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Best Chrome Extensions?

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Forza1

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I've been on a Chrome extensions spree lately in an attempt to make myself more efficient and I want to hear what your guys' favorites are

So far, these 3 have been LIFE CHANGERS:

1. Adblock
2. Anesidora
3. Craigslist Pop
 
Here is what I believe to be the best chrome extensions through hours of searching

Adblock Plus - Ads were yesterday! The successful extension Adblock Plus is now available for Google Chrome
After The Deadline - Chrome Spellcheck Extension
Announcify or Speak It! - Narrator for Articles
Apture - Highlight a phrase to get instant access to Wikipedia, YouTube, Twitter, and more without leaving the page.
Better Pop Up Blocker - Block Pop ups and make exceptions for certain sites
Bitly - Shortens Urls
Buffer - helps by putting your tweets in a queue and sending them out over time. You can write many tweets at once, and then have them sent throughout the day.
Bustimes - See the next transit times right on your browser and never again will you open your local transit webpage to look at a timetable
Change Colors - Customize color of webpages
Chromeblock
Clickable Links - Turns unclickable urls & email addresses into clickable ones.
Currency Convertor - Click or select any currency value on website , it will convert to other equivalent currency and display
DeskSMS - Send and Receive Texts Messages - Send and receive text messages from Chrome using your own number! (Android phone required)
Disable All Extensions Plus
Easy Marks & Yet Another Bookmarks Extension - Best Combination for Google Bookmarks
Ebay
Extensity - Quickly enable/disable Google Chrome extensions
Fancy Tube - YouTube™ like you've never experienced it before!
Fastest Chrome - Improve Speed of Chrome
Flashblock - Block Flash, when not in use
GInfinity - Infinite scroll for Google search results.
Ghostery - Ghostery takes the veil off the web, exposing tracking cookies, hidden page elements, and much more.
Google +1 Button - +1 button is shorthand for "this is pretty cool" or "you should check this out." Now you can +1 and share the pages you think are worth visiting no matter where you are on the web.
Google + - Reminds you what it means to receive Google+ notifications.
Google Alerter
Google Calendar or Google Calendar Checker
Google Chrome To Phone
Google Dictionairy
Google Docs Viewer or Watch Doc - List, view, search, rename, delete, and create new documents in Google Docs
Google Personal Blocklist
Google Tasks - Official Chrome Extension for Google Tasks
Google Translate for plus - Translate your Google+ stream using integrated, inline, Google Translate support.
Hide My Ass - Proxy
History Eraser
History Stats - Show Detailed History of Browsing
Hover Zoom - solves this by making images larger when you hover your cursor over them.
IP Address
iReader - Despite the name, this as nothing to do with Apple. It’s a reader that strips out extraneous page elements and allows users to view multiple feeds at once.
Lastpass - LastPass is a free password manager and form filler.
Lite Bookmarks or Yet Another Google Bookmarks Extension - Best Google Bookmarks Extension
Lyrics for Chrome - Get the lyrics of any song on YouTube™, Last.fm™, Grooveshark™ and Google Music™, without annoying popups!
Minimalist for Google Reader - can significantly clean up the interface and completely customizable.
Multi Monitor Full Screen - Allows YouTube and Vimeo videos to stay full screen while working in other windows. Great for dual monitors.
Proxy Tube - Watch all Youtube videos in every country
Readability - is a web and mobile app that zaps clutter and saves web articles in a comfortable reading view.
Reddit Companion - integrates the popular content sharing site reddit into your browser.
Reload All Tabs - much quicker than reloading each tab individually, so this is a must-have for serious tabaholics.
SABConnect+++ - adds one-click 'Send to SABnzbd' buttons to many popular NZB index sites.
ScriptNo - Tired of websites running scripts without permission? ScriptNo can fix that by blocking some or all of them.
Session Manager - Save Tabs to Access Later
Sexy Undo Close Tab - Accidentally closed your last tab? Tired of losing tabs in Incognito? Don't worry, everything is possible with this sexy extension
Similar Sites
Sports Scoreboard - Live NFL, MLB, NBA, NHL, soccer, tennis and NCAA college football and basketball
Stayfocused - increases your productivity by limiting the amount of time that you can spend on time-wasting websites.
Stopwatch - Easily record the time between events.
Strict Pomodoro - Enforces the Pomodoro time management technique by blocking distracting sites
Stumble Upon
Stylebot - Adapt the web's appearance
Stylish - Restyle the web with Stylish, a user styles manager.
Stylist - Chrome Stylist
Tab Cloud - lets you transfer your browsing session from one computer to another. You can also see saved sessions with a built-in interface.
Thesaurus Extension - Look up synonyms and antonyms with ease!
Turn Off the Lights - The entire page will be fading to dark, so you can watch the video as if you were in the cinema.
Utorrent - This extension adds µtorrent web GUI to your Google Chrome web browser.
It allows you to control your µtorrent client from everywhere around the world
View Thru - With ViewThru, you’ll be able to see the full site URL before clicking on any shorted link, which can be a huge benefit in terms of security.
Window Resizer - Resize browser window to emulate various screen resolutions
Wot - Security
YouTube Options - No surprises here. With YouTube Options you’re able to make change how the site looks or disable certain video features, such as annotations.
 
Many Greasemonkey userscripts from Usercripts.org can be installed directly into Chrome like they itself are extensions.

Here's one I use: http://userscripts.org/scripts/show/25105

Another couple extensions I have in Chrome:

Tab Menu - https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/galfofdpepkcahkfobimileafiobdplb
Handy for those with a lot of tabs.​

Tab Manager - https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/coonecdghnepgiblpccbbihiahajndda
For splitting off tabs to another Chrome browser. For me, helps organizes my tabs. I can have one browser with tabs for all computer stuff and another browser with tabs for forums, social media, etc. or even Youtube.​

Cross Browser Session Manager - https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/nmidkjogcjnnlfimjcedenagjfacpobb
I've been using this a lot over other session managers because I can label and date my sessions. I have my sessions organized by topic(s) and date.​

Search by Image - https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/dajedkncpodkggklbegccjpmnglmnflm
SO HANDY when it comes to searching for images. If there is an image that caught my interest on a website, I'd right-click it and go Search Google with this Image. Combined with ZScreen and FTP/Dropbox uploads, I can screen capture an image on Media Player Classic or from a forum or website that disallowed Right-clicking, and open the uploaded image, right-click it and search for it. Definitely handy!​

Youtube Options FULL Version - https://spoi.com/software/yto/
There's a link to it from the Google Extensions Store to this but here's the direct link. It offers more options over the one found in the Google Store.​

Auto-replay Youtube - https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/kanbnempkjnhadplbfgdaagijdbdbjeb
If there's a Youtube video or song you'd like to loop. I do this whenever I find a really good/talented performance on Youtube that I'd like to hear again.​

Download Assistant - https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/mfjkgbjaikamkkojmakjclmkianficch
Combine this with Free Download Manager, you can right-click any download link and have it download with your choice of download manager. It's similar to FlashGot add-on for Firefox. I use this in conjunction with Free Download Manager.​

History2 - https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/cahejgbbfgmlmjgdjlibphdjeldhagkp
This replaces the history page for Chrome. It also allows you to search for specific websites and even groups them by website. So, let's say you visited 5 forum pages on [H], it'd be grouped under hardforum.com. Pretty useful to me.​

Google Voice - https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/kcnhkahnjcbndmmehfkdnkjomaanaooo
If you have a Google Voice account, you can send and receive texts and text/call notifications directly from the browser.​
 
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Awesome, it looks like I'm going to have to spend some time playing with all these cool extensions. I didn't see Craigslist Pop on either of your lists, but if you use Craigslist a lot, it's the best tool out there.

dholtzmann, that news is interesting. The way I understand it is that you could always add a filter to let a sites ads through, if you cared enough to see them. The true test: If everyone had AdBlocker installed, how many people would actually go out of their way to apply a filter to allow ads for their favorite websites?

People don't like ads. Review articles will inform and people will seek.
 
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