It’s time to switch to Google Chrome browser from Google advocates once their Chrome Extensions gallery launched officially. Here we have a roundup for the top/best 30 Chrome extensions for web designers and developers. Have you installed these Chrome extensions before? Share your thoughts and let me know your favorites as well.
Speed Tracer
Speed Tracer is an open source tool for you to get insight into the performance of web applications. It can help you identify and fix performance problems like JavaScript parsing and execution, layout, CSS style, DOM event handling, XMLHttpRequest callbacks, timer fires, network resource loading and painting in your web applications. Speed Tracer visualizes metrics that are taken from low level instrumentation points inside of the browser and analyzes them when your application runs.
![Speed Tracer Speed Tracer 30 Best Chrome Extensions for Web Designers and Developers [Ultimate Selection]](http://www.blogreign.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/02/Speed-Tracer.png)
Firebug Lite
Firebug is one of the most popular Firefox addons for web developers. Now this Google Chrome version extension Firebug Lite that allows you to edit, debug, and monitor CSS, HTML, and JavaScript live in any webpage. Firebug Lite is a lightweight version of Firebug for Chrome users.
![firebug lite firebug lite 30 Best Chrome Extensions for Web Designers and Developers [Ultimate Selection]](http://www.blogreign.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/02/firebug-lite.png)
BuiltWith Technology Profiler
BuiltWith Technology Profiler is the Chrome version of BuiltWith, a website profiler tool that allows you find out what the website you are visiting is built with by a simple click on the builtwith icon. It aims to help developers, researchers and designers find out what technologies webpages are using. BuiltWith technology tracking includes widgets (snap preview), analytics (Google, Nielsen), frameworks (.NET, Java), publishing (WordPress, Blogger), advertising (DoubleClick, AdSense), CDNs (Amazon S3, Limelight), standards (XHTML,RSS), and hosting software (Apache, IIS, CentOS, Debian).
![BuiltWith Technology Profiler BuiltWith Technology Profiler 30 Best Chrome Extensions for Web Designers and Developers [Ultimate Selection]](http://www.blogreign.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/02/BuiltWith-Technology-Profiler.png)
Snippy
Snippy is a simple, fast and unobtrusive way to collect snippets from webpages and then save them together for future use. Unlike screen capture extensions, Snippy captures rich contents and preserves formatting, so you can grab paragraphs, images, links and more. Snippy saves the captured snippets on your Chrome browser. You can also upload the snippets to http://snipbin.appspot.com and share them with your friends online.
![Snippy Snippy 30 Best Chrome Extensions for Web Designers and Developers [Ultimate Selection]](http://www.blogreign.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/02/Snippy.png)
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