Many developers use Chrome as their primary browser for development.
Google Chrome already has a lot of built-in features, like the Chrome DevTools; which can help you edit pages on-the-fly, audit web pages and diagnose problems quickly; however, you can extend your Chrome browser using some extensions to improve your productivity.
Wappalyzer
Wappalyzer is simply a technology profiler that shows you what websites are built with.
It uncovers more than a thousand technologies in dozens of categories such as programming languages, analytics, marketing tools, payment processors, CRM, CDN and others.
Fake Filler
This extension is probably one of my best, especially when it comes to filling a form with a lot of fields.
Just by right-clicking and selecting Fill all inputs, you have a form with randomly generated fake data.
JSONView
If you work with JSON, this extension is definitely for you.
JSONView formats and prints JSONP and JSON in the browser in a tempting format.
It also allows for customizable themes, syntax highlighting, clickable URLs, collapsible nodes, the choice to show line numbers, etc.
Code Cola
Code Cola is just another cool Chrome extension for editing online pages' CSS style visually and sharing CSS properties.
The Great Suspender
This extension suspends tabs that have not been viewed after a configurable length of time, this way freeing up the memory and CPU being consumed by that tab.
Some other cool features include:
- Optionally show screen capture of tab before it was suspended
- Detects tabs playing audio and can prevent them from suspending
- Whitelist specific URLs or domains that you do not want to suspend