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10 Chrome and Firefox add-ons that streamline data sharing, storage, and security

By James Sanders June 2, 2015, 2:05 AM PDT

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10 Chrome and Firefox add-ons that streamline data sharing, storage, and security

Use Pushbullet to share data and notifications between your phone and computer

Use Pushbullet to share data and notifications between your phone and computer

Arguably the most useful extension day-to-day is Pushbullet, which is available for Androidrnand iPhone,rnas well as Chrome,rnFirefox,rnOpera,rnand Safari, and system-level native appsrnfor Windows and Mac. The Pushbullet app allows users to share clipboards, share calls or texts between a phone and a computer, and send links between devices.

10 Chrome and Firefox add-ons that streamline data sharing, storage, and security

Move tabs between devices with TabCloud

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Move tabs between devices with TabCloud

TabCloudrnis an extension that allows the user to save the tabs in an open browserrnwindow and re-open them on other browsers, computers, or devices — a very handyrnfeature when moving between a desktop, notebook PC, tablet, and smartphone.rnExtensions exist for Chromernand Firefox,rnand an Androidrnapp is also available.

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10 Chrome and Firefox add-ons that streamline data sharing, storage, and security

Capture and annotate web pages with Evernote

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Capture and annotate web pages with Evernote

Evernote Web Clipper gives the user the ability to save and annotate web pages inrnChrome, Firefox, Safari, and Internet Explorer for use with the standalonernEvernote service on any device with an Evernote app.

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10 Chrome and Firefox add-ons that streamline data sharing, storage, and security

Open a wide variety of files with rollApp

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Open a wide variety of files with rollApp

rollApp, a filernviewer add-on for Chromernand Firefox,rnallows users to view over 500 file formats in the browser, such as filernarchives, ebooks, documents, spreadsheets, presentations, graphics, diagrams,rnand desktop publishing file formats.

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10 Chrome and Firefox add-ons that streamline data sharing, storage, and security

Call landlines using RingCentral

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Call landlines using RingCentral

RingCentral is arnbusiness-oriented VoIP solution with a Chrome plugin, which allows for integration with their infrastructure. With the RingCentral plugin, users can make calls, listen to voicemails, schedulernconferences in Google Calendar, and manage business SMS conversations.

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10 Chrome and Firefox add-ons that streamline data sharing, storage, and security

Test your website using BlazeMeter

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Test your website using BlazeMeter

BlazeMeter allowsrndevelopers to test the strength of their back-end design and serverrninfrastructure by sending cloud-originated traffic to the website to test howrnit holds up under pressure. Using the Chrome plugin, users can create and record traffic events to determine weakrnpoints in website infrastructure. It requires a free account atrnBlazeMeter, where performance graphs and other analytics can be viewed. BlazeMeter isrncompatible with Apache JMeter.

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10 Chrome and Firefox add-ons that streamline data sharing, storage, and security

Save files or screenshots to Google Drive

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Save files or screenshots to Google Drive

Using the Google Drive plugin provided by Google, users can save photos, screenshots of webrnpages, and other web content to their Google Drive account.

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10 Chrome and Firefox add-ons that streamline data sharing, storage, and security

Connect SugarSync and Google Drive

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Connect SugarSync and Google Drive

Using this browser extension from cloudHQ, users can sync files and folders with Google Drive and SugarSync, Evernote, orrnBaseCamp.

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10 Chrome and Firefox add-ons that streamline data sharing, storage, and security

Use consumer-level Amazon Services in the cloud

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Use consumer-level Amazon Services in the cloud

On Chrome, the Amazon MP3 Cloud Music Player allows users to stream music purchased on Amazon, including physical CDs purchased from Amazon that are eligible for AutoRip. You can also store and manage data in Amazon Cloud Drive, and read books using the Kindle Cloud Reader.

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Encrypt data with Boxcryptor

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Encrypt data with Boxcryptor

Data stored in Dropbox, OneDrive, and many other public filernstorage clouds is not encrypted in any way, which leaves your data vulnerablernto inspection and mining by your cloud provider. Boxcryptor is availablernas a Google Chrome plugin. The standalone versions forrnWindows, OS X, iOS, Android, Windows Phone, and BlackBerry, allows you to storernand retrieve encrypted data from public cloud providers.

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