It’s no secret that there is a vast array of fantastic time-saving and helpful Salesforce Chrome extensions out there. But how do you separate the ‘wheat from the chaff’?
For me, Salesforce Chrome extensions are a big part of my working life as they support my productivity in a variety of different ways. From plugins and password managers like LastPass to extensions like OneTab (to save your computer’s memory), there’s a Chrome tool for everything!
Salesforce is no exception, as there are many great Salesforce Chrome extensions to choose from to help you in your day-to-day. This post will focus on Admin and Developer Chrome extensions, ranked by popularity (installations and ratings), as well as ease of use, alongside the included functionality.
Ranking Salesforce Chrome Extensions
For 2024, we have reviewed the top 4* and 5* Chrome extensions for Salesforce professionals, ordering them based on functionality, ease of use, star rating, number of users, and user reviews.
While this post will include extensions handy for technical folks, make sure to take a look over the post below for Chrome extensions which are sure to increase end-user productivity.
1. Salesforce Inspector
★★★★★ (306)
Users: 500,000+
By far the most popular and well-used Chrome extension for both admins and developers, Salesforce Inspector adds a metadata layout on top of the standard Salesforce UI to improve the productivity and joy of Salesforce configuration, development, and integration work.
Check out the video below to see how easy it is to access everything through the extension; access field API names and export data, view field values that are not on the page layout without querying, and navigate through related records and objects.
Bonus: You can even manually edit, import, and export data.
2. Salesforce Inspector Reloaded
★★★★★ (78)
Users: 50,000+
Within the last year, Salesforce Inspector Reloaded has gained a whole lot of popularity between users, as it has significantly improved the OG Salesforce Inspector functionality – Thomas Prouvot alongside other collaborators from the amazing Salesforce community have enhanced the well-known extension in ways to help both admins and developers in most of their activities.
Aside from the possibility to navigate to the permission set and permission set group assignment with a click of a button, access setup pages or developer documentation from the Shortcuts tab or review company information such as the Org Id from the Org tab, perhaps my favorite feature is the fact that you can change the position of the pop-up to suit your way of working!
3. Salesforce Advanced Code Searcher
★★★★★ (173)
Users: 60,000+
This extension enables you to quickly search through your instance’s Apex classes, triggers, Visualforce pages, and more.
4. ORGanizer for Salesforce
★★★★★ (225)
Users: 80,000+
The ORGanizer Chrome extension allows you to forget about your Salesforce.com username and password and helps you to recognize Salesforce.com tabs from various orgs on your browser. You can set individual labels, colors, and even quick links for your orgs for easier navigation.
5. Salesforce Colored Favicons
★★★★★ (85)
Users: 50,000+
This extension is sure to become a favorite fast, as it really is the simplest safeguard for a user with administrative permissions in Salesforce not to make changes in production by mistake. Each org will have its own color cloud in the browser, so you know exactly which sandbox or instance you’re in without having to check the URL.
Note: You can literally choose any color you’d like, so regardless of how many production orgs, sandboxes, and developer editions you have going on, colors won’t repeat unless you want them to.
6. Salesforce DevTools
★★★★☆ (47)
Users: 50,000+
A powerful suite of Salesforce Developer tools, including Query Editor, Fields definition, ERDs, Page Layout, and more.
7. Salesforce Show API Name
★★★★★ (23)
Users: 40,000+
As you would have guessed by the name, this extension shows the API field names on detail pages directly under the label and works for both standard as well as custom fields. Additionally, you will also see the Object Name and Record Id at the top of the page – no worries if you’re using Dynamic Forms already, the extension will work in the same way as it does with page layouts.
8. Salesforce Change Set Helper
★★★★☆ (55)
Users: 20,000+
A Chrome extension to improve the usability of Salesforce change sets. Adds last changed date and allows sorting, searching, validation, and comparison with other orgs.
9. Enhance Salesforce Dashboard
★★★★☆ (50)
Users: 20,000+
Salesforce only allows you to refresh dashboards daily, weekly, or monthly. With Enhance Salesforce Dashboard, you can now have “up-to-the-second” real-time information and set auto refresh frequency/duration.
10. Apex Debugger
★★★★☆ (29)
Users: 20,000+
This Lightning-compatible Chrome extension helps with debugging Apex code, you can open the logs from any Salesforce page, plus you can easily configure keyboard shortcuts as needed. You can filter, search, or delete the logs.
11. Salesforce Admin Check All
★★★★☆ (75)
Users: 10,000+
Salesforce Admin Check All is an extension that enhances the Salesforce Setup pages by adding “check all” checkboxes to various checkbox lists. This enhanced functionality helps make some setup tasks more efficient by potentially saving administrators from having to manually check each checkbox in a list individually.
While the ability to check all field permissions has fairly recently become an out-of-the-box functionality, this extension can help you clean up Object Permissions. Note that while this is handy for this particular use case, it sadly works in Classic only.
12. Better Salesforce Formula Editor
★★★★☆ (72)
Users: 10,000+
Creating formula fields in Salesforce usually involves a lot of clicks if you don’t know the API names by heart. This extension improves the Salesforce formula editor including Syntax highlighting, Field and Metadata autocomplete, Live snippets, documentation – and real-time error display at the bottom of the dark mode formula editor.
13. Salesforce Mass Editor
★★★★☆(25)
Users: 10,000+
Mass create, mass update, mass clone, and mass delete on any list view. Supported in both Classic and Lightning.
Salesforce Mass Editor is a simple but powerful Chrome extension.
14. Salesforce Enhanced Code Searcher
★★★★☆ (20)
Users: 10,000+
Using the advanced “quick find”, you can get your code with fewer clicks. You can also search for any string in your code.
By using this extension, you can search your code components in your Salesforce instance including Apex Classes, Triggers, Visualforce Pages, etc.
15. Salesforce Navigator for Lightning
★★★★☆ (19)
Users: 8000+
This extension helps you get to Salesforce pages quickly by simply starting to type where you need to get to.
16. Salesforce Community Page Optimizer
★★★★☆ (15)
Users: 8000+
The Salesforce Community Page Optimizer analyzes your lightning-based community/apps and identifies performance optimization opportunities. Use the information to refine your design and improve performance for your members.
17. Record and Metadata Comparator for Salesforce
★★★★★ (40)
Users: 7000+
This extension compares any two objects or their records (could be from the same org or different orgs) and highlights all the differences found.
18. Boostr for Salesforce
★★★★★ (33)
Users: 6000+
Boost your admin and developer productivity on Salesforce.com with Boostr! This app includes the ability to search when adding items to a change set, as well as filter, add a checkbox in the admin area to uncheck/check all fields, and a whole lot more, including using Pascal Case for the API Names when creating new fields.
19. SOQL Extractor and Analyzer for Salesforce
★★★★★ (16)
Users: 6000+
Extract SOQL queries with their execution counts from Debug Logs of Salesforce. Helps you analyze the “Too Many SOQLs” error.
20. Salesforce Metadata Utility
★★★★★ (9)
Users: 5000+
This extension is a simple-to-use and efficient productivity booster, all hidden under the right-click option. It can easily copy the record Id (both 15- and 18-character), create queries, and – here’s the cherry on the top – export all picklist values for all fields on the object you’re navigating from.
21. Whitelist All IPs for Salesforce
★★★★★ (23)
Users: 2000+
If you want to ensure that a user can access Salesforce without requiring a verification code or security token, you need to whitelist their IP.
If you have a lot of IPs to whitelist, or you want to whitelist dynamic IPs, or if you simply want to disregard this requirement altogether, use this extension.
22. Salesforce Simplified
★★★★★ (46)
Users: 2000+
The Salesforce Simplified Chrome extension is made for Salesforce Developers – easing their daily life by sharing useful, accessible data points on top of the UI. This allows you to work faster, saving time and avoiding unnecessary clicks.
23. Salesforce.com Id Clipper
★★★★☆ (38)
Users: 2000+
Helps you get Salesforce.com Ids from records and links over to your clipboard.
Click on the scissors icon to clip the Id to your clipboard, click it to get the 18-character version, and then click it again to get a cleaned version of the URL in the address bar.
24. Org Header for Salesforce
★★★★★ (14)
Users: 4000+
Quickly distinguish which sandbox you’re working in by setting up a distinctive header for each.
When you’re working with multiple sandboxes, it can be easy to lose track of which one you’re in – avoid making changes in the wrong sandbox by adding a distinctive custom header to the sandboxes you work with regularly.
25. Salesforce Explorer
★★★★★ (6)
Users: 400+
While Salesforce Explorer is quite a new Chrome Extension, it could not go unmentioned considering the sheer amount of productivity features that it’s packed with – chances are that it has a way of getting much faster to the most information you may be looking for in Salesforce.
From an enhanced Object Manager view with the possibility of reviewing details even in a pivot format, to easily comparing records across orgs, deep diving into user access and even determining individual field usage is just a few things this extension can do. There is also an optional ChatGPT integration to consider within the extension which you can use with your own OpenAI Key.
The side panel accessed by a right click can help you navigate through field values, make updates, or even export related records!
Summary
There are so many more Chrome extensions out there which may just become the next productivity booster for Salesforce professionals. Be sure to share your personal favorite in the comments below!
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