Plug-Ins for Google Chrome
Google Chrome is awesome. If you disagree.. that’s your
issue.. but because I’m a believer in Chrome, I will focus on it in
this post. It’s dealing with the plug-ins that I find most useful
for said browser.
Plug-In #1: IE Tab
Let’s face it.. even though in
November 2010, 20% of people were using Chrome, some webpages just
aren’t compatible. Well.. there’s an option so that you won’t
have to leave the wonderful browser to go to an inferior browser,
such as Internet Explorer or Firefox. This plug in will let
you go to those annoying webpages, and use them in an
internet explorer compatibility, with the speed of Google
Chrome. Now, you won’t be running all pages in this mode
(hopefully) so it will run only when it tells you to.
Plug-In #2:
Lazarus: Form Recovery We all know the
pain of filling out an online form.. by the time you’ve reached the
end, you get the message along the lines of you’ve taken too long.
That’s where this plug-in comes in handy. It caches what you’ve
filled out so far, and if you time out, refresh the page, hit the
Egyptian looking button on the address bar up top.. and it puts
back in all that you’ve written already. Very useful
Plug-In #3:Unfriend Finder
This plug in is for most people in America. These people contribute to one of the
largest hobbies that currently exists. Social Networkers.
Specifically.. Facebookers. This is a good plug in for if you see
your friend list going down. It will tell you when someone’s
account has been deleted/hidden or if they’ve defriended you. This
plug in gets updated frequently, as facebook updates frequently.
Plug-In #4: Site to Phone
Those of us who use iOS
or Android as well as our computers know how sometimes, we wish
that there was a webpage that we could easily transfer from our
computer to our smartphone (or other device). This usually gets
accomplished by emailing the link to your email.. then opening it
on the device.. this is a waste of time. The plug-in here saves
time and energy (not to mention inbox space). What you do is you
open the webpage you wish to send to the smart device.. and you
click on the icon that has an iPhone looking thing with an arrow
pointing up. Once that icon is clicked, you go to your device and
click on the bookmark that you set up to work with this plug in
(they tell you which address to bookmark). That bookmark is then
tied to that link that you wanted to send. When you want a
different one to be on your device.. hit the icon on your browser,
and it sends that link to your smart device.
- Garret
