Check them out and see which ones can make your life easier and more productive.
Provides purchasing insights that actually save money.
Doesn’t work with other retailer’s websites.
Amazon prices change constantly, and it’s often hard to discern a product’s retail price.
The Camelizer shows you a product’s historical pricing data via graphs of previous prices.
While you’re on an Amazon product page, go for the Camelizer icon.
You’ll get a pop-up box with Amazon price data drawn from the enormous and reliable database at CamelCamelCamel.com.
Best for YouTube: Enhancer for YouTube
Adds new functionality to YouTube.
Reduces some YouTube annoyances.
Many dark mode themes to suit your tastes.
Sometimes interferes with Picture-in-Picture on Chrome.
Among the many apps that spruce up YouTube, this is our favorite.
Enhancer for YouTube includes a slew of options for theming and functionality.
Once you get used to Enhancer for YouTube’s perks, regular YouTube will feel archaic.
Best Extension for Blocking Ads: uBlock Origin
Free and effective ad blocker with no gimmicks.
Open-source, with tools for advanced users.
Not easy to permit specific assets on specific pages.
Can obscure exactly what’s being blocked.
Best Extension for Gmail: Checker Plus for Gmail
Provides instantaneous updates when new mail arrives.
Eliminates the need for a persistent Gmail tab.
No visual customization options available.
Icon badges can be dismissed only by opening unread emails.
Gmail inboxes can fill up quickly, leaving users feeling overwhelmed.
Checker Plus places an icon in your toolbar that automatically updates when new Gmail messages arrive.
choose the icon, and you’ll get a short message preview.
go for the message, and it opens within the extension.
you’ve got the option to do almost all email reading from within Checker.
Best for Stopping Online Tracking: Privacy Badger
User-friendly interface is easy for even novices to use.
Clear indications of what content is being blocked.
Often over-zealous in blocking content.
Users can’t import custom blocking lists.
Many companies love tracking your online activity and are quite good at it.
Gain more privacy and security with Privacy Badger.
With a variety of tools, Privacy Badger disables tracking tools or obfuscates the data.
Best for Keyboard Shortcut Junkies: Vimium
Practiced users can move through pages at lightning speeds.
Great for users who don’t like the mouse.
The learning curve is a bit steep.
Select links, scroll, and perform all your tasks with just the keyboard.
Best Extension for Reading Mode: Postlight Reader
Cuts out ads and auto-playing videos.
Text and image view is clean and consistent.
Sometimes truncates text or removes relevant images.
Best Extension for Saving Tabs: OneTab
Creates a quick tab-based to-do list.
Saves you from keeping tabs open in the background indefinitely.
Provides ultra-lightweight session-saving and restore.
No facility for syncing tabs between browsers or devices.
Sharing tab collections can be awkward.
OneTab closes all your tabs immediately, condensing them into a page of links.
Rather than keeping tabs open indefinitely, save them in OneTab for when you’re ready to use them.
Best for Cookie Management: Click&Clean
Dramatically expands Chrome’s cookie-management capabilities.
Empowers users to defend their own online security.
Persistent notifications if you don’t clean cookies regularly.
Removing individual cookies can be time-consuming.
Despite Click&Clean’s cute name, online cookies are serious business.
They’re the basis of online-tracking utilities.
That this extension is even necessary.
When Google took away the View Image ability in Google Image search results, many web users were disappointed.
Best Extension for Multitasking: Recent Tabs
Keyboard-based task-switching is a huge productivity boost.
Only allows certain keyboard shortcuts.
It’s a lifesaver.
Best for a Bigger Perspective: Earth View From Google Earth
Beautiful start page loads quickly.
New images added regularly.
No additional new tab page features.
Fill your new tab page with a beautiful satellite image drawn from Google Earth.
The images are hand-selected, so they’ll always be high-quality.
The Earth is a beautiful place, so see more of it with Earth View.
Best Extension for Userstyles: Stylus
Provides the greatest control over your web browsing experience.
Deep customization options for those willing to explore.
Requires knowledge of CSS to create custom themes.
Themes break regularly as websites and browsers are updated.
Theming web pages with CSS isn’t exactly common anymore, but it should be.
This allows users to hide annoyances, change colors, or replace text.
Stylus is also an awesome tool for the recent dark-mode interface trend.
