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Ask HN: Which browser add-ons do you use, what for and how did you discover them?

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Re: Ask HN: Which browser add-ons do you use, what for and how did you discover them?

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Post by svepuri »

I use Chrome and the following extensions 1) Wallaby - Helps me pick the credit card which can offer more rewards for a site. 2) Pocket - To save data for reading later. 3) Page Monitor - To monitor the changes in webpages. Eg: It alerts me when a book is returned to the library. Helps me in taking quick actions. 4) Selector Gadget - Helps identify the Xpath of CSS and HTML components in a webpage.

Re: Ask HN: Which browser add-ons do you use, what for and how did you discover them?

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Post by brudgers »

By default, Firefox with noscript, ghostery, and firemacs.

Increasingly, Chromium with different "person"'s to sandbox social media sites that track obnoxiously [e.g. Facebook, Linkedin, and Google]. Tracking is one of the motivations for noscript and gohstery on Firefox. Chromium handles that with less friction.

Someone told me about Chromium person's here on HN.

Re: Ask HN: Which browser add-ons do you use, what for and how did you discover them?

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Post by Spoom »

JSONView is a godsend for my development; it basically automatically pretty-prints JSON from APIs when viewed directly, and all of our APIs output JSON.

uBlock Origin for better ad blocking.

LastPass because I believe it makes me more secure than if I shared passwords everywhere, which would likely be the case otherwise. While it does create a single point of failure, in case of compromise of LastPass, I would be in the same position as I would be if one of my other logins were compromised, and I suspect I would hear about it more quickly. On the other hand, with LastPass, if another service is compromised, it limits the damage to just that service, whereas shared passwords would mean having to change my passwords everywhere. The convenience of never having to remember usernames or passwords is pretty great too.

Motorola Connect so I can use my phone without taking it out of my pocket when I'm at a computer.

Re: Ask HN: Which browser add-ons do you use, what for and how did you discover them?

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Post by jeo1234 »

For Firefox I use: 1. Disconnect, helps with privacy and trackers, heard about while reading up on ghostery (I forget which site). 2. Night Mode Page Dim, makes reading at night easier on the eyes, read about it on ghacks. 3. NoScript, stops js from running, I think it was Krebs on Security. 4. Privacy Badger, another privacy tool, read about it on the EFFs website. 5. RefControl, allows the user to manipulate http referrer for certain sites, HN. 6. uBLock Origin, it acts as an http firewall, friend told me about me.

Re: Ask HN: Which browser add-ons do you use, what for and how did you discover them?

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Post by seanwilson »

Related tip: Most developer extensions have the permission to read and write data from any website you visit. I add all my developer extensions to a copy of Google Chrome Canary instead of my regular Google Chrome app. This means I don't have to worry about e.g. giving a malicious extension access to my bank accounts or LastPass account. As an added bonus, developer features can appear in Canary early.

Re: Ask HN: Which browser add-ons do you use, what for and how did you discover them?

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Post by J_Darnley »

All for Pale Moon (and Firefox, duh).

Down Them All - quick, grab before it disappears due to Mozilla's horrible plans for extensions. Useful for downloading a bunch of links or media from one or multiple pages. Also useful for downloading executables and not have Windows bitch about where it came from.

ReloadEvery - Reloads a page at a set interval. Occasionally useful, mostly when waiting for something.

Resurrect Pages - Alters the error page and adds to the right-click menu to provide a few online cache options for viewing missing content. I would love to add a new option to use archive.is

How did I first discover these? I don't really remember, they've been here so long. Usually by being recommended on some forum.

A smattering of common and somewhat uncommon privacy ones -- BetterPrivacy, HTTPS Everywhere, NoScript, RefControl, RequestPolicy, Self-Destructing Cookies, uBlock Origin

Re: Ask HN: Which browser add-ons do you use, what for and how did you discover them?

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Post by DanBC »

Readability - through searching (also HN recommendations) because many websites delivering text do so incompetently

Pinterest Pin It - I used to enjoy Pinterest. I recognise they engage in some user hostile stuff, and that the mobile experience is sub-optimal.

Amazon's Add anything to wishlist bookmarklet - it's an easy way to create a nice wishlist. I would happily use something that took me out of Amazon.

Hacker News bookmarklet - it's a nice way of submitting articles, although I tend to do that manually nowadays.

I used to use "Track Me Not", an art plugin that generates a bunch of search traffic. I'd use something that did this properly.

Re: Ask HN: Which browser add-ons do you use, what for and how did you discover them?

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Post by raur »

Ghostery is the only extension I use. I prefer bookmarklets for specific actions like adding to pinboard and instapaper for instance. Being a bit of privacy nut I don't really trust most extensions, a lot of them have quite wide ranging permissions. That said I turn off cookies and just whitelist the sites I want to set data on my machine so I'm not exactly typical in my use.
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