5 Chrome Extensions That Work Beautifully in RockMelt

If you're not familiar with RockMelt, it's a a web browser that focuses on social sharing, Facebook chat and RSS feeds. It's built on Chromium, so it has the speed of Google Chrome along with most of the design. While some of Chrome's extensions do not quite work properly on RockMelt, there are others that work beautifully. I know some people who decided not to use RockMelt because it's lack of compatibility with extensions, but with new updates happening every week RockMelt is quickly improving and worth using.

I actually prefer the way RockMelts handles extensions over Google Chrome's method. While Chrome puts extension icons beside the search bar and does not give you the ability to remove icons or move them around, RockMelt does allowing rearranging and removal of icons. Also, RockMelts places their icons in right sidebar, so your search bar and address bar do not have to suffer (get smaller and smaller) with each new addition of an extension.

By the way, the right sidebar is also where RSS feeds and your Facebook and Twitter timelines are placed (as you can see from the image to the right). So now that you're more familiar with RockMelt, here are 5 extensions that you're sure to enjoy.

FeedSquares

This is one of my favorite extensions in Chrome, so I'm glad it also works in RockMelt. Basically, FeedSquares makes Google reader more enjoyable and makes your feeds pretty to look at. RSS items are presented as squares on a wall and then you can click on one to open in the story in the center of the screen over your wall. (link)

Gmail Checker Plus

If you're someone that keeps a browser tab open with Gmail 24/7 (like me) then this extension will come in handy! Within the preview window you can mark messages as read, delete messages, mark messages as spam, archive items and more. Desktop notifications are also available. (link)

Diigo

I love being able to bookmark, highlight and add notes anywhere on the web with Diigo. This little extension really comes in handy when reading articles. You can highlight the things that really interest you and save them to your Diigo library. The web highlighter toolbar can be moved around anywhere on the page as well. (link)

TooManyTabs

"A must-have extension that manages your tabs, reduces your tab overflow, and saves your sanity." TooManyTabs allows you to "suspend" tabs in order to save memory and clear out your browser tabs. There are also other features like tab sorting and searching. It's nice to be able to put the tabs you're not using on hold until later. (link)

Clip to Evernote

As you probably already know, with Evernote you can save full pages and clip content and then save them to your Evernote notebook(s). It also allows you to enable a feature where you can search through your Evernote notebook(s) whenever you search Google; the results will show at the top of your Google results. (link)

FYI: If you're wondering how to manage your extensions (RockMelt does not make it readily available), you'll need to go to chrome://extensions/ in your browser. Also remember that you can drag and drop icons or right click to totally remove them from the sidebar!

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