20 Best Google Chrome Extensions For Web Developers

Apparently Google Chrome is not that popular among the available browsers which can grab sharp attention of Web Developers. Still Google Chrome is growing at a rapid pace and its already grabbed some good marketplace. In future Google Chrome will soon place a pretty heavy challenge before Mozilla Firefox.

Comparatively we can say that the lack in availability of Google chrome add-on is not a perfect land for web users. So far we cannot ignore the better web market possibilities of Chrome if its functionality improves in future.

Here I am framing best and very helpful Google Chrome extensions for Web Developers. I guess these extension and attributes can combat with those of Mozilla Firefox.

1. Firebug Lite

 

Firebug commonly available for Firefox browser but what can you do if you want to useGoogle chrome, Internet Explorer, Opera, and Safari?

Insert a JavaScript file into your demanding browser page to imitate the feature and not made any interruption with HTML elements that is not designed itself.

2. IE tab

IE tab transfer the power to your browser to open any website in a dedicated tab that is not running in Chrome anywhere. You can ensure about your website for those millions of internet users who are not currently active on other browsers like Firefox, Safari, Chrome, or Opera.

3. Eye Dropper

 

Eye Dropper a tool for all Google Chrome users to recognize the actual color of a website that farms on your computer screen.

4. Chrome SEO

 

Add Chrome SEO for search engine optimization prospective, to find out the important information about a website such like back links checker, measure Alexa traffic and Google Page Rank, cache information, related links, popularity on social bookmarking sites like Delicious, and many more.

5. Lorem Ipsum Generator

 

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Lorem Ipsum Generator dedicate to make your text formatting work simple and reduce efforts in typing number of text paragraph that is what we want for filling up text in a particular website.

 

6. Resolution Test

 

Resolution Test is for web developer who are willing to present a website in high resolution structure. If you are using this tool then you can re-size your browser window to check how your website will appear in different screen resolutions.

7. Speed Tracer

 

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Speed Tracer works with the browser’s default metrics tool to trace where your web browser’s application is consuming time on different tasks, so you can trace out whats actually making your site slow. It really helps you to point out – how long your browser is spending time in recognizing layout.

 

8. MeasureIt!

 

MeasureIt is focused to send off the perfect information about the dimension i.e pixel width and height of each and every element existing in a current appearing web page on your computer screen.

9. Pendule

 

Pendule tab show user friendly pop up in landscape style for helping out the web developers with miscellaneous tasks.

10. BuiltWith

 

BuiltWith fulfills the aim of accessing the complete profile of a website that you are looking at with most related technology link. What are websites ingredient like which technologies are being used in it.

11. Color Picker

 

Color Picker make to able to identify Hex and RGB values of any color.

12. Domain Availability Checker

 

Domain Availability Checker ensures you to check is the desired domain name is available to not.

13. Aviary Screen Capture

 

Aviary Screen Capture offers you a feature to take screen shot of any desire element of the web page on where you are looking at. This extension allow you to direct edit the image in your browser.

14. PlainClothes

 

PlainClothes land a power to develop a web page style as per requirement. No extra effort are needed to define the style, all styles will define automatically.

 

15. Snippy

 

Snippy brings a feature to take snippets of web pages and allow you to store them in hard drive for future use.

 

16. Chrome Sniffer

 

Chrome Sniffer offer web developer to analyze web framework / CMS and JavaScript libraries which are running on websites even though browsing.

 

17. Validity

 

Validity helps web developer to keep your page validated with the help of single click on address bar without departing current page.

 

18. META SEO Inspector

 

META SEO Inspector can make your task easy to fine and examine the meta data present with in a web pages which usually does not show during surfing.

 

19. LastPass

 

LastPass online password manager that keep your password online. Form Filler empowers you to do web easy browsing and at the same time keeping it pretty secure.

20. Google Tasks

 

 

Google Task can be used as a task manager, we can write a task and we can tick it as its done, so its a nice and handy tool which keeps you updated.

Let us know if you have come through any useful extension for Google Chrome that’s not on our list.

EXTRAS (suggested by reader)

W3Techs Website Technology Information:

The W3Techs extension shows with one mouse click which web technologies the current site is using.

The technologies shown include content management systems, server-side and client-side programming languages, JavaScript libraries, markup languages, character encodings, web servers, operating systems, traffic analysis tools and advertising networks. Additionally, you get background information and warnings on potential quality problems of the site.

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Google New Search Design Launched

Google has just rolled out new google search interface which is more useful and faster than the previous interface, we had previously talked about how can you access the new google search interface, if you don’t see it for any reason.

It has added the new left hand navigation options with some easily recognisable colourful icons, all these options will help you find what you are looking for in easy and faster way. We would recommend you to watch the video shown below which can help you understand about these changes with google search.

If don’t see the new interface in your google account, you should wait for some time as it is still going to be rolled out for all the users with in a week.

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Mirosoft releases second IE9 developer preview -- now where's that UI?

Hold your horses, though...while there have been some big updates internally, the one thing you're probably most curious about IE9 is still M.I.A.
IE9 Developer Preview 2 is here about two weeks ahead of schedule, but its user interface is not.
Still, the second version has progressed nicely. The fledgling browser's Sunspider benchmark result has been dropped by nearly 120ms (on my test rig it was about 11% slower than Firefox 3.7 overall), its Acidtest score crept up a few more points, and several new samples have been added to the test site (we'll have a screencast of one of the cooler demos up in a little bit).
I just wish they'd hurry up and give us access to some basic functionality like back and forward buttons and the ability to handle pop-up windows. It's rather annoying to test when pop-ups keep trying to open externally in IE8. Maybe next release...

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Google prepares to launch its own digital bookstore this summer

Since everyone and their mother is in the e-book business now, it makes sense that Google would jump in with its own digital book offering. The Wall Street Journal is reporting that Google's bookstore could go live as early as next month. The service, called Google Editions, plans to make its books compatible with as many operating systems and devices as possible.
There's definitely a niche for an open bookstore, with Amazon focusing on its own Kindle software and hardware and Apple pushing the iPad. To make Google Editions a success, Google just needs to finalize deals with publishers and make sure it can compete with existing bookstores when it comes to selection and pricing. Publishers say this represents a test of whether e-books will save the book business once they're searchable, instant, and platform-independent.
What do you think? Should Amazon and Apple be worried?

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How To Know Who Blocked You In Google Talk

Whenever you noticed a contact in your Gtalk/Google Talk has not been online for some time, have it ever crossed your mind you’ve been blocked? If you are curious in finding out who actually blocked you in Gtalk, here’s a workaround you can try.

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CaptureFox add-on lets you easily create screencasts from within Firefox

CaptureFOX is a pretty sweet Windows-only screen recorder add-on for Firefox. It's not perfect; the biggest drawback, in my mind at least, is that you can record video in up to 5fps.

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20 Facebook Tips/Tricks You Might Not Know

If you surf Facebook on daily basis or occasionally, chances are you’re already familiar with regular stuffs like add/delete friends, update statuses, walls and profile, add and explore pages & applications, etc, but there’s more..

This week we want to cover some interesting things you can do on (or with) Facebook; inclusive of tricks that are not documented or unknown to many, as well as tips to stay connected better with your friends. Without further ado, here’s 20 Facebook Tips/Tricks You Might Not Know. If you have interesting tips/tricks related to Facebook, please feel free to share in the comment box below.

1. How To Place Facebook Chat On Firefox Sidebar

   If you are using Firefox, you can place the Facebook Chat at the sidebar.
   

2. How To Download Facebook Photo Albums

   FacePAD: Facebook Photo Album Downloader allows you to download your friends’ facebook albums, Events albums, and Group Albums, en masse, with the click of a button.
   

3. How To Share Flickr Photos To Facebook

   Flickr2Facebook is an unofficial Flickr to Facebook uploader(bookmarklet) which allows you upload photos to Facebook from Flickr.
   

4. How To Update Facebook Without Using Facebook

   hellotxt and Ping.fm both introduced features that let Facebook administrators update Facebook Pages.
   

5. How To Schedule Facebook Messages

   Sendible lets you schedule Facebook messages ahead of time so you can send messages to your friends, customers or colleagues in the future.
   

6. How To "Friend" Someone On Facebook & Hide It From Your Status Updates

   A short tutorial on Makeuseof to guide you how to hide Facebook status updates and keep that fact confined to your closer friends.
   

7. How To Create A Photo Collage Using Pictures Of Your Facebook Friends

   Click on Friends tab. Proceed to More tab. From "Choose an option" dropdown, choose any of the dashes "—" . Your Facebook friends collage is right on your computer screen.
   

8. How To Know When Facebook Friends Secretly Delete Or Block You

   X-Friends is a unique tool for tracking friends that disappear from Facebook.
   

9. How To Display Selected Pictures Only On Your Facebook Profile Page

   A little-known feature in Facebook that lets you decide who shows up in that Friends box. Click that "edit" pencil in your Friends box and type the names of your best friends in the box that says "Always show these friends"
   

10. How To Remove Facebook Advertisements

    This Greasemonkey script – Facebook: Cleaner removes many of the annoying ads and updates that unavoidably appear on your Facebook pages.
    

11. How To Syncs Photos Of Facebook Friends With Contacts In Microsoft Outlook

    OutSync is a free Windows application that syncs photos of your Facebook friends with matching contacts in Microsoft Outlook. It allows you to select which contacts are updated. So you can update all contacts at once or just a few at a time.
    

12. How To Display Facebook Statuses On Wordpress Blog

    The following method make use of Facebook status feed and Wordpress RSS widget to display Facebook Statuses on WordPress blog.. It will also work for self-host Wordpress blogs.
    

13. How To Post Your Blog Posts To Your Facebook Wall Automatically

    Wordbook allows you to cross-post your blog posts to your Facebook Wall. Your Facebook “Boxes” tab will show your most recent blog posts.
    

14. How To Access Facebook Chat On Desktop

    Gabtastik and digsby let you keep Facebook chat sessions open on your Windows desktop outside of your regular web browser, using minimal screen real estate and system memory.
    

15. How To Create Quiz On Facebook Easily

    LOLapps provides quiz creator that can be employed to conjure up these popular personality quizzes that are so widespread in Facebook.
    

16. How To Hide Your Online Status On Facebook Chat From Select Contacts

    Facebook has integrated friends list with Chat and you can also choose which of these list members get to see you online.
    

17. How To Get Facebook Updates On Email

    NutshellMail consolidates your Facebook accounts through the inbox you use the most.
    

18. How To Update Facebook Status From Firefox

    FireStatus is a status update utility for multiple social networks, including FaceBook.
    

19. How To Get Facebook On Your Desktop

    Seesmic Desktop, Facebooker, Xobni, Facebook Sidebar Gadget, Scrapboy and Facebook AIR application are desktop applications that allows you interact with your stream just as you would on Facebook, but without the browser.
    

20. How To Delete, Cancel And Terminate Facebook Account And Profile

    A simple guide to terminate, delete or cancel Facebook account, together with the Facebook profile easily.
    
    
    

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