Let’s go some years into the future and imagine an Android robot that can do many tasks. This android has nanobots to help it function the best it can. New functional needs emerge and these bots are the little fellas who have to come up with new ways to suffice the need. Chrome extensions are those bots providing features that can make your chrome experience more satisfying. Just like a puzzle chrome extensions as the puzzle pieces make chrome complete. Now let’s check some of the top chrome extensions for 2019.
What are Chrome Extensions Good For?
Google chrome extensions are there to improve your experience with chrome browser. Developers tried to come up with chrome extensions that can keep the pace with the new functional needs the users find every day. These functions vary in a very wide range. From creative functions users want to enjoy in directing their artistic motifs, to security services they can offer. Here we check the best chrome extensions in functions of security, social media, SEO, blogging, and productivity for 2019.
Security
It is needless to say that security is the most important factor in using the internet. Your right to have a free, secure, and private internet experience is of great importance. For that reason many developers tried their best to come up with says to help users preserve this right. Chrome extensions have security functions too.
Chrome VPN extensions and ad blocker extensions are among those ensuring a secure and free internet access. Yet Chrome has another trick under its long sleeve to help you with security that we listed it as one of top chrome extensions in 2019.
HTTPS Everywhere
This chrome extension makes the website you visit more secure. HTTPS Everywhere as an open-source extension is available for Google Chrome, Mozilla Firefox, Opera, Brave, and Firefox for Android. Basically HTTPS Everywhere switches insecure HTTP to the more secure HTTPS to help you avoid surveillance, account hijacking, malware and some forms of censorship. The extension talks of the ability to block and unblock all non-HTTPS connections with one click in its official Chrome web store overview. Although it is only a beta version (with 2.2 million users) but it still rocks enough to be in the 2019 top chrome extensions.
Social Media
Life today has very close ties with social media. This phenomena became an identity collage to introduce ourselves, keep up with the world and keep touch with those we deem close or interesting. Google chrome extensions didn’t let go of this aspect of the internet and have developed many extensions to give us a social media oriented experience with Chrome browser.
RiteTag
In the world of social media hashtags have found their leading role. Using a trending hashtag can give your content more audience. With RiteTag you have color coded help to provide you the best choices of hashtags. This extension gives you hashtag suggestions for texts and images you wanna share on different platforms like, Facebook, Instagram, Pinterest, Twitter, and Buffer. The color codes are as follows based on the extension’s official overview in chrome web store:
GREEN = use this hashtag to get seen now
BLUE = use this hashtag to get seen over time
RED = do not use this hashtag, your ghost will disappear in the crowd
GRAY = do not use this hashtag very few people are following it
SEO
If you are a blogger or for any reason want your posts and content be seen more and increase your website’s traffic you need to follow SEO practice. SEO stands for Search Engine Optimization. The SEO practice consists of three major factors that are, traffic quality, traffic quantity, and organic results.
Quality deals with your web’s audience and the fact they should be targeted audiences. If the search engine introduce you as a kind of website that you’re not, it doesn’t matter if all the people on planet earth visit your site as long as they’re not YOUR audience. Traffic quantity aims the number of those targeted audiences visiting your site. Last but not least the organic result. If you google something like “bicycle” the first two or three results are ads with indicator at the left side. These results are paid and may not be the thing you’re looking for or at least not the exact thing anyway. However, immediately after the paid ad results you have the organic results that is the fruit of a good SEO. Now what does chrome have in store for us here; let’s check it out.
MozBar
To give the users information about the websites’ SEO this chrome extension with half a million users is one of the options you have in the chrome web store for checking out SEO on your browser. You are not gonna need to leave a tab to check out the SEO of the site you’re visiting. There are many options for you on free subscription. However you have the chance to enjoy more features on a premium version with MozBar.
Blogging
Bloggers who are so busy and at times so enthusiastically engaged with a topic that leads them to make mistakes on their writing process can benefit from chrome extensions. Chrome extensions for blogging can help your common mistakes become less common. Here’s what we list as your blogging extension.
Grammarly
If you’re facing misspellings and grammar errors in your blogging and other writing activities here is a chrome extension to the rescue. Grammarly can make your writing and posting life very easy. This can happen on many platforms like, Gmail, Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin, Tumblr, and nearly everywhere else you write on the web.
Here is a YouTube video to showcase how this extension works. As mentioned in their official overview in chrome web store, Forbes in “Top 5 Writing Tips For Entrepreneurs” by Josh Steimle states that, Grammarly “is an online services that quickly and easily makes your writing better and makes you sound like a pro, or at least helps you avoid looking like a fool.”
Productivity
There are different types of productivity chrome extensions available. It ranges from to-do lists like Todoist to recipient analyzer like Rapportive (LinkedIn Sales Navigator). Here we have listed an extension with the goal of logging into multiple accounts a bit easier and faster.
LastPass
Do you use strong passwords? Well, you should. But using strong passwords can be a bit hard for some people to remember. Usually strong passwords are not an easy going phrase and include numbers, capital letters and even symbols. One would argue that memorizing a strong password is not THAT hard; but what if it’s not just one password. As you know and frequently faced in changing your passwords, almost all internet companies ask you NOT to have the same password for your different accounts and emails. So to stay secure you have to have multiple and different strong passwords.
LastPass is your extension to get in your account without trying to remember your strong passwords. The great number of users of 8 million can be reason enough to show how useful it is. Comfortably, you only need to memorize one password that is your LastPass master password. moreover to ensure more security your LastPass account is safe with a multi-factor authentication.
