The 3 Best Chrome Extensions and The Most Popular Notifiers
About a week ago, Google Chrome released Extensions Beta with over 300 extensions. I have been using the extensions a while longer, with the developer channel, so I thought it was about time to share some of my favorites.
The notifiers that you cannot live without:
All the extension looks neat, although some of them still need some cleaning up. Especially the Facebook extensions layout could become better. The idea behind the extensions are simple, here is what piece Google said in their announcement:
“Extensions are as easy to create as webpages. Users can install and uninstall them quickly without restart, and extensions have a great polished look that fits in with Google Chrome’s minimalist aesthetic”
Three of my other favorites are extensions that change the “behavior” of the web browser.
Google Preview
The first on is GooglePreview, which gives you small previews of the pages in your google research. This sometimes speeds up searching even more as you can quickly see what the page looks like and if it is the one you are interested in. It is also great if you forgot the name of the site and want to find it, because hopefully it won’t have changed looks.
The only downside is that sometimes it cannot provide previews or it shows old previews, but hopefully this is something the developers are working on.
Docs PDF/Powerpoint Viewer
The second one is the Docs PDF/PowerPoint Viewer, which “automatically previews pdfs, powerpoint presentations, and other documents in Google Docs Viewer.” I like this, because it opens all the documents a lot faster than adobe reader would, which I enjoy. This is an extension that I really see potential in. It would be nice to be able to excel and doc files in it as well. Also I would enjoy being able to save the documents somewhere, so that they can easily be reached again, in Google docs for example. Either way if you want to speed up the time it takes to open a pdf, this is the extension you should use.
IE Tab
Last but not least I have the IE tab which opens a new tab, where you can view a page in Internet Explorer while still using Chrome. Might sound a bit confusing, but for all of those who have not changed to chrome as all web pages do not support it this extension is the solution. The plug-in has been very popular by Firefox users and seems to be for chrome users to as it is ranked 4th in amount of users already.
How to uninstall
However, though all these extensions are great, I hope that you think about what plug-ins you choose to install. Because they are unfortunately not as easy to uninstall as they are to install. But here is a guide to how you do it: “How To Uninstall Google Chrome Extensions.”
Enjoy!
Are you using Google chrome extensions? Which are your favorites?
