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

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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.

That's a great idea! I never knew i wanted this until now! Edit: Just found this: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/time-zone-converte... seems to work great not hover but right click and select

Thanks for the link!

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

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I want an offline solution for this. What's the point of saving content from the Internet on the same Internet? You lose your connection and immediately lose access to all the saved content. So, does anyone know of any solution like this, but running locally instead? I tried Recoll, and both the FF extension and the query engine were... unpolished, to say the least... EDIT: mentioned in another comment Web Clipper +…

Raindrop.io and Pocket can save articles on the Premium plan and Raindrop does it automatically it seems, it does have a few limits though. Wallabag costs money but you can self host it. I heard it's good!

Thank you! For anyone else wondering: Raindrop costs 35 euro per year (but has a limited free version) and Wallabag starts from 3 euro per year, and has options for 5 and 25 euro, but I'm not sure if this influences functionality or is simply a way of donating money to the project.

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> I type "gmail work", hit return and Firefox opens it in the correct container tab, already logged in. (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) Do you just have a google container, or have you managed to make it so that gmail can only be opened in a "personal" and "work" context…

I have containers for personal, projects, shopping and a bunch more. Within work I have several containers (prod, test, dev) as there are different accounts for those - AWS for example

Are you manually allocating your work gmail to one container and personal gmail to another, or are you only logging into one at a time, or have you managed to automate this somehow?

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

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I kind of object to this because it's directly messing with creators' efforts. Obviously I'm not telling people not to use it, but I think it's worth thinking about the channels/creators you enjoy - especially if they've been demonetized by Youtube.

I'm actually curious about this since I've never uploaded to youtube myself. Do the creators get statistics on segments that are commonly skipped, or is all information like that hidden?

They know which parts people skip, the analytics is quite granular and viewable in their dashboards.

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

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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…

You can switch user agents in chrome developer tools now - no need for an extension [1]. I find device mode [2] even better for your use case.

[1] https://developer.chrome.com/docs/devtools/device-mode/overr...

[2] https://developer.chrome.com/docs/devtools/device-mode/

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

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

If you use uBlock Origin, you shouldn't need it because prevents the ad from playing at all.

Hmm I def see ads on YouTube, is there maybe a setting I need to enable or ruleset? (I use the default )

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

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uBlock Origin, Firefox Multi-Account Containers, Temporary Containers, Containerise, and Tree Style Tabs for me. I also quite like Tab Session Manager, and get a decent amount of use out of QR Code Generator.

uBlock Origin is an ad blocker, and script blocker, with per-site rules. I use it in "Advanced User" mode.

Multi-Account Containers allows isolating sites to containers, all cookies, local storage, etc, are kept within that container only (but all addons work across all containers). So my HN container saves my HN login, my Stackexchange container saves my stackexchange login, etc.

Temporary containers makes sites that aren't assigned to a permanent container get assigned to a temporary container that gets deleted shortly after they're closed. So anything that doesn't have a permanent assignment gets something akin to a Private Browsing tab.

Containerize allows wildcard matching for domains to permanent containers. So sites with logins that have a bunch of subdomains & redirects can match all of them to the same container. EG *.jetbrains.com opens in a container for Jetbrains, so their redirect-to-login flow works.

Tree-style tabs provides better organization of things I'm working on than flat tabs without a hierarchy.

Tab Session Manager lets me save and load entire sessions of tabs at once, or just single windows from a session, and give those sessions names.

QR Code Generator is handy for exactly what the name says.

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

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I think OP is asking for privacy related extensions but here’s a fun one that I use: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/nicolas-cage/fjgbn... It replaces every instance of “god” on your current web page with “Nicolas Cage.” Gets me every time.

Because there's no way that could ever go wrong...

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28869819

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