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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?
#62Video 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…
This extension is amazing if you have to do mandatory training videos at work and they speak at a snails pace.
Re: Ask HN: What browser extensions are a must-have in 2021?
#63- uBlock Origin
- Bitwarden
- Imagus
- Session Buddy
- Save Page WE
- Unpaywall
- Bypass paywall clean
- CrxMouse Gestures
- Ghostery
- Firefox Containers
These are across browsers (Firfox/Chrome and Opera)
Occasionally use Brave for some casual browsing.
Re: Ask HN: What browser extensions are a must-have in 2021?
#64Earlier 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 change the theme and the opening tree behavior do it doesn't nest endlessly. I think I also put to open new tabs at the front of the children, so it is immediately preceding the parent. Just use it for a bit, the top tab bar is so silly.
Re: Ask HN: What browser extensions are a must-have in 2021?
#65Video 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…
Can I now has 4x speedup for meetings?
Re: Ask HN: What browser extensions are a must-have in 2021?
#66https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/text-to-speech/bkj... has a nice text to speech software, something like what the edge browser has
Re: Ask HN: What browser extensions are a must-have in 2021?
#67Another 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.
Re: Ask HN: What browser extensions are a must-have in 2021?
#68AutoTabDiscard, to save memory on many open tabs.
(Firefox addon)
Re: Ask HN: What browser extensions are a must-have in 2021?
#69AutoTabDiscard, to save memory on many open tabs. (Firefox addon)
It's good, but unfortunately it can only prevent a URL being suspended for the current session, not whitelist it forever like The Marvellous Suspender (Chrome). This is really annoying when working through an infinite-scroll page like a YouTube channel, which loses its place when it gets suspended.