Also look at: Chrome Extensions: The basics
For downloading any of the extensions mentioned in the list just click/tap on the name of the extension you wish to download. All extensions mentioned here are free to download and to use.
- Extensivity An Extensions Manager to organize all of your extensions so they don’t take up half of your browser’s screen. It shows you what extensions you have operating on Google Chrome and gives you the option to disable some of the icons to keep your browser better organized.
- Chrono Download Manager is a download manager for Google Chrome. Find out more.
- Mercury Reader (formerly Readability) lets you focus on a post rather than the site. Find out more.
- HTTPS Everywhere is an extension that enforces HTTPS to all websites, thereby encrypting your communications with the website, making your browsing more secure. Made in collaboration between The Tor Project and the Electronic Frontier Foundation.
- Session Buddy helps manage browser tab overload. It lets you save, close, and retrieve groups of tabs together, so you don’t need to keep hundreds of tabs open at once and waste RAM for fear of forgetting something. This video explains it better.
- QuickWrite Text Editor This extension quickly opens a new tab for a clean and neutral text editor that auto-saves while you’re working if you need to scribble something.
- User-Agent Switcher allows you to view how a website looks in different web browsers and on different devices, which can be helpful when troubleshooting website and SEO errors that you might not normally see, Or when a particular website only allows you to view certain content on a particular browser only.
- Save to Facebook, Facebook’s “Save” feature lets users aggregate links, images, and videos they find on Facebook in one location in their account. This extension made by Facebook allows you to do the same, anywhere on the web, making Facebook a centralized place to save content you’re interested in checking out later.