Chrome extensions are known to be a great way to make your browsing experience more enjoyable, but there’s so much more that you can do through Chrome extensions.

If you'd like to make an impact by contributing to a good cause, the Chrome web store has a variety of extensions that help you do just that.

In this article, you’ll find four Chrome extensions to use to make an impact in the world.

1. Ecosia

Ecosia is a Google Chrome extension that allows you to contribute to restoring the planet from your browser. Deforestation negatively affects the environment and affects millions of people across the globe, and by using Ecosia, you’ll be part of a community that strives to solve this problem.

Ecosia is a search engine that makes revenue by displaying ads alongside your searches. This organization uses its revenue towards reforestation to help preserve and protect the climate.

So, once you’ve added the Ecosia extension, you will now use it as your search engine. The more you browse on Ecosia, the bigger the impact you'll be making. The best part is, as you browse, Ecosia will help you keep track of how much impact you’re making.

Ecosia invests 80 percent of its profits in planting and protecting trees, while the remaining 20 percent goes to renewable energy, grassroots activism, and regenerative agriculture. This extension's users have planted over 100 million trees.

2. Tab for a Cause

Tab for a Cause is an excellent extension for anyone who wants to make a difference in the world by raising funds for charity. Tab for a Cause is one of the easiest ways to raise funds for charity. The extension generates revenue by showing small ads in the bottom-right corner of your tab page, and you don't even have to click on the ads to raise funds.

The revenue raised goes towards charities that feed children, protect the rainforest, and much more. So far, users have helped raise over one million dollars for charity. The Tab for a Cause extension also has a note-taking feature for you to jot down important notes as you browse.

3. OpenTabs

Just like Ecosia, OpenTabs is an extension for anyone who’s looking for ways to fight climate change. When you use OpenTabs, you can save a tree for every five tabs that you open.

Unlike Ecosia which works to plant trees, OpenTabs focuses on rainforest conservation. While OpenTabs and Ecosia might seem like competitors, they're quite different. Ecosia works as a search engine, whilst OpenTabs merely changes your tabs.

You can customize your backgrounds, and you can also keep track of the difference you’ve made by seeing the total number of tabs you’ve opened and how many trees you’ve saved.

4. OceanHero

The last extension on this list is another one for climate change enthusiasts. OceanHero aims to clean up waste polluting the ocean. The extension allows you to recover plastic bottles with every tab you open. Like the other extensions on this list, OceanHero makes its revenue through ads. The funds are used to pay people in exchange for ocean-bound plastics.

OceanHero users have recovered over 27 million bottles from the ocean. Since one tab isn't enough for a plastic bottle, OceanHero uses a shell system to help users understand when they’ve managed to recover a bottle.

When you use OceanHero, you’ll receive shells for every few tabs you open, and for every 100 shells you receive, you’ll recover a plastic bottle from the ocean. OceanHero will also display a new background image of the ocean for every few tabs that you open.

Support a Good Cause While You Browse

Making the world a better place doesn’t require you to dig deep into your pockets or give up hours of your time. These extensions are a perfect way to effortlessly support a good cause.