My Five Must-Have Chrome Extensions

Initially, I thought I couldn’t change my browsing habit because I was highly relying on a handful of Firefox addons. It has been five months after Google added the Extension features onto Google Chrome Dev version. Since that time I have changed my default browser from Firefox to Chrome.

Below are the 5 extensions I have been using it on a day to day basis.

AdSweep

Although Adsweep unlike Firefox AdBlock Plus able to allow users to self customize, this extension still works very well on blocking some very common advertisements such as Adsense. I just wonder does the extension ever auto update the block script?

Website: http://www.adsweep.org/

Gmail Checker

This is first of the few extensions Google announced on their Chrome Sample extensions page. Of course, the gmail checker is working incredibly well. I didn’t really check the updates interval, but it just simply very responsive than rest of the email checker I’ve used. I think Google themselves don’t mind if you keep checking gmail like every 10 seconds?

Download: https://dl-ssl.google.com/chrome/extensions/gmail.crx

RSS Subscription

Since day one, users not really understand why Chrome can’t parse the RSS feeds well. I guess maybe Webkit didn’t embed into it. On the other side, Google guess no one will read RSS feeds raw format, people all uses Google Reader! So this RSS subscription extension at least can parse the feed slightly better and easier for you to add to your RSS reader.

Download: Install

FlashBlock

It is pretty nuisance when the music flash embedded on web sites just play suddenly, or the online video at Youtube just all starts playing at the same time. This extension does the job neatly by get rid of this entire flash auto playing problem.

Press Alt+F for permanent unblocking and Ctrl + click for saving flash-video.

Download: http://ruzanow.ru/extensions/flashblock.crx

LastPass

Last but not least. So glad recently LastPass has brought an extension for Google Chrome. I have been using LastPass to manage my password on Firefox. While shifting to Google Chrome, my only worry is how I could remember the entire password I stored on LastPass.

Finally, on last week, LastPass have made their way to Chrome.

Download: https://lastpass.com/lpchrome.crx

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