Top 10 most useful Chrome extensions

                1.   Chrome Remote desktop :

This extension is officially provided by Google. With the help of this extension you can cast and remotely access entire desktop screen with  your phone via wire or wireless mode. This Extension is most useful for parents to monitor their children who use computer.

You can use this extension in few steps:

Add Chrome Remote Desktop extension to your Chrome browser.

The extension will be added.

You can find it near search bar or in the extensions list. 

Login with your Gmail Id in Chrome Remote Desktop (you should login with same id in your phone and computer). 

Now set up the One pin for access.

Install Chrome Remote Desktop application in your phone. 

Insert a pin in Chrome Remote Desktop app which one you have created.

 

    2.   Site Blocker :

Site Blocker is a productivity tool that denies an access to websites permanently or as per schedule. It closes waste websites for yourself or protects your children from nasty content. Use the net safely on blocking all websites from unwanted category.

 

You can block websites by category or by words or by URL of the website. Once you block websites and if you want to block in specific day or time than you can schedule websites.

You can enable it in few steps:   

      

Add  Site Blocker extension in your Chrome browser.

Open Site Blocker and put the link of that website that you want to block.

 

    3.   Smallpdf - Edit, Compress and Convert PDF:

Smallpdf - Edit, Compress and Convert PDF extension is very useful for office workers and students. With the help of it you can edit PDF, compress PDF, convert PDF into word/ excel/ PPT and from word/ excel/ PPT to PDF and there are many more features in this extension.

                Easy-to-use PDF tools to Edit, Convert, Merge, Split and Compress PDF files.

                Integrated with Gmail.

                Convert, compress, merge, split and edit your PDF files.

Power-up your productivity by adding Smallpdf to Chrome! Gain instant access to a suite of useful tools to work with PDFs online.

PDF Tools and PDF Converters:

PDF to Word, Excel, PPT

Word, Excel, PPT to PDF

Convert images to and from PDF

Reduce the size of your PDF

Merge, Split and Extract PDF Pages

Edit PDF

Rotate and Delete PDF Pages

Sign and Send PDFs for Signature

Protect and Unlock PDF

 

 

    4.   Password Checkup extension:

It’s one more extension by Google. The Password Checkup extension helps you to secure accounts that are affected by data breaches.

Wherever you sign-in, if you enter a username and password that is no longer safe due to appearing in a data breach known to Google, you’ll receive an alert. Please reset your password. If you use the same username and password for any other accounts, please reset your password there as well.

Password Checkup is built with privacy in mind. It never reports any identifying information about your accounts, passwords or devices. We do report anonymous information about the number of look-ups that surfaces an unsafe credential, whether an alert leads to a password change, and the domain involved for improving site coverage. You can learn more about how Password Checkup works at https://support.google.com/accounts?p=password-checkup

5.   Password Alert: 

Password Alert extension is provided by Google to protect your account from phishing sites. If you enter your Gmail or Google for Work password into anywhere other than accounts.google.com, you’ll receive an alert, so you can change your password if needed.

 

            6.   Nimbus Screenshot & Screen Video Recorder:

Nimbus Screenshot & Screen Video Recorder is a useful extension

                    to take a screenshot of a chrome tab or take a screenshot of an entire

                    window. In Nimbus you can also record your desktop screen.

Capture screenshots

Capture the entire web page, or a specific section of it                   

Supports scrolling when capturing screenshots from web pages

Capture the entire browser window

Capture a screenshot of another program

Quickly capture a section of the webpage

On a blank canvas, create your own simple drawing or model

You can add own watermark on screenshot (Premium)

Record videos and share screencasts

Record video from your screen to make a screencast

Record video of another active program

Record video from a webcam

Add your own watermark on the video (Premium)

Customize the video screen resolution and frame rate

Annotate the video with various shapes, including arrows and rectangles

Convert from WebM to MP4 and GIF (Premium)

Crop your video (Premium)

Trim your video (Premium)

Upload the screencast either to Nimbus Note or save to your disk

Publish screencasts on Youtube (Premium)

Upload videos to Google Drive, and Dropbox (Premium)

Edit your screenshots

Add graphics and text boxes to your screenshot

Resize and crop

Add arrows and stickers

Highlight text

Blur certain sections to hide sensitive information

Add watermarks (premium)

7.   Nod-Reaction for Google meet :

In current situation we all are working/ studying from home via Google meet,

Zoom , Jio meet, etc. But Google meet is used more than Jio meet and Zoom.

When there are lots of people in a meeting and you want to tell or ask something

to the host or other participants  but you feel uncomfortable to tell or ask

something at that time you can use these reactions. There are several types of

reactions like Raise hand, Applaud, Like, Laughter,  etc.

Activate Nod in few steps : 

Add Nod - Reaction for Google meet extension in Chrome browser.

Start meeting in Google meet and use it.

8.   Save to Google  drive :

Save to Google drive extension is provided by Google to instantly save your visited web pages in your Google drive within a minute. When the page is saved successfully it will make PDF of that page.

9.   Turn off the lights :

When you watch YouTube in your desktop at that time this extension will give you an experience as if you are in a cinema hall. With this extension the entire page  will be fading to dark. With a single click on the lamp button, the page will fade to dark will automatically let you focus on the video. By clicking on it again, the page will return to normal. This extension works with YouTube, Vimeo, Dailymotion, Hulu, Metacafe, YouKu, etc. This extension is also compatible with Google Chrome, Apple Safari, Mozilla Firefox, Opera, Microsoft Edge, Maxthon and Yandex web browsers.

10.    Google translate :

Google translate extension will help you to translate the word/ sentence and

give you the meaning of that word/ sentence. This extension also automatically

detects if the language of a page you're on is different from the language you're using for your Google Chrome interface. If it is, a banner appears at the top of the page. Click the Translate button in the banner to have all the text on the page appear in the new language.