Extensions pop up in all many ways, weโ€™ve all heard of hair extensions and housing extensions, have you ever heard about Google extensions though?

Google extensions are extra features and functionality that you can easily add to Google Chrome to improve your overall user experience whilst using the browser. By adding these extensions (all of which are free), you have the ability to customise Google Chrome with features that you like, while keeping your browser free of things that you don’t use.

Basically they are Googleโ€™s version of plug-ins or add-ons and they are growing in number each day.ย google-chrome-extensions

Below we have identified 10 of the most popular extensions that can help to improve your experience whilst using Google Chrome to do your browsing.

  1. AdBlockย โ€“ Few extensions have proven to be more popular than this one due to Adblockโ€™s ability to remove unwanted adverts from most websites, providing a cleaner, faster browsing experience.
  2. Send from Gmailย โ€“ Do you use Gmail as your primary e-mail client? This extension will Makes Gmail your default email application and provides a button to compose a Gmail message to quickly share a link via email.
  3. Google Mail Checkerย – The Google Mail Checker Chrome extension allows easy access to desktop notifications, read, listen, archive or delete emails without opening a Gmail tab & easily manage multiple accounts
  4. IE Tabย โ€“ If you are visiting a site which has been optimised to run exclusively in Internet Explorer the IE Tab Chrome Extension creates a virtual IE browser inside the Chrome browser to ensure that you do not lose any of your browsing experience.
  5. Personal Blocklist – Personal Blocklist is a simple Chrome extension by Google that allows you to selectively block websites that pop up in your search results.
  6. Evernote – Evernote is one of the most popular note-taking tools available. Evernote is an award-winning service that turns every computer and phone you use into an extension of your brain. Use Evernote to save your ideas, experiences and inspirations, then easily access them all at anytime from anywhere.
  7. Stop Autoplay for YouTubeย – If you’ve ever opened a bunch of videos in the background, you’ll know how annoying it is when they all start playing automatically.With this extension, videos only start playing when you actually switch to tab which has the video in it. You’ll never have to worry about videos autoplaying in the background.
  8. Feedlyย – If you have bookmarked RSS feeds from Google Reader, Twitter, Delicious, YouTube or Amazon, the Feedly Chrome extension automatically imports your feeds, arranging the content into a magazine-style page.
  9. Chrome Remote Desktopย – Chrome Remote Desktop allows users to remotely access another computer through Chrome browser or a Chromebook.ย  Computers can be made available on an short-term basis for scenarios such as ad hoc remote support, or on a more long-term basis for remote access to your applications and files.ย  All connections are fully secured.
  10. Session Managerย – Session Manager lets you save sessions of your opened tabs and windows, and to quickly re-open them whenever you like. With Session Manager you can quickly save your current browser state and reload it whenever necessary.
  11. Mustachio – Who doesnโ€™t love a good moustache!!?? All moustache enthusiastโ€™s will appreciate this excellent extension. ย Simply download the app and each time you view a website through it, it will add a thick black moustache to every photo on the website that you are viewing!!
  12. Nothing – We live in a crazy world and the internet can be the craziest place of all sometimes. Only on the internet would you be able to find an app like this. This brilliant and innovative extension does literally………. nothing! ย However, despite its ability to not help you in any way it, it has still managed to receive 6483 reviews with a current 5 star rating! What can we say, only on Google!

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  1. Mustachio – Who doesnโ€™t love a good moustache!!?? All moustache enthusiastโ€™s will appreciate this excellent extension. ย Simply download the app and each time you view a website through it, it will add a thick black moustache to every photo on the website that you are viewing!!
  2. Nothing – We live in a crazy world and the internet can be the craziest place of all sometimes. Only on the internet would you be able to find an app like this. This brilliant and innovative extension does literally………. nothing! ย However, despite its ability to not help you in any way it, it has still managed to receive 6483 reviews with a current 5 star rating! What can we say, only on Google!

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