10 Best Effective Google Chrome Extensions

Google Chrome’s speed and stability have made it many people’s browser of choice. It has also supported browser extensions for some time, and there are hundreds now available that add to its features and help to make your browsing safer, faster and more productive. However, it’s not always easy to separate the wheat from the chaff, and there are some shockingly poor extensions out there. We’ve helped show the way by picking out 1o of the best Chrome extensions.

1.SendfromGmail:

Clicking ‘mail to’ links online can be annoyed if you’re a Gmail user, because they generally launch the default mail program and don’t work well if you prefer to use web mail. Send from Gmail changes that behavior to open a Gmail ‘Compose mail’ window in Chrome whenever you click an email link. It also gives you a Gmail button next to the address bar, which you can click to open a new mail message wherever you are. You can configure the extension to support Google App for your domain.

2.Scroll to Top Button:

Savvy web designers generally break long sections of text into manageable page-sized chunks to avoid scrolling, and good web writers stay succinct and to the point, because most visitors are averse to scrolling and only really look at the first screen full of information.

However, lots of sites still include pages that are many times the length of the average screen. Scroll Top to Bottom adds a handy ‘scroll to top’ button to particularly long pages, which appears when you hover the mouse over the top right of the page and makes navigating lengthy pages much easier. You can configure the button to scroll to the bottom of the page as well, and there are lots of options to customize the button and its position to suit your reading style.

3.Dropbox for Chrome:

Dropbox is a free service that lets you store up to 2GB of data on a remote server. It synchronizes your stored files with local copies on as many PCs as you like. Dropbox for Chrome lets you access your Dropbox files directly in Chrome, so you can quickly download or upload a modified file without installing Dropbox locally. This is ideal for portable computing and laptops, where you don’t want to sync continually. Once you’ve installed the Dropbox extension, you’ll be prompted to enter your username and password. You can also specify the size of the popup window used to display your files.

4.Docs PDF PowerPoint Viewer:

Docs PDF PowerPoint Viewer is a very handy extension which practically does away with your need to run a local PDF viewer application. Once the plug-in is installed, Chrome automatically opens any PDF files when you browsing as Google Documents. There’s no need to download the file to your PC before you can open it, and you can store it in your Google Document space.

5.Things to Do:

Things to do is a effortless addition to Chrome that lets user  to maintain and to do list that opens whenever he or she start a new tab. If user is browsing the web and abruptly remembers a task, open a new tab, click the ‘Add’ button and enter the details. User can return to this tab or open a new one at any time to maintain his list. The options can be customized and the colors and size of the list. It can be reordered items on the list page by simply clicking and dragging the bullet buttons to the left of each entry. Edit any item by clicking its text and making the necessary changes.

6.New Tab Favorites:

New Tab Favorites allows you a list of common destinations to choose from whenever you open a new tab in Chrome. The idea is that you can browse more quickly with well-located links to places like YouTube, Twitter and Facebook at your fingertips. There’s already a list available when you install the extension, but you can customize it by clicking Edit mode.

7.Tweet Right:

Twitter is a huge for sharing things you’ve found online, but copying a URL, shortening it fittingly and then pasting it into a tweet can be a boring and awkward affair. Still if you have a URL-shortening tool built into your preferred Twitter client, you still have to copy and paste the full address of anything that you want to share. Tweet Right is a Chrome lean-to that makes posting something to twitter a two-click process.

8.Google Scribe:

Google Scribe uses Google’s predictive technology to guess what you’re typing as you type it, and will suggest the likely next word in a sentence. This Chrome extension makes the predictive power of Scribe available on any website. There are privacy issues, because predicting what you’re writing involves remembering what you’ve typed before, but this is still very useful for anyone who finds typing a chore. You can enable Scribe in all text boxes by default or select ‘On demand’, which lets you can toggle it on and off by pressing [Ctrl] + [Shift] + [J].

9.Google Translate:

If you come from corner to corner a foreign language web page and you can’t translate it manually, Google Translate is the next best obsession. It uses Google Translate to fetch a literal translation of the page from Google’s servers. It automatically detects the language used and provides a link to the translated version if it isn’t your default language.

10.Chrome IE Tab Multi:

For sites that insist you can only browse them using Internet Explorer, there are various extensions that can help. Chrome IE Tab Multi is the most useful of the options on offer, because it does the best job of mimicking Internet Explorer and supports multiple tabs. It also supports ActiveX controls, and can remember which sites you prefer to use in IE mode.In the options you can bookmark sites to open with IE Tab Multi and add options to open links in IE Tab Multi to the Chrome context menu.

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