Top 15 Chrome Extensions For Developers

Among all the browsers out there, Chrome is undoubtedly the most used by normal internet users and especially developers. Such overwhelming numbers of active users is perhaps the reason behind such a strong community and the abundance of extensions which are available in the web store for normal internet users and developers. There are extensions dime-a-dozen for anything and everything on Chrome, but few extensions stand out more than the others, and a definitive list of the top 15 google chrome extensions for developers has been compiled for the benefit of all the readers.

1. Usernap –

It is one of the best google chrome extension for developers as it lets them quickly screenshot the bugs along with annotating them. This extension provides a super-easy way to provide visual feedback about the bugs that have been annotated. Used by developers in some of the biggest tech companies (Facebook, Google, Microsoft) of our times, it’s also won numerous awards which have helped it in getting featured by the likes of Forbes and Techcrunch. 

2. Wappalyzer –

Using this extension, with just a simple, solitary click one can find out the myriad web technologies behind a certain site. It’s very smart and can even detect web frameworks. It provides information about technologies, web services, content management systems and also installed analytics tools. 

3. Session Buddy –

This has proven to be a life savior for many developers around the world. Users can switch between tabs if and when they need them, which comes in handy when developers are working on more than one project at the same time (most developers do so). It allows developers to manage browser tabs and bookmarks with effortless ease along with organizing saved tabs by topic. 

4. Ghostery –

 Using this extension, one is easily able to see what plugins and trackers are installed on the web pages, that they may have visited. It’s very easy to use this, doesn’t require a sign-up or registration and best of it all, it completely protects your privacy, living up to its name. It also speeds up websites but blocking all ads and trackers. It enhances focus by reducing clutter on the web page so that you can focus on things that merits your attention on a certain page. For many developers it’s the absolute best “Ad SPAM Blocker” and its popularity continues to sore with every passing day. 

5. Web Developer –

 With origins in the PNH Developer Toolbar, this extension adds a toolbar to your tab which has a lot of different tools. This tool comes in handy for a lot of developer around the world in their day-to-day work. The options in the toolbar can be very easily enabled or disabled and it comes packed with Plugins, along with very rich information relating to website development. It’s considered to be a superior version of Chrome Inspector and is widely popular and extensively used. It is supremely effective, does the job of more than 10 extensions and does it better than of all them combined, single-handedly. 

6. CSSViewer –

This extension proves the basic CCS information needed by developers in a very quick time. It’s extensively used by developers around the world and moving the floating panel with the mouse is enough to know about the identity of the section along with attributes as font, text, color, and background. Originally made by Nicolas Huon as a FireFox add-on, it has been a Google extensively for many years now and has grown exponentially to become one of the must-have extensions for developers around the world. To enable this, one just has to click the icon and then hover the floating panel over any element on the page that they wish to inspect. The code is very well written and it is really helpful for front end developers. 

7. actiTIME –

 This tool is meant to measure productivity and also helps the developers in being honest to their self-determined goals or the expectations of their clients/ developers. The amount of time spent on a project and its relative worth can be easily analyzed using this extension which makes developers more productive. It is a scope management tool which makes time tracking very easy and also enjoyable. There’s no need to switch between tabs while using this to record your time and that’s something which has gone down well with the majority of the web developers. 

8. ColorPick Eyedropper –

Working very true to its name, this extension allows developers to select color values from any web page that they may be on. Colors are picked from a snapshot which is updated when you scroll along with the page. It’s as easy as that! It also comes packed with zoom loupe features and is one of the most extensively used extensions by developers around the world. Simple, easy to do, playing true to its description, has won it a legion of fans, which continues to grow exponentially. It is also very intuitive and not confusing like most other color pickers. 

9. iMacros for Chrome –

A developer can easily use this extension to automate tasks that need to be taken care of on a repetitive basis. Actions can be recorded and saved effortlessly using this extension, which saves time and enhances productivity. It comes in handy when you need to fill out forms, remember passwords and even while creating a webmail notifier. Any activity that you undertake or plan to do continuously, can be easily recorded and saved in iMacros. It is used by developers all around the world for web regression testing, performance testing, and web transaction monitoring.

10. Marmoset –

This is a very effective extension which is also very easy and fun to use. It is used primarily by developers for creating third-dimensional screenshots of their code. The screenshotted image of the code can be rotated and skewed in different directions, making it very easy to create snippets out of them. Gorgeous 3D snapshots can be created within seconds, which is one of the major reasons for the wide popularity of this extension among developers. 

11. User-Agent Switcher –

 This extension is undoubtedly the best out of all the other extensions of a similar kind that are available for use on the web-store. It is very reliable and often goes through updates to become a better and much-improved version of its self. Your browser “User-Agent” string can be effortlessly spoofed into a custom one, using this extension. All browsers on this extension are very responsive, up to date and work way better than other extensions of a similar nature in the market. It works on Chrome as well as Chromium (Ubuntu) increasing the options at the disposal of the developers who use it. 

12. Click&Clean –

This is a life-savior for many developers who have to deal with the nuisance of constantly clearing browser data while developing a website. Clearing website data is integral to loading fresh changes, but it can get very cumbersome at times. To the benefit of all developers who face this problem, this Click&Clean is available on the Chrome web store and works like absolute magic. This extension makes the entire process of cleaning website data a lot faster along with giving you more control and choices or what you can clean. It also erases temporary files, clears cookies and empty caches along with protecting the privacy of the users by deleting all traces of their online activity.

13. Lorem Ipsum Generator –

It is a known fact that when developing a website of any kind, the need for dummy text is all but inevitable. There is no shortage of tools generating the same on the internet, but no one of them is as easy to use and accessible as the Lorem Ipsum Generator. It is always just a click away from you on your current tab and can be used any time you feel the need of using so. It’s lightning-fast and gives you the allows avenues of customization of as many paragraphs that you may want or need along with the exact number of sentences per paragraph. It is very efficiently optimized for quick usage and hardly gives the users any reason to complain. 

14. WhatFont –

This extension provides a much faster way to inspecting the font-family of an element on a page. Using this extension, developers can simply hover the mouse over a text and the font size is visible along with its font family and other necessary information that comes along with it. It is very simple to use and is loved by the majority of the developers for the same. Services used for serving the web fonts can also be detected upon the use of this extension. 

15. Check My Links –

It is a norm among all developers to check the functionality of hyperlinks during the final stages of the developmental phase. This extension makes the job very easy for developers. A mere click, upon the installation of this extension, can easily highlight all the links of the page depending on whether they are working or broken. It crawls through the web page and bringing to your attention the broken links, saving a lot of your time. It is very effective for developers as well as web designers and content editors.