The 9 Best Chrome Extensions You Should Install Right Now (2023)

Which Chrome extensions are so good that you should stop what you're doing and install them right now? We have the complete list here.

1: mel

Do you want to save money? Get honey!

Say goodbye to the days of having to google "coupon (store name)" and trying endlessly different unwanted coupon codes until you finally get a hit.

Honey site in Chrome waiting for you to enter a store's website. When you do, click on Honey and it will search all active coupons for you.

Also:

• Track price drops on items you want to buy
• Find the best price on Amazon
• It has a rewards program that you can redeem for gift cards

And it's all 100% free.

Seriously,get honey. It's like getting free money.

2: a tab

Having too many Chrome tabs open consumes memory and slows down your computer,

Chrome treats each open tab as its own little program. Also, when you get to the 'Tablerone' stage, where you can no longer see which tabs are which, it becomes impossible to navigate your tabs.

You can open a new window. Or you can OneTab everything.

OneTab opens in the extension bar. When you open it, it turns all open tabs into a list on a web page.

You can open any tab you want in a new tab by clicking on it, and you can turn open tabs from a session into a separate webpage that you can share with others, bookmark, or link to whatever you're working on. so you can easily find everything when you come back to it. Individual tabs can be removed and can be dragged and dropped to reorder the list.

Meanwhile, all those open tabs aren't slowing down your computer.

It's worth remembering that while your tabs are saved, your metadata is not saved. When reopening them, the back button will take you nowhere. You will also need to sign in to the sites again.

OneTab is free.

3: Iniciar.me

New tab extensions for Chrome are very common. You can get comics, inspirational quotes, beautiful scenery, sports and news, whatever you want. The great thing about Start.me is that you can make it your own personal dashboard. If you find that you always access the same tools, just drag them to Start.me. You can have a list of links and favicons:

Or, you can embed webpages right into the Start.me new tab page. Put tools by category, workflow stage, client, or whatever structure works best for you.

It is so easy:

Select the URL of the tool or website you want to add, click the little + symbol at the top of the list you want to add it to, and fill in the fields. If you just add the URL, most sites will automatically fill in the other fields. All you have to do is click 'Add'.

Start.me displays a single banner ad at the bottom of the page. It slows down Chrome's new tab and you have to log in and install the extension, which is easy to forget about until you open up Chrome on a new machine and wonder where all your work stuff has gone.

Start.me is free for basic functionality.

If you want to automatically check if any of your links are broken, archive pages, get better support, and not show ads, you need Pro, which costs $20 per year.

Get Start.me here.

4: Ghost

Ghostery is anti-tracking and ad-blocking software that blocks attempts to track you as you browse. Whether you want a faster browsing experience or just want to open a cleaner web page with less clutter and no ads, Ghostery will do the job for you.

Without doing any more setup than installing the extension, Ghostery sits in the extensions bar and sends mod requests, trackers, and ads, giving you faster load times and less clutter.

Click on the favicon in the extensions bar and you'll see the control screen, which gives you details about the web page you're on and gives you the option to whitelist or blacklist the site, pause Ghostery, and a detailed view optional that shows you exactly what you're diverting:

What difference does? In our extremely unscientific test, with an incognito tab and a Google timer, opening the same Business Insider page looked like this:

• Sin Ghostery: 16 seconds to render completely
• Con Ghostery: 4 seconds to render completely

Ghostery blocks ReCaptcha! If you want to prove you're not a robot, you may need to disable the extension, although the development team say they're working on it.

The ghost is free.Get the Ghostery Chrome Extension.

5: Dark Reader

Dark Reader creates nightly versions of websites as you browse them, muting bright colors and adjusting contrast to keep them easy to see. You can switch between dark and light modes, easily turn the extension on and off, and manually control the brightness.

It's open source, doesn't send your data anywhere or use ads, and you can whitelist sites that have their own dark modes, like Reddit or Youtube.

Install it and it will run. It is so easy.

You can access the controls by clicking on the favorites icon in the extensions bar.

The sepia mode is particularly easy on the eyes.

This makes pages slower. And when you switch from one tab to another, it can take about a second for the content to reappear. It's also possible to break the extension if you whitelist a site that conflicts with it in some way, although you can easily fix this by clearing the cache in most cases.

Dark Reader is free.Get the Dark Reader Extension for Google Chrome.

6: for your information

How much time do you spend looking for the right document? It's too much for me. It feels like I have to dig several times a day.

After installing FYI this issue is completely gone. FYI magically finds the exact document you are looking for in all your document tools.

The search bar is a huge improvement. Instead of having to go through all the tools I have one by one until I find the document, a search instantly pops up in FYI.

FYI it will be added to your new tab in Chrome to open instantly. I found that I can open most documents with 3 clicks:

1. Click to open a new tab.
2. Click on the search bar and type a few words of what I'm looking for
3. Click on one of the suggested documents

FYI it's completely free.

7: Add to Trello

Add to Trello allows you to add webpages to your Trello account as cards.

Once installed and configured, just click on the favicon and you'll see the title of the site you're on as a Trello card title, along with the list and board you're saving it to:

Open Trello and there it is. The nice thing about it is that it allows you to turn the entire Internet into your to-do list; especially useful if you need something to drive search or great content to emulate.

You cannot add expiration dates and you cannot @people in the extension; you have to do these things directly in Trello.

Adding to Trello is free.Get the Add to Trello Chrome Extension.

8: Extension

Adding multiple Chrome extensions can be a burden. Extensity allows you to quickly enable and disable Chrome extensions from a list and launch Chrome apps from the same list.

Click on the Extensity bookmarks icon in Chrome's bookmarks bar and you will see:

To enable or disable extensions, just click on them in the list. The gear icon offers more advanced options.

You can also use profiles to quickly switch between enabled and disabled sets of extensions.

The extension is free.Get Extensity for Chrome

9: capture screen

Screencastify lets you create screencasts, capture, edit and share videos quickly and easily. You can embed your webcam in screencasts to make it visible in cast or full screen and share them.

Install and register. Sign up with Google and Screencastify will save every video you make to Google Drive automatically. You will also need to grant permissions to access your Google account for this to work.

The free version watermarks your videos, the premium version costs $24 per year. It works best for short videos that are around 10 minutes long, which is the free version's length limit. And the editing suite isn't as intuitive as it could be.

It's freemium, with very restrictive limits on the free version. However, if you do a lot of short screencasts, it's worth getting the Premium version for $24 per year.

Get Screencastify for Chrome.