Here, My Tech Knowledge reviewed the top 10 most popular Google Chrome Extensions in 2011. The ranking is based on weekly installs for each of the extensions. This served as a guide for Google Chrome users to equip their Chrome with the hottest extensions available.
Top 10 most useful Google Chrome Extensions in 2011
1. AdBlock [100,000+ weekly installs]
Simply the best and the most useful extensions for Google Chrome. Many agree that it is not entirely complete if you don’t have AdBlock in your Google Chrome. It do what it does best and it is available for you totally FREE. Thus, there is no need for you to purposely purchase other ad blocker to do the same work. With AdBlock, it block all advertisements on all web pages including those from Facebook and Youtube. Simplicity and trouble free. Thus, this extension is highly recommended.
The latest version of AdBlock, AdBlock Plus served as a better version of previous AdBlock. Similarly, it block most banners, popups and layer advertisement. Disable video-ads on Youtube and hide annoying images on any website (Including those from Google Ad itself). This better version filter out unwanted ads with a faster speed. Thus, you can enjoy browsing without any disturbance.
3. FB Chat Sidebar Disabler [85,148 weekly installs]
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4. FB Photo Zoom [45,512 weekly installs]
FB Photo too tiny to view? It is not a problem anymore. FB Photo Zoom is a simple, light-weight extension that integrates directly into FB so you can see the larger images of photo albums, profile photos and more whenever you hover over a zoomable image! Just hover your cursor over any photo and it will enlarge it. It is one of the coolest tool for FB user. Thus, we highly recommended this to you!
5. Stylish [47,169 weekly installs]
User styles are themes for web sites. User styles empower your browsing experience by letting you customize web sites. Take out irrelevant content, change colors, or completely redesign the entire site. Stylish lets you easily manage user styles. Add, delete, enable, disable, and organize with a few clicks of a mouse, no code to edit, no obscure configuration to find. Stylish’s companion website, userstyles.org, hosts tens of thousands of user styles made by other Stylish users that you can try. Style it according to your own taste.
6. IE Tab [27,958 weekly installs]
Another useful extension which include the IE function on Google Chrome. Do you know that you can include IE Tab in Google Chrome? With IE Tab extension, YES you can. The purpose is that some sites can only be displayed using IE, so this extension come in handy. With this extension, you can now see those sites without leaving Chrome. Solve problem and save you from unwanted trouble.
7. Add to Amazon Wish List [24,863 weekly installs]
Online shopping is made easy in Google Chrome. With Amazon extension, you can keep track on the stuff in your wishlist. Once you download the Amazon Wish List extension to your Google Chrome browser — you can start shopping. When you see something you want on any website, just click the Amazon “Add to Wish List” button. A pop-up will open and from here you can adjust details about the item you want; click “Add to list” to confirm the selection. The item will then appear on your Amazon Wish List.
8. Screen Capture (by Google) [22,556 weekly installs]
It’s easy to use this extension to capture visible content of a tab, a region of a web page, or the whole page as a PNG image. You can also edit your captured image before saving it as a PNG image. Highlighting, redacting and adding text are supported.
9. Clip to Evernote [21,792 weekly installs]
Mark your favorite page in simple way. You can forget about Bookmark and Open tabs. Evernote is much easier. Click on the Evernote icon to browse and search through your entire Evernote account, as well as see all the pages that you’ve clipped from the domain that you’re currently visiting. Awesome feature and helps you while browsing.
10. Google Translate [21,763 weekly installs]
Foreign language that you couldn’t understand? Just use Google Translate. The extension also automatically detects if the language of a page you’re on is different from the language you’re using for your Google Chrome interface. If it is, a banner appears at the top of the page. Click the Translate button in the banner to have all the text on the page appear in the new language. With Google Translate, there is no need to look for other translator.
