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It’s impossible not to be synced anymore. Everything is on cloud and the amount of information we come across every day is unprecedented. The difficulty of any digital marketer’s mission is not letting themselves be distracted by the connectivity and hyperlinking on the web. While we have never been more exposed to information, it’s now harder than ever to keep focused and prioritize our online activity.
Because we know how crucial it is to stay informed and relevant when it’s almost impossible not to miss something (however small), we’ve put together a compilation of extensions that should make every digital marketer’s life a little easier.
We are moving from an era of brand dominance, to one where agility is rewarded. – Will Critchlow, Founder & CEO, Distilled
A digital marketer’s work can be massively improved with the right browser extensions. We usually install them as we cannot afford the time to either search for some data manually, or to wait for the dozens of tabs to load. This is why our compilation will include the most useful extensions in this field, to guide you through a better productivity rate.
Installing an extension only takes a few seconds and they will run on the back of the system while you operate the browser and your account, which makes them a useful alternative to the current situation, as they are all meant to solve some of the essential every day problems.
Copywriting & Content Marketing
- Google TranslateDownloads: 6,323,515
- GrammarlyDownloads: 4,198,579
- FeedlyDownloads: 1,375,846
- Print FriendlyDownloads: 365,861
- Diigo Web CollectorDownloads: 241,545
- YeswareDownloads: 231,600
- Wise StampDownloads: 215,911
- Project NapthaDownloads: 208,893
- Similar PagesDownloads: 162,542
- InstapaperDownloads: 156,722
- TL;DRDownloads: 120,409
- GiphyDownloads: 61,283
- DraftDownloads: 4,542
- Drum UpDownloads: 1,649
SEO and Marketing Metrics
- GhosteryDownloads: 2,441,992
- Alexa Traffic RankDownloads: 447,614
- MozBarDownloads: 339,703
- Hide My AssDownloads: 187,807
- VidIQDownloads: 142,223
- Check My LinksDownloads: 120,697
- Majestic Backlink AnalyzerDownloads: 51,199
- Google Analytics URL BuilderDownloads: 30,886
- SEO SerpDownloads: 23,130
- Fat RankDownloads: 8,952
- Mobile Friendly CheckerDownloads: 4,188
- Share MetricDownloads: 3,485
Social Media Engagement
- Hootsuite HootletDownloads: 508,737
- RapportiveDownloads: 441,335
- BufferDownloads: 429,992
- Bit.lyDownloads: 337,163
- KloutDownloads: 69,639
- Email HunterDownloads: 58,846
- DoShareDownloads: 25,490
- Rite TagDownloads: 21,127
- DiscoverlyDownloads: 16,500
- RiffleDownloads: 13,753
- Find That LeadDownloads: 11,179
- FollowrDownloads: 1,507
Productivity
- Ad BlockDownloads: 10,000,000+
- Last PassDownloads: 4,219,260
- Pocket Downloads: 2,729,383
- MomentumDownloads: 1,589,696
- PushBullet Downloads: 1,340,354
- BoomerangDownloads: 1,109,443
- 1PasswordDownloads: 1,023,937
- One TabDownloads: 1,015,460
- The Great SuspenderDownloads: 882,787
- SignalsDownloads: 704,188
- Stay FocusdDownloads: 674,406
- Speed Dial 2Downloads: 643,890
- TodoistDownloads: 379,388
- Smooth ScrollDownloads: 154,844
- KeeperDownloads: 97,589
- Time StatsDownloads: 84,367
- MediumDownloads: 34,068
- Followup.ccDownloads: 12,002
- PopchromDownloads: 10,138
- List GoalDownloads: 4,265
- StacheDownloads: 3,250
- Price SnoopDownloads: 2,332
- SwitchmarkDownloads: 2,242
- GoodbitsDownloads: 1,592
- Ananke TimerDownloads: 238
Website Optimization
- User Agent SwitcherDownloads: 1,194,463
- Web DeveloperDownloads: 1,091,172
- Firebug LiteDownloads: 686,834
- Tag AssistantDownloads: 539,849
- Window ResizerDownloads: 530,290
- Clear CacheDownloads: 333,669
- WappalyzerDownloads: 331,018
- YSlowDownloads: 317,276
- IE Tab MultiDownloads: 185,129
- StylebotDownloads: 166,341
- Quick Javascript SwitcherDownloads: 144,227
- PenduleDownloads: 103,065
- CSS ViewerDownloads: 101,612
- Web BoostDownloads: 72,615
- Redirect PathDownloads: 64,933
- Page RefreshDownloads: 55,600
- WASPDownloads: 24,426
- HTML ValidatorDownloads: 22,830
- SightDownloads: 17,936
- Built WithDownloads: 16,726
- Quick Source ViewerDownloads: 13,898
- Stylesheet ReloaderDownloads: 572
Design Tools
- ColorZillaDownloads: 902,922
- WhatFontDownloads: 545,995
- Page RulerDownloads: 434,053
- EyedropperDownloads: 373,647
- Nimbus ScreenshotDownloads: 398,052
- Pic MonkeyDownloads: 180,284
- Resolution TestDownloads: 145,920
- MeasureltDownloads: 108,281
- Fontface NinjaDownloads: 101,708
- Palette CreatorDownloads: 62,124
- DimensionsDownloads: 48,225
- Yet Another Lorem Ipsum GeneratorDownloads: 26,874
- Google Font PreviewerDownloads: 25,546
- StencilDownloads: 15,379
- Type SampleDownloads: 12,012
- Microstock Photo Power SearchDownloads: 1,870
- Font EditorDownloads: 1,733
Copywriting & Content Marketing
1. Google Translate
Downloads: 6,323,515
The best use for this extension in the context of a digital marketing agency is that it allows you to browse through international web pages and get an immediate idea on their content – then decide if you want to dig deeper or leave if for good.
Another way it can be used to assure maximum efficiency is in the context of foreign clients. The extension is a time saver when it comes to multi-lingual professional experiences.
2. Grammarly
Downloads: 4,198,579
We all know how crucial content is. However, what’s easily read is not easily written, most of the times. It takes a lot of experience and years of practice to transmit the essential information, while not being boring and also adding a bit of a personal dash to the copy. It’s essential to have a clean writing style, otherwise your audience will not grant you with credibility.
Grammarly doesn’t only check the grammar appropriateness of your content, but the readability as well, making it easier for you to formulate a more word-efficient copy.
3. Feedly
Downloads: 1,375,846
The extension is great for copywriters, as it can feature different topics, divided by folders, that will automatically update a news feed at your fingertips. The extension works like an intersection between bookmarks and a news feed. Among the sources that it indexes, you can choose the topics you are interested in following, and you will receive a daily feed accordingly. It takes a lot of effort to keep up to date with the amount of content publishers, news websites and all reading interests. There is a limited number of sources that you can add to your feed, but it does the job great for the ones that it indexes.
Browsing through content has become a nightmare, as it’s often hard to separate the stories we’d like to read from the ones we’re running from. Feedly makes this activity pleasant and organized, and it helps prioritizing the interests as well.
4. Print Friendly
Downloads: 365,861
The extension comes in handy whenever you wish to print an article that you liked particularly, or a webpage that you wish to examine further. Its help comes from cleaning the junk information from the webpage. Either because you don’t want to waste ink on useless pictures or ads, or just because of aesthetic reasons, the extension is constantly in your mind, and it tells what you want to print and what you’d rather leave out.
It gives you an editable .pdf conversion of a webpage, and you can easily transform web data into clean, organized .pdf’s for your projects. It helps if you’re a researcher and you can save all the changes in Google Drive, which makes it even more user friendly.
5. Diigo Web Collector
Downloads: 241,545
Simply put, this is an extension that helps annotating, bookmarking and archiving web content. It has everything a geek who likes to take time with their content would need. You can use colored highlights and sticky notes, share the pages with your annotation via social media, bookmark links for later or curate content.
While it’s a very intuitive extension, it also helps you stay organized and it’s pure heaven for anyone who is a little nostalgic about the agenda-writing era.
6. Yesware
Downloads: 231,600
Many of us, content marketers, have newsletters and thousand of weekly sent emails. However, the open rate of these isn’t always something easy to analyze. If you’re not looking for complicated metrics, but a general view on who opened your email and who didn’t, this extension is going to be more than you need. You get to be notified (by push notifications or otherwise) when someone opens an email you automatically sent, and you also get to see the device they did it from.
7. Wise Stamp
Downloads: 215,911
There’s a lot to tell about the perfect email. What’s obvious, however, is that most of them aren’t read, or get to be skimmed in a few seconds. The better part of emails don’t get to convince (let alone impress) because they lack personality.
This extension is one of the possible solutions to this problem – it provides you with a live signature that you can link to your social media accounts. You can also personalize it with the company logo or any other visual elements that you’d like to associate with your signature.
8. Project Naptha
Downloads: 208,893
If you’ve ever felt frustrated that you couldn’t copy a text that was part of an image, you’re going to love this extension. It allows you to highlight, copy or edit texts that are in an image format. Now you can copy the text and paste it as a search query, or translate it.
The semi-transparent select blue box can be especially useful when you don’t have time to re-write blocks of text that are part of an image. Once you install the extension, it will automatically select the words inside an image in a text box, on hover.
9. Similar Pages
Downloads: 162,542
I’m sure it’s happened at least a thousand times to find something captivating on the web and then follow the impulse of searching more on the topic. This extension anticipates your need of more information on something you’re already reading and suggests a number of other similar web pages.
What makes it useful is that every suggested page comes with a preview, so that you can decide what’s appropriate for your needs and what isn’t. Whenever you click on the extension icon, a Google search query will be conducted to identify pages that are closely related to what you’re reading.
10. Instapaper
Downloads: 156,722
There are many tools dedicated to bookmarking content that you’ll be interested in reading later. However, what this extension brings is the opportunity to save web content offline.
Offline reading isn’t our main preoccupation since most of us focus on bringing the content online, but this tool is especially made to make sure we can read the content that we want to save for later even when we don’t have access to an Internet connection.
11. TL;DR
Downloads: 120,409
Anyone who spends enough time online will know that TL;DR is an online abbreviation for ‘too long, didn’t read’. We don’t always have the time to enjoy a long read, and this extension shortens the web content into a generic idea on the topic. There are 3 different lengths for every webpage that is shortened (approximately 25%, 50% and 75% of the original content length), and you can opt for the one that will best satisfy your informational need.
Aside from the English language, the extension also supports Spanish, German and French. The synopsized long content is at your disposal, and you can also look for similar topics on the web directly from this extension.
12. Giphy
Downloads: 61,283
We’ve begun to introduce visual aids with our online messages because the tone wouldn’t always be transmitted rightly. This is how the first emoticons appeared. More than a decade after that, shortened communication forms have taken over our social media communication. Partially because they’re playful and send a more personal tone, partially because they’re visual and easily to relate to.
Whichever the reason, Giphy allows you to use gifs from their continuously updating database on email and social media, in order to better connect with the people you’re talking to.
13. Draft
Downloads: 4,542
For those of us who write a lot, this is a Chrome extension that transforms any text area into something you can edit through Draft. Organizing your ideas is much easier this way, as you’ll have all the text you’re composing in the same format and always on your screen, to keep you coordinated.
14. Drum Up
Downloads: 1649
Very much like Similar Pages, this extension creates search queries that match the content that you’re currently reading in order to make topical suggestions for further readings.
Aside from the content suggestions, the extension also allows you to schedule sharing posts on social media, which makes it easier to share captivating content with your friends, especially since it can be delivered in an organized manner.
SEO and Marketing Metrics
15. Ghostery
Downloads: 2,441,992
Every action you take on the web leaves a footprint behind. The technologies monitoring web activity are called trackers, and usually take the information they need about your browsing data. The extension allows you to control the amount of personal data that you share with the trackers for every site you visit. One additional advantage to this is that some of the websites may even work better with tracking limitations, as trackers sometimes weigh them down. You can also remove page clutter and focus on the content that you’re actually interested in.
16. Alexa Traffic Rank
Downloads: 447,614
The extension provides quick traffic analytics without interrupting the browsing experience. It’s great for a quick glance at a website’s performance. Aside from the traffic metrics, you can see the number of sites linking in, the load time and a number of related links as further suggestions for your browsing.
17. MozBar
Downloads: 339,703
It’s exactly what the name suggests you should be expecting. After each result you get for a search query, you are displayed a performance bar to allow you to make a first impression on the website: page authority, domain authority. MozBar even provides you data about keywords that are easier or harder to rank for.
18. Hide My Ass
Downloads: 187,807
There are many reasons why developers need to use private browsing a lot, especially for testing purposes. This is how the extension makes a great requisite, as it allows you to browse privately on the spot, redirecting your traffic to an anonymous proxy network.
19. vidIQ
Downloads: 142,223
vidIQ is great for anyone who needs to keep up with their Youtube metrics, while at the same time not spending a lot of time to get them. If you’re fine knowing just a few key data sets, the extension offers you the necessary information that you need to have to keep up with the competition: the organic reach of your video, the keywords used as labels to it, the number of shares across social media platforms.
20. Check My Links
Downloads: 120,697
The extension underlines the links on a webpage, telling you which ones are live and which ones are broken. Plus, the extension gives you the option to cache the information which means that the second time you’re visiting the same pages it will work a lot faster.
21. Majestic Backlink Analyzer
Downloads: 51,199
The extension has over 50k users as it provides two sets of data at the same time: link counts on the one hand and the sources of the links on the other. Generally, extensions are made to be simple and offer one main data set. However, this one crosses that line and it allows you to make an idea about the strength of a page based on its backlink profile.
22. Google Analytics URL Builder
Downloads: 30,886
You can easily create short links with the URL builder, share them, manage tags or choose pre-defined sets. Once you’re generated the final URL, you can copy it into the clipboard button and, on top of this, import or export back-ups. You can also link the presets to Bit.ly, as the two extensions are complementary and compatible.
23. SEO Serp
Downloads: 23,130
If you want to just quickly check the position of a list of sites to see how they rank for a certain keyword, this extension is cardinal to your research. Besides having the possibility to create alerts for changes in position, you can now export the results as well save them for further examinations.
24. Fat Rank
Downloads: 8,952
The extension promotes itself as being easy to use because it has one functionality that it implements flawlessly. It’s not far from the truth – it provides lightweight keyword performance for the page you’re currently on. The tool will also check the rankings by location.
25. Mobile Friendly Checker
Downloads: 4,188
You’ll find it most useful especially because it can bulk check up to 20 URLs for mobile friendly results. The extension also displays a result page and a preview of the webpage as Googlebot sees it.
26. Share Metric
Downloads: 3,485
The extension offers you data about the number of shares and generally the social media visibility of the page you’re on. A drop-down menu will display these along with the Moz page and domain authority, in case you’ve got it installed. For the case in which you already have an Ahrefs subscription, you will be shown the ranks that Ahrefs attributes to the page as well. The extension only works if you have accounts for Ahrefs and Moz.
Social Media Engangement
27. Hootsuite Hootlet
Downloads: 508,737
The extension helps you find and share content across the web, on social media platforms. It allows you to search social media along with your web search query, share content while you browse the web, schedule your posts to be shared at a later time.
28. Rapportive
Downloads: 441,335
For those of us who use Gmail a lot, it’s often very important to know whom we’re talking to, and the signatures don’t always say a lot about the person behind the email. The tool gives you instant access to a lot of data you may be interested in: the company they’re working for, their location, the LinkedIn profiles (this one’s a charm!), their most recent Tweets. You can easily engage with your prospect with this information at your disposal.
29. Buffer
Downloads: 429,992
Buffer is one of the vital extensions for any content marketer out there. Whenever you wish to share content on social media platforms, this extension is an efficient way of scheduling content posts for social media, especially if you don’t want to share them right away. Suppose you ran over an amazing piece of content – it’s not practical to post it immediately, if – for instance – you just posted something else. Buffer gives you the chance to queue the content you’re posting cross-platforms.
30. Bit.ly
Downloads: 337,163
The extension allows you to save and share content through social media platforms, even when it doesn’t have on-page share buttons. You have additional access to the social media performance of the link over the years, for a a generic idea on the popularity of the content.
You can also organize the content through notes and bundles, and save the links with individual privacy preferences.
31. Klout
Downloads: 69,639
The extension allows you to share content to Twitter. However, the reason why it’s so popular among users is that it provides a score of every Twitter account you’re engaging with (including yours), calculated after their own algorithm. This gives you an idea of how authoritative the popular people on the social media network are. This way, you can prioritize your social media strategy according to the data you’re offered.
32. Email Hunter
Downloads: 58,846
If the most complicated part of your outreach is actually finding the emails of your prospects, then search no more. The extension will help you to find email addresses on LinkedIn and even Twitter. It gets easier to access the 150 free contacts you’re allowed to search monthly.
33. DoShare
Downloads: 25,490
This extension is dedicated to people who are active on Google Plus. It allows you to write and schedule the posts, share content from different platforms, save drafts and schedule posts. It is intuitively manageable and it can save a lot of time.
34. Rite Tag
Downloads: 21,127
This Twitter tool allows you to get actionable insights as you post content. It gives you stats on the fly about the popularity of your hashtags, it gives you the possibility to add images, create memes, tag influencers, and color-grading hashtags after a popularity metric.
35. Discoverly
Downloads: 16,500
The extension allows you to understand more about your contacts on Gmail and LinkedIn, offering you information about their work info, mutual connections, recent tweets, and the data is also available on Facebook. It’s a great extension for networking, as it can make your email positioning work easier.
36. Riffle
Downloads: 13,753
The extension gives you tweet stats on your brand and your competitors’. It ‘teaches you about the community’, as they say they do, providing you data about the number of tweets, number of favorite, medium number of posts per day, top hashtags, top mentions and top URLs, all for you to engage your audience better.
37. Find that Lead
Downloads: 11,179
FTL aims to help you find the emails of your prospects on LinkedIn, as the leads of professionals often shape the direction of our future company plans and development. The leads aren’t only usable in generic outreach and networking with the business community, they can be targeted for sale as well.
38. Followr
Downloads: 1,507
The extension is aimed to increase your followers on Twitter, in a natural and organic way. According to the developers, the more you normally use Twitter the better the extension will suggest your account to people who can follow your content based on interest. This automation extension can help a great deal in reaching the proper audiences.
Productivity
39. Ad Block
Downloads: 10,000,000+
The extension is not only one of the most popular on the web, but it solves many potential issues of digital marketers as well. For a cleaner browsing experience, you can activate the extension and get rid of the annoying ads. This comes at a price, as some of the websites out there won’t let you access their content when detecting the AdBlock. However, there is always the solution of private browsing for those exceptions, and it shouldn’t interfere with your overall experience.
40. Last Pass
Downloads: 4,219,260
If you’re the type of person who’s always struggling to remember the hundreds of passwords on different accounts from both work and personal accounts, this extension fixes your issues on the spot. From now on, you’ll only need to remember the one password to rule them all, and get instant secure access to all your other accounts through it. The password manager has great reviews and is highly recommended for digital marketers, who always use one too many tools to remember all their passwords.
41. Pocket
Downloads: 2,729,383
You’re about to start saving some time with this extension. It keeps track of all the content you discover that you don’t have time to read on the spot or just want to save for later. It also syncs your account cross-device and you can easily read the bookmarks from your desktop on your mobile or tablet. The best part about it is that it doesn’t even require an Internet connection, once the tab is saved.
42. Momentum
Downloads: 1,589,696
It’s always a charm to have a reminder on what our most important task of the day is. Momentum replaces the new tab page of your browser with a custom picture every day, while it can also display the weather, a daily focus, your todos and a daily quote if you feel like you’d need some inspiration. It looks clean and it reminds you to stay focused on a very personal way. The todos are divided into tasks and a daily focus, to constantly remind you what the priority of the day is.
43. PushBullet
Downloads: 1,340,354
We communicate only more than we’d like to admit. However, it still takes a lot of our time, especially if we’re doing it from more than just one device at a time. The tool offers you the possibility to integrate the most popular communication media (from SMS to Whatsapp and Facebook) into one single device that you can use both on your desktop or on your mobile, thus saving a lot of time.
44. Boomerang
Downloads: 1,109,443
If you like planning ahead, you’re going to like this one. The extension allows you to send emails on a scheduled time frame. All you have to do is write it and then program it to be sent. This way, you will never miss a deadline – not even when you don’t have an Internet connection.
45. 1Password
Downloads: 1,023,937
This extension is made for people who have one too many accounts to manage. It offers you anything from password generators to special protection for credit card passwords. It also divides your account types into folders, so that you never get confused while accessing it. It’s not just a password storage place, it logs you in on the websites and its interaction with the browser is always smooth.
46. One Tab
Downloads: 1,015,460
It’s not uncommon for us to be upset at browsers when they load too slowly when we most need them – when we have dozens of opened tabs. It’s what One Tab does – reduces the load time by reducing the used space of all the open tabs. You’re going to be displayed all the tabs as a list in one tab, and access them whenever you wish. Their load time will be insignificant, as they will be already probably cached. The extension saves up to 95% of the browser memory and can be a great fix for us, multitaskers.
47. The Great Suspender
Downloads: 882,787
The extension allows you to configure a personalized time interval after which tabs will be suspended for the better usability of Chrome, or you can do it manually for the tabs that don’t fit the algorithm. If you always have too many tabs opened at the same time, the extension will unload the tabs individually and it will retain the favicons and title texts.
48. Signals
Downloads: 704,188
The extension allows you to edit your emails in the Gmail box. You can edit the body and subject of your emails and highlight the text you want to keep. You can also organize your emails as to be more efficient. Plus, you can use the functions ‘restore’ and ‘revert’ to go to the original email and then back to the edited version whenever you feel like it.
49. Stay Focusd
Downloads: 674,406
Creative people are also huge procrastinators, and this is a fact. However, this extension solves the issue of too much time spent on Facebook or too many quizzes taken on Buzzfeed. You can limit the time you’re going to be ‘allowed’ on certain websites that you know reduce your productivity.
50. Speed Dial 2
Downloads: 643,890
Save your favorite apps, bookmarks and websites and organize them to increase your productivity. The extension has a very clean design that is meant to keep you away from distractions, and it can be synced cross-device.
51. Todoist
Downloads: 379,388
Combine the personal and the professional tasks in order to increase your efficiency. The task manager allows sync and backup on 10+ platforms, along with sharing options for group tasks. It’s great for any busy bee, and helps keeping track of priorities in the sea of deadlines you have to meet.
52. Smooth Scroll
Downloads: 154,844
The extension enables smooth scrolling, and it also works with embedded content. The native smooth scroll belongs to the iOS, but it can be replicated on any device with this extension.
53. Keeper
Downloads: 97,589
It advertises itself as the most secure password keeper there is, and the best feature is that you can sign in with your fingerprint (available on iPhone). The extension also gives you a virtual vault to stock all the precious information you may be needing to keep confidential.
54. Time Stats
Downloads: 84,367
The extension records how much time you’re spending on different websites. This way, you can keep in touch with how much time you’re spending on a website on average. You can always add or delete websites from the monitoring list, you can delete the saved logs at any time and, most importantly, you can keep an eye on the places on the web that you’re most active.
55. Medium
Downloads: 34,068
The extension is more for teams than individual users. It helps you manage passwords and account for up to 5 different users. It gives a solution to the problem of sharing a spreadsheet with passwords across the team for the entire group to have access to the same platforms. It’s a problem solver if you have to work on more accounts at the same time.
56. Followup.cc
Downloads: 12,002
The extension allows you to keep in touch with your prospects at any time you would like to remember to email them back, directly from your inbox. It’s easy to use really intuitive. You have the option to choose between regular reminders and one-time reminders and they go up to two weeks from now.
57. Popchrom
Downloads: 10,138
The extension allows you to create your own shortcuts to text phrases that can be activated when you type in the letter sequence. Create your personal shortcuts to get you through the repetitive blocks of the same texts you have to write from time to time.
58. List Goal
Downloads: 4,265
The extension will be by your side in your attempt to grow your email list, by giving you real-time advice on what your strategies should look like. It will monitor the goals you’re setting and the actions you’re doing to achieve them, and guide you through the process.
59. Stache
Downloads: 3,250
If you do have Stache for Mac, this extension is going to be your best bud. While it only works for iOS, you’re going to find interesting links with content that you’d need to save and it will suggest further similar pages, while also saving the ones you’ve already found.
60. Price Snoop
Downloads: 2,332
In case you’re interested in pricing policies, this extension will tell you how much a product on Amazon costs on other stores. You’ll also be able to see if the products are available or not on other stores, thus keeping you in touch with the pricing policies. This way, you can keep in touch with the prices charged by your clients for any products that you may be researching, on the spot.
61. Switchmark
Downloads: 2,242
You can switch through more bookmark bars. Switchmark helps you set a number of bookmark bars you’d like to have and then change to the ones that interest you in seconds.
62. Goodbits
Downloads: 1,592
Collect content and save time with Goodbits – you can use the extension to create emails in seconds. It seems easy to use and it helps you organize and prioritize your mails, while also being very intuitive. While writing emails is crucial for the sustainability of your business, it’s also relevant that you optimize the process as much as possible.
63. Ananke Timer
Downloads: 238
If you often find yourself having busy days and it’s become harder to prioritize your tasks, this extension will help you time every task you have from the moment you start it until completion. You can set up more than just one timer at a time.
Website Optimization
64. User Agent Switcher
Downloads: 1,194,463
If you’ve had enough of testing while developing a website, the extension could be a match to your needs. Switch between user agent strings and set up specific URLs that you wish to spoof every time you do this. If you’ve always complained about testing every change on both desktop and mobile, you’ll find this a crazy helpful time saver.
65. Web Developer
Downloads: 1,091,172
The extension has a series of developer tools that you may find handy when browsing any webpage. The main categories are: image, miscellaneous, information, outline, resize, tools and options, each of these having their own sub-categories of actions you can take to inspect or modify the current webpage you’re on.
The best thing developers love about it is that it’s very responsive.
66. Firebug Lite
Downloads: 686,834
The extension is best used to visually represent HTML elements, DOM elements and Box Model shading. You can also use it for its live editing CSS feature. Although it can be useful in itself, it’s recommended to use it along with Firebug and Chrome Developer Tools for a better and more complete perspective.
67. Tag Assistant
Downloads: 539,849
Tag Assistant helps you check the installation of Google tags, while also suggesting improvements to your implementation. Among the included tags, there is Google Analytics, Adwords Conversion Tracking and Google Tag Manager. You can also record the typical user flow and diagnose or validate it, while you can also get troubleshooting advice for Google Analytics.
68. Window Resizer
Downloads: 530,290
You can now resize your browser’s window as to simulate all the resolutions you need. Web designers as well as developers will find the extension highly practical for testing purposes, especially since the resolution list is entirely customizable. You can set your window’s position and dimensions and even apply the selected dimensions to the entire window. Because we all know developers love shortcuts, Window Resizer has got some of these as well.
69. Clear Cache
Downloads: 333,669
The extension has one simple purpose – the one of easily clearing your cache without you going through the struggle of confirmation boxes or pop-ups. Of course, you can also opt for the amount of data you want to delete, from app cache to cookies, downloads, file systems, form data, history, indexedDB, localstorage, plugin data passwords and WebSQL.
70. Wappalyzer
Downloads: 331,018
This is a very useful tool if you find yourself wondering what the technologies behind a website are. It gives a complete overview from the JavaScript frameworks to the analytics tools (used to get a view on traffic and performance) and content management systems. It’s indispensable if you’re into searching the trends that seem to work on various successful web platforms, as it gives you insight on what top notch players are using for their business.
71. YSlow
Downloads: 317,276
The extension analyzes the performance of different web pages based on a series of rules that are taken into consideration when evaluating page performance. It doesn’t only diagnose the issues, but it also suggests ways of improving the current performance. The extension is made by Yahoo.
72. IE Tab Multi
Downloads: 185,129
This is another extension made to satisfy developers’ testing needs. Unlike other tools of the kind, this one behaves like the good old Internet Explorer, allowing you to test IE from the comfort of your Chrome browser. It only supports Windows and it only supports Desktop mode for Windows 8.
73. Stylebot
Downloads: 166,341
When you’re testing alternatives you’d like you take into consideration for your newest project, Stylebot changes the entire appearance of websites for you to see what combinations make the best style for your business. You can also preview and install styles created by other users and saved for the public use. You can instantly custom the entire CSS of a website.
74. Quick Javascript Switcher
Downloads: 144,227
You can instantly disable Javascript by hostname and subdomain. The tool also helps you to edit the shortcut of this extension as to be more at your fingertips when you need it, as well as you can opt to permanently disable Javascript.
75. Pendule
Downloads: 103,065
Pendule is an extension that you’ll find extremely useful if you work a lot with CSS. It’s a rather complex tool that allows you to take a large set of actions, from editing the CSS (view, disable embedded styles, inline styles, disable linked stylesheets, show used colors) to image information, viewing JavaScript and generated source, to finally viewport size and resize browser.
76. CSS Viewer
Downloads: 101,612
Exactly what it advertises itself to be, the tool allows you to see the CSS properties of any webpage. In order for it to work properly, it has to access your history and website data. After this, you can hover over any element and see its properties on the spot.
77. Web Boost
Downloads: 72,615
This open source extension helps your tabs load faster, and it doesn’t affect the quality of your images or your videos and the quality of your images doesn’t get to be distorted. It is recommended when you work with many tabs at the same time, and it saves a great deal of loading time.
78. Redirect Path
Downloads: 64,933
The extension provides you information on the 301, 302, 404 and 500 HTTP Status Codes, along with client side and Javascript redirects. This way, you’re immediately notified when something potentially harmful happens to one of your client’s website.
79. Page Refresh
Downloads: 55,600
With Page Refresh you can auto-refresh pages at any desired interval of seconds or minutes, which is a time saver and allows you to focus on the really important aspects of testing your code implementation. The extension an be helpful when you have work in progress that needs to be checked and updated every few seconds/minutes.
80. WASP
Downloads: 24,426
The acronym stands for Web Analytics Solution Profiler and it helps monitoring the data sent from your client’s websites via tags. The tool detects every type of tag automatically, and offers SEO information about the inspected pages. It also allows tag blocking, which may come in handy every now and then.
81. HTML Validator
Downloads: 22,830
The extension validates the HTML for the website you’re inspecting, and the results can either be displayed inline or in a new tab, depending on your preferences. The extension also has keyboard shortcuts for every OS you may be using it from.
82. Sight
Downloads: 17,936
The extension is a Syntax Highlighter and its developers say ‘it makes reading code a joy’. The advertisement is really not far from truth, as the tool also comes with a series of personalization options such as font, size and toggle line numbers.
83. Built With
Downloads: 16,726
Aside from the generic information that kind of gives away what the extension is all about, it also provides in-depth statistics about the technologies used. You can find what technologies are most often used, and spot the growing trends, as well as download popular and successful websites using the technological types you’re interested in.
84. Quick Source Viewer
Downloads: 13,898
The sources it inspects are HTML, Javascript and CSS, in a very compact way. The syntax of the tool is colored, the badge displays the node counts, and the onclick handlers with inline Javascript. The extension can be personalized, as well.
85. Stylesheet Reloader
Downloads: 572
You can reload the external CSS stylesheet of the page you’re currently on, including the imported ones. If you want to avoid reloading the entire page after CSS tweaks, this extension is highly useful. You can also set the key combinations for the shortcuts you want to use as part of this extension.
Design Tools
86. ColorZilla
Downloads: 902,922
The tool is mostly used for its color picker, which – along with the CSS gradient generator can help you create color patterns and palettes. The color reader is available in any point of the browser. The eyedropper also maintains a recent history that makes the entire experience easier and more practical.
87. WhatFont
Downloads: 545,995
By enabling it, you can identify on the spot the type of fonts that different webpages are using. You’re also displayed the font size and the line height. The font database is large enough to recognize every font out there. Whatfont helps when analyzing the font families used by different website developers.
88. Page Ruler
Downloads: 434,053
You can draw a ruler on any page, to check the height, width and position. Resize it depending on your needs. Further, you can update the position changes manually in order to make even the most subtle differences. ‘Element mode’ is a feature of this extension that allows you to see every element of the page when hovering over it with the mouse.
89. Eyedropper
Downloads: 373,647
This extension allows you to pick colors from different web pages. It helps whenever you don’t have the time to go through an entire process of color recognition. It also comes with a color history where you can store the colors that are most relevant or appropriate to your projects.
90. Nimbus Screenshot
Downloads: 398,052
It’s not your generic screenshot extension. Nimbus can either capture the webpage you’re on or the entire browser window, and it can also record screencasts. After you’ve done this, you can use arrows or sticky notes to make the content you’re interested in stand out easily. Moreover, you can highlight texts, resize the screenshots, save them or make comments.It’s highly helpful when you want to make annotations on a webpage on the spot.
91. Pic Monkey
Downloads: 180,284
This is one of the most friendliest photo editors out there. It’s intuitive and easy to use and it allows you to open any web image with the extension to make further modifications. You can select the menu options that best fit your editing needs, and transform the image into something you’d share on social media, for instance, in a matter of seconds. From frames to effects, overlays, texts with different fonts, there’s little you cannot add to the images to give them a very personal note.
92. Resolution Test
Downloads: 145,920
The extension is helpful when it comes to testing how your design behaves on different resolutions. It helps you preview how responsive website is. You can either select one or more resolutions to be tested at one time, then see what would happen on different screen sizes.
93. Measurelt
Downloads: 108,281
Find out the width and height of any elements on a webpage in a matter of seconds. You can use it to measure whichever section of a page you’re interested in. The extension is useful for design projects as it gives you a quick idea on what the dimensions of your visual elements should be like, or what proportions successful websites use.
94. Fontface Ninja
Downloads: 101,708
The extension is great for quite an impressive number of reasons. First, it fetches fonts from a wide web database made of the most popular niche websites for font recognition. Then, it also shows you the line spacing, the letter spacing and the size of the font instead of just its name. Third, it hides all advertisements so you can focus on how the specific font looks on a clean webpage. Last, but not least, it will search the font for you and give you the option to buy it (or download it if it’s free).
95. Palette Creator
Downloads: 62,124
The extension is developed for designers and it creates a color palette to match any image on the web. If, for instance, you want to create a palette starting from an image on your website, all you have to do is choose the number of colors that you’d like it to include.
Then you can download the palette and use it to start a new project.
96. Dimensions
Downloads: 48,225
If you ever wanted to measure the radius of a circle and text was standing in your way, then you can’t wait to learn about this extension. It helps you measure the dimension of whatever geometric form and it’s easily activated by pressing the Alt key. You can easily see the dimension of any element you would like to integrate on your website.
The elements through which the measure is taken are: images, input-fields, buttons, videos, gifs, text and icons.
97. Yet Another Lorem Ipsum Generator
*not available anymore
Downloads: 26,874
In case every time you’re trying to test an interface you hate the amount of text that you need just to blurt out, this is an extension you’d like to install. What it does, in fact, is insert blind text into your website’s fields for you to get a better image of what it looks like.
From paragraphs of text, to dates, titles, email addresses, web addresses, the extension generates blind texts for every need of yours.
98. Google Font Previewer
Downloads: 25,546
Choose a font you like from the Google API directory and apply it either to the entire webpage of a specified CSS selector to get an idea of what it looks like. The font previewer is especially useful when you design a new website and are trying to figure out what the fonts look like on the specific page. However, if you know you usually use the same fonts or the same font families you can save those for quicker access.
99. Stencil
Downloads: 15,379
If you post very often to social media or if you just create and update blog posts on a regular basis, you’re going to find this extension extremely practical. You can instantly add text to any image of your choice and make it custom to your marketing needs. The extension has over 100 fonts, and custom watermark, while it also works on every website.
100. Type Sample
Downloads: 12,012
It may come in handy if you’re testing and sampling fonts, as it tells you what fonts are used on different pages when you hover over their content. Clicking on the text opens a panel that allows you to test the font in the extension, after which you can save the sample provided that you have a typesample.com account.
101. Microstock Photo Power Search
Downloads: 1,870
The extension is more than welcomed for designers, as its primary purpose is to help finding free images. The database includes more libraries that are accessed every time you’re trying to find a photo. The extension displays the search results that provide you with a large number of images related to your search query. The more a photo is liked the more it increases its chances to appear in search results, which is an opportunity to promote your work as well.
102. Font Editor
Downloads: 1733
Aside from the fact that this extension allows you to test any font on any website at any time, it also comes with a series of characteristics that make the testing more accurate and precise, among which: a selector, the fontfamily, the font variant, the font weight, the font face, the text transformation and the line height.
Conclusion
This post was hopefully a useful fix for people who constantly work on their browsers and have too many tabs open at all times. Managing them doesn’t require better organizing skills, but little helpers to allow you to focus on one task at a time. It may seem overwhelming, as the number of extensions we chose is quite large, but once you get the hang of it the improvements are visible. The advantages of these extensions lie in optimizing processes that usually take more than just a couple of clicks to perform, reason for which they’re welcome time savers.
If you think there’s maybe an extension that you’re creepily in love with and we missed it, don’t hesitate to share it with us!
Disclaimer: The data we’re presenting about these extensions concerning their availability, the number of downloads, scores and ratings is documented in May 2016.
Thank you so much, I found Grammarly and Nimbus Screen shoot very helpful. It saves me a lot of time and corrects my grammar precisely.
Hi, Henry! Glad you found them useful! I think you should give others a try too! I ran over some amazing extensions myself while writing the post!
Hi Livia,
That’s a huge list of extensions. Several of them are new to me. I already published a post with 57 Chrome extensions, and I thought it was a lot. I like the way you laid out your post with the “install” button, the number of downloads, and the ratings.
Good work, keep these posts coming.
Thanks a lot, Steve! Happy to see you like the post! From my standpoint, there are only so many useful extensions because they do satisfy a lot of needs that we’ve acquired along with new media.
This is an awesome list of extensions.I will explore and experiment with some these mentioned in the post. Had no idea all of these even existed. Thanks for the share.
Let us know which ones you find to be more useful and reliable. 😀 There’s clearly a lot to test if you’re willing to give them a try!
Hi Livia,
Thanks for creating such a great list!
One suggestion for addition is start.me. It’s a new tab page alternative that works across all browsers and devices.
Best regards,
Mark
Hi, Mark! Awesome suggestion, no idea how we skipped it. Thanks for contributing and let us know what your personal favorite is 🙂
Thank you, so very much Livia. you share beneficial information for everyone. These information are very help of every Developer, Designer & SEO (Digital Marketing) Person.
Great article, Covers almost all kind of extensions. I’m using Lastpass, momentum and gramerly. like to use some from your long list. Thank You for sharing.
Most extensions that you have described above none of them I’ve ever tried. Maybe I past it. I want to try grammarly and project naptha. Thanks.
Love these tools.
Thank you.