Chrome Extension for Google Voice

Last August, I whipped together a blog post on a Firefox Add On For Google Voice that I had come across. Much to my surprise and continued head scratching, that post drives nearly 20% of my overall site traffic. Not exactly lightening striking but certainly surprising.

I started migrating to the Google Chrome browser when it was first in development for Mac but since January I’ve begun relying on it more and more. What made me switch? The Chrome Extensions Gallery and Developer tools. Now I only open Firefox and Safari when I’m testing or creating a tutorial of some sort.

Recently, I was researching an issue in the Google Support forums and came across the Chrome Help section. It never occurred to me to search for Official Extensions for Google Products but I was happy to stumble across it. I picked up the Google Voice Extension without even considering what it might be capable of…all I knew was I missed having the Firefox add on for Google Voice.

Fan-bloody-tastic! The Google Chrome extension for Google Voice does nearly everything I need it to do. It works in Gmail and any site that has a phone listed in a standard format. I’d ideally like it to function in some other out of the way areas but this will do fine for now.

If you’re using Chrome and Voice you’ll want to check out these extensions. Also, if you’re a Google Apps user and have various standard Gmail accouts, you might need more than the standard set of extensions in order to define a route to the different accounts…drop a comment below you need more help.