Chrome Extensions

Like my old Firefox extensions page, I am maintaining this page as a record of the extensions that I use to customise the Chrome browsers that I use in Mac OS and Windows.

20 Cubed
Protect your eyes with this reminder tool to look away from the screen every 20 minutes.

AdBlock
Blocks ads on websites. Supports EasyList and many other ad blocker filter lists.

Better Gmail
Adds option to toggle ads, chat, invites, folders4gmail, footer, attachment icons, row highlight, sponsor messages.

Copy Without Formatting
Does what it says!

Diigo: Bookmark, Archive, Highlight & Sticky-Note
Highlighter & post-it notes, bookmark & archive. All-in-one research tool.

Do Not Track Plus
Blocks tracking technologies that advertisers and other companies use to track your browsing behavior.

Facebook Purity
Removes application spam from your Facebook homepage.

IE Tab (for Chrome for PC)
Display web pages using IE in a tab.

Mega Button
Access Bookmarks, History, Plugins, Extensions, Downloads, DNS, Memory and Cache directly in the toolbar.

Notifier for Google Reader
Displays number of unread items in Google Reader. Number appears on icon beside location bar. Useful as I pin my Google Reader tab and the number of new items is not visible.

Obvious Interest
Mark pages to read later with Read It Later.

ProxTube
Access blocked (country-specific) YouTube videos via a proxy

SearchPreview for Google
Inserts preview images (thumbnails) into the Google search results page.

SpeakIt!
Tired of reading? Select text you want to read and listen to it. SpeakIt converts text into speech so you no longer need to read.

Speed Dial
Replace Chrome new tab with your predefined visual bookmarks. Get custom logos from http://userlogos.org/ or here.

Super Full Feeds for Google Reader
Super Google Reader enables full content feeds for Google Reader. Provides readable content or iframing of feed entries. Settings are per feed or folder and are transparently built into Google Reader.

Surplus
Google+ integration for Chrome.

TweetDeck Chrome
TweetDeck Launcher
Use these two together and you need not use a separate Twitter client.

Type-ahead-find
Find text or links as you type.

Webpage Screenshot
Capture and save JPG screenshots of any webpage.

Xmarks Bookmarks Sync (service shuts down in Jan 2011)
Backup and sync your bookmarks across computers and browsers.

YouTube Options for Google Chrome
Disable annoying things in YouTube, Vimeo, Dailymotion, Metacafe, G4TV, FEARnet, Funny or Die, and others.

YTshowRating
This modifies YouTube to allow you to see the rating of related videos before you click on them.