Chrome Addon: Google Reader Readable

If you don’t like the default view of Google Reader, this extension gets rid of all the distractions and gives you a nice and minimal view of the current article.

Extremely minimal design for focusing purely on the readability of current article. Designed for zero-distraction reading.

An extremely minimal design focused purely on the readability of the current article. If you care for a zero-distraction reading experience this is for you. Some less used features are hidden. Left navigation is visible only on hover to not distract you while you are reading articles.
You will need to learn some Google Reader shortcuts – j,k,u, f,1,2,o

“Shift + A” to mark all as read in a group

Download Chrome Addon: Google Reader Readable

Auto Refresh Chrome Addon

Want a particular web page to auto refresh? (for example a news site) No problem. Chrome addon Easy Auto Refresh does just that for you.

Automatically reloads web pages after any number of seconds.

* Auto-refresh and auto-reload pages after any number of seconds.
* Set different delays per page or tab.
* Remembers your settings per page.
* Remembers web page scroll position.
* It just plain works!

Automatically refresh and reload any page or tab after a specified number of seconds. Simply enter the number of seconds between reloads and click Start. You can specify different intervals per tab. Settings are saved per web page URL. To stop auto-refresh, just click Stop.

Easy Auto Refresh is an easy extension to auto-refresh and auto-reload your pages with ease.

Download Chrome Addon: Easy Auto Refresh

The View Image Info (properties) extension lets you do just that. It lets you easily see an image size, URL and more through right click menu.

Get properties(including dimensions, URL, file size, file type info) of the image your cursor is pointing to via context menu.

Download Chrome addon View Image Info (properties)

It can be annoying if you switched from Firefox because it remembered all passwords.

There are two methods to get around this.

1) Use the Autocomplete = on addon.

Are there some websites where the browser never prompts to remember your password? It might not be the browser’s fault — it could be the webpage telling the browser not to save the password. If you don’t like having to remember these or write them down, you can use this extension to allow the browser to save the password.

Download Autocomplete = on Chrome addon

2) If it doesn’t work, visit the login page using Firefox and enter your username and password. Firefox will save it. Now import Firefox passwords into Chrome.

Next time you visit the site using Google Chrome, It’ll remember the password and auto fill it for you.

Chrome Addon: TabJump

Does this scenario look familiar?

You start your browsing session, and start opening your favorite sites in separate tabs, then you come across new interesting links that you open into new tabs.

You have a big stack of tabs sitting in your browser before you know it, and you feel completely lost.

This is where TabJump comes in. TabJump is a Google Chrome tab manager / navigator. It lets you quickly jump to most used tabs, related tabs to your current tab and much more.

Here are main features at a glance:

- Jump to frequently used tabs
- Jump to related tabs (tabs from the same site, etc)
- Restore recently closed tabs
- Lock a tab to prevent accidental closing (only work for tabs loaded after TabJump is installed)

Download and install Chrome addon TabJump here

Chrome Addon Mouse Gestures

Chrome doesn’t include mouse gestures by default. But thanks to this nifty addon, you can drag your mouse around the web pages to navigate back and forth and perform other tasks.

If you’re new to mouse gestures, here’s how they work. You hold down your right mouse button, then drag your mouse in certain direction – for example to left – and whatever is assigned to that particular mouse gesture will be performed, like going back to the last web page. Pretty cool, huh?

Mouse stroke also lets you define your own mouse stokes (gestures) other than the predefined ones.

Install Mouse Stroke Chrome addon here.

Page Rank for Chrome shows the Google PageRank for the current website.

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Prerequisites:

To install and use extensions in Chrome you have to be on the dev channel and start Chrome with the parameter –enable-extensions. Now download the extension below. Choose OK in the dialog that is shown. Now the plugin should be installed.

Download Chrome PageRank checker

Chrome Addon: Google Chrome Channel Chooser