Social Machinery

Google has been working hard on giving a lift to Google Chrome platform. Even do still there is a long way to go, during the last two week some interesting developments put additional hope on Chrome’s future. For instance they launched a Beta version for Mac and Linux and also a extensions gallery from where you can upload and download a growing number of applications.

The current gallery is extremely simple, but you can get a good feeling on the top applications downloaded by users. And based on that ranking, I would like to share the top 10 extensions for Google Chrome.

Click & Clean: HotCleaner provides browser add-ons for Internet Explorer, Firefox and now Chrome that add 1-click cleanup of your cookies, browsing and history. Click & Clean sports several options, including the ability to launch an external application when you click the small icon on the navigation bar.
Google Mail Checker: Alter you install this extension a small Gmail icon will appear on the top of the navigation bar, showing number of new mails without the need of login to your Gmail account every time. If you click on any of those new emails you will be redirected to your Gmail account.

AdThwart: Advertising blocker for spamming or the massive amount of annoying intrusive advertising found on the web.
Minimize to Tray (Windows only): You can get additional space on your taskbar by installing Minimize to Tray and the Chrome is discretely tucked away in the system tray.

Google Translate: Based on Google translate service; you can instantly translate any site of information without going to Google translate site.

RSS Subscription Extension: This extension detects the particular feed of a site you are visiting and show it in a small icon in the direction bar. If you click on this incon, a new page will be open showing the content of that specific feed and the options to add on to several readers like Google Reader, iGoogle, Bloglines and Myahoo.

Google Wave Notifier: Similar to Google Mail Checker but instead of unread mails it will show new “waves”.

Xmarks Bookmark Sync: Probably you have used this extension in other browsers. Essentially, you can synch marks between devices and browsers. Two options worth knowing about:

1.Encryption: by default, Xmarks only encrypts logins. In the options screen, you can tell it to encrypt all communication.

2.Automatic sync: want your extension to periodically update changes in the background? Set this option so you don’t have to perform manual syncs.

IE Tab: After you install this plug-in you can visualize webs with the rendering engine from Internet explorer

Cooliris: Cool extension for watching content from sites like Flicrk or Youtube on 3D.

Docs PDF/PowerPoint Viewer: Very useful plug-in, where you can visualize PDF and Powerpoint document directly from the browser without the new of any other additional plug-in.

Chrome Bird: Are you a Twitter fan? If yes, you can definitively use this extension for controlling all your activity on Twitter from your browser.

LastPass: LastPass was one of my favorite extensions for Firefox now ready for a Chrome Extension.