Google Chrome is one of the fastest and fast growing browser. Good part is it’s very slim, which makes it very fast and low on resources. What makes it even better is the fact that it can be extended using extensions. There are some great nifty extensions but we are going to focus on the top ones which will make your Gmail experience better.

1. Google Mail Checker

A simple extension that shows number of mails in your inbox, so that you it’s easy to find out if have a new mail. You can also click the button to open your inbox.

2. Send from Gmail

This extension helps you quickly send a link that you are currently reading using Gmail to your contacts. Makes Gmail your default email application and provides a button to compose a Gmail message to quickly share a link via email.

3. Gmail Notifier

Simple extension for chrome which works as a desktop notifier.

4. GMail Sender’s Picture Extension

In Gmail, it shows the sender’s profile pic if they have a Google Profile picture or already set up a displayed picture from Gmail’s setting panel.

5. Hide Gmail ads

This extension allows you to:
- Hide Gmail ads on the right, so that the message is expanded to fit the entire width of the page.
- Keep the useful links that used to be displayed on the right (new window, …): they are moved to the top of the message.
- Hide 2 lines at the bottom of the page: “tips” and “Google Home” link.
- Hide the “Invite a friend” box on the left.
- Decrease the width of the “Compose mail” textarea (plain text only) to behave like it used to in older versions of Gmail (plain text textarea used to be the same width as the fake textarea displayed at the bottom of an email before you click on it to reply).

Though there are many other extensions out there but we feel these are pretty useful.