Chrome Extensions Every Developer/Designer Must have

Vatsal
5 min readApr 24, 2022

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These Chrome extensions might help you in day to day work

1. Postman-Interceptor

Sends requests fired through the Postman chrome app.

Postman Interceptor helps you send requests which use browser cookies through the Postman app. 
It can also send headers which are normally restricted by Chrome but are critical for testing APIs. The Interceptor makes this process painless. Something that would have required a proxy earlier can now be achieved without any installation steps or extra configuration.
postman interceptor

2. Dark Mode-Night Eye

Switch each website to dark mode/light mode as desired. Take care of your eyes with Night Eye.

Night Eye enables dark mode on nearly all websites and gives you the ability to control the built-in dark themes on those that have it.Trusted by more than 300 000 users across all major browser, Night Eye is the right choice for your eyes. Smart conversion, no ads, no data mining, helpful support!
We update the extensions regularly on a monthly basis for the past 3 years and plan to do that for a very long time ahead.
If the website has built-in dark theme, you can control it directly from Night Eye and if it doesn't (like Gmail, Google Docs, Office Online, Github and millions others), Night Eye will convert the colors to provide you with smooth and consistent dark mode.
dark mode/light mode

3. Color tab

A Beautiful Color Palette With Every New Tab!

Color Tab fills up your "new tab" screen with a beautiful color palette from the best of Color Hunt's collection. Each time you open up a new tab, the page will be replaced with a random color combination.
Beautiful Color Palette

4. Window Resizer

Resize the browser window to emulate various screen resolutions.

This extension re-sizes the browser's window in order to emulate various resolutions. It is particularly useful for web designers and developers by helping them test their layouts on different browser resolutions.
The resolutions list is completely customizable (add/delete/re-order).
You can set the window's width/height, window's position, preset icon (phone, tablet, laptop, desktop) and even the option to apply the new dimensions to the entire window or just to the viewport.
The extension also features customizable global key shortcuts, an option to export your settings and import them on another computer and more!
Resize the browser

5. Muzli 2 — Stay Inspired

The freshest links about design and interactive, from around the web. A designer’s must!

Simple and beautiful.
Bringing you the freshest design, UI, UX and interactive news and shots from around the web. All the design inspiration you need.
Enjoy the most inspiring stuff out there. Never miss the next big thing.On top of our hand picked, professionally curated "Muzli Picks" feed, Muzli offers over 120 other feed syndications to choose from.Muzli will replace your default tab, it will become your home page, so you don't miss anything.
Muzli 2

6. GoFullPage — Full Page Screen Capture

Capture a screenshot of your current page in its entirety and reliably — without requesting any extra permissions!

The simplest way to take a full page screenshot of your current browser window. Click on the extension icon (or press Alt+Shift+P), watch the extension capture each part of the page, and be transported to a new tab of your screenshot where you can download it as an image or PDF or even just drag it to your desktop.*No bloat, no ads, no unnecessary permissions, just a simple way to turn a full web page into an image.*The advanced screen capture technology handles complex pages—including inner scrollable elements as well as embedded iframes—unlike any other extension.
GoFullPage

7. SVG-grabber — get all the SVG's from a site

A tool to quickly preview and get all the SVG assets from a website.

Quickly preview and copy or download all the SVG assets from a website. svg-grabber lets you preview, download and copy the code all SVG icons and illustrations in a website.  svg-grabber is an open source tool created by Jaques Bouman and Juan Rios at NGTI in Rotterdam, The Netherlands. Available for download, forking on Github at https://github.com/ngti/svg-grabber
SVG-grabber

8. Clear Cache

Clear your cache and browsing data with a single click of a button.

Quickly clear your cache with this extension without any confirmation dialogs, pop-ups or other annoyances.You can customize what and how much of your data you want to clear on the options page, including: App Cache, Cache, Cookies, Downloads, File Systems, Form Data, History, Indexed DB, Local Storage, Plugin Data, Passwords and WebSQL.
Clear Cache
Clear Cache

9. Image Downloader

Browse and download images on the web

Image Downloader
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If you want to download many images at once, with this extension you can:
- Explore images on the current page
- Filter by width, height, or URL
- One-click download or open any single image in a new tab
- Save to a subfolder
- Rename downloaded files
- Download in background!
Image Downloader

10. Eye Dropper

Eye Dropper is open source extension that allows you to pick colors from web pages, color picker, and your personal color history.

Eye Dropper is extension for Google Chrome and Chromium. It allows you to pick color from any web page or from advanced color picker. It is great tool for web developers.
Eye Dropper

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Vatsal
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Written by Vatsal

Hi 👋, I’m Vatsal. A passionate Software Developer | Fun fact: Funny, Anime-addict, Binge Watcher. | Follow Me on GitHub: https://github.com/backendArchitect

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