There are a ton of free Chrome extensions to help make your life easier. Here are 40 of the best.

01. iMacros for Chrome

iMacros Chrome extension lets you record actions and save them

02. Font Playground

Font Playground lets you experiment with local fonts on a live web page

03. Project Naptha

If you ever find yourself working from a mockup image with embedded text, Project Naptha could save you a world of mild irritation. Thanks to some smart OCR trickery it enables you to highlight, copy and paste text from any image; it can even translate it for you too.

04. What Font

What font are they using? The What Font Chrome extension can tell you!

05.Hola

Unblock websites and access content, including videos, that aren’t available in your country.

 

06. Web Developer

The Web Developer Chrome extension provides a range of useful dev tools

07. Web Developer checklist

Fix issues quickly with this handy Chrome extension

08. DevTools Autosave

Automatically save any changes to a page's CSS and JS to its source file

09. Instant Wireframe

View live web pages with a wireframe overlay

10. Ripple Emulator

Ripple Emulator offers debugging, DOM inspection and automated testing

11. Streak

Turn an email conversation into a trackable, assignable ticket

12. Search Stackoverflow

Get your questions answered quickly with this must-have extension

13. PHP Ninja Manual

All the PHP 5.5 documentation you need without leaving the browser

14. PerfectPixel

This extension helps you ensure your site matches the design pixel for pixel

15. Code Cola

Edit your web pages' CSS on the spot

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16. Chrome Sniffer

Inspect and detect web applications and JavaScript libraries

17. User Agent Switcher

See how your site looks using different devices

18. IE tab

Test web pages with different versions of IE

19. PicMonkey

Grab every image from a web page with a click of a button

20. Chrome Daltonize

Create images more suitable for viewing by those with Colour Vision Deficiency

Colour Vision Deficiency (CVD) or colour blindness affects millions of people across the globe. This ingenious extension uses daltonization, a technique that allows the creation of images more suitable for viewing by those with CVD. This fantastic extension can be used to simulate how images appear to people with CVD and to help you design a more accessible web app. A great resource to help you design for people with CVD can be found here.

21. Page Ruler

Draw out a ruler on any page with Page Ruler

This simple but useful tool lets your draw out a ruler on any page and providing you with the width, height and position of an element.

22. Check My Links

Finished building a site? Ah, but have you been through and checked all the links? No matter how careful you are, it's inevitable that you'll have overlooked one or two, and checking them all is a tedious chore. Unless! With the Check My Links extension you can simply put it to work and it'll comb through all the links on any page, highlighting valid ones in green and broken ones in red.

.23 Flickr Tab

Smarten up your Chome tabs with beautiful Flickr images.

Are you tired of your Chrome tabs looking dull when you open a new one? The answer to your prayers has arrived in the form of Flickr Tab.
It’s a simple little Extension that displays a popular Fickr photograph each time you open up a window. Click the photo to view it in Flickr, or click the user name to see more photos from the photographer.

.24 Google Art Project

Make each new Chrome tab an adventure in art and discovery with the Google Art Project.

If Flickr Tab and all its glossy images aren’t your thing then maybe Google’s Art Project extension might be more of your thing.
In every new tab you’ll be treated to a hi-res masterpiece from the likes of Van Gogh and Monet. If the images sparks your interest click on it and you’ll be taken to the Google Cultural Institute website which is full of information about the work and its creator.

.25 Data Saver (Beta) 

Save cash when viewing designs on your mobile with Google's compression based Data Saver.

So, your latest bill from your mobile provider was rather toe curling? Don’t panic. You need Data Saver, from Google. The extension does what it says on the tin: it reduces the amount of data used when browsing the web. When enabled, Chrome will use Google servers to compress pages before you download them. There’s only one caveat: SSL and incognito pages won’t be included.
  
26. Keep

Create notes, to-do lists, voice memos and photo notes with searchable text.

27. MightyText

Send and receive SMS text messages from your desktop computer.

  
28.Readability

Send web pages to your Kindle for reading later in a clutter free environment.

29. PushBullet

Send web links, text notes and even push files from computer to your phone.

30. Vimium

Power users can browse the web using keyboard shortcuts. No mouse required.


31. Buffer

Share links to multiple social websites with a go.

32. Clip Better

Don’t send raw links over email, send previews that suggest what a link is all about.


33.Streamus

A YouTube music play for Chrome that also includes a radio.

34. Snappy Snippets

Easily extract CSS and HTML from a web page and send it to CodePen or jsFiddle.

 

 

35.Hover Reader

Read an article simply by hovering over a link.

 

 

36.Bubble Cursor

Easily click links on web pages or type text in input boxes.


37.Dewey

Improved bookmarks manager for Chrome with website thumbnails and instant search.



38. dotEPUB

Convert web pages and documents to EPUB ebooks that you can read offline on your Kindle or iPad.

 39.YouTube Feed

Get notified when new videos are available in your YouTube subscriptions list.


40.Boomerang

You can write an email in Gmail now and schedule it to be sent automatically at the perfect time.