The constant efforts of the Google marketing juggernaut—and improvements by the development team—are paying off: Google Chrome is now the second most-used web browser worldwide, according to Stat Counter. Chrome is even threatening Internet Explorer's long-standing top spot.
With such a sleek, efficient, and streamlined interface, it seems almost a shame to add extensions that may bloat Chrome's resources. Still, there are a lot of really useful extensions available on the Chrome Web Store. Here are 40 choice picks based on our experience as well as some reader recommendations.
Watch this space for future updates as we change this list to include newer and better extensions. Let us know what you think, and feel free to leave suggestions in the comments.
No Adblock? No Video downloader? And what about something like NoScript?
Anyone that uses more than 5 extensions might be out of league. You don't want to install 30!
also another one : let chrome read out text pages
http://www.thenetizens.net/2012/01/google-chrome-let-browser-read-out-text.html
https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/hhpfhdhkcdkngbomgbfbocoflbflfcac
it's just beautiful.
AdBlock, Google Analytics OFF, Search by Image and GMail! Its enough for me, once I had like 20 extensions, but the chrome get slow and I didn't use half of them, so I reinstalled only with the ones I always use =)
The best new tab app for chrome, www.newtabfeeder.com
the Instagram dashboard + News Feeds
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kxE_hp_KR8M.
there's a much better one for videos (with an option to save and sync with iPad and iPhone):
https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/jhodopgnkbcmfgggehanaepcofglnboh?utm_source=chrome-ntp-icon
https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/nbfjhlpinelhnncgfpgfekddidnbnaab?utm_source=chrome-ntp-icon
and here's the extension since if u are music blog addict like I am you'll really need it:
https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/lknifikfkjjpclpholpdemhogkifnaca?utm_source=chrome-ntp-icon
Those are the only 2 things anyone really needs. I have tried several other extensions but they tend to just cause clutter and get in the way, and things start looking like FireFox. If I wanted a cluttered mess I would just use FF, but I don't so I use Chrome.