With the evolution of the web, the problems that today can be divided into two main categories are also evolving: - One that of the overload of information and the difficulty of managing it so as not to lose the important things and filter the less relevant ones.
- Another type of problems in surfing the internet in an advanced way is then the choice of extensions to use, without overloading the browser making it too heavy.
In this article we see a nice selection of 10 excellent extensions to use on Chrome to improve and increase the productivity of web browsing, getting tools at hand to perform different tasks.
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1) Screen Capture is an official Google extension for capturing screenshots and saving them as images on the PC.
You can save a region or the whole page and you can add writing or arrows to the image before saving them.
The Aviary extension for saving and editing images on the internet is also excellent.
2) Send With Gmail allows you to quickly send a link via Email using Gmail.
3) Email This Page instead allows you to send a web page via Email with a click on the extension button, using Gmail or a client installed on the PC
4) With Tab packager instead you can create a unique link to share which, if clicked, can open an entire group of tabs.
5) Writer is instead installed as an application on Chrome to be launched from the initial tab of the app.
It is a full page text editor, for writing notes or texts directly from Chrome.
The text is saved locally and the editor can be customized in the options.
Similar, it is Chrome Notepad which instead adds a notebook always at hand and with notes saved online to the extension bar at the top right on Chrome.
6) Chroma is a useful extension for web designers, to always find the color code.
7) Totalizer is a Chrome extension for those who work with tables, to perform automatic calculations on the columns of the tables found on websites.
The extension can come in handy especially if you look at statistics to get mathematical calculations like sum, average, Min and Max or percentages.
8) LastPass is the extension to manage stored passwords so you never have to write them, protected by a single master password which becomes the only one to remember.
Lastpass was written an in-depth article in the post How to create and manage passwords for web accounts
9) Translate Pop-up allows you to keep the Google translator always at hand, to translate words or phrases quickly.
10) Extensions to close or suspend inactive cards and save RAM are described in another article and are used to deactivate inactive cards for a certain period of time, reloading them only when they are clicked again.
11) Print Friendly allows you to print web pages by deciding what to include in the print and what not.
You can therefore exclude images or parts of a page such as advertising, menus and all that is not needed.
With Print Friendly you can also save a website in PDF using Chrome.
12) Strict Workflow sets a 25 minute timer for working and allowing you to take a 5 minute break.
The plugin will block all distracting websites like Facebook, Twitter, YouTube and others (but it's customizable)
13) Panic Button to close the open tabs in one click.
Closed tabs can then be reopened by clicking the red button again.
14) StayFocusd works to limit distractions and block sites that are not working for several minutes.
It is therefore possible to select a quantity of pause time in which all the internet becomes available, after which one must necessarily work.
15) Toggl is an extension that counts the time we are on websites, to understand how much we are working and how much else we do.
16) Pocket is the extension to save articles to be read later, ideal if you also work offline.
The list continues with:
- 20 most useful Google Chrome extensions
- 10 extensions to customize Chrome and improve navigation
- 10 Chrome extensions for security
- 10 extensions for Gmail in Google Chrome
- Extensions to improve Google Maps on Chrome
