Today, we are pleased to announce our newest feature, the Chrome Extension for Salesforce. With this extension, you can manage your customers’ experiences without ever leaving your browser.
We built this extension because, as more and more of our customers’ interactions migrate to digital channels like email and chat, we wanted to make it easier than ever to provide a personal experience to each customer. With the Chrome Extension for Salesforce, you won’t find yourself having to toggle between too many windows or even different tabs—instead, you can just click a button in your browser bar and everything you need is right there!
With this new feature, we’re making sure that you can answer every question from your customers in real time with all the context you need—whether that’s information about past interactions or products they’ve recently ordered. We’re also excited to let you know that now when you’re working on a sales opportunity or service request in Salesforce, you’ll be able to see the original email or other correspondence from the customer right away: no more digging for that pesky hidden link!
But wait! There’s more! This extension is also available for Android phones so that your team members who are constantly on-the-go have access to all their information as well.
Chrome Extension For Salesforce
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 sort the wheat from the chaff?
For me, Chrome Extensions in general are a big part of my working life and support me in being productive in a variety of different ways. From plugins to save passwords like LastPass, to extensions like OneTab to save your computer’s memory, there’s a Chrome tool for everything!
This is no exception for Salesforce, as there are many great Salesforce Chrome Extensions to choose from to help in your role. This post will focus on Admin & Developer chrome extensions, ranked by popularity (installations and ratings) and we have another post to assist users.
For 2021, we have reviewed the top 4* and 5* Chrome Extensions for Salesforce Admins and Developers, ranking them based on stars and number of users.
- Salesforce Inspector
★★★★★ (80)
Users: 100,000+
An extension to add a metadata layout on top of the standard Salesforce UI to improve the productivity and joy of Salesforce configuration, development, and integration work.
- Salesforce Advanced Code Searcher
★★★★★ (152)
Users: 40,000+
Enables you to quickly search through your instances Apex classes, triggers, Visualforce pages and components.
- ORGanizer for Salesforce
★★★★★ (166)
Users: 30,000+
The ORGanizer Chrome Extension (BETA) lets you forget about your Salesforce.com® username and passwords and help you to recognize Salesforce.com tabs on your browser.
- Salesforce Navigator
★★★★★ (147)
Users: 20,000+
This extension helps you get to any Salesforce page quickly by simply typing what you need to do. *Update – Salesforce Navigator appears to have been replaced by Salesforce Navigator for Lightning.
- Salesforce DevTools
★★★★★ (31)
Users: 20,000+
Powerful suite of Salesforce developer tools, including Query Editor, Fields definition, ERDs, Page Layout, and more.
- Salesforce API Fieldnames
★★★★☆ (121)
Users: 40,000+
Extension shows the API field names on detail pages.
- Salesforce Change Set Helper
★★★★☆ (45)
Users: 10,000+
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.
- Salesforce Admin Check All
★★★★☆ (66)
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.
- Enhance Salesforce Dashboard
★★★★☆ (49)
Users: 10,000+
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.
- Salesforce Mass Editor
★★★★★ (18)
Users: 8000+
Mass create, mass update, mass clone, mass delete on any list view. Support for both Classic and Lightning.
Salesforce Mass Editor is a simple but powerful chrome extension.
- Salesforce Enhanced Code Searcher
★★★★★ (20)
Users: 7000+
Using the advanced quick find you can get your code a few clicks shorter. You can also search any string in your code
Using this extension you can search your code components your salesforce instance including: Apex Classes, Triggers, Visualforce Pages etc…
- Boostr for Salesforce
★★★★★ (38)
Users: 5000+
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, adds a checkbox in the admin area to uncheck/check all fields, and a lot more.
- Salesforce.com Sandbox Favicon Extension
★★★★★ (66)
Users: 4000+
Adds an “S” to the standard Salesforce.com cloud favicon for all sandbox tabs in a Chrome window. Keep track of Sandbox environments when using multiple tabs. Only compatible with Classic.
- Salesforce Community Page Optimizer
★★★★★ (13)
Users: 4000+
The Salesforce Community Page Optimizer (Developer Preview) analyzes your lightning based community/apps and identifies performance optimization opportunities. Use the information to refine your design and improve performance for your members.
- Record and Metadata Comparator for Salesforce
★★★★★ (34)
Users: 4000+
This extension compares any two objects or their records (could be from the same org or different orgs) and highlights all the differences found.
- CodeCopy
★★★★★ (19)
Users: 4000+
Because copy to clipboard buttons should exist on every code snippet!
Works on: Stack Overflow, GitHub, Gist, MDN, Medium, npm, and more…
- Salesforce.com Enhanced Formula Editor
★★★★☆ (47)
Users: 4000+
This extension improves the Salesforce formula editor including: Syntax highlighting, Field and Metadata autocomplete, Live snippets and documentation, Tabluation support.
- Whitelist All IPs for Salesforce
★★★★★ (22)
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 you simply want to disregard this requirement altogether use this extension.
- Salesforce.com Id Clipper
★★★★★ (52)
Users: 2000+
Helps you get Salesforce.com Ids from records and links to your clipboard.
Click on the scissors icon to clip the Id to your clipboard, click it again to get the 18 character version, click it again to get a cleaned version of the URL in the address bar.
- Salesforce Hotkeys
★★★★★ (22)
Users: 2000+
Adds hotkeys (keyboard shortcuts) to your salesforce record page.
- SOQL Extractor and Analyzer for Salesforce
★★★★★ (16)
Users: 2000+
Extract SOQL queries with their execution counts from Debug Logs of Salesforce. Helps you analyze the ‘Too Many SOQLs’ error.
- Salesforce Simplified
★★★★★ (44)
Users: 1000+
Salesforce Simplified chrome extension is made for salesforce developers to ease their daily life by sharing useful data points easily accessible on top of the UI.
When you are working on any module, you need your recently created or modified data handy so that you can work faster and save time to avoid unnecessary clicks.
- Salesforce Dependent Picklist Matrix Export
★★★★★ (11)
Users: 1000+
Salesforce does not provide any feature to extract the Dependent Picklist Matrix for analysis, comparison and reporting. This extension saves the Dependent Picklist Matrix as a CSV file.
- Org Header for Salesforce
★★★★★ (11)
Users: 1000+
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 configuring adding a distinctive custom header to each sandbox you work with regularly.
- Salesbolt Lite
★★★★★ (10)
Users: 653
Salesbolt for Salesforce is a LinkedIn to Salesforce Chrome Extension. Save time and focus on the more important tasks at hand while the powerful Salesforce integration for LinkedIn takes care of the busy work for you.
Since the time of initially publishing this article, the original Chrome extension is no longer available. However, this functionality is still offered via Salesbolt and they have several options available from a free (Lite) version to paid Pro and Enterprise versions.
salesforce inspector chrome extension
Google Chrome extensions provide powerful enhancements embedded directly into your Google Chrome browser. These extensions can be installed to your browser for free and with a click of a button. If you are a Salesforce Admin the following Chrome extensions are my must-have picks for quick navigation and enhanced functionality across the platform, which will allow you to spend less time navigating the Salesforce Setup menu and more time enhancing Salesforce for your end users.
Below are five of my very favorite Chrome extensions; next week come back to the blog for five more!
Top 10 Google Chrome Extensions
- Boostr
- Salesforce.com Quick Login As
- Apinames
- Salesforce Inspector
- Salesforce Navigator
Boostr
- Top Features:
- The Change Set Assistant aids in the process of adding Components to Change Sets.
- Provides the ability to search and filter within component types to quickly identify needed components for a Change Set.
- Shows all components of a particular type on one page after choosing ‘Show All’ eliminating the need to click ‘Show More’ or ‘Next Page’ when searching components.
- API Names display as well as Field Labels when editing Field Sets.
- The Change Set Assistant aids in the process of adding Components to Change Sets.
- Use Case
- I created several new Custom Fields in my Sandbox that need to be added to a Change Set to be pushed to Production. When I navigate to my Outbound Change Set and select Custom Field from the picklist I can use the search bar to search for the Field as well as filter by Object using the Type Filter drop down. This helps save time clicking through several pages of Custom Fields by filtering down the results through the Search Bar of using by the Object filter to narrow results.
Salesforce.com Quick Login As
- Top Features
- Provides the ability to see what another user sees directly from the page you are on without having to navigate to ‘Manage Users’ via the Setup menu.
- Clicking on the icon in Chrome brings up a menu on the screen with a list of users in your Org and a ‘Login’ button to the left of their name.
- The list is driven by the List Views on the User page in the Setup menu. For easy filtering, add additional List Views on the User page in Salesforce to add additional filtering capabilities in the extension.
- Use Case
- An end user contacted me because they are not able to see a field on the Lead Page Layout. I look on my page and see the field, by quickly logging in as a different user I can see that the new field hasn’t been added to the sales profile. The quick navigation to the login feature saves time and steps from the native UI and is especially useful if you are working with the user over the phone in real time and trying to resolve their issue quickly.
Note: If the Login button is not appearing, check to see if your Login Access Policy is enabled, which grants Administrators the ability to log in as other Users.
Apinames
- Top Features
- Ability to toggle between page layout views showing the Field Labels or the API Names.
- By clicking on the ‘Apinames’ icon in Chrome, the Field Labels on the Page Layout that you are currently viewing are switched to the API Names.
- Use Case
- I need to load about 500 Opportunities into Salesforce from an offline spreadsheet. I know which Fields I need to map by looking at the Field Labels on the Page Layout, but I’m not sure what the API Names are since we have changed several Field Labels on this Object. I can use the Apinames extension to view the API Names directly on the page layout by clicking the Apinames icon in the Google Chrome Browser Toolbar saving the steps of navigating back and forth between the Setup menu and the page layout.
Salesforce Inspector
- Top Features
- Once installed, there is an additional Quick Access Side Menu with the following options:
- Able to show Field Metadata on the Page Layout by hovering over a particular Field
- Opens a new page to show all the Field data for the Object including API Names, Labels, Help Text, Descriptions, Values, and Types
- Data Export opens a new page where queries can be written and data exported into Excel, CSV, or JSON without having to log into another tool such as Data Loader or Workbench
- Data Import opens a new page where Insert, Update, Upsert, and Delete functions are available in order to load or delete data from an Excel spreadsheet into Salesforce without have to log into another tool
- Once installed, there is an additional Quick Access Side Menu with the following options:
- Use Case
- I’m responsible for documenting all field details on the Account Object in our Salesforce Org. I can leverage Salesforce Inspector Extension to quickly view the field metadata of any given object from their quick access side menu saving me the hassle of clicking into every Field on an Object within the Setup menu. What is especially unique about this extension is that based on the record that you accessed the extension from, you can view the actual value in the field. Also, by clicking ‘More’ a dialog box appears with even more field details such as picklist values, defaults, whether it’s dependent, and much more!
Additionally, you can quickly query any given Object by selecting Data Export from the Quick Access Side Menu. This feature is great for doing quick queries without needing to log into another tool and you have the ability to preview your results prior to exporting.
Salesforce Navigator
- Top Features
- A quick navigation menu that can appear on any Salesforce page by entering Ctrl+Shift+Space.
- Ability to navigate to a specific page either in the Setup menu or the standard layout with key words.
- Use Case
- I was testing one of my Workflow Field Updates and noticed that I chose the wrong picklist value to be selected when the workflow fired. Rather than having to click through the Setup menu I can use Salesforce Navigator to quickly navigate to Workflow Field Updates or other places deep within the Setup menu by using Ctrl+Shift+Space, and then typing in Workflow Field Update to click directly to the page I’m looking for. Additionally, I can navigate to list views or the Create New screens in Salesforce by using Ctrl+Shift+Space and typing in an Object Name.
How to Install Google Chrome Extensions
In case you are new to Google Chrome Extensions, let’s review how to install extensions in Chrome:
- Navigate to http://chrome.google.com/webstore/category/extensions
- Type the name of the extension in the search bar in the upper left hand corner of the web page
- Click the name of the extension to view additional details
- Click ‘Add to Chrome’ to install the extension
- In the pop-up dialog box, click the ‘Add extension’ button to complete the installation
- You can view and/or activate your extensions from your Google Chrome toolbar
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