Google Chrome extensions

Google Chrome extensions provide new functions to the popular browser, with new advanced tools to use across several platforms and web-based apps. We’ll review some of the top ones you can download while also sharing any essential updates and news.

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HTTP Switchboard for Chrome gives you full control over all connections

Whenever you load a website in your web browser of choice lots of things happen in the background before the page is rendered. It may not take longer than a second for […]

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Script Defender is a script-blocking extension for Google Chrome

Script Defender is a NoScript-like extension for the Google Chrome web browser. The extension enables you to block scripts, plugins and other page elements automatically on websites that you visit in Chrome, […]

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Hacker Vision for Chrome turns too bright sites into eye-pleasing ones

Starring at a computer screen for hours each day can be quite strenuous regardless of activity.  If you do this day in and out, you have probably experienced your fair share of […]

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Dictionary of Numbers helps you understand numbers better

It may sometimes be difficult to get an understanding of numbers used in articles on the Internet or the news.  How much is 45 hectares for instance, or 1 billion Dollars, 10 […]

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ScriptBlock for Chrome blocks scripts from running automatically on websites

One of the core reasons that I'm using Firefox as my main web browser is the NoScript extension for it. It blocks all scripts from running automatically on websites, ships with options […]

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Curiyo for Chrome displays additional contextual information on demand

Sometimes when you are reading articles on the Internet or access other information of interest, you may stumble upon words, names or other terms that you may want to find out more […]

Evernote Web Clipper for Chrome gets a major update

When it comes to Evernote I can't pretend to be completely unbiased -- I am a long-time user of the service and I  love it. But don't get me wrong, if the […]

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Display multiple Chrome windows next to each other automatically

I'm usually running two apps side by side on my 1920x1080 monitor. Most of the time, it is two web browsers that I have aligned next to each other, one that shows […]

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Improve your web browsing on large resolutions with NiftySplit for Chrome

Web browsers like Chrome display one window by default. In that window, one website is the active one that you can browse, while all other websites that you have open in the […]

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Change Font Sizes and Styles on any website with Font Changer for Chrome

Since webmasters have free reign when it comes to specifying font sizes and styles on their websites, you sometimes may stumble upon sites where the font is too small or too large, […]

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Chrome: automatically remove cookies when you close tabs

Most web browsers are configured to accept first and third party cookies by default. They will also honor the expiration dates set by the servers and websites that set the cookies in […]

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Hush adds protected bookmarks to Chrome's incognito mode

If you are sharing your PC and the same user account with someone else, you are doing it all wrong. While it may be convenient as you do not have to configure […]

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Image Autosizer for Chrome gives you better image viewing controls

Image Autosizer is a free browser extension for Google Chrome that improves the browser's default image viewer in several important ways. Most web browsers manipulate images that are displayed in the browser […]

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History Eraser: clear browsing traces in Chrome effectively

Whenever you are using a web browser you are leaving traces behind on the system. While you can mitigate some by switching to private browsing modes like Chrome's Incognito Mode, it is […]

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Modern New Tab Page brings Windows Live Tiles to Chrome

Update: The reviewed extension is no longer available. We suggest you check out new MetroTab for Google Chrome which offers a similar experience. You find dozens if not hundreds of new tab […]

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Service Pages for Google Chrome links to all internal pages

Google Chrome uses internal pages to display data to the user. Some of these pages are openly accessible, like the settings page or the extensions manager, while others are not. Most pages […]

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Panic Button hides and restores your Chrome tabs

When it comes to controlling your tabs in Chrome, there are numerous solutions. Being someone who has a number of tabs open at any given time, I have tried many of them. […]

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Google Chrome: Display passwords on focus

Passwords that you enter in the Google Chrome web browser, or in any other browser for that matter, are always hidden behind asterisks. Why that is done? So that no passer by […]

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Speed up Google Chrome's start with BarTab-like FooTab extension

One feature that I have come to like a lot in the Firefox web browser lately is the delayed tab loading that Mozilla implemented some time ago in the browser (based on […]

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Upload pictures to Imgur regularly? Chrome's Imgur extension may help you with that

I like the Imgur image hosting website for a number of reasons. Not only is it fast loading and got Reddit's seal of approval, it is also usable without account creation. That's […]

hover audio player

HoverPlay is for audio files what HoverZoom is for images

HoverZoom is one of those extensions that makes life a lot easier on the Internet, at least when you are browsing images regularly on image boards, forums and other websites. The extension, […]

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Show new tabs in Chrome immediately instead of in the background

When you open a new tab in Chrome, for instance by middle-clicking a link in an already open tab, you will notice that it will always be opened in the background no […]

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Facebook: beware of Unlimited Watching Chrome extension spam

Depending on who you are connected to on Facebook, you may have been exposed to one of the recent spam attacks on the site. The attack disguises itself in form of a […]

tab juggler

Tab Juggler improves Chrome's tab management

Google Chrome, like any other modern web browser, supports tabs that enable users of the browser to open more than one website or service at a time in the same browser window.  […]

Bookmarx: better bookmarking in Google Chrome

The process of adding bookmarks in web browsers has not really been touched in the last decade or so. You can either use the keyboard shortcut Ctrl-D to bookmark the active website […]

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Chrome: Open Reddit NSFW links in incognito window

If you are a regular on Reddit you know that the site is not only about news and discussion of news, but also about other things of interest to part of the […]

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Antisocial for Chrome blocks major media widgets on the Internet

Nearly every website that you encounter on the Internet these days links to one or multiple social networking sites. Sometimes in the form of direct links, but more often than not in […]

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Intab for Chrome opens links in the same tab without hiding the original tab

So, you are reading this great article and it links to all this other great resources that you want to read. Different users handle this task in different ways. Some open all […]

website opener

Website Opener: Open your favorite websites with one click

If you visit a couple of websites regularly throughout the day, and all at once, then you have probably considered improving the process in your browser of choice. The easiest way in […]

onetab

OneTab for Chrome unloads all open tabs to a shareable list

OneTab for Google Chrome saves all open tabs in the web browser on a single page on activation to reduce the browser's memory usage. The first thing that I noticed when I […]

hoverzoom

Beware: HoverZoom extension for Chrome turns evil

It should not happen that extensions get modified in key aspects without existing users being made aware of those changes. We have already seen how companies take advantage of Mozilla's add-on repository […]

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Add a background wallpaper to Google Search

Google some months ago announced that it would remove a feature from its search interface that allowed users to add custom background wallpapers to the main search page. While purely cosmetic in […]

Google Chrome Scroll to next image extension

If you are browsing a lot of images on the Internet, for instance on forums like 4chan, blogs or other websites where several images are posted on a single page regularly, you […]

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Download web files directly to Dropbox in Chrome

There is no shortage of extensions and apps available for the Chrome web browser, perhaps in part due to Google's push to turn the browser into an operating system via all of […]

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Free up memory in Google Chrome with The Great Suspender

Last year we ran a comparison of the memory usage of popular web browsers and discovered that Chrome used more memory than Firefox, Opera or Internet Explorer despite the leaner and slimmer […]

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Save and sync notes with Papercuts in Chrome

When you look at the four most popular browsers for Windows, Internet Explorer, Google Chrome, Opera and Mozilla Firefox you will notice that only one supports note taking natively while the others […]

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Open all images on a page in a single tab in Chrome

If you are browsing on sites like 4Chan or Reddit regularly where dozens of images get posted on a single page, you probably have discovered ways to make the browsing more comfortable. […]

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Mega Button improves the accessibility of Chrome settings

One of the reasons why I prefer to work with Firefox and not Google Chrome as my main browser is that I can modify Firefox's interface in a way that I can't […]

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Linkclump is Chrome's Multi Links equivalent

I have slimmed down Firefox significantly over the years to a point were I ended up using less than half a dozen extensions in the web browser. One of the extensions that […]

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Extract Frames from animated gifs with Gif Scrubber

Do you like to browse the animated gif sections over at Reddit, 4Chan (Work safe gifs only) or another website where they are posted regularly on? I certainly appreciate animated gifs as […]


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