Everything in life online can be made better, easier, smoother, or just plain more fun with browser extensions. Google+ is no exception.

1. Star Bookmarks For Google+

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If I'm allowed to keep only one Google Plus chrome extension, this would be the one. Insanely useful.

Star Bookmarks For Google Plus adds the same type of togglable star as we know from Gmail, Google Bookmarks, and Google Reader so that you can now star Google+ posts to remember or come back to later for a full read.

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A must have extension; no-fuzz installation and a real timesaver.

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2. Google +1 Button

Super handy.

No need to srufe to Google+ and add a page there; simply click the +1 button in your browser to (publicly) +1 the page, then click in the window that came up to share the page on Google+.

From the makers of Google, Adsense, and +: google.com

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3. G+me for google plus

Make the layout of and functionality of Google+ just so that it actually works for you.

Main feature (according to me): collapsible posts. Can it do collapse all you ask me. Yes, I say. It can. The only thing that could make that even better is if it were to play nicely with the Star function mentioned above. G+ Google Reader style FTW.

Other features include: true comment count, notifications, mark post read, mark comments read, and mouse-over instant preview.

Did I mention it has collapsible posts?

 

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Bonus: Google+ Notifications

One of the many extensions that displays a Google+ notifications badge & count with the option to reply.

What makes this extensions different is that it's the official Google extension. Given the choice between same functionality and official or not, I prefer to go with the official one.

Of course I can't in all honesty recommend this extension and instead should warn you against it. Dings!, beeps and alerts are intrusions of the attention firewall, stealng unique-this-comes-only-once life time that's better used to make awesome stuff.

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About the Author: Ruud Hein

I love helping to make web sites make it. From the ground up if needed. CSS challenges, server-side scripting, user and device friendly JavaScript tricks search engines have no problems with. Tracking how the sites perform and then figuring out how to make that performance and the tracking better. I'm passionate about information. No matter how often I trim my feeds in my feed readers (yes, I use more than one), I always have a couple of hundred in there covering topics ranging from design to usability, from SEO to SEM, from life hacks to productivity blogs, from.... Well, you get the idea, I guess. Knowledge and information management is close to my heart. Has to be with the amount of information I track. My "trusted system" is usually in flux but always at hand and fully searchable. My paid passion job at Search Engine People sees me applying my passions and knowledge to a wide array of problems, ones I usually experience as challenges. It's good to have you here: pleased to meet you!