The 25 Google Chrome Extensions You Need To Download

Supercharge Google's web browser with this collection of add-on essentials.

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Google Dictionary

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Google Dictionary

Type: Education

Those who find themselves stuck on the meaning of a word or a foreign term will find solace in Google’s reference tool. Double-click on any word and watch the definition pop up, along with additional links to Wikipedia for more extensive descriptions. 

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Feedly

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Feedly

Type: News and Utility

Catching up with RSS feeds is both tedious and time consuming. Feedly enhances the experience by allowing readers to view content across multiple outlets. Infinite scrolling allows for faster article reading, plus the integration of social outlets such as Facebook, Twitter, Google+, and Google Readers lets users share their favorite stories.

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Taskforce

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Taskforce

Type: Productivity

Transform your Gmail account into a task manager by converting emails into assignments, while updating and interacting with associates—even if they don’t use the extension. Organize and collaborate on projects without ever leaving your inbox.

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AdBlock

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AdBlock

Type: Security

With three million downloads, Adblock is the most popular Chrome extension. AdBlock obstructs advertisements from popping up on all web pages, including ads found inside Flash-based games and videos. 

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Awesome New Tab Page

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Awesome New Tab Page

Type: Productivity

Take the UI style of Windows 8, combined with dynamic widgets and bookmark rearrangement, and you have an add-on that epitomizes its moniker. Aspiring developers can also test their programming skills by building customized widgets using HTLM5/CSS3.

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Smartr Inbox For Gmail

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Smartr Inbox For Gmail

Type: Productivity

For the Gmailers who make a complete mess of their email account and forget the important contacts, say hello to your lifeline. Smartr Inbox automatically creates profiles for everyone in your inbox through gathered information collected from Linkend, Facebook, and Twitter accounts—adding a face to every contact. View relationship history, also search for people by asking intuitive questions via Mutual Contacts feature.

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exfm music

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exfm music

Type: Entertainment

Stream MP3s on web pages through the exfm player, even after leaving the domain. Also share and listen to tracks promoted by friends on Facebook, Twitter, Tumblr, and Last.fm. See what the Web’s top bloggers are bumping as well by checking out the program's Tastemaker's section.

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SlideRocket

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SlideRocket

Type: Productivity

Favored as the best online presentation software available, SlideRocket gives users the opportunity to create, manage, share, and analyze presentations solo or with other collaborators. Record audio, add video, and access a number of professional design tools during the creation of overtures, also present them in real time while conducting HD web meetings. Say peace to PowerPoint and Keynote.

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Shareaholic

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BioDigital Human

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BioDigital Human

Type: Education

The closing of Google Labs saddened most of us, especially since the Google Body project was considered a great resource tool for medical students. Here’s an awesome alternative that’s just as interactive, offering high-quality 3D animation of the human anatomy, plus detailed information on body parts, diseases, and treatments.

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FB Photo Zoom

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FB Photo Zoom

Type: Social & Communication

Streamline the process of hawking portraits from your hottest Facebook friends by downloading this one-step magnifying tool, which generates the larger version of an image once pointing your mouse at it. Go in.

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LastPass

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LastPass

Type: Security

LastPass automatically enters your user name and password information into any site, while securing all log-in form info through encryption protection, one-time passwords, Google Authenticator, and Grid multi-factor support. The option to import and export info from other password storage vendors is also available. 

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Magic Actions For YouTube

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Magic Actions For YouTube

Type: Entertainment

Add to the excitement of watching YouTube videos by utilizing a set of UI-friendly features to enhance the viewing experience including AutoHD playback, mouse wheel volume control, and auto wide screen expansion. Cinema Mode steals the show, shading out the entire page except the actual video and giving users control of changing the opacity via mouse wheel.

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Smooth Gestures

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Smooth Gestures

Type: Productivity

Don't front: It gets pretty annoying having to navigate the on-screen pointer on the trackpad or mouse just to browse the Net. This extension adds some excitement to the process by allowing users to search the Web or manage tabs by creating trigger actions based on customized gestures using the keyboard or mouse. That's what you call a smooth operator.

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Bazabar

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Bazabar

Type: Shopping

The virtual shopping assistant automatically brings you the best offers, discounts, and promotional codes from over 7,500 merchants in real time. For every online purchase, Bazabar puts some bread back in your pocket: offering a portion back on the amount spent through its cashback rewards system.

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Click&Clean

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Click&Clean

Type: Development

Share a MacBook with wifey and need a quick solution to wipe all traces of online porn? Click&Clean can do just that, and more if you allow it. Besides scaning for malware and deleting your browsing and download history, it can also remove Flash Cookies and clean up your hard drive to free up extra memory. The extension allows you to watch Flash videos offline, too.

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Offline Google Mail

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Offline Google Mail 

Type: Social & Communication

No wi-fi connection or network coverage available on the laptop or smartphone? No biggie. Here’s an official Google add-on that offers access to your Gmail inbox: Internet-free. Read, draft, and send emails in the browser interface and watch it all synchronize the next time you're online.

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Xmarks Bookmark Sync

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Xmarks Bookmark Sync

Type: Security

Backup and synchronize bookmarks, tabs, and all passwords across multiple computer and web browsers (Chrome, Firefox, IE, Safari, etc.). X marks the spot.

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365Scores Notifier

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365Scores Notifier

Type: Sports

Forget hitting up every sports website for the latest scores and news updates. 365scores Notifier dishes live scores, news briefs, and real-time coverage on all the major sports outlets. NBA, NFL, NHL, MLB, Soccer, and even Volleyball. Yes, Volleyball. it’s all-around sports coverage. 

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Picnik

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Picnik

Type: Design

Edit and touch up photos directly from Google’s web browser by utilizing a set of enhanced graphic design tools, all while being connected to your most popular photo sharing sites including Facebook, Flickr, Photobucket, and more.

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SiteChat

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SiteChat

Type: Social & Communication

If you’re one that takes easily to the company of strangers online, SiteChat can assist you by turning every website into a live chatroom where users can interact with anonymous site browsers.

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Clearly

Type: Productivity

This Evernote-based application presents multi-page articles in “one, seamless view,” making blog posts and stories easier to read. Clip articles on Evernote, plus share and tag them on any computer, phone, or tablet.

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Capture & Annotate

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Capture & Annotate

Type: Design

It's pretty simple: Capture screenshots of web pages, leave footnotes, and save images measured over 2MB.

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Antisocial

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Antisocial

Type: Social & Communication

Even if social media plug-ins and widgets on your favorite sites doesn't drive you mad, the fact that they slow down loading times should. Antisocial was brought into fruition to rid Web users of this annoyance by blocking out most social media extensions including Facebook, Twitter, Google Plus, ShareThis, and every other major outlet you can think of.

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bitly

Type: Productivity

This extension not only lets you shorten and share links, but also tracks and notifies users of their trending bitly updates. Looking to add a new feature? You can request one by emailing the company.

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