Google Chrome is one of the best web browsers you can use. The ability to add extensions enhances the ability to the overall browsing experience. If you are using other browsers like Chromium or opera then google chrome extensions can also be used with these browsers.
Here we will talk about google chrome extension that are all free to use and amazingly useful and can make your web browsing easier and more productive.
So, here is the list of 10 best Google chrome extensions you must have:
1: Full Page Screen Capture
There are a lot of screenshot tools that will capture what is visible on your screen but if you need a screenshot of an entire web page that process can be tedious. This extension will auto-scroll an entire web page and take the screenshot that can be viewed in a single image.
Here is how it works.
- Install the plugin by going to chrome -> more tools -> extensions.
- After installing activate it and it will start appearing on the right top corner of the browser.
- Click on the icon and it will take full page screenshot of the currently open webpage.
- It will open a new tab with a screenshot of the entire webpage.
- Now you can save that full page screenshots.
2: DuckDuck go Privacy Essentials
Many of you probably familiar with Duck Duck go the search engine that does not track you in addition to searching privately their privacy essentials extension will force encryption when available block trackers and assign a privacy grade when you visit a website.
For example, you are on a site if you click on the privacy essential icon you can see privacy grade for that website they have given the site ad grade but the enhancement forced by this extension it has changed the grade and it is also blocking the trackers.
Free in Google Chrome Extension store
Free in Google Chrome Extension store
3: Loom - Video Recorder, Screen Recorder
People who keep asking for easy-to-use screen recorder the loom video recorder couldn't be any easier to use and it is completely free, it can record your screen and webcam at the same time with just one click. If you want to try out Loom they do provide a mini tutorial on how to use it right there on the extension page.
Free in Google Chrome Extension store
4: Panda 5 - News and inspiration dashboard
If you are a person who visits multiple sites each day to get your news and information. Panda 5 is a cool extension that puts all your sites in one tab so you don't have to open multiple tabs when added it becomes your new homepage in chrome. It has all the websites organized along the left. Selecting a theme will show articles for that site to the right which can be easily opened by selecting the article. After you install this google chrome extension there's a brief tutorial that will get you more familiar with the layout.
Free in Google Chrome Extension store
5: FoxClocks
If you have friends or business associates around the world FoxClocks chrome extension is useful for showing you the current time in different cities without having to do a search in your favorite search engine to get the times. To get the times just click the FoxClocks icon and you will your times listed. To add a new city just type the name of the city and select it and this will show up on this list.
Free in Google Chrome Extension store
6: Hover Zoom
Hover Zoom is a simple chrome extension which works on many websites to zoom in on a picture by hovering your mouse over an image. Having this chrome extension installed reduces the need to open new image tab or to load new pages to view the larger images. Images larger than your screen are automatically resized to fit your screen area.
Free in Google Chrome Extension store
7: Super Netflix
This chrome extension does not provide you Netflix content free. This extension is for people who watch Netflix on their computer to give you more control when you click on super Netflix icon you can change several of the defaults including the bitrate leaving this to zero and let Netflix choose the bitrate. You can have a set to automatically skip intros. If you don't like spoilers you can choose the blur out the next episode thumbnails.
Free in Google Chrome Extension store
8: Mercury Reader
If you hate clutter on a web page Mercury Reader chrome extension cleans up that page to show you an easily readable version to show you that web page without all the distractions when you are reading an article. To clean the things up in a web page just click on the mercury reader icon on the right top corner and you will see there is very less noise to distract you.
Free in Google Chrome Extension store
9: Ad Blocker Plus
If you use an ad Blocker to help you to deal with intrusive advertising. You must use Ad Blocker Plus. The key reasons to use this chrome plugin is because it's easier on system resources than most of the others and it blocks most of the ads and unlike some of the other ad blockers you block origin does not take payola from advertisers to let their ad slip through. If you want to support a website whitelisting a website is easy.
Free in Google Chrome Extension store
10: Extensity
Many of you must know that having too many extensions enabled can slow down your browsers. The Extensity chrome extension makes it a lot easier to enable and disable chrome extensions when you need them. To quickly enable or disable extensions select Extensity icon and now you will see the full list of chrome extensions. Those that are disabled are grayed out to enable an extension just left click on to activate it. If you scroll to the bottom you can also enable or disable apps that are installed in your chrome.
If you have a lot of chrome extensions installed than Extensity is a must have chrome extension.
Free in Google Chrome Extension store
Free in Google Chrome Extension store
4: Panda 5 - News and inspiration dashboard
If you are a person who visits multiple sites each day to get your news and information. Panda 5 is a cool extension that puts all your sites in one tab so you don't have to open multiple tabs when added it becomes your new homepage in chrome. It has all the websites organized along the left. Selecting a theme will show articles for that site to the right which can be easily opened by selecting the article. After you install this google chrome extension there's a brief tutorial that will get you more familiar with the layout.
Free in Google Chrome Extension store
5: FoxClocks
If you have friends or business associates around the world FoxClocks chrome extension is useful for showing you the current time in different cities without having to do a search in your favorite search engine to get the times. To get the times just click the FoxClocks icon and you will your times listed. To add a new city just type the name of the city and select it and this will show up on this list.
Free in Google Chrome Extension store
6: Hover Zoom
Hover Zoom is a simple chrome extension which works on many websites to zoom in on a picture by hovering your mouse over an image. Having this chrome extension installed reduces the need to open new image tab or to load new pages to view the larger images. Images larger than your screen are automatically resized to fit your screen area.
Free in Google Chrome Extension store
7: Super Netflix
This chrome extension does not provide you Netflix content free. This extension is for people who watch Netflix on their computer to give you more control when you click on super Netflix icon you can change several of the defaults including the bitrate leaving this to zero and let Netflix choose the bitrate. You can have a set to automatically skip intros. If you don't like spoilers you can choose the blur out the next episode thumbnails.
Free in Google Chrome Extension store
8: Mercury Reader
If you hate clutter on a web page Mercury Reader chrome extension cleans up that page to show you an easily readable version to show you that web page without all the distractions when you are reading an article. To clean the things up in a web page just click on the mercury reader icon on the right top corner and you will see there is very less noise to distract you.
Free in Google Chrome Extension store
9: Ad Blocker Plus
If you use an ad Blocker to help you to deal with intrusive advertising. You must use Ad Blocker Plus. The key reasons to use this chrome plugin is because it's easier on system resources than most of the others and it blocks most of the ads and unlike some of the other ad blockers you block origin does not take payola from advertisers to let their ad slip through. If you want to support a website whitelisting a website is easy.
Free in Google Chrome Extension store
10: Extensity
Many of you must know that having too many extensions enabled can slow down your browsers. The Extensity chrome extension makes it a lot easier to enable and disable chrome extensions when you need them. To quickly enable or disable extensions select Extensity icon and now you will see the full list of chrome extensions. Those that are disabled are grayed out to enable an extension just left click on to activate it. If you scroll to the bottom you can also enable or disable apps that are installed in your chrome.
If you have a lot of chrome extensions installed than Extensity is a must have chrome extension.
Free in Google Chrome Extension store
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Pretty much all screen capture plugins can take screenshots of a whole page. I am using Nimbus but they can pretty much all do it. With Nimbus, you can select between capturing the whole page, only the visible part or a selected area ... then you can edit it if you need (crop it, blur some parts, add arrows to point something, add texts, circle things, etc...). I really recommend it instead of the one you talked about in the article.
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