11 of the Best Free Extensions for Google Chrome - Lifehacker

Chrome is the most popular browser on the planet, so much so that Microsoft decided to rebuild its entire browser using Chromium, the same open-source engine that drives Chrome.

It’s versatile and fast, but what sets Chrome apart is how extensible it can be thanks to a huge variety of extensions that add extra functionality to the browser and web.

If you’re newer to the world of Chrome extensions, start exploring this collection of the best free extensions for Google Chrome.

Let’s start with the start page, and let’s make it both pretty and useful: Momentum is one of the most popular Chrome extensions, and for good reason.

Bitwarden still hasn’t, and it remains one of the most secure password managers with a stellar free plan, and a free-to-use Chrome extension.

Bitwarden’s Chrome extension does everything you’d want to: It saves passwords, helps you generate new ones, and there’s a feature in its Settings that automatically fills saved passwords the moment you open the page.

You can quickly create and use shortcuts right from Chrome, and the extension lets you group related shortcuts as well.

This official extension directly integrates into Google Calendar.

You can create a Zoom meeting schedule, along with a unique URL right when you’re scheduling a meeting in Google Calendar (something that’s natively supported for Google Meet).

Weave Highlighter is free to use, but there’s also a Premium feature if you want unlimited sub-folders, unlimited storage, and color customization.

Like some other extensions on this list, Grammarly has a Premium version, but for most users—even professional writers—the free version is more than enough (I’m using it right now as I write this).

Tab suspender extensions are great for automatically saving resources for websites you aren’t browsing.

After The Great Suspender debacle, it became difficult to trust tab suspender extensions (you’ll still find plenty of them on the Chrome Web Store), but not all hope is lost: The old and trusty OneTab extension is here to help you out.

If you really need an automatic tab suspender extension, try out this secure fork of The Great Suspender

It’ll let websites track you left and right, but there’s something you can do about it: uBlock Origin is the best third-party extension for blocking all sorts of online trackers