Best Chrome Extensions to improve your productivity – part 2

19 September, 2011

By Simone D'Amico

In the first post about Best Chrome Extensions we have collected them from Blogging, Social and Communication, Productivity and Photos categories.

In this last part, we will see extensions from the following categories:

Let’s start with last collection of Chrome extensions you must to have.

Developers

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.

Link: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/ognampngfcbddbfemdapefohjiobgbdl?hl=en

Eye Dropper

Eye Dropper is open source extension which allows you to pick colors from web pages, color picker and your personal color history.

Link: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/hmdcmlfkchdmnmnmheododdhjedfccka?hl=en

Session Manager

Session Manager lets you save sessions of your opened tabs and windows, and to quickly re-open them whenever you like.

Link: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/bbcnbpafconjjigibnhbfmmgdbbkcjfi?hl=en

MeasureIt!

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

Link: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/aonjhmdcgbgikgjapjckfkefpphjpgma?hl=en

Pendule

Extended web developer tools for Chrome.
Use this extension in addition to the built-in Developer Tools (Ctrl+Shift+I).

Link: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/gbkffbkamcejhkcaocmkdeiiccpmjfdi?hl=en

Resolution Test

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

Link: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/idhfcdbheobinplaamokffboaccidbal?hl=en

YSlow

YSlow analyzes web pages and suggests ways to improve their performance based on a set of rules for high performance web pages. YSlow grades web page based on one of three predefined ruleset or a user-defined ruleset. It offers suggestions for improving the page’s performance, summarizes the page’s components, displays statistics about the page.

Link: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/ninejjcohidippngpapiilnmkgllmakh?hl=en

Edit This Cookie

Edit This Cookie is a cookie manager. You can add, delete, edit, search, protect and block cookies!

Link: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/fngmhnnpilhplaeedifhccceomclgfbg?hl=en

JSONView

JSONView is an extension that helps you to parse and view JSON documents.

Link: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/chklaanhfefbnpoihckbnefhakgolnmc?hl=en

XML Tree

Displays XML data in a user friendly way.

Link: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/gbammbheopgpmaagmckhpjbfgdfkpadb?hl=en

PHP Console

Display PHP errors/debugs in Google Chrome console or by notification popups

Link: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/nfhmhhlpfleoednkpnnnkolmclajemef?hl=en

JavaScript Errors Notifier

Notify about JavaScript errors by icon in address bar

Link: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/jafmfknfnkoekkdocjiaipcnmkklaajd?hl=en

Lorem Ipsum Generator

Chrome Extension that generates random “Lorem Ipsum” text.

Link: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/dmpfoncmmihgkooacnplecaopcefceam?hl=en

Firebug Lite for Google Chrome™

Firebug Lite is not a substitute for Firebug, or Chrome Developer Tools. It is a tool to be used in conjunction with these tools. Firebug Lite provides the rich visual representation we are used to see in Firebug when it comes to HTML elements, DOM elements, and Box Model shading. It provides also some cool features like inspecting HTML elemements with your mouse, and live editing CSS properties.

Link: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/bmagokdooijbeehmkpknfglimnifench?hl=en

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.

Link: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/bfbameneiokkgbdmiekhjnmfkcnldhhm?hl=en

jQuery API Browser

Simple extension for jQuery developers that allows quickly search through API documentation.
Displays short method description, list of available parameters, and provides a direct link to this method on jQuery site. All alternate signatures for the current method are also shown.

Link: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/abefhanahjellfbchdmkjdcchkogijhk?hl=en

IP Address and Domain Information

See the geolocation, DNS, whois, routing, search results, hosting, domain neighbors, DNSBL, BGP and ASN information of every IP address (IPv4 and IPv6). Including shortcut to Your public IP Address (myIP info).

Link: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/lhgkegeccnckoiliokondpaaalbhafoa?hl=en

Palette for Chrome

Creates a color palette from any image. Just right-click on the image and select the ‘Palette for Chrome’ option.

Link: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/oolpphfmdmjbojolagcbgdemojhcnlod?hl=en

Regular Expression Checker

Simple regular expression checker/tester.

Link: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/pgnkpcgniljiolidjmodgfljeomjjiha?hl=en

CSS Reloader

CSS Reloader is a browser extension that allows you to reload CSS without reloading the page itself.

Link: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/dnfpcpfijpdhabaoieccoclghgplmpbd?hl=en

Accessibility

Change Colors

ChangeColors replaces a page’s styling (colors, fonts, etc.) according to the user’s preferences.

Link: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/jbmkekhehjedonbhoikhhkmlapalklgn?hl=en&hc=ext-pr&hcp=pr1-1

Zoomy

The Zoomy extension overrides the default zoom (text and images) for all websites.
Default zoom can be set manually or automatic
The automatic mode depends on the browser width, resizing the browser causes live changes and it’s Intended for widescreen or high resolution users. (bigger than 1024px)

Link: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/jgfonhdeiaaflpgphemdgfkjimojblie?hl=en

Keyboard Navigation

The Keyboard Navigation extension allows you to browse the web without using a mouse.

Link: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/abcekjakjehkpheoaadhkjfcdodpjbgk?hl=en

userScriptCSS

Apply a user stylesheet and or script to pages.

Link: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/pdfbjinabdohnegjnbfgdgohlhegamnm?hl=en

TidyRead

TidyRead renders web pages with better readability as an-easy-to-read manner, similar to eBooks, by accurately extracting the context text and removing the cluttered materials.

Link: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/emihmdgocahignhmlajgccbiaacoddej?hl=en

Chrome Daltonize!

Daltonization is a technique of exposing details to color-blind users, allowing them see what they otherwise would have missed.

Link: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/efeladnkafmoofnbagdbfaieabmejfcf?hl=en

metalmouth voice browser

metalmouth is a voice browser for Chrome. The Project metalmouth extension accesses the Document Object Model (DOM) of the web page being viewed directly so there is no reliance upon Accessibility APIs (IAccessible, IAccessible2, AT-SPI, etc…), or updates to these APIs. This means that support for new HTML5 element types, or WAI-ARIA defined items, within the extension can happen very quickly

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Link: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/bmogbhmnbehfapbmjlaoflagfobahfli?hl=en

PlainClothes

This extension styles — or rather “unstyles” — the web. 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.

Link: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/kleiknekfnnaaibjhlamidabhmckbddc?hl=en

Search tools

Search by Image

With this extension, you can initiate a search on Google using pictures on the web. You can discover photos of places, learn more about art pieces, identify landmarks, and more.

Link: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/dajedkncpodkggklbegccjpmnglmnflm?hl=en

Google Dictionary

With this extension, you can:

Double-click any word to view its definition in a small pop-up bubble.
View the complete definition of any word or phrase using the toolbar dictionary.

Foreign words are automatically translated to your language of choice.

Link: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/mgijmajocgfcbeboacabfgobmjgjcoja?hl=en

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.

Link: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/okanipcmceoeemlbjnmnbdibhgpbllgc?hl=en

Google Similar Pages

Discover webpages similar to the page you’re currently browsing. When you click the Similar Pages button, your browser will send a search query to Google to see if there are any similar pages for the page you are viewing.

Link: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/pjnfggphgdjblhfjaphkjhfpiiekbbej?hl=en

Search Engine Blacklist

Easily blacklist spam sites from ever appearing in your Google search results again.

Link: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/jiicbcimbjppjbckmoknagndlhjbeohb?hl=en

Search the current site

Search any site you’re on by the simple click of a button. The search is done not only on the 1 page you are viewing at the time you click as [Ctrl]+[F] does but instead Google is used to “site search” in ALL pages of the site you are viewing at the time. Search websites the easy way!

Link: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/jliolpcnkmolaaecncdfeofombdekjcp?hl=en

Cache

View what the current page looks like in Google’s cache. When you click the button the active tab will go the cached version of the page. Useful when you want to see what the page looked like a little while ago or when it’s inaccessible at the moment.

Link: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/bnmfcdcicagaffaokphooddegagehcin?hl=en