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Ask HN: What browser extensions are a must-have in 2021?
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Re: Ask HN: What browser extensions are a must-have in 2021?
#52I stopped using NoScript because the micromanagement of domain names simply took too much time. I rely on Pi-hole to fill that gap somewhat. To answer your question (Firefox on desktop and mobile): - uBlock Origin - Privacy Badger - HTTPS Everywhere - Enhancer for YouTube - Multi-account Containers - Owl
Just in case you didn't know about this: https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2020/10/privacy-badger-changin...
I remember finding out about it in a thread on reddit, they concluded that after this change there is no point in using privacybadger if you're already using ublock, for example.
Re: Ask HN: What browser extensions are a must-have in 2021?
#53I stopped using NoScript because the micromanagement of domain names simply took too much time. I rely on Pi-hole to fill that gap somewhat. To answer your question (Firefox on desktop and mobile): - uBlock Origin - Privacy Badger - HTTPS Everywhere - Enhancer for YouTube - Multi-account Containers - Owl
Also on Firefox. It appears that I'm not as privacy/security conscious as are most in this thread, but I heartily second HTTPS Everywhere. However, the single Firefox extension that's indispensable to me is Tree Style Tabs. See: https://github.com/piroor/treestyletab . Is it possible (for a Web page hoarder like me) to organize and access 500+ tabs across seven Firefox windows? You betcha it is, with Tree Style Tabs.
In the same vein I'd recommend Sidebery https://github.com/mbnuqw/sidebery for tree style tabs.
It has more sane defaults, even some animations, very accessible customization (e.g. you can theme every bit of bar in extension settings, not needing to go to chrome.css). It's also can be used as a basic browser "window manager", given that you can't split window into panes, but you can have multiple tab groups in one window and quickly switch between them.
Re: Ask HN: What browser extensions are a must-have in 2021?
#54I recently built a browser extension and a web app to keep track of job applications.
- With the browser extension (for Chrome and Firefox) you can add jobs from any website with a single click and that job will show up on your special Kanban board.
- On the board you can add more information and keep track of your application through all the phases. You also get weekly reports with your progress.
Link: https://profilehunt.net/job-application-tracker-web-extensio...
Re: Ask HN: What browser extensions are a must-have in 2021?
#55I 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 - nifty, if you spend a fair bit of time in jira
tabs outliner - can be handy for recovering large bits of your (crashed) browser history, though I find ctrl-shift-T gets me most of the way there these days.
Re: Ask HN: What browser extensions are a must-have in 2021?
#56Toby - Bookmark and organize browser tabs
Pocket/Instapaper - To save articles for offline use
Video Speed Controller - Play videos at faster playback speed, time is precious
Send to Kindle - To send articles to Kindle
Re: Ask HN: What browser extensions are a must-have in 2021?
#57I can't live without this one: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/i-dont-care-a... Blocks the "consent to cookies" modal sites are required to have thanks to some terrible legislation.
Nice extension. But I'd say that the legislation is alright, it's these sites that are terrible. They put these modals because they want to.
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Re: Ask HN: What browser extensions are a must-have in 2021?
#58uBlock - ad blocking
Bitwarden - password manager
Sidebery - a bit nicer Tree Style Tabs
Tridactyl - vim shortcuts
Tab Session Manager - manage multiple sessions of windows and tabs. Back in university I used it to have many "sessions" attached to assignments I'd been doing.
Currently I have "work", "leisure" and "hobby" sessions with a bunch of various project sessions hopefully I'm gonna pick up someday :)
Re: Ask HN: What browser extensions are a must-have in 2021?
#59Earlier quoted context omitted.
Also on Firefox. It appears that I'm not as privacy/security conscious as are most in this thread, but I heartily second HTTPS Everywhere. However, the single Firefox extension that's indispensable to me is Tree Style Tabs. See: https://github.com/piroor/treestyletab . Is it possible (for a Web page hoarder like me) to organize and access 500+ tabs across seven Firefox windows? You betcha it is, with Tree Style Tabs.
I've played with Tree Style Tabs, but it seems like there's some configuration required for the optimal result. So I ask: have you done any configuration changes to it?
I edited userStyles.css to remove the browser tabs from the top of the browser so that only the tst tabs are visible, plus in the tst preferences I added some css to highlight certain tabs such as email and slack. I also added some styles for suspended tabs and removed the a scrollbars.
Re: Ask HN: What browser extensions are a must-have in 2021?
#60Video Speed Controller lets you speed up any HTML5 video. No more sitting through videos at 1x speed! Chrome: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/video-speed-contro... Firefox: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/videospeed/ Even for a site like YouTube that has built-in speed control settings, it's still useful since (1) you can make the speed exceed 2x and (2) you can use keyboard shortcuts to tune…
Wow thanks! This is exactly what I need thanks to constant phone notifications which have reduced my attention span to.... that of something with a small attention span!