A lot of people seem to boost the web navigation experience through browser extensions/plugins. So, what do you use, and why do you use it?
Ask HN: What Firefox/Chrome extensions do you use?
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Re: Ask HN: What Firefox/Chrome extensions do you use?
#2Adblock - After using it for a while, it becomes impossible to NOT use it, and still retain focus. Every page contains something that is fighting for your attention when it's not in use.
Firebug - Incredible client-side development tool.
Show anchors - Reveals anchors ( tag) in the page, making it easy to make more precise links into pages.
Tamper data - Makes it possible to modify browser requests before submitting them to the server. Great addition to Firebug as a development tool.
Re: Ask HN: What Firefox/Chrome extensions do you use?
#3NoScript, possibly the best thing about FF.
Firebug, pretty handy.
Tamper Data, for viewing HTTP headers and tampering with them.
ShowIP, shows the current website's IP.
leetkey, great for text transformations, various encoders/decoders.
Screengrab, for taking screenshots.
Scrapbook Plus, for archiving pages (can also do some light crawling with it)
Mozilla Archive Format, also for archiving pages.
Delicious Bookmarks, for bookmarks.
AppTab, to make tabs sticky.
OptimizeGoogle, to make Google searching better.
UnPlug, for downloading embedded content.
DownThemAll, for downloading things.
HTTPS-Everywhere, redirects to HTTPS versions of certain websites.
ErrorZilla Plus, makes error pages more useful.
Those are the best ones, I use various other extensions depending on what I'm doing. I have a few addons deactivated at any given time.
Re: Ask HN: What Firefox/Chrome extensions do you use?
#4Just the important ones:
BetterPrivacy (LSO Cookie Remover)
Firebug (+ Firecookie)
Hackbar
NoScript
Tree Style Tab
Web Developer Toolbar
All of which have no (satisfactory) Chrome equivalent and thus prevent me from switching ;)
Re: Ask HN: What Firefox/Chrome extensions do you use?
#5https://chrome.google.com/extensions/list/popular
Next question.
Re: Ask HN: What Firefox/Chrome extensions do you use?
#6Chromium:
Adblock + Browser Button for Adblock (obvious...)
Chromium Wheel Smooth Scroller (similar to iPhone kinetic scrolling)
Google Mail Checker Plus (obvious)
Instachrome (integration with Instapaper)
iReader (similar to Safari Reader)
Pinboard Tools (integration with Pinboard bookmarks service)
Reader Plus (changes the default theme of Google Reader among other customizations)
Redgur (shows all imgur stored images present on a page)
RSS Subscription Extension (obvious)
Search Preview for Google (website previews on search results)
Send using Gmail (mail_to integration with Gmail)
Stylish (similar to Greasemonkey but for CSS styling)
Re: Ask HN: What Firefox/Chrome extensions do you use?
#7Gmail Checker (Official one by Google)
Rapportive
Chrome 2 Phone
Google Voice
Lastpass
Google Reader
Craigslist Comprehensive Cleanup
Craigslist Preview
Facebook Photo Zoom
Extension Gallery Inspector (Invaluable if you want to know what an extension is going to do BEFORE you install)
TackyNotes (I should note that I don't really use this, I just have it installed because I wrote it. I suppose the fact that I don't use it is a good indicator of why I've lost interest in developing it. They say it's best to write software to fix a problem you have or someone else has and I think that kind of missed the mark.)
Re: Ask HN: What Firefox/Chrome extensions do you use?
#8https://chrome.google.com/extensions/list/popular Next question.
I don't understand. You use all popular Chrome extension?
My intention is to find out the extensions that hackernewsers use, not the popular extensions. Of course there will always be some intersections, but I doubt everyone here uses all popular extensions, and I doubt no-one here uses some good but unknown, unpopular extensions.
Re: Ask HN: What Firefox/Chrome extensions do you use?
#9I forget what it is called, and am on my mobile now, but I use one which loads the next paginated page below the one you are viewing, so hacker news becomes one long page for me. only loads the next age when you get down the page. love it.
also one to tweet the page I am viewing. I use twitter as more of an annotated favorites/bookmark list than anything else: twitter.com/liamjford
Re: Ask HN: What Firefox/Chrome extensions do you use?
#10I use several Firefox addons, most of them have been already mentioned. However, one of my favourite addons has not been mentioned:
Quieturl
This addon transforms urls that are plain text into clickable anchors. Very very handy, I couldn't browse without it now.