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Re: Ask HN: What browser extensions are a must-have in 2021?

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Post by gaws »

sf_rob wrote: post #178

* Stylus - super useful. I auto color my dev/qa/prod environments so I don't do anything stupid. I color code the stocks in my brokerage account by strategy. I fix some of the terrible pastel colors in Microsoft products. * Tab ReTitle+ - useful when you have multiple tabs open with identical titles. * Zoom Tab auto-close+ - Closes Zoom tabs once opened. * ColorZilla - A quick color-picker. I do some light web-dev an…

> LastPass - Just what I thought was best in 2016, not sure what's best these days but I'm somewhat satisfied

1Password

Re: Ask HN: What browser extensions are a must-have in 2021?

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Post by gaws »

instagraham wrote: post #189

Wanted to post a complete list. But have also considered that your browser extensions really do help in making your digital fingerprint unique. This thread is a doxxers (not quite gold but perhaps bronze) mine, perhaps.

> This thread is a doxxers (not quite gold but perhaps bronze) mine, perhaps.

Please elaborate.

Re: Ask HN: What browser extensions are a must-have in 2021?

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Post by Farow »

klibertp wrote: post #227
SahAssar wrote: post #77

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> Honestly, who uses bookmarks any more? They just turn into a bloated to-do list, hundreds of links you'll forget about until one day you try them and the domain no longer exists Use a service like pinboard and they instead turn into a searchable archive of things you like, archived so that they don't disappear/change. Sorta like a curated personal search engine.

I want an offline solution for this. What's the point of saving content from the Internet on the same Internet? You lose your connection and immediately lose access to all the saved content. So, does anyone know of any solution like this, but running locally instead? I tried Recoll, and both the FF extension and the query engine were... unpolished, to say the least... EDIT: mentioned in another comment Web Clipper +…

I'd recommend [SingleFile](https://github.com/gildas-lormeau/SingleFile) for saving web pages, [Obsidian](https://obsidian.md/) for taking notes and [Syncthing](https://syncthing.net/) for syncing between devices. Combining these can let you access any saved pages or notes on any device.

Re: Ask HN: What browser extensions are a must-have in 2021?

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Post by joveian »

gaws wrote: post #300
joveian wrote: post #290

For me my most essential ones (Firefox) are: uBlock Origin (advanced mode, RIP uMatrix), Right Click Search (lets you right click search using all available search engines), ClearURLs (mostly to make it a bit easier to copy the useful part of URLs, might help avoid some tracking), and SingleFile (downloads a page into one file using data URLs for images).

> Right Click Search (lets you right click search using all available search engines) You can do this in Firefox without an extension.

How? It is certainly not possible by default. You can set the right click search to be any particular one in the preferences but you can't, as far as I know, get a list so that you can search any particular text from any available search engine, which is what Right Click Search does. I did a quick search for "search" in about:config and didn't see anything that looked related.

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Post by l8rlump »

ad404b8a372f2b9 wrote: post #94
SahAssar wrote: post #77

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> Honestly, who uses bookmarks any more? They just turn into a bloated to-do list, hundreds of links you'll forget about until one day you try them and the domain no longer exists Use a service like pinboard and they instead turn into a searchable archive of things you like, archived so that they don't disappear/change. Sorta like a curated personal search engine.

I've always thought it a shame how primitive the history and bookmarks are in Firefox. They don't seem to have evolved at all in 20 years apart from the ability to sync them across devices.

In Firefox I feel I can probably do away with bookmarks because of the address bar autocompletion. I think they used to call it the awesome bar, but I haven't heard that term for many years.

https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/address-bar-autocomplet...

Re: Ask HN: What browser extensions are a must-have in 2021?

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Post by james-redwood »

ihateolives wrote: post #119
james-redwood wrote: post #117

I'm surprised no one here has mentioned OneTab https://www.one-tab.com/ With a click of a button, it throws all of your current tabs open into a single page (via hyperlinks), from which you have a lot of capability on what to do with them (open, open selected, bookmark, delete, etc)

Does it survive browser closing and reopening?

Yes it does. You can even sync it across devices I think

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Post by Jedd »

Nezteb wrote: post #293
Jedd wrote: post #55

I have accumulated perhaps more than is healthy. Some that didn't appear on this page (yet) are: octotree - intercepts github (and ostensibly other repo site) pages and gives you a browseable file manager pop-out on the left. Once used, it's hard to live without. behind the overlay - lets you hide (most) popups and overlays with ctrl-shift-x, which regrettably quickly becomes an instinctive reaction jira assistant -…

I used Octotree for a long time but switched to https://github.com/EnixCoda/Gitako because it’s open-source.

Thank you for the heads-up - I'll install and have a play. I'm not a power user, but it's such a useful tool even in basic explore mode. Ostensibly octotree works with BitBucket (at dayjob) but in practice I've never gotten that working. I note that Gitako has a FR open about 18 months that mentions supporting BB, but doesn't appear to be there yet.

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Post by tgv »

koyote wrote: post #85
tgv wrote: post #67

Another unmentioned one that's handy for web development: Offline QR Code Generator (for Firefox; probably there is one for Chromium as well). It shows a popup with the QR code for current URL, which makes it easy to test the same page on a mobile device.

Firefox has a 'send tab to device' feature if you are signed in. Really useful!

I'm no fan of Firefox' accounts, so I can't use this, but the extension also allows me to open a website in e.g. Edge Beta on Android.

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Post by joshxyz »

gorhill wrote: post #193

> Kind of annoying having to whitelist every website I visit on NoScript these days but worth it imho In case you didn't already know, uBO does integrate a script blocker, with the advantage over NoScript that it supports per-site rules. I wrote a Twitter thread about this as an introduction a while ago: https://twitter.com/gorhill/status/1379819815657996290 >. Also, a negative interference when using another script…

I wanna thank you for blocking ads on each newssite pornsite and pirate movie site i visited, uBlock Origin is a gift that keeps on giving haha.

Re: Ask HN: What browser extensions are a must-have in 2021?

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Post by XCSme »

https://unhook.app/ - Remove recommandations from YouTube (so you can still used and watch it without getting into rabbit holes or end up procrastinating)

Colour Contrast Checker - Good when developing, always being able to check contrast between text/background to keep it accessible

LeechBlock - Limit the time on specific websites

BitWarden - Password manager

TextBlaze - Canned messages, good if you often respond to emails with the same message.

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