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10 Useful Chrome Extensions for Web Developers

Sriparno Roy on November 12, 2023

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João L. • Edited

Is there any advantage in using the Window Resizer, when this feature is available natively? You can also add your own presets natively.

Lighthouse is also available directly in Chrome dev tools. Firefox has a different tool but also has accessibility dev tools natively.

Same with Octotree. It was a great extension but this same feature is now available natively in github.

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Sriparno Roy

You're right. Extensions are regularly being incorporated into different applications.

But since it is an article on Chrome extensions, I included the tools as extensions rather than a part of Chrome Dev Tools, GitHub or any such tool.

Thank you for reading!

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João L.

My point stands. Each time you install an extension, you are trusting that it is safe. No malware, no data collection, or any other shady business. It's not unheard of - actually it's sadly common - that popular extensions get sold out to companies that sneakily change the behaviour of the extension. And of course, they update automatically. Chrome's extension moderation is notoriously lacking.

My point is, the less extensions you use, the better. I would never recommend extensions that simply recreate the same features that already exist in the browser. Calling them "useful" is not really factual in this case.

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Sriparno Roy

Truly said. The moment an extension gets sold to a company, it loses its originality.

In my opinion, we can call them useful since the services that they provide are useful. However, I agree with you that if the services are already built into Chrome Dev Tools, GitHub or any other tool, we should definitely utilize them in these tools rather than installing them as separate extensions.

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Pxlmastr

Good suggestions! Just downloaded Requestly because I need that for future development. Thankd!

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Sriparno Roy

You're welcome and good luck on your journey!

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I use this SEO extensions
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Sriparno Roy

That's great!

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Best Codes

Faves: Requestly, Lighthouse, and I use uBlock Origin.

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Sriparno Roy

Nice!

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Buddhi Eashwarage

A good piece of writing

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Sriparno Roy

Thanks, Don!

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Sriparno Roy

You're welcome, Juliana!

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Flowzai

Check my links - also useful for SEO's

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Sriparno Roy

Absolutely!

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Sachin Jain

Hi, @sriparno08, for writing this out. This is Sachin - Founder & CEO, Requestly. So heartful to see Requestly being mentioned here and getting so much ❤️

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Sriparno Roy

Great to meet you, Sachin!

Requestly deserves to be on this list and earn love from the people. It has helped me a lot and it will surely help a lot of others as well.

Good luck on your journey!

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Martin Klestil

Great article, I need to try a few of them.

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Sriparno Roy • Edited

Thanks, Martin!

Try them and see if any of them helps you on your journey.

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Xan

Link Checker is a 404, the app doesn't seem to exist any longer.

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Sriparno Roy

I tested it and it's working fine for me. So, I am keeping it.

Thanks for reading!

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Jordan-Tyler Burchett

Bookmarked.. Thank you for sharing!

Happy Venturing 😉💭

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Sriparno Roy

Thanks, Jordan. Happy venturing to you too!

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Ridho

Thanks

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Sriparno Roy

You're welcome, Ridho!

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ishrat

Good one !!

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Sriparno Roy

Thanks, Ishrat!

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Good job. Thanks a lot

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Sriparno Roy • Edited

You're welcome!

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VAIBHAV MANE

Helped to much thank you

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Sriparno Roy

You're welcome, Vaibhav!