recommended chrome extensions?

[desmopilot]

Finally decided to try out Chrome; kinda feel like an idiot for not trying it earlier - damn its quick (especially like how - unlike firefox - both the windows and mac clients are equally fast). Anyways, what are some suggested extensions?

 

[devil22]

I use lastpass and gmail mail checker plus, plus flashblock.

lastpass manages your passwords, so just log in to lastpass then you can log in to all your web sites easily, real nice because you can use complex hard to guess passwords but not have to remember them, then you just have to make sure your personal machine is never compromised.

gmail mail checker plus, notifies you (with a sound) and a number display of incoming emails and unread emails.

flashblock blocks flash until you click the flash control, and can white list websites so they always play flash (like youtube, or [h]).

And you can just browse through the chrome extensions web page, they have things for weather, calenders, and a lot more.

Two things I like that aren't strictly extensions, is to use '--bookmark-menu' and '--safe-plugins' in the shortcut->target of chrome, bookmark-menu puts a little icon next to the chrome address bar for accessing your bookmarks, then you can disable the bookmark bar and get back that real estate. --safe-plugins runs chrome plug-ins in a security sandbox, to further protect the system if they are exploited, but can complicate uploading through chrome. I currently copy everything to c:\users before I upload, then delete them from c:\users, because chrome doesn't seem to want to upload from anywhere else I tried with the safe-plugins option. [just checked, you can also give your directory you upload from read+execute/read/list permissions for 'everyone' and then you can upload from whatever folder you choose]