

From here you can search for the highlighted word in different places and you can look it up on Wikipedia right there.

It also comes with a pretty powerful highlight menu. It provides you with endless scrolling pages across the web, so you never have to go looking for the next button.

If Chrome is your default browser, FastestFox ( UPDATE: This tool is not available anymore) is a must-have. Backtick gives you all the commands in one central location and allows you to launch them quickly.

Of course you can do all of this by dragging bookmarklets to your bookmarks bar but that can get complicated very fast. Here’s a taste of what Backtick can do for you: download videos, skip YouTube ads, share content on various social networks, identify the fonts used on the website, resize view-port and bring up rulers and guides, or check to see if the website is down for you or for everyone. To see the full list, just hit space once. From the console you can type in any command, hit enter and it will be executed. You can launch it by pressing the Tilda key (`). It comes pre-packaged with lots of functionality. Backtickīacktick is a console for bookmarklets. Here are our picks for the top multi-purpose extensions available for Chrome. So, instead of running dozens of different single purpose extensions, why not try some of these all-in-One extensions instead. And running multiple extensions at once can only make it worse. Also, with Chrome Packaged Apps gaining traction against desktop apps, the Chrome ecosystem has matured a lot.Īs advanced as Chrome is when it comes to web technologies, it is still a pretty big memory hog. It’s not surprising though, with the plethora of extensions available to fulfill your every need. So much so that people have started using Chromebooks to do real work. Chrome is rapidly turning into a beast of an ecosystem.
