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5 Useful Google Chrome Extensions for Chrome Lovers

Google Chrome is one of the best browsers in the world right now, and has been helping us browse the web in a better and easier way for a long time. But without any installed extensions Google Chrome has limited use, and you cannot perform many functions with Chrome without adding any extension to the Chrome browser.

To make Chrome more useful for you, and help you out in your daily work, there are a plenty of Chrome extensions available in the Chrome Webstore for you to add them in your Chrome browser and enjoy some new features. But choosing the right and useful extensions from Chrome Webstore is a tough job, so to make that job easy for you here is a list of some best Google chrome extensions that will surely come in handy for you.

Pocket

Pocket formerly known as Read It Later, is a great chrome extension which enables you to save pages that you don’t want to read at that moment in a cloud storage system, so that you can easily access that page later on from any device you want, and read it at a later moment. It’s a very helpful extension for those who open up multiple tabs while reads only few, and wishes to have those pages intact for reading them later. With this extension the pages you select, automatically gets saved to your Pocket account.

Select and Search

This is a chrome extension which lets you select a part of text from a webpage, and search that selected text in a search engine or site of your choice. For example if you want to search a word in Wikipedia, then you can quickly do so, by selecting that word from the webpage that you have spotted and choosing to search for that by right-clicking over the selection.

QRreader

QRreader is a great extension for Chrome which lets you scan QR Codes from images containing a QR Code. You can easily read any QR data given on any website or any image, by just right-clicking over the image containing the OR Code and choosing to read the QR data. It’s a handy tool for reading QR codes online.

WOT

WOT stands for Web of Trust, and is a very useful extension for Chrome when it comes to safe browsing on the internet, as with this extension you can get to know whether a site is trusted by users around the world or not, so that you can always be safe online. The ratings are provided by users and you can also add your ratings of your favourite sites so that others find it useful while browsing.

di.slik.es

di.slik.es is a handy Chrome extension for adding up a Dislike button on the Facebook pages, which enables you to dislike any page or post or comment on Facebook. This is a great tool, as this feature is absent on Facebook naturally, and installing this plugin you can have this great feature on Facebook. The things that you dislike through this extension can only be seen by people who has this extension installed.

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This article has been written by Rahul Chowdhury, who is a blogger at daPazze. He has also written some great articles on Technology and Blogging at daPazze.

18 Comments

18 Comments

  1. dougy

    July 7, 2012 at 10:05 am

    WOT is really a nice extension, I use it on my PC at work.

    Pocket has been recommended by a co-worker, it’s very usefull…better than keeping tons of tabs open.

    • Rahul Chowdhury

      July 7, 2012 at 5:07 pm

      Yes they are really some great extension for surfing the web, glad you liked them!

  2. Sandra Funes

    July 7, 2012 at 2:23 pm

    I am just waiting or this type of di.slik.es as we can like so many things in Facebook but sometimes we really want this type dislike feature, I’ll surely try for it…

  3. Rahul Chowdhury

    July 7, 2012 at 5:42 pm

    Yup, its a very needed feature on Facebook!

  4. Rohit

    July 9, 2012 at 5:59 am

    you have my vote as far as WOT is concerned. As far safe browsing is concerned it is one of the best plugin for chrome.

    • Rahul Chowdhury

      July 10, 2012 at 6:33 am

      Yup, and since its community rated, so the ratings are much more trusted.

  5. richa

    July 9, 2012 at 1:30 pm

    Hey Rahul

    Thanks for enlightening me on these extensions. I am not much of a technical person, but I love Goggle Chrome. Surely gonna explore them.

    • Admin

      July 9, 2012 at 2:07 pm

      Great post by Rahul and I have to agree with you Richa, not many people know about Chrome extensions (compared to Firefox plugins). There are certainly worth exploring.

    • Rahul Chowdhury

      July 10, 2012 at 6:34 am

      You are welcome, and I hope that you will find these extensions useful for your work.

  6. Born27

    July 10, 2012 at 1:54 pm

    Hi!
    Thanks for giving this information. I never heard of these before. I will surely take time to know more of these extensions. I hope it can help me on my job.

    • Rahul Chowdhury

      July 12, 2012 at 6:38 am

      You are welcome, and I hope that these extensions will surely help you out in your daily job! 🙂

  7. Rick Sarouk

    July 11, 2012 at 7:16 pm

    I personally cannot live without pocket. This is one the best extensions for Chrome and all other browsers as well. Never have to worry about remembering passwords or usernames every again.

    • Rahul Chowdhury

      July 12, 2012 at 6:36 am

      Yup Rick, Pocket is really a helpful extension. 🙂

  8. Craig

    July 15, 2012 at 6:39 pm

    Some great addons there. For adsense publishers there is also the Google publisher toolbar which I have only just discovered myself 😉

  9. Aayna

    August 3, 2012 at 1:03 am

    Hey Rahul,
    I myself use Google Chrome and I agree it is the best. The new extensions have provided a new dimension to the browser. The Read it later extension is very helpful, I am using it, a great thing!. Thanks for sharing this post.

    • Rahul Chowdhury

      August 3, 2012 at 3:41 pm

      You are welcome Aayna, and I also agree that Google Chrome is really awesome. 🙂

  10. Yogiraj mishra

    February 11, 2014 at 7:16 am

    Hi! Rahul I was searching for some extension for Chrome about Facebook dislike button and found your blog and it’s very old post I m sure you want to see a updated list 🙂 check my recent one.

  11. Abhinav

    April 22, 2014 at 7:37 am

    Hey Rahul Thanks These Extensions Are Very Handy And Reliable And It Saves My Lot Of Efforts. Plz. share some more cool extensions

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