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designers favorite chrome extensions

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On the topic of daily discoveries on February 11th

The wait is now over…. Google Chrome extensions are now live on the Mac compatible version of Chrome [download link]. I can now make Chrome my official dedicated web surfing browser!

While I’ve been using Chrome for a few months now and blown away by the speed and simplicity the one thing that was holding me back was that I couldn’t install Xmarks to sync my obsessively organized bookmark collection across my other used browsers. I was using Xmarks to sync Firefox and Safari (also sync to my iPhone via MobileMe), but until today couldn’t keep my Chrome up-to-date — and that bothered the hell out of me.

Now that Chrome is extension-ready on the Mac, I’d thought it would be interesting to hear others top 5 Chrome extensions. Feel free to share in the comments below. Anyways, here are my top 5:

  1. Xmarks (surprised?) – sync your bookmarks across multiple computers and browsers. And as you read from the above, I couldn’t work/surf without this one.
  2. Bit.ly Shorten Url – Shorten any URL also send a Tweet or Facebook status update from it. I like how it adds the icon to the address bar for a quick click to shrink.
  3. Add to Amazon wish list – I’m always adding “things I want” to my Amazon wish list, so this makes for easy updating.
  4. ChromeMilk – great way to display and update my Remember the Milk tasks. I’m a huge fan of RTM, and if you are unfamiliar read my reasons why I like it.
  5. Lorem Ipsum Generator – quick way to access dummy text to use for website filler while designing.
 
6 responses to “designers favorite chrome extensions”
 


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Niki Brown said on February 11, 2010 @ 1:48 pm

Love Chrome but get a bit freaked out about having a 3rd party host (or possibly hijack) my shortened links. Have you checked out Lessn? Its a URL shortner you can use on your own server.

http://www.shauninman.com/archive/2009/08/17/less_n

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Tony said on February 11, 2010 @ 1:50 pm

I can’t wait for Firebug to arrive on Chrome! :)

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kyle said on February 11, 2010 @ 2:27 pm

Been using Chromium for a while for extension support. Maybe I will swich back to Chrome now.

I’m using Shortcut Manager to map CTRL+1 to my http://www.quixapp.com bookmarklet. Quix is awesome, fyi – and firebug lite is one of the built in options for it, so I can recommend it as being design oriented.

Other than that, I’m not using too many (compared w/ Firefox) – Delicious for bookmarks, and I already use Launchbar to launch my keywords cross-browser (ie. amg Sting) to jump to the Allmusic Guide’s Sting page.

Adblock and Flashblock (can’t remember the name exactly, but I think it’s Flashblock)

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Tareq Samman said on February 11, 2010 @ 2:54 pm

Thanks Brian, since I’m on a pc I had no problems using Xmarks and I love it. Google Chrome extension is so cool I have plenty of those installed and I will recommend the “TooManyTabs” check it out, you will never lose anything.

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Chris Sharp said on February 12, 2010 @ 2:12 am

Massive fan of RTM too, this extension will be a real time and space saver as i usually have this open daily in a tab.

Thanks

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Ian P. Hines said on February 15, 2010 @ 6:52 am

I can’t believe I’d never heard of XMarks before… This is fantastic.

Thanks!

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