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Chrome Extension Examples
Focused on a specific site. Changes information on that site. May be simply cosmetic or may augment that site with additional functionality/information.
- addons for Gmail (rapportive, Just Not Sorry)
- MusixMatch adds lyrics to youtube videos
Extensions can override your new tab page, the history page and the bookmark page.
Extensions can simply be mini applications that do things unrelated to the current page. For example a calculator extension that pops up a calculator.
- 1Password's extension includes a standalone password generator (also includes additional page-related functionality)
Extensions focused on specific information that they look for on the page and improve it.
- Extensions that detect product prices on a page and show comparison prices
- Extensions that detect unlinked URLs in text and link them
- Extensions that detect location information and show maps
Extensions can be used to increase browsing privacy.
- Ad blockers, e.g. Ghostery
- Panic Button tab hider
Changes information on any/all pages for a specific effect.
- Terrorist to Coward
- Just Not Sorry, MusixMatch (see above)
- XKCD Substitutions
Add a browser action (button in toolbar) to post the current URL to a service.
- Add to Pocket, Submit to Reddit, Share to Facebook, Evernote Web Clipper
Chrome extensions can communicate with running processes on the user's system. Chrome Extensions have this capability or the target process on the machine can open a websocket server that the extension communicates with.
- 1Password
- Atomic Chrome