Those who follow this blog will certainly understand that, despite the experiments and the simultaneous use of multiple browsers, the writer uses Google Chrome as their favorite browser. Each one takes his own habits but, after using Firefox for some time, I found Chrome faster, richer in integrated features and, now, even up to Firefox for the number of extensions that increase productivity and work.
Among the advantages of the Google browser, there is also the new website of the Chrome Web Store which is a pleasure to browse to always discover interesting and useful applications and extensions.
Among the most useful extensions for Google Chrome, there are those that integrate with sites like Facebook, Twitter and Gmail, those that improve or change some basic features and those that add features to speed up some operations.
In this list, the 10 extensions that make Chrome a program to improve it and customize internet browsing making it faster .
1) Speed Dial 2 is one of 20 extensions to improve and personalize the Chrome homepage .
The initial tab of Chrome, the one that appears when opening a new tab, lists the most visited sites and installed applications.
You can change the graphics of the new Chrome tab using Speed Dial 2, with many more customization options, for quick access to favorite sites, the most visited, the latest closed tabs and applications.
It also provides charts to see which sites are most visited and to get a better reading of the history on the internet.
2) Another extension to change the initial tab and make the quick links to favorite sites, applications and the history of the last visited sites appear on a single page is Kuunga Desktop .
3) Better History is an extension that cannot be missing on Chrome because it allows you to browse the history in a much faster way, looking for the sites visited on a particular day at a particular time and always finding the address of a navigated site.
4) Extensions Manager allows you to manage the extension buttons to hide them or make them reappear faster.
Many Google Chrome extensions add a button to the browser's address bar so if you have many extensions installed, the space to write addresses becomes smaller.
Even if you can hide the buttons by right clicking on them, you can do more through Extensions Manager with which to deactivate and activate the extensions by hiding or showing their buttons.
Each entry is listed with its name, version, description and homepage link.
In addition, the extension allows you to control automatic updates to extensions and obsolete ones that are no longer usable.
5) Decreased Productivity is an extension to control the sites visited and specify some display options as appropriate.
Unfortunately there is no translation in Italian so those who do not know English will find it very difficult to understand what to do.
For example, you can change the page of a site so that it does not show images or flash animations or to change the background or the writing font.
6) TabCloud is very useful for those who often open many tabs together.
It is possible to create lists of links for the open tabs in order to save them for later consultation, even from another computer.
7) FreshTabs instead allows you to save the open tabs in order to reopen them automatically, even from another computer synchronized with Chrome.
For the same purpose, the Session Buddy extension is also good.
8) Undo Close Tab adds a button to reopen closed sites (pressing CTRL-Shift-T only reopens the last tab that has been closed).
Going into the options you can change some settings regarding closed tabs and enable the history of closed tabs.
This extension also adds an imposing "Undo" function, that is, pressing CTRL-Z allows, when writing something, to go back and undo the last action .
This is very useful when writing an email with Gmail, Yahoo Mail or other online email services and when writing on a blog like Blogger, from the web interface or in a comment.
9) Insert Text allows you to precompile some fields for a quick insertion in the comment forms or in the mails.
A similar extension is PopChrom which saves time in writing sentences or signatures by inserting texts automatically with abbreviations or keyboard shortcuts.
10) Riscroller is used to customize the size of the Chrome scroll bar and choose color.
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In another article, there are 10 more extensions to improve productivity in Chrome .
Finally, I remember the article with the description of the best internal functions of Chrome
