First, a little about what an extension is: an extension is a small add-on for the browser that expands its functionality. Extensions can perform a wide variety of functions: they make it possible to download music or videos where you simply cannot download them, for example, on VKontakte or Youtube. They simplify working with documents and images, give you the opportunity to choose which search engine to use in a particular situation without going to the search engine’s website, and change the appearance of the site.
Extensions in Google Chrome are installed from the official application store, don’t let the name confuse you - you don’t have to buy anything. To get to the extension store, follow the link
Or go to the store using the browser menu: in the upper right corner of the browser, click on the button with three dots. The browser menu will open, in it you need to select "Additional tools." Another window will appear in which you need to find the item "Extensions" and click on it:
Now you are in the tab with extensions installed in the browser. If no extensions were installed before, then nothing will appear here, or pre-installed Google Chrome extensions will be displayed - documents, presentations, tables. Depends on the browser version. Click on the menu item at the top left "Extensions", then down to "Open Chrome Web Store":
after which you will be taken to the extension store. Here you can view all available ones, sort them by categories, capabilities, ratings. The only negative is the language; not all extensions have a description and interface in Russian.
If you know which extension you need, then just enter its name in "Search by store" and press Enter. Please note that search results may contain not only extensions, but also applications. To avoid mistakes, select from the search results "Extensions". From the results found, select the required extension and click the button "Install":
After installation, an icon should appear in the upper right corner, which can be used to manage the extension, configure it, enable or disable any functions:
Settings are activated by right-clicking on the icon. In some cases, there may not be an icon; it all depends on the extension being installed and its capabilities.
How to install a third-party extension in Google Chrome
If you have a third-party extension or user script from a source you trust, but for some reason this extension is not available in the Google Chrome store, you will not be able to install it in the usual way. To ensure security, installing third-party extensions, i.e. extensions not from the store, is prohibited in Chrome. Below are ways you can work around this limitation.
Installing the downloaded extension in .crx format
- First you need to open the extensions page in the browser, as described above: Browser menu in the upper right corner > Additional tools > Extensions. Or copy chrome://extensions/ into your browser's address bar and press Enter.
- At the top of the page there is a "Developer Mode" switch, activate it. Below there will be 3 additional buttons: "Pack extension" And "Update extensions":
- Extension file ending with .crx, rename it so that it ends with .zip and open it with an archiver as a regular archive. Unpack it into a folder prepared for this (for example, create a folder on drive “C” called Extensions, or any other name).
- In the browser, on the page with extensions, click on the button "Load unpacked extension" and in the window that appears, select the created folder, then click OK.
The extension will be installed in the browser, now all that remains is to activate it by moving the switch next to the extension to the “Enabled” position.
Installing a user script - a file like .user.js in Google Chrome
Method one, simpler, but requiring the installation of an additional extension. The extension is called tampermonkey and must be installed from the Google Chrome store. After installation, it will be available in the upper right corner of the browser. When you press left mouse button The following window will appear on the extension icon:
in which you need to select an item "Create new script". Please note that opposite the point "Enabled" there should be a green check mark.
A window will open to create a new script. Now you need to open the downloaded user script using a text editor, copy the code from it and paste it into this window in the browser. Then click on "File -> Save":
The script is ready to work.
The second method of installing a user script– without using extensions. To do this, you will have to modify the script a little, create a manifest.json file for it, thanks to which the script can be installed as an unpacked extension.
- First you need to download the script file itself called *.user.js.
- Now create a folder and put the script in it (for example, create a folder on drive “C” called Extensions, or any other name).
- Open the script using a text editor. Note! A regular Windows notepad may not be suitable - it is advisable to use a text editor with the ability to change the encoding, for example Notepad++. The text of these two files must be in UTF-8 encoding, otherwise installation will not work. In the script file, at the very beginning, find the following lines:
// @name ... // @version ... // @description ... // @include ... (can be several) // @exclude ... (can be several)
- In the same folder, create a manifest.json file and paste this template into it (or download the finished file):
( "content_scripts": [ ( "exclude_globs": [ "all_domains_and_paths_from_exclude_directives" ], "exclude_matches": , "include_globs": [ "all_domains_and_paths_from_include_directives" ], "js": [ "userscript_file_name.js" ], "matches": [ " http://*/*", "https://*/*" ], "run_at": "document_idle" ) ], "converted_from_user_script": true, "description": "description_of_your_user_script", "name": "name_of_your_user_script" ", "version": "userscript_version_number", "manifest_version": 2 )
"content_scripts" : [ ( "exclude_globs" : [ "all_domains_and_paths_from_exclude_directives"] , "exclude_matches" : , "include_globs" : [ "all_domains_and_paths_from_include_directives"] , : "description_of_your_userscript","name" : "your_userscript_name", "version" : "userscript_version_number", "manifest_version" : 2 |
Fill it with the userscript data you looked for in step 3.
userscript_version_number- up to 4 numbers separated by dots. For example, 2.1.3
userscript_file_name.js- name of the script file located next to the manifest.json file
all_domains_and_paths_from_include_directives- each in quotes, separated by commas, with all metacharacters like “*” - all paths from @include directives, which are written at the beginning of the userscript file (for example, [ “http://site1.ru/*”, “http:// site2.ru/*" ]);
all_domains_and_paths_from_exclude_directives- the same for @exclude directives
After everything is ready, the userscript is installed as a third-party extension. Browser menu in the upper right corner > More tools > Extensions. Check the “Developer mode” checkbox, then select “Load unpacked extension...” and in the window that opens, select the folder with the newly created files. If everything is done correctly, the user script will be added to the browser and activated. The only disadvantage of this method is that every time you start the browser, it will display the following window:
notifying you that it has a third-party extension installed that may be unsafe. Just click “Cancel” and everything will work.
Good afternoon, dear readers and visitors of the blog, last time I told you how to enable java in google chrome, let's continue to study it, and today I will tell you what useful extensions for Chrome according to the site version I use. I won’t sell you something and write a post for the sake of traffic, as many people do, like (25 cool add-ons in Google Chrome), although I’m sure that 10 percent of people who write them don’t use them. As something new appears, I will update the article.
What are extensions for google chrome
Any modern browser can be compared to an operating system that has some functionality, and it is logical that the operating system uses programs and utilities to increase it. So in browsers there is something similar and it’s called a browser extension. This can also be compared to a constructor in which you add the required number of parts.
Let's now look at how extensions are installed in Google Chrome, since in order to get acquainted with them, you need to be able to install them.
Open your Google browser and in the upper right corner we find this icon in the form of three parallel lines, this is the Settings and management of Google Chrome icon. By clicking on it, a context menu will open in which you select
More Tools > Extensions
Scroll to the very bottom and find this link More extensions.
Clicking on it will take you to the chrome online store. Here you will find extensions for google chrome for all occasions.
In order to install Google Chrome extensions, you need to find it in the search bar and then click Install. it's simple
We are all starting a list of extensions that, in my opinion, make my life easier and save time.
OneTab extension
I am sure that each of you has encountered a situation where you have 100 tabs open in your browser and all of them are needed as usual. Finding what you need among them begins to be a problem, and each tab also eats up part of the RAM, this is good if you have 16 GB of it and you don’t have to worry about it, but most laptops or system units have 4 of them, and for this situation this is quite critical, as it greatly reduces system performance.
The OneTab extension is designed to solve this problem and help the user save and structure all of his tabs in a convenient way. We go to the google chrome extension store and look for it.
Click Add to crome. After installation, it will appear in your list of available ones.
As a result, you will have this OneTab icon in crome. If you click it, all your tabs will turn into one.
Tabs in Chrome will be structured by date; here you can later delete or restore them. Agree, it’s more convenient to look for something.
WOT extension
The installation of chrome extensions continues, and next we will have the WOT plugin. I’ll say right away that this is not World of Tanks, as many may think, in fact it is WOT: Web of Trust, trust on the network. Essentially, this is a community of people who evaluate sites according to various criteria, and thereby rank them as a good site or a bad site. To put it even simpler, then this is a bona fide site that does not download a virus to you, or, on the contrary, a site of scammers and viruses.
We also look for WOT: Web of Trust in the google chrome extension store and add it to ours.
When you exit, a round icon will appear in the upper right corner, now for example, I go to my website website. As a result, if you click on the WOT icon, you will see in more detail, namely:
- Trustworthy > Good
- Child safety > Excellent
Another great addition is that during search results you will immediately see whether the resource is a good resource or not without going to the site. For example, I have been attacked for a long time from the scam site Millionaires in Sneakers, I enter this name in Google. We see that the link to the group in VKontakte is highlighted as green, since VKontakte is a verified site, we go below a certain yellow forum, which in the WOT gradation is already a suspicious resource and the bottom one is the official site of millionaires in sneakers, it doesn’t get any redder.
Let's go to this resource for a test and see that the site millionaires in sneakers is a scam site and Internet users do not recommend visiting it.
You yourself can evaluate sites thanks to this plugin, as you can see WOT is a very useful extension for chrome.
Expanding access to Rutreker
We continue to study useful extensions for Chrome according to the site version and the next one will be an extension called access to RuTracker. I think everyone remembers that at the beginning of this year (2016), our government decided that torrents are evil, and as a result, access to these resources was limited.
An add-on for chrome called access to Rutracker is designed to return access to rutracker org. We go to the google chrome extension store and download it from there.
As a result, you will see this icon, by clicking on which you must enable the plugin, switching it to the ON state, after which you will gain access to rutracker.org. A very convenient and useful crome extension.
Tampermonkey extension
This extension comes with the installation of the SaveFrom.net program, it allows you to download YouTube videos from Chrome or music from VKontakte, and a lot of places to be honest. The Tampermonkey plugin is needed to be able to execute scripts in Google Chrome. As a result, you get a button under the video on YouTube or VKontakte
As you can see, it is also a very useful extension for chrome, I’m not saying that it is required to be installed, but it will be useful for most users.
Alexa traffic rank plugin
We continue installing google chrome extensions, and the next useful one will be Alexa traffic rank. Of course, it is more suitable for web masters, but it will also be useful for ordinary users because it shows how high-quality the site is in front of you; abroad, this miracle is available to most Internet users. The coolness parameters will be the following values:
- Alexa traffic rank > in the world, the lower the better the site
- traffic rank in Ru > website traffic in Russia, website coolness in our country
- Site loading time
Save to Pocket extension
We continue our marathon of useful additions to chrome, and the next one I’ll introduce you to is installing an extension for chrome called Save to Pocket. We all love surfing the Internet, and very often we find interesting articles, news, notes that we would like to keep for ourselves, like there are bookmarks, but they are not always convenient when there are thousands of them, and sites are dying like flies, it’s more convenient to save for yourself this is in some kind of notebook, so Save to Pocket acts as one when it copies any article or note into your personal diary in one click, so that you can later see what you need.
Install Save to Pocket in chrome. Now open the article you need and click the save button.
As a result, then going to the Save to Pocket diary, you will have a very convenient interface for finding the article you need. All articles contain links to the original, so you can always find it quickly.
RSS Feed Reader Extension
All of us have our favorite sites, and we often view them; it is logical that the information on them is updated, and you would like to receive it in a timely manner; for this, most sites have an RSS feed. The point of it is that you will see something updated in a special program or service a couple of minutes after publication. The RSS Feed Reader plugin helps me with this.
Installing the RSS Feed Reader extension in chrome is as simple as described above.
At the exit you will receive an icon in the form of arcs. In which you will add the sites you need, provided they have RSS feeds. Then, as soon as fresh content appears on them, a plus sign will appear next to the desired site.
As you know, browsers are very convenient programs that allow you to browse Internet pages in a comfortable manner. Among modern browsers, Google Chrome is very popular, which is used by a very large number of people around the world to surf the Internet. This browser has very good speed and convenience, which makes many people use it. The standard functionality of this browser allows you to do a lot of things, however, this is not all that it is capable of, since extensions for google chrome can increase its functionality significantly.
At the moment there are a very large number, many of which can be a very useful and convenient solution to various problems. Modern plugins for google chrome can be useful to almost any user. Let's look at the most popular and useful of them.
Surely this extension for Google Chrome is one of the most popular, if not the most popular. AdBlock is a very convenient tool that allows you to avoid a lot of annoying advertising on web pages. The program works very quickly and efficiently, uses an internal advertising database that is updated every day. Therefore, if you want to save yourself from viewing a large number of advertisements that every now and then pop up on the page in the most inconvenient place, the AdBlock plugin for Google Chrome is a great solution in this case.
There are various extensions for the google chrome browser, Chrome Remote Desktop is one of the most unusual and most functional of them. To some extent, it cannot even be called an extension, however, this does not matter at all, because this program can give access to other computers. This solution is perfect if the user, for example, has forgotten some file or some information on his work computer. Using Chrome Remote Desktop, he can always log into his work computer from his home computer.
In addition, this extension can also be used to allow two people to work on one screen, which is often very convenient during the workflow.
Delicious Bookmark Extension
A very small but very convenient extension that allows you to share various hyperlinks. If you install this add-on on your computer, then you will no longer need to copy this or that hyperlink each time, and each time paste it into a particular document. Delicious Bookmark Extension can do all this for you and will greatly simplify your work, as well as save such a valuable resource as time.
A very convenient and easy-to-use thing that allows you to quickly transfer all open tabs from your computer to your smartphone. One of the main features of this plugin is offline operation, which allows you to perform all the necessary functions in the absence of Internet access.
Google Mail Checker
If, for work or for some other reason, you often have to work with email, then this extension is what you need. Google Mail Checker shows you the number of unread emails in your inbox in real time. This way, you won't have to refresh the page every time to determine whether new emails have arrived or not.
A convenient indicator of this extension will always notify you when a new letter arrives.
MightyText
Very easy to use and very convenient thing. This extension allows you to send texts from your computer to phones. When a text arrives, an alert is sent to your computer. Despite the seemingly simplicity of the plugin, for quite a long time there was no special solution that would allow full communication from a computer with people who use phones with the Android operating system.
Nimbus Screenshot
A very convenient extension that allows you to quickly take screenshots of any part of the screen. This plugin allows you to save time and, if necessary, share your screenshots with the whole world. Nimbus Screenshot is very convenient for work when you need to show certain data.
There are google chrome add-ons that allow you to block certain websites and Website Blocker is one of the most successful such extensions. This add-on is perfect for those people who often break away from their work process on all kinds of social networks and other resources. The plugin allows you to block access to certain sites for a certain period of time. Let’s say if you don’t want to visit Facebook, Twitter or some other site during working hours, all you need to do is block them from 9 am to 5 pm and you will no longer have such problems.
It happens that while working you come across some interesting article or other information that you want to read, but you don’t have time. In this case, the Pocket extension allows you to put it in a so-called pocket, that is, mark yourself as interested in this material, and then read it later.
FVD Downloader
A very convenient tool that allows you to download almost any video from the Internet to your computer. However, the program does not work for YouTube, but it works great with Facebook and many other resources.
The Google Chrome start page should not be so monotonous and familiar, and the speed dial plugin for Google Chrome allows you to do this. Speed Dial gives enormous opportunities to any user to customize the Google Chrome start page. With this add-on, you can set an unlimited number of bookmarks, as well as group folders, which in many cases can be very, very useful.
Hola Better Internet
If there are prohibited sites that you want to access, then Hola Better Internet is a great solution. This extension allows you to log in, and does it very quickly and efficiently.
Do you want to know more about how you spend your time on the Internet? The TimeStats extension is an excellent solution in this case, which will allow you to get all the necessary statistics about the use of your time online. The program offers a large number of charts and graphs that show the time you spend on specific sites, as well as a large amount of other statistical information. If you want to spend time on the Internet more productively, be sure to install this extension.
LastPass
If you are tired of logging into a particular service again every time, then the LastPass password manager is an excellent solution to this problem. With the help of this convenient plugin, you will be able to log in in a matter of seconds to any service in which you have an account. The manager has earned trust due to his reliability; the data he stores remains completely confidential.
TabCloud
If you use visual bookmarks for google chrome then this plugin is a must have for you. TabCloud greatly simplifies working with visual bookmarks and will be useful to every Internet user.
Do you want to always be aware of what the weather is like now? And what will the weather be like in the future? In this case, Gismeteo Weather Forecast is an excellent solution. This plugin shows the most accurate weather, both for a specific region and for the whole world, so if you are interested in this opportunity, be sure to download this plugin.
Screen Capture by Google
Another very convenient extension for working with screenshots. It works very quickly. Among the additional features of this plugin, it is worth noting the ability to edit a screenshot, which in some cases can be very useful.
News Feed Eradicator
WhatFont
A very useful thing if you work as a web designer or are actively interested in this topic. The WhatFont extension allows you to find out the name of the font by just hovering the mouse cursor, and if you click on it, you will receive a large amount of other useful information.
Frigate
The frigate extension for Google Chrome allows you to check the availability of a particular site, it does this using a special list. If the site turns out to be unavailable, proxies are turned on, through which the site is accessed. This plugin also allows you to create your own list, which will contain sites that should be visited through a proxy.
Yandex elements for google chrome
Allows you to install Yandex visual bookmarks for google chrome. If you mostly use the Yandex search engine, this extension may be more useful for you than ever, as it offers a very convenient and simple toolkit for accessing the main functions and capabilities of Yandex.
MusicSig vkontakte
This extension for downloading VKontakte music google chrome can be a very convenient tool for those who like to listen to music on the VKontakte social network. Just a few clicks and the song or audio file you are interested in will be saved on your computer. The extension also has some other useful features for users of the VKontakte social network.
Google elements for google chrome
A convenient set of special elements from Google will allow you to quickly access all the capabilities of this search engine. Therefore, if you like to use Google search, as well as other useful services of this corporation, be sure to install elements for quick access to all Google features.
This plugin allows you to convert certain units of measurement, as well as currencies and much more in real time. It can be very, very useful if you often work on the Internet with any units of measurement and do not want to waste your time using special online or any other converters.
These are not all extensions for Google Chrome that exist nowadays. There are many other extensions that also have very necessary and useful functions. Therefore, do not be afraid to get new features, install all kinds of plugins and use all the features of the popular Google Chrome browser. In the same case, if extensions suddenly do not open in google chrome, read the official documentation or information on various sites, usually the answer and solution to the problem can be found quite quickly.
Google Chrome Extensions: A Brief Overview was last modified: April 29th, 2016 by MaximB
It was with the help of add-ons that Firefox captured its quarter of the market. And how captured it! After a user installs a dozen extensions, switching to another browser is very difficult - not all provide similar capabilities, even Opera with its “cart and little cart” of functions.
But Opera has its own path, which is not cheap for young companies in this segment. Even for Google, which in a couple of years has caught up with its Chrome from beta version 0.x to stable 5.x (6.x is expected soon). No other browser developer has such a quick change of major version. And one of the innovations in the fourth version was support for extensions.
This is not surprising - the functionality of Google Chrome is even more modest than that of Firefox. It is extremely difficult to even just catch up with companies that have been present on this market for many years. You will either have to sacrifice stability so that development goes faster, or focus on optimizing the code so that the browser works without crashes and glitches. Obviously, Google chose the second option, and left the solution to the functionality issue on the shoulders of third-party programmers.
By the way, Apple Safari has provided the same feature since version 5. Internet Explorer has had it for a long time, but it’s more difficult to make extensions for it. Chrome and Firefox are different in that even the least experienced programmer can quickly whip up something. Well, Opera, as we have already said, has its own way. There, additional functions are added using widgets, but their access to browser resources is much more limited, so this is not comparable to extensions.
Google Chrome extensions were first introduced to the general public in September 2009. From that time on, developers could begin to do something. As a result, by December the number of additions increased to 300 pieces. With the release of Chrome 4 in January of this year, there were already 1,500 extensions, and six months later - about 5,000. Of course, Firefox cannot be compared with a couple of hundred thousand extensions, but Google Android at the beginning was far from the popularity of Apple iOS.
The growth of the Google Chrome add-on base inspires confidence that developers are really interested in this browser and will continue their work. In addition, now you can make material about the most interesting and useful additions. Actually, this is exactly what we bring to your attention.
In total, we decided to include 34 different extensions in the article. However, some will be described in groups because they provide the same functionality but for different services.
We believe that not everyone will install so many add-ons, since, as you can see from the screenshot, there is very little space left for the address bar. You can, of course, move some of the icons to the context menu, but then you will have to make an extra mouse click. For owners of large monitors, this problem is also not so relevant, but not everyone expands the browser to the full screen, using desktop space more efficiently. In general, our point is that it would be nice for Google to add the ability to create panels for additional icons in Chrome. But it's time to move on to describing extensions.
Hi all. I am often asked about extensions for Google Chrome, and the questions are quite standard - where are they located, how to enable or disable them, how to configure them, etc. In this article we will look at the basic setup of extensions. When I first started using this browser, which was new to me, I didn’t like it because it was too simple in its capabilities. But over time, it got better and better, and I couldn't resist switching to it.
Extensions for Google Chrome go by many names, often called plugins or add-ons, and sometimes called applications. Although, applications are a separate category in the Google Web Store, which most often represents links to other websites or games and has nothing to do with extensions.
Where are extensions for Google Chrome?
I already wrote about where to look for extensions and how to install them in . To go to the extensions tab, you need to go to the browser menu, then select “ Tools", then click on the item " Extensions»:
There are two other ways to access extensions: go to your browser history or go to its settings. In both cases, you can see the History/Extensions/Settings trio on the left. You can also right-click on the extension icon and select Settings, if available for the plugin.
How to enable, disable, remove and update plugins for Google Chrome.
Disabling or removing extensions is very easy. Look at the picture below. If you right-click on a plugin, you can choose what to do with it in the context menu.
If the plugin has settings, you can access them by clicking on the corresponding item. To completely remove the extension from Google Chrome, you need to click on the item “ Delete", to disable - " Disable" Paragraph " Hide button" allows you to hide the extension from the panel, but it will continue to work.
To delete hidden extension, you need to go to the extensions tab and click on the trash can icon. Here you can also change the plugin settings and indicate whether they can work in Incognito mode or not. By default they can't.
Paragraph " Settings» allows you to change the add-on settings, if any. There are such simple plugins that they don’t even have settings. Most have them, for example, as in a plugin for text translation or an extension for setting up smooth scrolling in Google Chrome - — You want the pages to turn smoothly, right?
The question often arises, how to update plugins for Google Chrome? To which I will answer you that you do not need to update them. They update themselves in the background, without your participation. It’s the same with updating Google Chrome itself - it also updates itself quietly in the background, which is a convenient solution.
If you have plugins are not installed from the web store, then you need to do the following: create a “Downloads” folder in the “My Documents” folder. After this everything should work. If desired, you can then move the folder for the downloaded files to another convenient location.
I would also like to add a few words about
Almost all plugins that work in Google Chrome will work in Yandex Browser, Chromium, the browser from Mail.ru and other variations of Google Chrome. Therefore, do not specifically look for plugins for Yandex Browser or similar ones, know that in most cases the plugins will work in all these browsers.
FAQ
1. chrome disable fps left- this means that you have the Fraps program installed. You can simply disable the Fraps program or change the settings so that the fps indicator is not displayed.
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