While word processing software mostly comes with word counting functionality built in, the same can’t be said of browsers — and having to copy and paste text from a browser to a word processor just to get a word count is annoying. So I was happy to stumble across Word Count by developer Bhagwad Jal Park. It’s a simple little Chrome extension that lets you highlight some text on a web page, then click a toolbar button to get the number of words and characters in that selection.
If you work with words like I do, you’ll find it to be a useful little tool. However, it doesn’t work on text within form fields, so it can’t count text you’re entering in Google Docs, for example, or a blog post you’re working on — although Google Docs and many blog editors have word counting tools built in, anyway.
Note: A similar extension for Firefox, which actually has more functionality, is Word Count Plus. Unfortunately, it looks like that add-on is no longer being developed, which means that it’s not compatible with the latest versions of Firefox.
What little-known but useful extensions do you use to make you life a little easier?

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