Best Google Chrome Extensions Improve Security and Performance

If Chrome is your favorite web browser and you’re not used on having extensions, then you don’t know what you’re missing! Chrome is popular for its wide variety of extensions that focus on privacy, productivity and more.

We’ve gathered a list with the most interesting free extensions to check out from the Chrome Web Store.

Adblock Plus

The most important and popular extension, Adblock Plus will block ads and allow users to enjoy a web page without hearing videos and seeing thousands of ads everywhere.

AutoMute

This extension will mute all those tabs that you open and start playing unwanted music or other audio non-sense.

OneTab

Save more memory in the OneTab list, reducing the tabs that you’ve opened in Google Chrome.

OneNote Web Clipper

You can do exactly what this extension is called: clip web pages and send them to OneNote.

I’m a Gentleman

You can easily download images from a web page by pressing Alt key and clicking to download or drag to download and more similar options.

Print Friendly & PDF

You can print a web page and let this extension help you by removing ads, navigation and other nonsense so that you get a good printed layout with or without images, with the whole text or only parts of it.

Screencastify

This extension will allow you to record everything you do inside an open tab, including the audio content.

Blur

Blur is a privacy manager that will also help you help you make secure payments. It’s a password generator and a tool that will keep safe you own passwords.

goo.gl URL Shortener

If you’re the kind of person that loves sharing stuff on the internet but the URLs are incredibly long and you’ve grown tired of this, then this is the extension for you.

Speedtest by Ookla

When you need to regularly check your internet performance, then you definitely need Speedtest by Ookla that you can access from your toolbar.

While there are hundreds of extensions on Chrome, each offering something interesting, we do understand that a browser must also be clean and run fast. So choose wisely the extensions you need.