In an announcement made via a blog post on Tuesday, bigwig social network Facebook introduced two new Chrome extensions --- the ‘Share to Facebook’ extension; and the ‘Save to Facebook’ extension.

The two new Chrome extensions, as the names suggest, will enable users to share and save articles; and essentially underscore an effort by Facebook to simplify bookmarking.

Sharing details about the new Chrome extensions, Facebook said that the Share to Facebook extension will unfold a Facebook icon in the users’ browser next to the address bar. The users can click on the icon if they want to share a page which is open in the browser, thereby prompting the extension to open a new window with the link already in place.

The Save to Facebook extension, meanwhile, gives users the ability to save a perfectly good web page and save it, such that it can be accessed only in a hidden corner of the Facebook app. To use it, the users can click the bookmark icon in their browser.

About the two new Chrome extensions, Facebook said in the Tuesday blog post that two things which people love to do while surfing the Internet is “sharing and saving great content;” and added: "Improving this experience for people drives greater engagement and distribution of content for sites and keeps visitors coming back for more."