20 Chrome extensions that will make your life a lot easier

An important point: all these extensions can also be installed in other browsers based on the Chromium engine. For example, in Edge or Vivaldi.

1. Picture-in-Picture Extension

The Picture-in-Picture extension, as the name suggests, is necessary for watching YouTube videos in picture-in-picture mode. This means that it displays videos in a pop-up window that is always on top of other programs. As a result, you can simultaneously monitor what is happening in the video and work with other sites or applications.

2. TabCopy

TabCopy is designed for convenient copying of titles and addresses of open pages. It can do this with the URL of the current tab, all tabs in a browser window, or even all open Chrome windows. The extension is highly customizable and allows you to change the format of the copied text as you please.

TabCopy has a lot of uses. Maybe you want to compile a bibliography from open tabs and paste it into a document? Instead of pulling them out one at a time, you can do it with one click. Or do you need to copy the link in some specific format and then paste it as HTML code into your blog? This extension can do that too. Finally, it makes it quick and easy to open a bunch of tabs from one browser in another.

Overall, with TabCopy you can avoid unnecessary manual work.

3. Open Multiple URLs

This extension perfectly complements the previous one, but can be useful on its own. It gives you the ability to open multiple URLs from your clipboard at the same time. Instead of having to spend a lot of time clicking on links, you can simply copy them into the extension window and it will open them automatically. This is great if you have saved a list of web pages for future use so you can view them using the same TabCopy.

4. Linkclump

Another tool for those who often open many tabs. Let's say there are links in front of you on the page that you want to view, but you are too lazy to click them one by one. Using Linkclump, you can hold down the modifier key (Ctrl by default), select the desired items, and they will automatically open in new tabs.

You can also move them to a new window, copy them to the clipboard, or save them to bookmarks. Linkclump also has a Smart Highlighting feature that automatically tries to highlight only the important links on a page.

5. Search the current site

Often you need to find some material from a specific site. Many people know about search operator Google "SITE:", created just for these purposes. But using manual input is not very convenient: entering text takes a lot of time.

Search the current site will save you from unnecessary manual work. You click the extension icon, enter a search query, and it displays a Google search results page only from the resource open in the tab. Simple and convenient.

6. Allow Right-Click

Some websites disable right-click on their pages for security or content protection purposes. And this creates a fair amount of inconvenience if you want to copy text, links, or search by image. The Allow Right-Click extension solves this problem. It allows you to open a context menu, copy and highlight text on sites that block these actions.

7. Close Duplicate Tab

Have you opened a mountain of tabs in Chrome, and half of them are duplicates that only take up space on the panel? Click the Close Duplicate Tab icon and the extra pages will be closed.

8. Save image as

People who work with website layout or graphic design often need to save found images in a certain format. Uploading images and converting them manually is quite inconvenient. With Save image as, you can save them in PNG, JPG or WebP directly from the right-click context menu. And you no longer have to reformat pictures using additional programs or online services.

9. AutoplayStopper

When you open some websites, a video with sound starts by default - most often these are various advertisements. And it’s very annoying when unwanted audio plays on one of the two dozen tabs, but it’s unclear which one.

AutoplayStopper will solve this problem. The extension prevents sites from playing videos until you enable it yourself. By the way, it also works with YouTube. This is useful if you want to open several videos in background tabs and then watch them one after another. This way they won't start shouting over each other.

10. Dark Reader

When you contemplate black text on a white background for a long time, your eyes begin to hurt. This is why most modern operating systems and programs have a dark mode. But even if you enable it, the content of websites will not change until you install Dark Reader.

This addon automatically inverts light colors, making pages less bright and more comfortable on the eyes. You can adjust the contrast and other parameters to your liking. A real salvation for those who work at the computer for a long time.

11. Search by Image

Chrome used to have a pretty good image search, but Google decided to introduce its new Lens service instead and ruined everything. Now the images are displayed not in a new tab, but in the sidebar, which is very inconvenient. And the quality of search in Lens leaves much to be desired.

Search by Image brings back convenient image search via right-click. And working from images in Google, Yandex, Bing, TinEye and other services will again become easy.

12. StayFree

Do you spend too much time on social networks and forget about work and other useful activities? StayFree is here to help. The extension is designed to analyze the use of websites.

It allows you to understand how and how much time the user spends on various pages and, if necessary, blocks access to distracting resources. StayFree also provides visit statistics and periodically reminds you when you need to take a break and take a break from the Internet.

13. Reopen closed tab Button

If you accidentally closed a tab in Chrome and want to get it back, you need to call up the menu in the upper right corner of the browser and find the page you need. It's not very fast: you have to do two clicks instead of one.

Reopen closed tab Button allows you to restore the previous tab with one click, and then the one before it, and so on. And it's much faster than using Chrome's built-in menu.

14. Magical

Very often during the working day we enter the same words, phrases and sentences, and this takes a lot of extra time. Applications from the Text Expander category are designed to help with this. Magical is one of them. You create a template, enter a passphrase, and it automatically substitutes the desired text. Let's say, instead of "snp" he will enter "Best wishes."

In addition to templates you create, Magical can use ChatGPT to generate text from scratch in any text fields in the browser. That is, you can force the AI ​​to write letters to your recipients in GMail or leave comments on websites.

15. Reader View

Reader View makes it easier to work with poorly laid out pages on the Web. The extension will clear them of unnecessary stuff, replace fonts with readable ones, align the text and generally optimize it for reading.

The addon provides many settings for the appearance of the page, including themes, changing color, font size and text width. You can also take notes and highlight information in Reader View. The extension can also read the contents of an article using the Text to Speech engine.

16. Event Durations for Google Calendar

"Google. Calendar is an extremely useful and convenient service that boosts productivity to the skies. But it has one drawback: when you create an event, its duration is not specified anywhere. It's amazing how Google missed such a small detail.

You can, of course, compare the length of the color indicators of events in the calendar by eye, but this is an unpleasant task. It is much easier to set Event Durations. The extension will show not only the start and end times of the event, but also how long it will last.

17. ChatGPT for Google

As the name suggests, the extension integrates AI responses into Chrome search results. In addition to basic information, the page will also display ChatGPT’s opinion on your request. This can sometimes be quite useful, since the AI ​​can summarize the information from your search, without you having to look through many sites from the search results. You can continue the dialogue with the bot right on the page to force it to clarify something or regenerate an answer.

18. DownThemAll!

The Chrome browser downloads files in a single thread, so downloading an object larger than 1 GB becomes torture. So if you need to get a large ISO image or other similar file, you will have to wait too long with the standard Chrome downloader.

DownThemAll! solves this problem. The extension downloads data into several threads, which significantly increases the speed. In addition, it is capable of downloading many files at the same time and pausing this process.

19. ImageAssistant Batch Image Downloader

The extension, as its name suggests, is designed to automatically extract and batch download images from web pages. No more time-consuming and tedious clicking on each picture and selecting “Save As...”. One click and Chrome will download all the images you select. This will be extremely useful for designers, developers, artists and anyone who regularly works with graphics on the Internet.

20. Summary for ChatGPT

Found a longread but too lazy to read? Let AI help you. This extension will send a copy of the article you opened to ChatGPT, and the AI ​​will read it for you and provide a short summary.

By default, ChatGPT is instructed by the extension to show the main points from the article as a short list with Emojis. This is visual, but sometimes you want to get the text in the form of a paragraph. Luckily, you can add your own prompts in the extension settings. If you insert something like “give me a brief summary in a simple language” without the “bullet list”, the AI ​​will begin to generate longer informative paragraphs.

And the most delicious thing: Summary for ChatGPT can create extracts not only from texts, but also from videos on YouTube. You no longer have to watch hour-long videos on rewind to understand what the author wanted to convey to the audience.