Hacker News Board Hacker News, browsed like a classic message board
Live data from Hacker News

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

news.ycombinator.com

Post reply on HN
Print view View original

201–210 of 317 posts

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

#201

Post by selfhoster11 »

raffraffraff wrote: post #45

I stopped trying to whitelist sites. Now I just use cookie autodelete and container tabs. Full list: - Joplin web clipper - BitWarden - Firefox containers - Containerise (choose tab container based on domain name or url regex) - Cookie autodelete (in case I ever accidentally log into something in the wrong container, this cleans it up) I also modify the search bar so it only suggests locations from my bookmarks, and…

> Honestly, who uses bookmarks any more? They just turn into a bloated to-do list, hundreds of links you'll forget about until one day you try them and the domain no longer exists

Exactly! I use tabs for that very thing. I have over four hundred tabs open in multiple windows, and counting!

(Please send help.)

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

#202

Post by pabs3 »

There is one extension that doesn't exist yet but I want: The right solution to using the modern web is an allow-list based approach. Let the user be in control of the details of every request and response and action taken by the browser. Then people who want to can choose their own way to interact with the web.

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

#203

Post by spookyuser »

Okay one I haven't seen mentioned that I have been using a lot: Chrome Currency Converter, you can have it configured that when you press a shortcut all currencies on a page are converted to your local one. For me, when I press Alt-c the whole page changes from $ to my currency

https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/chrome-currency-co...

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

#204

Post by aembleton »

KayL wrote: post #187
Jaruzel wrote: post #89

My de-facto set of extensions: - uBlock Origin - Cookie AutoDelete - "I Don't Care About Cookies" (It auto-OKs cookie consent banners) - Archive.org's Wayback Machine (A must have in this era of link rot) Optional: - Tablist (easily lets me copy out all the URLs of open tabs for 'later') - User Agent Switcher (Needed less these days, but useful for exploring the DOM of mobile versions of sites) Additionally, I have w…

uBlock has a cookie list for consent banners

I don't care about cookies also publishes one that can be used by uBlock - https://www.i-dont-care-about-cookies.eu/abp/

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

#205

Post by gorhill »

jcun4128 wrote: post #97

Every time I setup a new computer/OS I always put Ublock and adblock plus (yes I use both) Also have my own extensions, in particular one that dumps all the active tab titles with urls for future lookup and a YT one that hides the homepage crap so I don't get distracted whenever I go on there to do something.

Using another ad blocker along uBO leads to worse results than using uBO alone, I keep warning people about this, see https://twitter.com/gorhill/status/1033706103782170625>.

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

#206

Post by cloogshicer »

spookyuser wrote: post #203

Okay one I haven't seen mentioned that I have been using a lot: Chrome Currency Converter, you can have it configured that when you press a shortcut all currencies on a page are converted to your local one. For me, when I press Alt-c the whole page changes from $ to my currency https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/chrome-currency-co...

I wish something like this existed but with time zones.

For example, any time a website mentions "Tuesday 10AM PST", I want to be able to hover over it to reveal the time/date in my own timezone.

Have looked but couldn't really find anything.

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

#207

Post by aembleton »

pabs3 wrote: post #202

There is one extension that doesn't exist yet but I want: The right solution to using the modern web is an allow-list based approach. Let the user be in control of the details of every request and response and action taken by the browser. Then people who want to can choose their own way to interact with the web.

Sounds like uMatrix

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

#208

Post by abstract_put »

selfhoster11 wrote: post #198
ajvs wrote: post #103

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Your custom launcher is basically the manual version of using Multi-Account Containers and Temporary Containers for Firefox by the way.

They do not cover the same use case. If you have 80 tabs each for 3 different topics, you end up managing 240 tabs. It's sometimes more manageable to split this off into entirely different browser profiles (or browsers, even).

> If you have 80 tabs each for 3 different topics, you end up managing 210 tabs

Is this a typo (80 x 3 = 240), or are you suggesting 30 tabs are deduplicated in some capacity?

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

#209

Post by spiralx »

Jedd wrote: post #55

I 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 -…

+1 for Octotree and Tabs Outliner from me.
Post reply on HN