The Ultimate List of Chrome Extensions for Developers


Chrome’s capabilities can be vastly expanded with thousands of add-ons and extensions that make it possible to perform a variety of tricks, test websites and apps in development, experiment with other fonts and layouts, and generally be a more productive developer. The most helpful, user-friendly and feature-rich Chrome extensions — designed, of course, with the challenging tasks of developers in mind.
Chrome Extension details listed are accurate as of  18th May 2018

LastPass: Free Password Manager

Users: 7,231,054 Review: by 27364 Person Rating: 4.5/5 Stars
LastPass, an award-winning password manager, saves your passwords and gives you secure access from every computer and mobile device.
You have a ton of passwords to keep track of, so let LastPass do it for you securely. It’s practically impossible to remember dozens of passwords and login credentials for the many sites the average person needs to use, let alone a developer. Thanks to LastPass, you can remember just one single, secure password and let this extension handle the heavy-duty lifting.
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IE Tab

Users: 3,839,377 Review: by 19025 Person Rating: 4.5/5 Stars
Display web pages using IE within Chrome. Use Java, Silverlight, ActiveX, Sharepoint, and more. A "Top 10" extension since 2009!
Display web pages by using IE from within Chrome with the IE Tab extension. It works only in Windows, but this helpful extension enables you to use Java, ActiveX, Sharepoint, Silverlight, and more to test your website with different versions of IE without actually leaving Chrome.
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Click&Clean

Users: 3,837,290 Review: by 58874 Person Rating: 5/5 Stars
Deletes typed URLs, Cache, Cookies, your Download and Browsing History...instantly, with just 1-click on Click&Clean button!
Click&Clean is an innovative and totally free solution for your PC. that will help you to:
  • Scan your PC for Malware
  • Delete your browsing history
  • Remove download history
  • Erase temporary files
  • Clear cookies and Empty cache
  • Delete client-side Web SQL Databases
  • Remove Flash Cookies (LSOs)
  • Protect your privacy by cleaning up all traces of your internet activity,
  • Clean up your hard drives and Free up more disk space, icluding secure file deletion using external applications, like CCleaner or Wise Disk Cleaner.
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Awesome Screenshot: Screen Video Recorder

Users: 2,042,262 Review: by 17738 Person Rating: 4.5/5 Stars
Screencast, record screen as video. Screen capture for full page, annotate, blur sensitive info, and share with one-click uploads.
Capture and annotate your screen to better communicate changes you recommend or want to be made with Awesome Screenshot, a fast and easy-to-use extension for quickly grabbing screenshots for anything you want to share or preserve. Grab the full screen or a partial screen, add notes and annotate, make comments, and blur personal or sensitive information before sharing.
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Search by Image (Google)

Users: 1,205,776 Review: by 4752 Person Rating: 4.5/5 Stars
This extension allows you to initiate a Google search using any image on the web. By the Google Images team.
Search by Image is Google’s own reverse image search add-on, enabling you to initiate a Google search using any image on the web. Simply right-click on any image on the web and select “Search Google with this image.” Or, if it’s an extension you’ll use frequently, you can add a clickable Search by Image icon that appears when you point to an image for easier access.
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Web Developer

Users: 1,088,494 Review: by 3355 Person Rating: 4.5/5 Stars
Adds a toolbar button with various web developer tools.
A toolbar for your browser with a full suite of just about everything you need to look into the elements of a webpage, Web Developer is a must for any developer or programmer. Web Developer is also available for Firefox and Opera, and it will run on any platform these browsers support including Windows, Mac OS, and Linux.
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WhatFont

Users: 949,064 Review: by 1640 Person Rating: 4/5 Stars
The easiest way to identify fonts on web pages.
When you need to identify the font used on a web page but don’t want to deal with Firebug or WebKit Inspector, WhatFont is the quickest and easiest way to do so. Just select the text you want to identify and hover over it with your mouse for instant identification.
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Tab Resize/

Users: 853,831 Review: by 887 Person Rating: 4/5 Stars
Split Screen made easy. Resize the CURRENT tab and tabs to the RIGHT into layouts on separate windows. w/ Multi Monitor Support.
Tab Resize makes working in a split screen easy by enabling you to resize the current tab and tabs to the right in separate windows, plus it offers multi-monitor support. Resize all your tabs and display them in organized layouts on your screen to simulate multi-monitor setups with this easy-to-use extension.
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Page Ruler

Users: 781,696 Review: by 2012 Person Rating: 4/5 Stars
Draw a ruler to get pixel dimensions and positioning, and measure elements on any web page.
Page Ruler allows you to render a ruler on any web page, providing you with the width, height, and position (top, bottom, left, and right) of any page elements you want to measure. Easily resize or re-position the ruler by dragging its edges or using the arrow keys or manually update the ruler’s size and position from the toolbar for more precise adjustments. Page Ruler also features an “Element Mode,” which outlines elements on a page as you mouse over them. Plus, you can navigate through parents, children, and sibling elements of any measuring element.
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Wappalyzer

Users: 732,242 Review: by 1550 Person Rating: 4.5/5 Stars
Identify web technologies
Wappalyzer is a cross-platform utility that uncovers the technologies used on websites. It detects content management systems, ecommerce platforms, web frameworks, server software, analytics tools and many more.
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Clear Cache

Users: 713,895 Review: by 932 Person Rating: 4.5/5 Stars
Clear your cache and browsing data with a single click of a button.
Clear your cache and browsing data with a single click thanks to Clear Cache, all without dealing with frustrating confirmation dialogs, pop-ups, and other annoyances. You can even customize what and how much of your data you want to clear by specifying your preferences on the options page, including App Cache, Cache, Cookies, Downloads, File Systems, Form Data, History, Indexed DB, Local Storage, Plugin Data, Passwords and WebSQL. Even better, you can delete cookies globally, just for specific domains, or for everything excluding specific domains.
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ColorPick Eyedropper

Users: 686,614 Review: by 1115 Person Rating: 4/5 Stars
An eye-dropper & color-picker tool that allows you to select color values from webpages.
Color Picker is an eyedropper and color picker tool that allows you to quickly grab the color value for any location on a web page. It also features a zoomed, drag-able preview so you can hone in on the precise color you want to grab for pixel-perfect accuracy. This extension attempts to use the lossless PNG quality to detect colors, although it’s possible to disable this feature to use JPEG quality if needed. Pro licenses are available for business users as well.
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Eye Dropper

Users: 601,831 Review: by 1715 Person Rating: 4/5 Stars
Eye Dropper is open source extension which allows you to pick colors from web pages, color picker and your personal color history.
An Open Source extension for easily picking colors from web pages, color picker, and your personal color history, Eye Dropper is a free and convenient extension for Google Chrome and Chromium. Every picked color is stored in your personal history so you can quickly locate any color that you’ve previously used.
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Firebug Lite for Google Chrome™

Users: 543,279 Review: by 1911 Person Rating: 4/5 Stars
Firebug Lite for Google Chrome, supported by the Firebug Working Group.
Firebug Lite for Google Chrome is supported by Firebug Working Group and allows you to inspect Source Code, HTML, and CSS right in your browser. It’s not a substitute for Firebug or Chrome Developer Tools; instead, it’s designed to be used in conjunction with these tools, offering functionality such as rich visual representations of HTML elements, DOM elements, and Box model shading, as well as the ability to inspect HTML elements with your mouse, live editing CSS properties, and more.
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TinEye Reverse Image Search

Users: 355,561 Review: by 1789 Person Rating: 4.5/5 Stars
Find out where an image came from, how it's used, or find higher resolution versions.
The first reverse image search engine on the web to rely on image identification technology (as opposed to keywords, metadata or watermarks), TinEye makes it simple to quickly find the original source of almost any image. It creates a unique fingerprint for every image searched, then compares it to every other image in the database to find exact matches (not similar matches), including exact matches that have been edited, cropped, or resized. Tens of millions of new images are added every week.
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iMacros for Chrome

Users: 368,140 Review: by 2285 Person Rating: 3.5/5 Stars
Automate your web browser. Record and replay repetitious work
iMacros for Chrome is an extension that streamlines the testing process by allowing you to record and save your actions — saving you the time you’d otherwise spend repeating the same process over and over again. Designed to automate the most repetitious tasks on the web, iMacros for Chrome is sure to save you hours of precious time.
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YSlow

Users: 276,367 Review: by 298 Person Rating: 4/5 Stars
Make your pages faster with Yahoo!'s page performance tool
YSlow is a page performance tool that gives you insights on how to make your pages load faster by analyzing web pages and making suggestions based on a set of rules for high-performance web pages. This extension also summarizes page components and displays page statistics, making it a valuable tool for developers. The complete changelog and source code are available on GitHub
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Clipular! Research, save & share screenshot

Users: 247,613 Review: by 1765 Person Rating: 4/5 Stars
Screen capture, reinvented. Organize, search & bookmark the web.
Clipular is another screen-capture extension for Chrome, offering the same easy capture as Awesome Screenshot along with the ability to auto-save your clips in Google Drive. It’s essentially a screen-capture tool plus bookmarking capabilities, making it a useful extension for developers who want to save documentation or gather inspiration from around the web for their next project.
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Linkclump

Users: 243,927 Review: by 3343 Person Rating: 4.5/5 Stars
Lets you open, copy or bookmark multiple links at the same time.
Drag over multiple links to open them all at once in new tabs with Linkclump. Simply drag a selection box around a group of links with your mouse to instantly open them all in new tabs, open in a new window, save as bookmarks, or copy to your clipboard. The source code for this helpful extension is available on GitHub
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BuiltWith Technology Profiler

Users: 223,281 Review: by 469 Person Rating: 4.5/5 Stars
Find out what the website you are visiting is built with using this extension.
Find out how a website is built with the click of a button thanks to BuiltWith Technology Profiler, a handy website profiler tool that couldn’t be simpler to use. After you click the BuiltWith icon, this extension returns with all the technologies it can find on any web page.
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AutoPagerize

Users: 206,110 Review: by 1486 Person Rating: 4.5/5 Stars
A browser Extension for auto loading paginated web pages. AutoPagerize use in many web site, and provide efficiently web browsing.
Load paginated pages in one page with AutoPagerize, a handy, straightforward little tool that makes web browsing more efficient.
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Website Blocker

Users: 187,685 Review: by 1127 Person Rating: 4/5 Stars
Website Blocker is useful when you want to concentrate on work.
Block your access to specific websites that you know will distract you from your work with Website Blocker. If you find yourself wasting time on sites like Facebook and Twitter, this extension will prevent you from accessing the sites that tend to suck your time so you can focus on the work that matters. The wiki for this tool and its source code can be found on GitHub
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PerfectPixel by WellDoneCode

Users: 173,833 Review: by 509 Person Rating: 4.5/5 Stars
This extension helps develop your websites with per pixel accuracy!
PerfectPixel lets you overlay a semi-transparent image on a webpage to perform a pixel-to-pixel comparison. Useful for both developers and markup designers, this extension makes it possible to develop sites with pixel-by-pixel precision.
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Session Manager

Users: 172,914 Review: by 2602 Person Rating: 3.5/5 Stars
Session Manager lets you save sessions of your opened tabs and windows, and to quickly re-open them whenever you like.
Save sessions to quickly view a huge number of tabs you may have open at a later date. With Session Manager, you can quickly and easily save your current browser state at any time, allowing you to instantly bring all your tabs back up again whenever you need them. It’s also helpful for grouping sites together with a similar purpose, such as a collection of your social media profiles, tabs related to certain projects, and the like.
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Check My Links

Users: 170,612 Review: by 412 Person Rating: 4/5 Stars
Check My Links is a link checker that crawls through your webpage and looks for broken links.
Are all the links on your site working? Check it out with this fast-acting extension. Check My Links is an easy-to-use add-on that crawls your site to check for broken links, developed for web designers, developers, and content editors. The source code for this tool is available on GitHub
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Resolution Test

Users: 131,239 Review: by 546 Person Rating: 4/5 Stars
An extension for developers to test web pages in different screen resolutions, with an option to define your own resolutions
Test how your app or site displays on a wide variety of screen resolutions with Resolution Test. The most common resolutions are offered in a helpful list you can easily choose from, but you can also customize it to preview your site in any resolution.
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User-Agent Switcher

Users: 114,405 Review: by 343 Person Rating: 4/5 Stars
Switches User-Agent strings to mimic, spoof or fake other browsers or bots.
Trick the web into thinking you’re on a different browser or device to see how your app or site performs with User-Agent Switcher, which enables you to spoof Internet Explorer to visit IE-only sites, pretend you’re on your iPhone to experience the mobile version of your site, see how a site renders when it believes you to be Google’s search spider, and more. With a slew of user agents to choose from, User-Agent Switcher allows you to spoof practically any browser or device.
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Dimensions

Users: 82,797 Review: by 316 Person Rating: 4/5 Stars
A tool for designers to measure screen dimensions
Dimensions is another handy Chrome extension especially useful for designers who need to measure screen dimensions and other elements on a web page. Measure between elements such as images, input fields, buttons, videos, .gifs, text, and icons — essentially, anything you can see in your browser, mockups, area boundaries, and more with Dimensions. This extension is Open Source, hosted on GitHub
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Pendule

Users: 64,718 Review: by 816 Person Rating: 4.5/5 Stars
Web developer tools for Chrome.
Pendule extends Chrome’s built-in developer tools with even more information, and it’s loaded with features such as viewing/reloading CSS, disabling styles, converting select inputs to text inputs, showing hidden elements, viewing and editing JavaScript, validating HTML and CSS, and a whole lot more.
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PageEdit

Users: 49,666 Review: by 226 Person Rating: 3/5 Stars
Edit any HTML page into Chrome with this powerful WYSIWYG editor
Transform your browser into a WYSIWYG HTML editor with Page Edit, which uses CKEditor as a WYSIWYG editor and CodeMirror as a source editor. It offers syntax color highlighting in source editor mode, a basic embedded save dialog, and the ability to edit files stored on HDD. The source code is available on GitHub.
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Validity

Users: 47,658 Review: by 264 Person Rating: 4/5 Stars
Click the icon in the address bar or press Alt+Shift+V to validate the current page. Results can be seen in Chrome's JS console.
Quickly validate your code by clicking an icon in your browser’s address bar with the Validity extension for Chrome. Simply click on the icon in the toolbar to validate the current HTML document without leaving the page. The source code for this Open Source extension is available on GitHub
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After the Deadline

Users: 29,374 Review: by 354 Person Rating: 4/5 Stars
Check spelling, style, and grammar in your browser
Sometimes you’re too busy worrying about coding and development to worry about spelling, style, and grammar. Let this extension help! After the Deadline uses AI to evaluate your spelling, style, and grammar with a simple click of the ABC icon in the lower-right corner of an editable area.
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Tape

Users: 15,329 Review: by 140 Person Rating: 4.5/5 Stars
Measurement tools, rulers and grids
For pixel-perfect web development, Tape is a valuable Chrome add-on that lets you put down guides that snap to your page content and stay securely affixed even if an element moves on a scroll or resize. Easily measure the positions and sizes of any page element with Tape, which offers on-screen help, the ability to display user-defined row and column grids, and even a built-in magnifying glass for maximum precision.
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Bukket - Screen Capture, Screenshot & Record

Users: 14,977 Review: by 89 Person Rating: 4.5/5 Stars
The First Ever All-in-One Screenshot, Screen Capture and Recording app! Everything made possible within the browser.
Bukket is a super handy extension for Chrome that enables you to take screenshots as well as screen capture and record. If you need to create a quick tutorial or demonstrate a usability issue, Bukket is the add-on you’ll rely on. A simple, reliable visual bookmarking tool, Bukket makes it possible to capture and record animated GIFs right from your browser.
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Forget Me - Clean History, Cookies & more

Users: 11,991 Review: by 119 Person Rating: 4/5 Stars
Delete everything about a website. Cookies, History, localStorage, sessionStorage...everything!
Delete everything about a website, including cookies, history, local and session storage, and every tidbit of information with Forget Me. All it takes is a simple click of the icon to permanently erase any indication that you’ve ever visited a website.
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Marmoset

Users: 11,659 Review: by 63 Person Rating: 4.5/5 Stars
Create gorgeous code snapshots.
Marmoset makes it possible to create beautiful code snapshots in just seconds, outputting your code for wireframes and markups. Plus, you can add themes and other effects for using snapshots in your portfolio. It’s a simplistic, intuitive add-on that simply does what it says, and it earns a coveted 5-star rating from users for its reliable performance.
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Chrome Daltonize!

Users: 6,387 Review: by 135 Person Rating: 4/5 Stars
Daltonization is a technique of exposing details to color-blind users, allowing them see what they otherwise would have missed.
Test your apps and sites for accessibility from the colorblind with Chrome Daltonize! This extension uses Daltonization, which is a technique for making details visible to color-blind users that they wouldn’t otherwise be able to detect. With two different filters, you can visualize how elements appear to people who are color blind or Daltonize elements to make difficult-to-detect details visible.
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HTML Instant

Users: 4,621 Review: by 62 Person Rating: 4/5 Stars
Real-time HTML Editor
With HTML Instant, you can edit HTML code in real-time. Simply enter your JavaScript, HTML, and CSS code in the left pane and see your changes render instantly in the right pane. It’s a useful tool for on-the-fly editing as well as for coding instruction.
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  1. For web developers I recommend Daily Chrome Extension which is a great tool for busy developers to stay up to date with the latest dev news and articles. https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/daily-now-source-for-busy/jlmpjdjjbgclbocgajdjefcidcncaied

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