In this article we aim to deliver an All in one resource guide for Google Chrome users. From extensions to some advanced tricks we got it covered for you. So Fasten your seat belts and lets check out more than 90 kick ass extensions, themes, web apps and tips to customize your Google Chrome.

Extensions:

People who are shifting from Mozilla Firefox should must have this in mind that Google Chrome’s extensions repository is relevantly new and its a child as compared Firefox’s huge extension library. But let’s not get sad because of this as the repository is getting cool extensions day by day with the release of new APIs by Google chrome developer team.

Can’t get enough of Google Chrome extensions? They’re too good to be true and they make things easier and convenient for users. Good thing these goodies are easy to install and only takes seconds to download.

Below we have collected 60 extensions for every day use and we are hopeful they will help you a lot in changing Chrome according to your needs.

Productivity

1. StayFocusd

This extension will help you focus and stop wasting time on irrelevant web activities. It will help you manage your time better by giving you limited time on opening or block distracting websites.

2. Meeting Scheduler for Google Calendar

You can now schedule meetings without having to worry about double booking. This extension will look into your Google calendar and sets tentative availability, evaluates invitee replies and schedules the meeting.

3. TabJump – Intelligent Tab Navigator

Navigate through your tabs faster & easier. Talk about multi-tasking, tabs may just be your new bestfriend. This extension will surely be a big help to make it through multiple-tab tasks.

4. DayHiker

Keep track of the date & schedules. There’s nothing worse than to get double-booking. This extension will help you manage and organize your schedule.

5. Lazarus: Form Recovery

Filling in long forms may be a pain in the neck, back and arms. But it gets really agonizing when you could lose all you have typed in because of browser crash. Getting this extension is a good solution for those bad scenarios. This awsome extension will store your input.

Writing

1. Blog This! (by Google)

Get blogging in just a click. Install this extension to open an application window and blog. It’s a very handy extension for regular bloggers.

2. Clip to Evernote

This extension makes it easier to remember your favorites, better than the bookmark button. You can categorize your favorites so it’s easier to find them.

3. Webpage Screenshot

Make easier and faster screenshots with this extension. You can explain and point out details using arrows and other indicators.

4. After the Deadline

This extension works perfectly with 10.0.634.0 beta. It checks grammar and spelling on emails, tweets, documents & messages.

5. StumbleUpon

Stumbled on a very interesting page you would like to share on stumble upon? Install this extension to make it easier. Now you don’t have to open the stumble upon page, just click on the extension button and you have it.

Photos

1. Cooliris

The coolest search extension that speeds up search on Google Images, YouTube, Flickr, and more. Get a 3D view on images and videos with an infinite scroll that makes it easier. Now you wont have to click from one page to another.

2. Hover Zoom

Now you wont have to click on the link and go to the page just to see the image clearly. Just hover your mouse on the thumbnail, and you can see a good view on the photo.

3.EXIF Reader

Photography enthusiasts and fans, extracting EXIF is made easy just for you. Find out the Exposure Time, Aperture Value, Focal Length and more. There’s no need to download a photo for view its EXIF information, With EXIF Reader, you can view EXIF information in your Chrome in an instant.

4.Instant Image Editor

A quick retouch is now made easy with this extension. You wont have to open your Photoshop software. With in your chrome browser, you can edit your photos fast & easy.

5.Explain and Send Screenshots

Share and send your screenshots with this extension. You can explain and point out with arrows as well.

Web Development

1. csscan

Inspired by the CSS Viewer by Firefox, this extension will allow you to see the CSS properties of the element. This is a very handy extension for web developers.

2. Measureit!

Another great extension. This will help in measuring pixel sizes on any web element.

3. JavaScript Tester

After installing this extension, you wont find a button. Rather, you’ll using keyboard shortcuts to type in and test the javascript.

4. Pendule

This is an ultimate extension for web developers. Find all your tools in one button, install this.

5. SpeedTracer

This extension will identify and fix performance problems in your web applications. Get a better picture of where time is being spent in your application.

Browsing & Searching

1. Google Quick Scroll

The name itself is self explanatory. Browse through the page easier and faster. But don’t worry, Quick Scroll tries to stay out of your way, and shows up only when it is likely to be useful.

2. WOT

Browse safely with this cool extension. WOT ratings will help you determine which sites are to be trusted and which are not. The ratings are powered by millions of experienced users that are trustworthy.

3. GoMBox

With this extension your image search is made easy. You just click on the thumbnail and it brings up a lighbox viewer. This way, you can get a good look on the image without having to go away from your search.

4. FastestChrome

This extension can make browsing easier and faster with less clicks. Searching in multiple pages can be tiring, but with this you just keep scrolling down and you are being taken to the next pages.

5.Google Similar Pages

If you want multiple opinions and views on your research, this extension is perfect for you. This will allow you to open related articles or searches with what you currently have on your screen with a click on the button.

Customization & Navigation

1. Keyboard Navigation

Keyboard shortcuts always gets you around faster than having to move your cursor everywhere. This extension will give you shortcut keys on your browser to get you moving quick & easy.

2. Smooth Gestures

If you prefer moving the cursor than pressing on keyboard shortcuts, not to worry here’s an option for you. With this extension, you can customize your cursor gestures by using both left and right mouse keys. It allows you to move the cursor faster with a smoother flow.

3. Minimum Font

This extension is very useful for users who has a problem in reading small fonts. This extension changes the current smaller font to a more easier to read font. Which means, less eye strain and faster browsing.

4. Apture Highlights

Google searching made better. With this extension, you will be able to search just by highlighting a phrase on any site to reveal the web’s most relevant content without ever leaving the page.

5. browseFrame

Browsing can now be done in a small frame to fit in your current open browser. Now you don’t have to navigate away just to do multiple browsing.

News & Weather Updates

1. Feedly

Compile all your favorite online news and magazine sites in one. With this extension, you will have all updates on everything that goes on without having to go each  website.

2. NPR: News, Music and Books

Listen to News, Music & Stories while browsing. This extension will deliver your daily dose of audio needs.

3.1-ClickWeather for Chrome

Get your weather updates straight from your chrome browser. This extension will give you updates and alert on the latest weather report in your area.

4.Financial Times News

Keep track of the world’s economic & financial status. Install this extension to get regular alerts and reports on the world market.

5. TIME.com Top News

The most renowned News and documentary magazine is now on chrome. Install this extension to get access to top rating stories and articles. You can even go as far back as 1923.

Shopping

1.eBay extension for Google Chrome

Online shoppers’ bestfriend. Get lesser chance of getting outbid by keeping this extension up and running on your browser. Get alerts on your watch lists, bids & won items.

2. PriceTrace

Compare prices from major shops online. Get the best bargain and shop hassle free online. This extension will help you there.

3.Price Blink

Find the lowest prices possible online. Get the best and most outrageous bargains you can ever have and install this awesome extension on your chrome browser. The best shopping experience is at your finger tips!

4.Shopping Buddy

Shopping online is now made safer with this new extension that gives the buyers the ratings of online shops.

5.Chrome Currency Converter

Shopping online, you may have international transactions in different currencies from around the world. This extension will automatically convert to your preferred currency without having to manually compute.

Social Networking

1. AddThis

If you’re addicted to sharing anything and everything you like or dislike from websites, you can do it in just one click. Install this extension and this will make it possible for you.

2. Chromed Bird

Post your tweets straight from your chrome browser, without having to open your twitter webpage.

3. Social Plus!

Customize and play around with your Facebook profile and layout. With the cool themes are offered from this extension, your Facebook experience will be taken to another level.

4.Yoono

You can get connected on Facebook, MySpace, Twitter, Foursquare, LinkedIn, YouTube, Flickr, GoogleBuzz, Yammer, Friendfeed, AIM, Yahoo IM and more…all in one place.

5. Glue

Install Glue, and get updates for the hottest and high rated movies, music & books. Having this on your browser is the ultimate tool to getting the latest and best stuff in entertainment.

Sports Alerts

1.Sports Scoreboard

Get reliable updates on your team scores and install this cool extension on your chrome browser.

2.Are You Watching This?!

Install this well rounded sports extension on Chrome. This will give your the hottest updates on every game, every sport.

3.Advanced F1 Countdown

F1 enthusiasts should follow the latest news and updates on races. Install this on your chrome browser and feel the rush!

4. Ultimate Football Results

Football fans, here’s a Google Chrome extension made just for you. Get the latest news and updates on your favorite teams.

5. Event Ticket Finder

Buying tickets for your favorite sports, theater or concert event is now made easier! Get alerts on events and tournaments with this awesome extension.

Entertainment

1. Avalanche!!

Play this fun game to kill time while waiting for a page to open. Simply install the extension, and you’re ready to go.

2. Scramble

This fun extension can also test your reading ability. Even if you get the words scrambled.

3. Fast Typer

A bit rusty in typing? Test and practice your typing speed with this cool extension.

4. Flixster Movies

Watch cool trailers and read reviews on the latest movies. This extension will surely kill boredom while you wait.

5. SHOUTcast

Install an FM radio on your Google Chrome to listen to music while browsing the web. Isn’t it just awesome?!

Google Essentials

1. Minimalist Gmail

Get a faster Gmail experience by customizing your Gmail app.

2. Send from Gmail

Send emails with your browser without navigating away from your window.

3. Google Voice

Get Google Voice running on your browser with just one click.

4.Google Dictionary

This extension is a very handy tool for students and readers. One more fascinating feature is that it also supports translations.

Still not enough? Check out these previous articles written by us

• Are You Ready To Transfer To Chrome? – 30 Irreplaceable Chrome Extensions
• 32 Google Chrome Extensions For Smart Designers
• 24 Helpful Google Chrome Extensions for Bloggers

Awesome Google Chrome Themes

Another great thing about Google Chrome are the stylish themes which gives your browser a new, fresh look.  There are so many choices to choose from but we have collected those which look great.

1. Elegante V2 – 2.0

2. Aero Theme – 1.5

3.Night Spidey – v.01

4. Dark Green – 1.0

5. Blond-Amsterdam

6. Ella Moss

7.Lilly Pulitzer

8.Bayonetta

9.Marc Ecko

10.Charlotte Ronson

11.Koji NISHIDA

12.HIFANA X W+K TOKYO LAB

13.Kid Robot

14.Super Monkey Ball

15. Porsche

Google Chrome Web Apps:

Installable web apps are a way of making Google Chrome treat certain websites like apps. People can find installable web apps using the Chrome Web Store.

Many installable web apps are hosted apps—normal websites with a bit of extra metadata. You can build and deploy hosted apps exactly as you would build and deploy any web app, using any server-side or client-side technologies you like. The only difference is that you must provide a small manifest file that describes the app.

1. Tweetdeck

Get your updates for Twitter, Facebook, Google Buzz & Foursquare with one Application.

2.Autodesk Homestyler

One of the many awesome Google Chrome apps to have. You can play around and make floor plans, design and choose your own furniture, it’s simply amazing!

3.Remember The Milk

Keep track of your tasks and schedule with Remember the Milk. The most popular online organizer is now on Chrome.

4.deviantART muro

Going on deviantART is now just a click away. Create masterpieces and graphic designs with this cool Chrome app.

5.Write Space

Want to get a writing experience without destructions? Install this Google Chrome app and you’ll see what it is I’m telling about.

6. Read Later Fast

You may have run into something interesting but got no time to read at the moment. Don’t worry, install this app and you can add the page on your list to read later.

7. MomoNote

Another awesome organizer for people always on the go. Momo will keep you posted on your tasks and schedules without hassle.

8. imo Instant Messenger

Sign-in on all of your Instant Messengers in one window.

9.Pivotal Tracker

A story-based project management tool that allows software development teams to collaborate and react to feedback in real time. Simple and easy to use.

10.ChromaPaper

Read your articles, news & stories with this application. It allows offline reading as well!

Handy Shortcuts, Tips & Tricks

Learn how to navigate, manage and go around your Google Chrome browser faster and easier. There are lots of tips, tricks and shortcuts you could do to cut short your effort and time. In this part of the article I will gladly share with you the easiest and most useful shortcuts.

6. Google Chrome Backup: You can use this tool to backup, restore and manage more than one profile for your Google Chrome. A very handy tool for those who are obsessed with Firefox Profile Manager

Please let us know your feedback and yes if we missed something awesome please feel free to shout out and we will update the article :)

Today we are featuring helpful extensions especially for bloggers, which can make blogging a really fun and pleasing experience.

1. Zemanta

Using Zemanta, you can enhance your blogging experience and make it fun. It expands regular blogging dashboard giving you content suggestion about the text you are writing, images, links, articles and tags in a simple interface located in the sidebar. It supports WordPress, Blogger, Typepad and other popular publishing platforms. It has a spam-free database of 10,000 news sources and blogs; it will filter the copyright images before suggesting them to you.

Its main information sources are:

• For Links: Wikipedia, IMDB, Amazon etc
• For Videos: Youtube
• For Images: Flickr, Getty
• For Articles: BBC, CNN and thousands of blogs.

2. Google Reader Notifier

Feeds are very important part of life for any blogger, if you want to remain updated with the world easily then you should use Feeds feature of any website or blog. Google Reader is a very popular Feed reader. If you use Google Reader and love fast feeds then this extension is for you. It displays the Google Reader unread feeds count on a small icon next to your URL bar. Clicking the icon shows a preview of your reading list in a pop-up. If you want to open Reader in new tab then you can configure it from the options page.

3. Untiny

There are lots of people like me who are always afraid to open a shortened link, scared of any virus attack, but we can overcome this problem by using this extension. You just have to enter the shortened link and press the extract button, original link will be displayed.

4. WiseStamp

Signatures in any email are very important for bloggers for contacting with fellow bloggers because it looks professional. This extension allows you to create multiple signatures which can be selected as used in Gmail. It will add IM and Social Profiles like Facebook, Twitter and more below your sign.

5. DayHiker

DayHiker is a Google Chrome extension for Google Calendar. It displays schedules and tasks in a toolbar from your Google Calendar. It is a small but useful extension to manage your schedule and tasks. It has countdown and reminder badges with alarm clock which will help to manage your time effectively.

6. TPGoogleReader

Installing this extension is much recommended if you are feed geek. Using this extension you can work with feeds with leisure. It will help you in both reading and subscribing the feeds. When a website has a new feed, the icon of this extension will turn green to orange, click it to open a popup menu to see the list of feeds available on that page then click anyone of them to read it in Google Reader. It can show the number to unread items still in your Google Reader account. You can configure its Icon click, double-click and triple click actions from the option menu.

7. Split Screen

Some time your monitor screen become small in front of your work load. This extension allows you to overcome this obstacle and splits the browser in two parts; each one can open a different webpage. You can enjoy browsing two websites at the same time by using this epic extension giving to dual view in your browser.

8. Chrome Chikitizer

Well URL shortening has become very famous since last some years and there are many sites providing this service. This Google Chrome extension named “Chrome Chikitizer” dose the same task effectively and directly from your chrome browser.

9. Shareholic

It is a saying: “Sharing is Caring”. So every blogger should share the useful knowledge he/she has or amazingly informative web pages with his/her colleague and friends. The easy ways to do so is to install this extension. It is the easiest way to share interesting web pages using Facebook, Twitter, Email, Gmail, Bookmarks and many more. You can choose from 100+ supported services which can be configured from option menu.

10. Drop.io

Most of you people may be familiar with the drop.io service, which assists you to get images, movies or documents from WebPages. This extension uses drop.io and allows you to create drops as well as scrape all media of all kind off of any website and throw it into drop. For example if you are browsing Google Images and you click Drop All Images, this extension will upload all the images to your drop and access then easily in future. You can customize whether the extension always create a new drop or you can set a single default drop for it to be used always.

11. Google Images Large Images

Tired of using Google Images with a very small preview images? Use “Google Images Large Images” extension to over-come this obstacle while browsing Google Images. It will show the actual image size on mouse over which will help you to determine the original beauty of that specific image.

12. Chromed Bird

Although there are many Twitter extensions for Google Chrome but Chromed Bird is the most powerful I have used till now with many features. Using this extension you can use tweet anytime without visiting twitter.com, you can add/remove timeline tabs, create custom search queries that will be updates automatically, preview image links by hovering them. Many more important features are also present in this extension to make your tweeting experience more fast and interactive.

13. TwitterBar

TwitterBar is a Google Chrome Toolbar which enables you to tweet directly from the current page you are going through. The Page’s Title and URL are automatically entered into the textbox, it also use an auto URL-shortener which can be changed as per your requirements from the Options button on the page locating extensions.

14. SEO Status Pagerank/Alexa Toolbar

For regular bloggers it is very important to monitor the SEO status of any blog or website of his/her interest. He/she will know the performance and ranking of the websites of his interest in the eyes of Alexa and Google. The SEO status toolbar is a simple, light-weight and very fast facility of checking Google Pagerank and Alexa Rank for any website or its every page. One other advantage of using this toolbar is that, it will increase the Alexa Rank for the sites you visit just like IE toolbar does.

It don’t rely on any third-party website to collect information, it take the data directly from Google and Alexa hence providing accurate and reliable SEO status of any website.

15. AddThis

AddThis is the most popular bookmarking and sharing service around the globe. Using this extension you can share a webpage or an article to more than 200 website which includes Facebook, Twitter, WordPress etc. You can email the current page to any of your friend or family member using this extension; it also provides Print option which enables you to print the page you are currently viewing and you can also translate pages in different languages.

16. Image Cropper

Image cropper extension allows to crop images from any website. It can crop images in img HTML element, CSS background images for any HTML element and images in PNG format. Important point is, you cannot take screenshot of a webpage or crop it according to your desire, it can crop images present on web pages only.

17. Facebook Notification Checker

Facebook notifications help you to interact with your fellow bloggers and friends with ease. This extension is developed to make it easier for you, once you have a new Facebook notification this extension will tell you via a red notification icon. Support is also added for notifying for new messages and friend requests.

18. Google Dictionary (by Google)

Not everyone can master any language even it is his/her mother language. So there is always a need of a dictionary, and how good that will be if you have a dictionary in the same page which you are reading. Now this is possible if you are using Google Chrome, by installing this extension you can get meaning or definition of any word in a small pop-up bubble just by double clicking it.

This extension also offers a address bar dictionary from which you can view complete definition of any word. It supports many international languages like French, German, Spanish and more. But note that, it is a dictionary not a translator; i.e. if you are trying to find meaning of a Dutch word in English, it wont happen.

19. RemindMe

Every one hate to miss some important task, I presume so that you. So better set reminders about the tasks and chores to be done in future. This Google Chrome Extension allows you to setup reminder while you are browsing. Remind yourself of online work to be done later or remind yourself of the jobs you need to complete on a specific time. You can also sync the reminders between your different computers using Chrome built-in “Synchronize My Bookmarks” function.

20. Ibrii

Ibrii is a very amazing tool to snip every type of content like images, videos, text from any website. One big advantage of this service is that, it provide the facility to share distinct and trenchant elements unlike other service by the use of which, you can only share the whole web page on Twitter or Facebook. Users have the facility to create permalinks which can be later used or shared on instant messaging or on other social networking sites.

21. Chrome Editor

Coding is a very crucial and significant part of a blogger, people find it difficult to switch between the browser and code editor so this extension is made which allows you to code right within the your browser. I can locally save a code reference for later use on your computer. It has some predefined basic codes like HTML 4 DTD, HTML 5 DTD, CSS and jQuery Functions.

22. Digg for Chrome

This official Digg extension makes digging easy and fast. You can Digg directly from your browser, it views Digg count for any URL which is displayed in the right of the browser’s address bar. As Digg is one of the largest source to find information of your interest, this extension has a random button that allows you to discover new content from the web.

23. WordPress Comment Notifier

This extension will check for pending comments on your WordPress blog and displays it as a badge. You can unapproved, Trash, Reply to or mark as spam without opening a new tab. This extension is very handy for bloggers owing more than 1 blog as it can add multiple blogs.

24. ChromePass

ChromePass is a small password recovery tool that allows you to view the user names and passwords which are stored by Google Chrome browser. It will show Origin URL, Action URL, User name and Passwords as well as their fields and the time at which they were created.

Any thing missing or any suggestion? Feel free to inform us about your thoughts in comments :) .

At least for me – none of extensions have made browser load speed slower – I cannot say this about Firefox though, which I don’t use anymore. Scroll through this list – I am sure you will find at least few new extensions to use daily!

1. FireBug Lite

I hope we all know FireBug addon for FireFox, so here is the same extension but only for Chrome. Firebug Lite is a tool for web developers, that allows you to edit, debug, and monitor CSS, HTML, and JavaScript live in any web page.

2. Resolution Test

Resolution Test changes the size of the browser window for web developers to preview websites in different screen resolutions. It includes a list of commonly used resolutions as well as a custom option for you to input your own.

3. Speed Tracer

Speed Tracer is a tool to help you identify and fix performance problems in your web applications. It visualizes metrics that are taken from low level instrumentation points inside of the browser and analyzes them as your application runs. Speed Tracer is available as a Chrome extension and works on all platforms where extensions are currently supported (Windows and Linux).

Using Speed Tracer you are able to get a better picture of where time is being spent in your application. This includes problems caused by:

• Javascript parsing and execution
• Layout
• CSS style recalculation and selector matching
• DOM Event handling
• Network resource loading
• Timer fires
• XMLHttpRequest callbacks
• Painting
• and more …

4. Web Developer

The Web Developer extension adds a toolbar button to the browser with various web developer tools. This is the official port of the popular Web Developer extension for Firefox written by the same person.

5. Pendule

Use this extension in addition to the built-in Developer Tools. This tool is so similar to FireBug. You can just press mouse button and inspect the element.

6. Aviary Screen Capture

Take a screenshot of any webpage and edit it directly in your browser with Aviary.com applications. Plus convenient access to the Aviary website and tools.

Features:

• Save to desktop, host online, or edit in other Aviary apps.
• Captures instantly.
• Screen capture of the visible portion of all web pages and images.
• Add visual notes like arrows, text and highlights to your capture.
• Crop your capture.
• Resize, rotate and flip your capture.
• Smart select and move of captured elements.
• Grab color information from the page.
• Quick launch 6 Aviary design tools: Image editor, markup editor, vector editor, color palette editor, effects editor & audio editor.

7. Chrome Web Developer Tools

This extensions developers are trying to get this as close as possible to “FireFox Web Developer” addon. This extension made easy the web development.

8. Chrome Sniffer

Chrome Sniffer will help web developer to inspect web framework / CMS and javascript library running on current browsing website. An icon will appear on address bar indicates the detected framework. Great way to know what source site is using (if source is opensource and it is popular).

9. Lorem Ipsum Generator

It generates random “Lorem Ipsum” text, it allows to choose words per paragraph and number of paragraphs.

10. PlainClothes

Unstyle the web with this tool. PlainClothes makes everything as possible closer to default or your wanted style. Just imagine – text is black, backgrounds are white, unread links are blue, visited links are purple, all links are underlined or any other colors you like. And all text is rendered in your default fonts (as defined in “Options” > “Under the Hood” > “Change font and language settings”). Everywhere. Automatically.

This is how 1stwebdesigner.com looks using this tool:

11. Internet Explorer Tab

Internet Explorer Tab shows IE in Google Chrome. Very simple extension. I think it’s very useful to not to use IE.

12. Chrome SEO

The Google Chrome SEO Extension provides easy access to Search Engine Optimization Tools that can help you with Competitive Analysis, Keyword Research, Backlink Checks, PageRank Checks and other daily SEO tasks.

13. SEO Site Tools

It validates CSS and HTML, displays server software, checks for gzip compression, page headers and shares even more on-page suggestions based on accepted SEO knowledge. It can disable right-click scripts, and does window resizing to see where fold would be on different size monitors. Fast clean simple UI with a wealth of SEO information makes doing a quick consult fast and easy.

14. META SEO Inspector

Meta data is not just the usual HTML meta tags, but the XFN tags, various microformats, the recently introduced canonical attribute, the no-follow links and so on.

15. Validity

Validity can be used to quickly validate your HTML documents from the address bar.

Just click the icon in the address bar to validate the current document without leaving the page. The number of validation errors can be seen in the tool tip.

Validity also gives you the option to use your own installation of the W3C Validation Service. (For more information on installing the W3C Validation Service see the documentation at http://validator.w3.org/docs/install.html).

16. Eye Dropper

Eye Dropper and Color Picker extension which allows you to pick color from any webpage or from advanced color picker.

17. Color Picker

Quickly get the Hex and RGB values of any color! Also adjust Hue, Saturation, and Balance.

18. Image Cropper

This extension help you to crop any images on the fly.
It’s especially useful when you need to crop your online album photo for IM thumbnail.

• Crop images in img html element
• Crop css background images for any html element
• Cropped Image is in PNG format
• Right click on top of the selection to “save as” the cropped image.

19. Webpage Screenshot

Makes screenshot of whole page even if page is very long.

20. Picnik

The Picnik Extension for Chrome lets you easily edit the images you come across while browsing the web. With a click you can create a snapshot of your current web page and open it in Picnik for easy editing, annotation and sharing. Do the same for all the image on the current page — just pick the image from the dynamic hot list and then edit, annotate and share with Picnik. It is a great replacement to PhotoShop!

21. MeasureIt!

Draw out a ruler that will help you get the pixel width and height of any elements on a webpage.

22. Pixlr Grabber

Grab visible screen, select part or entire page. Share screen to Pixlr imm.io, edit screen in Pixlr editor or save to desktop. This is one of the few who can capture the entire screen, however since Chrome just supports canvas in png the images created gets quite large and takes a while to process.

23. Domain Availability Checker

Quickly check if domain name is already taken or not.

24. Snippy

Snippy allows you to grab snippets of web pages, save them for future use and upload them to Google Docs.

25. FlashBlock

Flashblock is an extension for the Google Chrome that blocks all Flash content from loading. It then leaves placeholders on the webpage that allow you to click to download and then view the Flash content.

26. BuiltWith Technology Profiler

BuiltWith is a web site profiler tool. Upon looking up a page, BuiltWith returns all the technologies it can find on the page. BuiltWith’s goal is to help developers, researchers and designers find out what technologies pages are using which may help them to decide what technologies to implement themselves.

27. LastPass

LastPass is a free online password manager and Form Filler that makes your browsing more secure.

28. iMacros

Automate your web browser. Record and replay repetitious work. Web developers use iMacros for web regression testing, performance testing and web transaction monitoring. It can also be combined with Google Speed Tracer, Firebug and other web development and test tools. XPath support is included.

29. Chrome Flags

It shows the country where the server is hosting.

30. Frame Two Pages

Put two tabs into one tab’s two frames. Useful to compare two pages.

31. Split Screen

Works very similar to “Frame Two Pages” extension, but the main difference is that you can browse pages not switching tabs.

32. Session Buddy

Session Buddy is a flexible session manager that allows you to quickly save and restore session tabs.

• View all of the tabs in each window of a current or saved session
• Assess easily whether a displayed session has changed
• Save the current session with 2 clicks
• Restore sessions into a set of windows, a single window, or the current window
• Access automatically saved crash recovery sessions after a Chrome or OS crash
• Optionally automatically save the previous session
• Edit sessions by deleting individual windows/tabs or rolling tabs into a single window
• Import a list of URLs
• Export a session to text or CSV format (more formats in development)
• Control what types of tabs Session Buddy recognizes
• Show/hide current session tab count in extension icon badge

I have a friend who suggested to try Chrome again and I thought I will give it a try – now I will check how much and how good extensions Chrome has and is it enough to transfer now???

This article will try to answer to question – can designer, web developer, social marketing, SEO person actually transfer to Chrome without any loss of extension features. Are there something similar to FireBug, WebDeveloper, Color Picker, SEO For Firefox, Alexa ranks, debugging tools, which can be replaced to be used daily?

Let’s put Chrome on test – shall we?

If you know a little about Google Chrome read our previous article about this browser features – Google Chrome Review.

Chrome Extensions For Daily Browsing

1. Aviary Screen Capture

Take a screen capture of the visible portion of any web page and it will open in an editor where you can crop it, add text and arrow markup, get color information or move around areas. You can easily save it to your desktop or host it online. The extension also lets you quick launch any of Aviary’s web editor design apps. View extension screenshots by clicking on the thumbnail and using the arrow keys.

2. Xmarks Bookmarks Sync

Backup and sync your bookmarks across computers and browsers. Xmarks is also available for Firefox, Safari and IE.

Since I am working on one computer at work and laptop, I love this automatic tool syncing my bookmarks  and allowing me to worry about other things.

3. AdThwart

Block ads on websites. Supports EasyList and many other ad blocker filter lists.

4. Evernote Web Clipper

Evernote’s Web Clipper extension let you save interesting stuff you see on the web.

5. LastPass

LastPass is a free online password manager and Form Filler that makes your web browsing easier and more secure.

6. RSS Subscription

This extension auto-detects RSS feeds on the page you are reading and upon finding one will display an RSS icon in the Omnibox, allowing you to click on it to preview the feed content and subscribe. Very handy extension for daily blog browsing.

7. Chrome Gestures

Allows you to execute common commands (like page forward/backward, close tab, new tab) by mouse gestures drawn over the current webpage, without reaching for the toolbar or the keyboard.

If you don’t know how mouse gestures work, check out this video.

8. Google Similar Pages beta (by Google)

Discover webpages similar to the page you’re currently browsing. I understand this extension works similar like StumbleUpon, but it’s more objective because it’s based on Google search engine and it’s been released by Google – cannot be bad!

Here I tested it on my own website and got 4 very popular design blogs displayed – first test looks good, I am trying it more definitely.

9. Feedly

A magazine-like startpage. A fast and stylish way to read and share the content of your favorite sites and services. Provides seamless integration with Google Reader, Twitter, Delicious, YouTube and Amazon.

10. Delicious Chrome Extension

Very simple and clean Delicious extension allowing you to simply bookmark page to Delicious. This extension adds just one button, without whole bookmark bar, I loved it!

11. Google Quick Scroll

Google Quick Scroll is a browser extension that helps you find what you are searching for faster.  After you click on a Google search result, Quick Scroll may appear on the bottom-right corner of the page, showing one or more bits of text from the page that are relevant to your query. Clicking on the text will take you to that part of the page.

Chrome Extensions For Social Networking

12. Google Mail Checker

Displays the number of unread messages in your Google Mail inbox. You can also click the button to open your inbox, very handy tool for daily browsing.

13. Chromed Bird

Chromed Bird is a Twitter extension that allows you to follow your timelines and interact with your Twitter account.

14. Facebook for Google Chrome

Extension which lets you read your Facebook news feed and wall. You can also post status updates.

15. StumbleUpon Extension

Simple StumbleUpon toolbar for Chrome, you should be very familiar with it if you are stumbling daily.

16. goo.gl url shortener

goo.gl url shortener is an extension which allows you to shorten the current website URL with the new Google URL Shortener service http://goo.gl/.

Chrome Extensions For Web Designers, SEO specialists and Web Developers

17. Lorem Ipsum Generator

Many other extensions of this type – in other browsers – simply complicate this task, using really extensive code, XHR, etc. The main purpose of this one, is to use the less amount of code (and also memory) and help the developer/user to get the job done.

Great and simple classic Lipsum extension, required in every designer’s toolbar.

18. Firebug Lite

Firebug Lite is a tool for web developers, that allows you to edit, debug, and monitor CSS, HTML, and JavaScript live in any web page.

19. META SEO inspector

A Google Chrome extension useful to inspect the meta data found inside web pages, usually not visible while browsing.

20. Pastebin

Post and coloring source code (C, Python, Ruby, HTML, CSS, …) on a pastebin service. Although useful for the share on the forums, IRC or social networks (like Twitter).

21. Speed Tracer (by Google)

Get insight into the performance of your web applications.

22. Resolution Test

An extension for developers to test web pages in different screen resolutions, with an option to define your own resolutions.

23. Copy Without Formatting

Provides various ways (customizable keyboard shortcut, floating button, or auto-copy) to copy your selection WITHOUT formatting.

24. IE Tab

Use Internet Explorer to display web pages in a Chrome tab. Some sites can only be displayed using IE, and with this extension you can now see those sites without leaving Chrome. Great for web developers who want to test the IE rendering engine, users who use sites with ActiveX controls, and users who want to use the explorer view for local files (i.e. file:// URLs).

25. Chrome SEO

I couldn’t live without great SEO tool, where I could see stats of current page I am visiting, this tool is under development still, but already it’s very lightweighted, fast and working just excellent.

“The Google Chrome SEO extension provides easy access to Search Engine Optimization Tools that can help you with Competitive Analysis, Keyword Research, Backlink Checks and other daily SEO tasks.”

26. PageRank

Very simple and light extension which only task is to display pagerank automatically while page loads. For advanced browsing I would use Chrome SEO, but for automatic,fast stats display I like this plugin in my Chrome Extensions as well!

27. SitezMeter

SitezMeter displays traffic charts from Google Trends, Alexa and Compete side by side, as well as ranks. This extension is a handy tool to webmaster, web site owner and SEO/SEM specialists.

Of course, you can go to SitezMeter website directly, but this helps sometimes to do it faster in handy way, anyway – your pick!

28. Chrome Flags

Chrome Flags displays a country flag indicating about the physical location of the websites you’re visiting. The extension also provides access to detailed information regarding the website’s servers, owners, traffic and trustworthiness.

29. Eye Dropper

Eye Dropper and Color Picker extension which allows you to pick color from any webpage or from advanced color picker. You can also check option, that selected color HEX code will be automatically copied to clipboard. This tool is even more handier than ColorPicker on FireFox, because HEX code I needed to copy/paste manually.

30. MeasureIt!

Draw out a ruler that will help you get the pixel width and height of any elements on a webpage.

Yes, this popular Firefox extension for designers is available on Chrome as well! Great!

31. Pendule

Built in features for developers

I didn’t know there are already built in features for web developers, but wow, there is – and you don’t need to install anything.

This “Inspect Element” feature works similar like Firebug, but it has different features. Just select and element, text you are interested in, click right mouse button and check inspect element – you will get advanced and precise results right away! Very, very handy!

Read more about built-in features for developers in this google guide.

Summary

While testing all those different extensions, what I enjoyed the most – extensions are super easy and extremely fast to install/uninstall/activate. I was used to Firefox restart browser statement all the time, I never really thought about it. With Google Chrome you just click on install button and extension is live and working in seconds without any slow downloading or restarting, lagging. And in the same time, if I decided not to keep that extension, I could easily uninstall it as well without any problems.

I am amazed, it took me so long to try Chrome extensions, because I thought there could be nothing better then Firefox, all those thousands of plugins it has and there no way Chrome could compete with something like that EVER.

Dear readers, I was very wrong – of course, there aren’t so many extensions available just yet, but already all of them works way better, way faster and for now I haven’t got any problems with Chrome at all – just big, positive surprises.

For designers and developers I would suggest to give Chrome a try and check out design related extensions, there are already. They aren’t so much but already very handy and fast to use, which usually wasn’t the case with Firefox however.

Huh..but for daily browsing, tweeting, stumbling, mail management, blog writing ( yes, I mean all bloggers) – I suggest to switch to Chrome today and give it a chance. Try it for 3-4 days, install several your favorite extensions from this list and I am pretty sure, you will not want to go back to Firefox for daily browsing. Just my personal opinion, but I was very strong Firefox lover until yesterday, so there must be something good with this new browser I think :)

Let me know about your pros,cons and experiences with Chrome comparing it to Firefox! Let’s go to browsing!

You can download latest Chrome version here, but you need to install Google chrome BETA version in order to use and try extensions as well – get it here.

So first I can say it’s EXTREMELY fast, and yes – I really mean EXTREMALY! I am great fan of FireFox, but I can say, I loved Chrome from my first minute. At first it took just ~2 minutes to download and install – every page just loads in few seconds and design is very clean and intuitive, which is great, although I already missed my FF plugins :)

So okay, lets dig deeper:

What’s new with Chrome really? :

1. One box for everything

You got one browser box, where You start typing and browser automatically suggest You popular searches, visited pages while You are writing. Great feature, because now You got Search and Browser box in one field!

2. New tab

You can click on New tab icon – You can see Your nine most visited pages with thumbnails, history search, recent bookmarks and latest closed tabs. I found it pretty useful.

3. Crash Control

Chrome handles tabs differently than other browsers – each tab loads in his own process. This feature cuts out possibility of crashing Your browser – now there will crash just one tab. You can see below in image, what I am talking about.

So now Chrome has his own Task Manager and You can see there, how much memory uses  browser, each tab, plug-ins and easily end process of desired page.

If You like detailed statistics  – open stats for nerds to see summary.

4. Incognito mode

Image is pretty self explaining – if You don’t want to display pages in Your web history – just choose incognito mode and do safe browsing :) If You work in office – this one could be pretty useful spy mode.

5. Importing settings

Google Chrome  made pretty easy for new users to switch to their browser with easy bookmark,password etc. importing from Your previous browser.

6. Instant bookmarks

Browser automatically warns when You are going to visit some unsafe web site – I think You can trust Google as it is one of the biggest Internet giants in the world.

7. Simpler downloads

When downloading a file,  it will open in left bottom sidebar – just like FireFox with Statusbar extension. Thoughtful!

8. Dynamic tabs

You can easily manage Your tab order or create new window, just by easily clicking and dragging.

9. Speed

As I already said – Chrome is very fast, while browsing pages – however I am not an expert to make speed testing, however I found some tests.

Those are 5 subtests measuring browser’s JavaScript performance.

And there are more speed tests made by lifehacker.com :

10. Design

Interface in Chrome is very clean and intuitive, every icon and page just in place – excellent design. There are just minimalistic toolbar at top of the browser with just few buttons like:

And two icons – one for customizing current page and another to set Your global configuration settings:

Here I can see how less can be more.

Summary

Looks like Chrome will be serious competitor, because of its speed, cleanness and simplicity. I already see great war happening between FireFox, Chrome,Internet Explorer and Safari. Yeah..and for us, designers, looks like there will be one more browser to validate for. However I cant wait for full Chrome version and FireFox response to this step. See you in blogosphere!

If You are interested to know more about Google Chrome and why they made new browser, check their homepage:

I will be very glad to hear Your opinion about those news!