Google Chrome is quickly becoming the best web browser available, as evident by its steadily increasing pace of adoption by web users and its installation on new PCs by companies like Sony.  It’s faster, more secure, and less resource intensive than IE and Firefox.  And having recently enabled extensions, which can selectively add tons of useful enhancements and features to improve everyday browsing, Google Chrome is poised to unseat Microsoft’s Internet Explorer as the king of the web browsers (although Microsoft doesn’t have much to worry about from Chrome’s big brother, the Chrome OS).  Now, users of Google Voice can utilize the useful features of that service from within Chrome thanks to a new extension from Google.

For those unfamiliar with Google Voice, it’s an awesome free service from Google which, although still under final development and thus only available by invitation from Google, assigns users a personal phone number.  Users then assign devices, such as traditional landlines or cell phones, to which calls to their Google Voice number should be forwarded.   Check out the video below for details about the features of Google Voice.

The new Google Voice extension for Chrome adds a button to the browser’s toolbar for fast and easy access to voice and free SMS communications.  Users simply click the Google Voice button, select the phone on which they’d like to make a call, and enter the number to dial.  In addition to the browser toolbar button, the extension adds “click-to-call” functionality in which phone numbers on web pages are converted to clickable links that will dial automatically within Google Voice.  So next time you need to order a pizza, simply “Google” the phone number of your local pizza joint, click on the number (which will be presented as a link), and select the phone on which you’d like to make the call.  Then sit back and marvel at the magic of the Internet.