{"id":135911,"date":"2019-09-19T13:37:21","date_gmt":"2019-09-19T11:37:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sftarticles.wpenginepowered.com\/en\/?p=135911"},"modified":"2025-07-01T21:31:00","modified_gmt":"2025-07-02T04:31:00","slug":"11-hidden-google-chrome-features-extensions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/11-hidden-google-chrome-features-extensions\/","title":{"rendered":"11 hidden Google Chrome features and extensions to know"},"content":{"rendered":"

If you’re like us, your Chrome browser is more than a portal to the rest of the web\u2014it\u2019s a picture of your online life.<\/p>\n

Stores your settings, knows your habits more than your friends, family, or significant other. Scary, sure. But, convenient nonetheless.<\/p>\n

Sure, the debate between which browser is best wages on\u2014with the loudest voices being the Brave\/Tor private browsing crowd\u2014and the Chrome die-hards.<\/p>\n

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While Google\u2019s security practices are, well, sometimes questionable, there\u2019s no doubt that Chrome reigns supreme for a reason.<\/p>\n

One of those reasons is its deep library of extensions, loaded up with everything from the silly to the practical, to the ultra-convenient.<\/p>\n

Here, let\u2019s have a look at the top picks:<\/p>\n

1. Ghostery<\/h2>\n

Ghostery<\/a> is a Chrome extension that reveals the invisible trackers, pixels, and bugs sites like Google, Facebook and more use to track your activity across the web.<\/p>\n

2. Honey<\/h2>\n

Honey isn’t exactly secret-secret, but it’s a practical Chrome extension that isn’t yet on everyone’s radar.<\/p>\n

3. Single-Click Autofill<\/h2>\n

Chrome\u2019s autofill feature has gotten an upgrade in honor of Google Chrome\u2019s 10th<\/sup> birthday. Autofill has always been convenient, but it hasn\u2019t always been the most accurate. Now, you can enable a single-click<\/p>\n

To fix your autofill settings to make them more relevant, you can head over to chrome:\/\/flags: enable Show Autofill predictions. This lets you turn autofill predictions into placeholder text based on the field type.<\/p>\n

4. Grammarly<\/h2>\n

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5. Omnibox Search<\/span><\/p>\n

The Omnibox is a lifesaver if you\u2019re the type of person who reliably has like 50 tabs open at any given moment. You can now use it to find a specific tab when you\u2019ve got so many pages pulled up at a time by<\/p>\n

Another cool way you can use Omnibox is to search through websites without having to navigate to them. Set this up by navigating to Settings > Search engine > manage search engines<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

6. Omnibox search phrases<\/h2>\n

Omnibox has something called \u201cSearch Shortcuts\u201d where you can set up personalized search phrases that allow you to pull up websites fast.<\/p>\n

Here’s how you can set this up:<\/p>\n