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Ask HN: What Firefox/Chrome extensions do you use?
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Re: Ask HN: What Firefox/Chrome extensions do you use?
#62Chrome:
Awesome Screenshot
Google Voice
Session Manager
Stumbleupon
Gmail Checker
Re: Ask HN: What Firefox/Chrome extensions do you use?
#63I use lasttab in Firefox to get LRU tab switching. Until chrome gets it (and don't make me change my ctrl-tab muscle memory) I'm not switching.
There's also one called Ctrl-Tab that does the same, and also allows you to alt-Q (or is it Ctrl-Q) to give you thumbnails of all open tabs, then switch to tab by name (Emacs iswitchb style).
Re: Ask HN: What Firefox/Chrome extensions do you use?
#64The only one I use that hasn't been mentioned here yet is Venkman (JavaScript Debugger) for FireFox.
Re: Ask HN: What Firefox/Chrome extensions do you use?
#65Firefox.
It turned out I couldn't live without Ubiquity. Still under development, although officially it's on hiatus.
The Add-On Compatibility Reporter, so I can run edge versions of extensions.
Firemacs (for sensible Emacs bindings)
TabKit (tabs on left side and tree style, with grouping and so on) and Ctrl-Tab (LRU tab switching, plus thumbnailed tab display and switch to tab by name-typing). All other tab organization systems pale in comparison.
And the rest: NoScript * Firebug * Web Developer Toolbar * Greasemonkey * IETab * Vacuum Places DB
Re: Ask HN: What Firefox/Chrome extensions do you use?
#66I have a lot, but Ultimate Chrome Flag is my favorite.
The reason it's my favorite is because it displays in the URL bar the pagerank of the site I'm on. It's like an instant credibility check whenever I'm browsing or reading an article. In fact, browsing without it (say on my phone or in my newsreader) now feels like an incomplete experience.
My favorite extensions in Firefox are tied, Firebug and the Web Developer Toolbar. I'm sure if either got a full-fledged extension in Chrome, it'd probably be my new favorite extension.
Re: Ask HN: What Firefox/Chrome extensions do you use?
#67I keep it simple. Xmarks, adblock (adthwart on chrome), and sometimes greasemonkey.
Re: Ask HN: What Firefox/Chrome extensions do you use?
#68On Chrome:
Adblock, RSS Subscriber (puts an RSS icon on the location bar where relevant and allows you to subscribe to the feed).
I also wrote my own delicious extension to easily add bookmarks into delicious.
On Firefox: Firebug, Adblock
I basically only use firefox these days for debugging web apps.
Re: Ask HN: What Firefox/Chrome extensions do you use?
#69I think I'm the only person that doesn't use adblock.
Anyways on chrome: ireader, google reader "note in reader", hckr news (never noticed what it does though), and delicious. Using the dev channel build of chrome.
On FF: Treeview, someone on hn suggested it to me and I'm really hoping something similar comes to chrome. I'd use firefox more but still experience it memory leaking/crashing too much.
Re: Ask HN: What Firefox/Chrome extensions do you use?
#70FireBug, Delicious, Tails Export and Operator mostly cause I make sites not so much as consume them...