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

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Post by lpapez »

mike_d wrote: post #62
thmt wrote: post #42

Video 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.

Multiple tabs of videos playing on 4x speed. We did speedrunning contests on these mandatory training videos in my previous company. Good times.

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

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Post by LandR »

syntheticnature wrote: post #40
TomDavey wrote: post #15

Earlier 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 have custom css to hide the tab bar from the top.

I also shrink it down when the mouse isn't over it. See the screenshots for mouse out and mouse over look.

Mouse not over tree tabs: https://i.imgur.com/ikQhxTM.png Mouse over tree tabs: https://i.imgur.com/TyRds6V.png

Works well for me.

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

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Post by temp0826 »

jmnicolas wrote: post #92
TomDavey wrote: post #15

Earlier 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.

> to organize and access 500+ tabs across seven Firefox windows What motherboard did you get to have one terabyte of RAM? :D

When ff is set to restore tabs on launch, it does not load them until you click on them. There are also extensions that allow you to unload tabs without closing them. I've never been a fan of bookmarks for whatever reason and tend to have many of the same tabs open for months at a time.

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

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Post by mrspeaker »

karaterobot wrote: post #11

Sponsorblock for Youtube: users mark segments of videos that have sponsored content, and the extension skips over them. It also skips past introductions and interaction reminders.

Also "Youtube Video Skip Ad Trigger" is handy one for automatically pressing the "skip ad" button - so you don't have to!

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

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Post by sf_rob »

* 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 and it's marginally more convenient than inspecting.

* Firefox Color - Quick browser changes, also do some custom stuff in UserChrome.css

* History Cleaner - Deletes my history after x weeks.

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

I find Firefox's built-in tracker blockers adequate for my usage these days (used to use uBlock Origin). Also, Firefox containers is a game changer for isolating work/personal or dev/qa.

I would also recommend learning how to write/use Bookmarklets and edit UserChrome.css for greater productivity/customization.

[+]Some of the above are not large enough to be audited by Mozilla, but the source code is on Github.

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

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Post by aikinai »

For iOS Safari (both iPad and iPhone) I recently found StopTheMadness which is amazing.

It’s. grabbag of great features and make iOS browsing more like a desktop. Let you get the context menu for any image, show native video controls, stop sites from blocking right click or paste, etc.

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