Many say that Google’s Chrome is one of the best available browsers as it seems to load quicker, and is way more slick. And also because its awesome Chrome extensions offer so much of Web goodness. Here we bring to you 10 less known but amazing extensions that are fun to use and helpful to improve your Web experience.
1. Turn-off-the-lights
Create the perfect mood for watching an online video with the Turn Off the Lights Chrome extension. With just a click of the lamp button, the entire page will be fading to dark, with automatic focus to the video so you can watch the video as if you were in the cinema. Click again, the page will return back as normal.
2. Facebook Unseen
If you are tired of seeing the old messages in your Facebook feed, try downloading the 'Facebook Unseen' and the Chrome extension will weed out the old and seen Facebook status updates.
3. Instagram for Chrome
If you are some one who is on Instagram all the time, then this is a must have extension for you. With this, your Instagram will be just a click away and you will not be required to visit instagram.com every time. You'll get your Instagram fix immediately with a small pop-up screen featuring your feed.
4. Pocket
You think bookmarking takes quite a lot of time? Well 'Pocket' gives you an easy solution of saving the things you want to read later on the web. You can use the extension simply by clicking the icon and the site will be saved in your Pocket account and can later be accessed across all platforms.
5. Ghostery
Annoyed by tracking on websites? Ghostery can help you block them you can even see who's tracking your web browsing with Ghostery. It allows to:
DETECT: Ghostery sees the "invisible" web, detecting trackers, web bugs, pixels, and beacons placed on web pages by Facebook, Google Analytics, and over 500 other ad networks, behavioral data providers, web publishers - all companies interested in your activity.
LEARN: After showing you who operates behind the scenes, Ghostery also gives you the opportunity to learn more about each company it identifies, including links to their privacy policy and opt-out options.
CONTROL: Ghostery allows you to block scripts, images, iframes and objects/embeds from companies that you don't trust.
6. History Eraser
History Eraser will delete your history with a click of a button. With one-click this extension will view, edit, backup and clear chrome history, clear download history, empty cache, delete cookies and other site and plug-in data, clear saved passwords and clear saved form data.
7. PasswordBox
No need to remember your password any more, Password Box will automatically save your usernames and passwords while browsing and then let you login to any site on any device in 1-click. You can save up to 25 passwords for free.
8. YouTube Lyrics
The YouTube Lyrics plugin lets you click a button to see the lyrics to some of your favorite Youtube music videos. It gets you instant lyrics from YouTube, Grooveshark, Spotify and Jango in a flexible panel. Multiple sources ensure that lyrics are always found.
9. Start
Start gives you a new start page for all your start paging needs. This is an alternative start page for Chrome. Each time you open Chrome, this will customize your start page with bookmarks, Chrome web apps as well as a photo from your Flickr stream as the background.
On the main page, you will have your bookmarks taken from the Bookmarks Bar. To put new sites there, just bookmark the sites as normally - into the bookmarks bar.
10. Sexy Undo Close Tab
Accidentally closed your last tab? Don't worry, everything is possible with this sexy extension, this extension acts like a mini-history manager that saves the closed tabs, what's special is they were never this easy to be accessed and you can find the tabs that you closed last month. Sexy Undo is ad supported but you may disable it in the settings.
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