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TL;DR
- Google has revealed its top Chrome extensions of 2025, highlighting a shift toward AI companions that sit inside your workflow.
- Add-ons like Monica and Sider stole the show, allowing users to chat with PDFs, summarize web pages, and draft content without ever leaving their current tab.
- Not everything is AI-first: Adobe brings Photoshop-style editing straight into Chrome, and Phia simplifies shopping by auto-comparing prices in the background.
There was a time when web browsers simply let you view the internet. Those days are long gone. In 2025, the browser effectively morphed into a proactive operating system of its own, powered by a surge in on-device and cloud-based AI. Google has now rounded up its favorite extensions of 2025, and the list paints a very clear picture: extensions are becoming the real engine of Chrome.
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