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Re: Ask HN: What are the most useful Chrome extensions?

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The Great Suspender: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/the-great-suspende...

Combined with Session Buddy: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/session-buddy/edac...

Those who routinely keep 10+ tabs open may be motivated to switch to Firefox or Opera due to slow browser start. The above 2 extensions solve the issue. I explain in more detail here:

http://www.filterjoe.com/2015/01/23/best-browsers-2015-which...

Re: Ask HN: What are the most useful Chrome extensions?

#42
Ghostery: Privacy Manager | https://www.ghostery.com/en/

1Password: Password Manager | https://agilebits.com/onepassword

Tape: Pixel Perfect Grid Rulers | https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/tape/jmfleijdbicil...

Page Ruler Chrome: | https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/page-ruler/jlpkojj...

Re: Ask HN: What are the most useful Chrome extensions?

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## Currently

https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/currently/ojhmphdk...

beautiful extension that replaces the "New Tab" with this week's weather. It's remarkably useful to one that never can be bothered to check the weather and the design is top-notch.

## Stay Focusd

Great way to limit time on distraction sites. I have ten minutes of Facebook time a day.

Re: Ask HN: What are the most useful Chrome extensions?

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See also uBlock https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/µblock/cjpalhdlnbp... for ad blocking.

I actually have that running on Firefox. For some reason my Chrome had random memory leak spikes from uBlock.

> random memory leak spikes from uBlock

Chromium issue 441500:

"Popup UI of extensions causes systematic memory leaks" [1]

Related?

This was finally fixed yesterday, but we will probably have to wait until Chromium 43 for the fix.

[1] https://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=441500

Re: Ask HN: What are the most useful Chrome extensions?

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Startuptabs: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/startuptabscom/bkn... Gethoneybadger: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/gethoneybadger/lgh...

I second GetHoneybadger, incredibly useful for pulling up domain traffic/whois etc...

Re: Ask HN: What are the most useful Chrome extensions?

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Google Dictionary is one I use frequently, every day. Just double-click a word to see its definition. https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/google-dictionary-...

On Mac you can use a 3-finger tap on a world or select "Look Up In Dictionary" from the context menu to look it up in the dictionary and Wikipedia.

Re: Ask HN: What are the most useful Chrome extensions?

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I've been using REST Console, which is useful, but sounds like Postman may have more features.

Postman is an awesome tool that I highly recommend! It's awesome to be able to export your work and share it with co-workers as well.

+1 for Postman, I use it all the time. The history feature is especially great for me.
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