4 Chrome Extensions That I Like

Okay I have a hit or miss relationship with browser extensions. ¬¨‚ĆOften the culprit of a malfunctioning browser is a bad extensions like a “coupon printer” or another piece of malware that is disguised as a browser improvement. ¬¨‚ĆWith this disclaimer I do like the following four Extensions.

1.  Google Dictionary
2. Google Scholar
3. Ublock Origin
4. Ghostery

Using a Mac a great way to use extensions is to use two Chrome based browsers.  I use Chromium from here  and Google Chrome from here.

What is great about these two browsers is they are almost identical but keep their extensions separate.  So you can use Chromium for example and load all four of my extensions above and then keep Google Chrome as an extension free unmodified browser that you can fall back on if a page does not load correctly.  This way I use Chromium 99% of the time with these extensions and when I find a rare site that does not work I simply load it in Google Chrome.

Here are my Big Three Browsers.  You can see that I have Google Chrome (which I leave extension and app free) and Chromium which I use primary for most web activities.