For those who work on the computer Chrome is a splendid support companion not only for looking for information on the internet, but also for its extensions so useful to speed up various operations and to provide additional tools for working. Chrome, compared to other browsers, has the ability to work, opening some applications independently, as if they were computer programs, even offline and without internet connection. Below, 30 and more of the best Chrome extensions to work better and faster on your computer .
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- To remember things to do : Dayboard (or alternatively Momentum): This is an extension that replaces the initial card with a list of things to do every day, as an integrated reminder to never forget a commitment.
- Not to get too distracted : StayFocusd : With StayFocusd you can limit distractions by blocking or limiting access to sites such as Facebook and Twitter if you spend too much time during the day.
- To save keyboard abbreviations to write recurring words or phrases : Auto Expander text for Google Chrome: If you have to write the same things often, you can use a kind of automatic compilation with this extension and configure abbreviations. For example, I could only write to make my address appear on text written in a Chrome box like in Gmail.
- Postpone the reading of interesting articles : Pocket is one of the extensions to save favorite web pages, sites, news and articles to read them later, already described in another article.
- Free up memory occupied by Chrome with OneTab, an extension I have already talked about in the past, still very useful today. Alternatively, The Great Suspender is also excellent for keeping Chrome always fast and responsive.
- Mercury Reader is one of the extensions to hide advertisements from websites and improve online reading . Clearly cleans the web pages and presents the main content in a white sheet that is easy to read without distraction.
- Take and organize notes : Note Board This extension opens a bulletin board of post-it notes and notes to be filled in and filled as you see fit, as if it were a blackboard hanging on the wall.
- You can open the bulletin board in a tab or as a popup.
- To write : Caret is a text editor that opens as a program in its own right, with which to write and edit a document or even the file with programming code.
- As a quick photo editor : Pixlr Express: It is a program supported by Chrome very easy to use, fast, with all the basic tools to resize images, crop them or improve brightness, contrast and everything else.
- To have a simple timer : Simple Pomodoro : Everything can be done via the button in the toolbar that sets an automatic timer at intervals of 5 ', 10', 15 'and 25'.
- To print web pages saving ink without figures and without including advertising or various menus: PrintFriendly and PDF . The button allows you to print the text of the web page or save it in PDF to share it via email.
- To manage installed extensions, activate and deactivate them quickly there are various extensions, including SimpleExtManager .
- Strict Workflow allows you to mark work times, with 25-minute intervals in which the distraction sites are all blocked and then a 5-minute break in which to check Facebook and other social networks. A similar extension is also StayFocusd .
- Hey Habit is an extension that displays the calendar of usual activities that are repeated every week, in order to have an overview of the things to do and work on.
- Hide all tabs with a single click with Panic Button : This Panic Button is a button to add to the Chrome extension bar that allows you to close all open tabs on the fly and with a single click. This button remains really handy, especially when someone enters our room (for example, the office manager), to hide the sites we were looking at. Closed tabs can then be reopened when the situation turns quiet.
- See the history of price changes on Amazon for each product searched with Keepa. On the pages of the Amazon website you can check the price history for each product; adding a chart that becomes really important to see not only if in the past that product cost less or more, but above all to check if the possible indication of a promotional price is actually real.
- ; Check the reliability of reviews with ReviewMeta;: By installing this extension on Chrome, you can open the page of an Amazon product and press the ReviewMeta button to check if the various reviews are reliable based on various parameters. In particular, the tool checks whether whoever wrote the percentage of verified reviews and written in real language and not with repeated formulas that almost always hide false reviews. Even if the extension is in English, it manages to work, in a not complete but still sufficient way, even for the reviews in Italian.
- Save articles to read offline, Instapaper;:; For those who find themselves without internet for certain periods of time, an extension that allows you to save articles and web pages so that you can then read them offline is also convenient. Instapaper is a very powerful app, also for its ability to send articles also on the Kindle Ebook reader.
- Save sites with Web Clipper;: Although favorites remain the preferred way to store websites and web pages, using Evernote's Webclipper it is possible to create lists of links so that you can then consult them from any other PC or mobile phone.
- Preview or enlarge images with Imagus;: Without clicking on an image found on Google or on any other website, you can see a large preview only by moving the mouse over it if the Imagus extension has been installed on Chrome
- ; Highlight text to see it translated with Google Translate: With Chrome it is already possible to right-click on any web page in a foreign language in order to use the translate option and see it fully translated into Italian. However, if you also install the Google translator extension, you can select only one word or phrase to be able to see it translated into a pop-up, very quickly, without having to translate the page entirely.
- To keep your passwords safe and don't forget them, use Lastpass: The LastPass password manager allows you to create passwords that are absolutely impossible to hack or track down for any website. Instead, we only need to use a single password, that of LastPass, to be able to access all the sites whose logins have been generated and stored. LastPass can therefore be used on every computer, every browser (not only Chrome) and also on Android and iPhone.
- Insert Emoji anywhere with the emoji keyboard;: For those who love emoji faces and want to use them a bit in every chat application, in any email, writing or message site, they can install the Emoji keyboard to have available, in every moment, the emoticon faces, just to copy and paste.
- Search and replace with Find & Replace: This extension is used to search and replace specific words in a written text, to be used by those who write on any box or online text editor, blog and forum
- To speed up downloads in Chrome, there are several extensions described in another article.
- Gmail Checker, to view Gmail notifications
- Project Naptha to copy text into images
- Session Buddy, to save browsing sessions and resume them later or on another day.
- Simple Notepad, to have a notepad always available for taking notes.
- Calculator, to have a calculator in Chrome.
- I Don't care About Cookies to hide the banners accept Cookies
- PushBullet, to receive notifications from your smartphone on Chrome on PC
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