IE tab" extension distorts the web page rendering capability of the Chrome browser.

    Recently, got the Chrome browser updated to the current version 4.0.249.78. I also installed the "IE Tab" extension, among several others. With the new upgrade, I started facing difficulty in getting full access to the yahoogroups site. For example, after logging into yahoogroups.com when I clicked on a hyperlink to access my group's page, I got garbled pages generated by the browser. Even while attempting to login with 'Connect with facebook' for CNET news site, a similar garbled page was generated by Chrome. But the earlier version of Chrome, without the extensions, had no problems with these sites. (However, these sites were getting rendered properly within the "IE tab" extension, albeit, with some script error messages.)

    On doing a small ivestigation, I discovered that the "IE Tab" extension, which I had installed immediately after the upgrade of the Chrome browser, was the culprit. After I had uninstalled this extension, Chrome was back to normal. It rendered both the websites properly like its earlier avatar.

    Surely, there is some conflict between the "IE tab" extension and the Chrome browser version 4.x. The bugs need to be ironed out for this extension. Also, its worrisome that this extension seeks access to the entire computer.

  • Vidhya

    You should also checkout the FlashPlus Extension. You can resize, move and maximize Flash - Games, Videos, etc to full browser. A demo on youtube - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1CHktLVF0yM
    Link to the extension : https://chrome.google.com/extensions/detail/emaamodndfmmmcjepfigalbjjjemadom