We’ve gathered a list of some of the most useful Chrome extensions from the Chrome Web Store. Check them out and see which ones can make your life easier and more productive.
Gmail inboxes can fill up quickly, leaving users feeling overwhelmed. Checker Plus places an icon in your toolbar that automatically updates when new Gmail messages arrive.
Select the icon, and you’ll get a short message preview. Select the message, and it opens within the extension. You can do almost all email reading from within Checker. You’ll need to open the primary Gmail browser interface only when it’s time to compose a message.
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Creates a quick tab-based to-do list.
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Saves you from keeping tabs open in the background indefinitely.
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Provides ultra-lightweight session-saving and restore.
Chrome takes up a lot of RAM, and the more tabs you have open, the more RAM Chrome needs. OneTab closes all your tabs immediately, condensing them into a page of links.
These links then appear each time you open a new tab, giving you the option of reopening the whole window or just a few tabs. Rather than keeping tabs open indefinitely, save them in OneTab for when you’re ready to use them.
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Reveals whether a product is truly on sale, or if the retail price suddenly increased.
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Provides purchasing insights that actually save money.
Amazon prices change constantly, and it’s often hard to discern a product’s retail price. The Camelizer shows you a product’s historical pricing data via graphs of previous prices.
While you’re on an Amazon product page, select the Camelizer icon. You’ll get a pop-up box with Amazon price data drawn from the enormous and reliable database at CamelCamelCamel.com.
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Adds new functionality to YouTube.
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Reduces some YouTube annoyances.
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Many dark mode themes to suit your tastes.
Among the many apps that spruce up YouTube, this is our favorite. Enhancer for YouTube includes a slew of options for theming and functionality.
There are more than a dozen selectable dark-mode themes, ads are blocked automatically, and videos can be maximized within a browser window, filling the whole screen without going into full-screen mode.
Once you get used to Enhancer for YouTube’s perks, regular YouTube will feel archaic.
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Free and effective ad blocker with no gimmicks.
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Open-source, with tools for advanced users.
Ad-blocking is a popular and important Chrome plugin category, as users try to navigate websites filled with intrusive ads that slow page-load times to a crawl.
uBlock Origin has emerged as the top contender in the content-blocking space, appreciated for its easy-to-use interface and tools for power users who want to dive deeper into individual scripts.
With overwhelmingly positive user reviews and millions of downloads, uBlock Origin is the best Chrome plugin for wide-spectrum content blocking.
Many companies love tracking your online activity and are quite good at it. Gain more privacy and security with Privacy Badger. With a variety of tools, Privacy Badger disables tracking tools or obfuscates the data.
Toggle blocking on and off for specific sites and trackers to ensure the plugin doesn’t break your favorite website.
If you feel like your mouse is holding you back, the Vimium Chrome extension can replace all browser navigation with keyboard shortcuts. Select links, scroll, and perform all your tasks with just the keyboard.
It takes a little while to get a handle on all the keyboard shortcuts, but if you want to leave your mouse behind, this is the plugin for you.
Despite Click&Clean’s cute name, online cookies are serious business. They’re the basis of online-tracking utilities. A company might set a cookie on one page, but as you navigate around the web, that cookie accrues more and more personal information.
While many privacy-oriented users likely clear their cookies regularly, the rest of us can rely on this Chrome extension to make cookie cleaning an effortless routine. With just a click, delete cookies and your cache as well as typed URLs and your download and browsing history.
When Google took away the View Image ability in Google Image search results, many web users were disappointed. This simple plugin reimplements the Google Images “View Image” and “Search by Image” buttons, and they work exactly as they did before Google removed them.
Chrome doesn’t come with an Alt+Tab-style tab switcher, making it harder to toggle between tabs when working in the browser. Recent Tabs is great for Chrome-based multitaskers, letting you set a keyboard shortcut that flips between your current tab and the last tab you had open. It’s a lifesaver.
Fill your new tab page with a beautiful satellite image drawn from Google Earth. This new tab page Chrome extension doesn’t slow down your browser with unnecessary functionality, such as a calendar, clock, or to-do list, but it still provides a better visual experience than a blank page.
The images are hand-selected, so they’ll always be high-quality. The Earth is a beautiful place, so see more of it with Earth View.
Theming web pages with CSS isn’t exactly common anymore, but it should be. Using the Stylus Chrome plugin, change how websites display by adding your own styling code on top of them.
This Chrome extension allows users to hide annoyances, change colors, or replace text. Stylus is also an awesome tool for the dark-mode interface trend.
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