These are 90 of the greatest extensions you can and should add to your Google browser.
It's been an up and down year for Google's Chrome Web browser. It's gaining market share; Chrome had 22.65 percent of the market in December 2014 compared to 16.22 percent a year earlier, according to Net Applications. Nice growth, but still behind Microsoft's Internet Explorer (IE), which stood at 59.1 percent last month. If you go by other measures, Chrome has an even higher number of users, but they're trending down.
Then it lost some kudos—from us. After several years as the favorite of PCMag's Browser Wars coverage, a resurgent Firefox took our Editors' Choice award late last year. The reason: Chrome lags in graphics hardware acceleration, and it isn't exactly known for respecting user privacy (just like its parent company).
That said, Chrome—now in version 39!—remains a four-star tour de force for Web surfing, with full HTML5 support and speedy JavaScript performance. And, like Firefox before it, it's got support for extensions that just make it even better. Its library of extras, found at the Chrome Web Store, more than rival what Firefox has had for years. In addition, the store has add-ons to provide quick access to just about every Web app imaginable.
Rather than having you stumble blindly through the store to find the best add-ons, we've compiled a list of 90 you should consider. There's a number of them specific to Google and it's own services (such as Gmail), which isn't surprising considering who made Chrome. Most extensions work across operating systems, so you can try them on any desktop platform (and there may be some versions for the mobile Chrome, too.) The majority of the extensions are free, so there's no harm in giving them all a try—you can easily disable or remove them by typingchrome://extensions/ into the Chrome address bar. You can also typically right-click an extension's icon in the toolbar, if it has one, to remove it.
Here they are:
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