Google’s Chrome browser is rapidly gaining in popularity, both for its native functionality and for the growing number of Chrome Extensions that expand the power of the program. While Google is proud to list the most popular, most highly rated or it’s own featured Chrome extensions, a few extensions are conspicuously absent from the “Don’t Be Evil” gang’s list. These missing Chrome extensions have been categorized as “inappropriate,” and as such have been deprecated from Google’s extension listings. Below I list the top 15 missing Chrome Extensions you need to know about:

1.    Ask Hitler – Highlight any on-page text, right-click it and this missing Chrome extension will search YouTube for Hitler’s video commentaries on the selected query, as filtered through a surprisingly popular and often re-subtitled clip from the German film Downfall. Examples include Die Fuhrer’s take on the Star Trek reboot and getting banned from Xbox Live. Some videos may not be safe for work.

2.    Wikipedia Scrubber – This missing extension reloads any open Wikipedia page but removes any content that is marked as [citation needed]. (Note, some Wikipedia entries are rendered blank by this extension.)

3.    Freeloader – This missing Chrome extension scans a page for links to pay software, runs the software name through a comparison database at SourceForge and then substitutes in links for the pay program’s preferred free, open-source alternative. For example, all links to MS Office would be converted to links for OpenOffice. Where no freeware alternative exists, a link to an illegal torrent download of the pay software is provided (unless you disable this option). If you install this extension, you’ll also want…

4.    Freeloader Assist - E-mails you links to the help files and conversion plugins necessary to make free open source alternative software work almost as well as the pay software it’s imitating.

5.    Fanslate – This missing extension uses Google Translate to automatically convert the text of an entire Web page into one of the following faux-languages: Elmer Fudd, Klingon, leetspeak, Pig Latin, Pirate or Swedish Chef (you choose your default language in the extension’s configuration menu, though “random” is an option). The funniest part? Passages that are already in Klingon or leetspeak are translated back to regular English.

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