To better understand the value of internal browser extensions, we combed through the Chrome Extension store, searching for internal extensions with these keywords in the description: "internal, internal tool, internal company, corporate use, employees of, for * employees." Note: most companies don't publish their internal extensions publicly; their extensions are usually "unlisted."Here is a summary of the top 100 most interesting internal extensions we found!Excited to hear your thoughts, are you building internal extensions yourself?------What problems are developers trying to solve?- Give employees better access to internal information to do their jobs (custom knowledge base, FAQ search, internal directory)- Streamline a tedious and/or error-prone browser process- SaaS doesn't easily surface information that my employees need- Hosting a frontend for my internal tool is too cumbersome- Having to context switch to use a certain type of internal tool is not preferable- My devs need an ad hoc tool (dev tools)------Breakdown of 100 internal extensions by functionality
(Note: these categories are not mutually exclusive.)knowledge sharing: exposing data in the right context (READ) to remove context switching19 instancesfrontend automations/form filling/take actions9 instancesUI modification + additional functionality on existing tooling17 instancesScraping3 instancesIntegrations used in context (CRUD)24 instancesdeveloper focused tools: PR/debugging and etc.14 instancesInternal productivity functionality (credential saving and etc., rather vague)19 instancesAnalytics and tracking6 instances------ResourcesAirtable of the 100 Chrome Extensions:  post with better formatting: 