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

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I use on Firefox:

- Bitwarden - Toggle Reddit Sidebar - uBlock Origin - Gramarly - Reddit Enhancement Suite - Gesturefy

On Edge (along with compatible Firefox Add-ons) - CrxMouse - SwiftRead (for speed reading any site or text. if you pay for Pro you can also speed read PDFs) - Scribe (to create step by step tutorials automatically: https://scribehow.com/signup?affiliate=2fe22b23-335a-4f91-bd...)

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

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brave browser, brave search - vimium for keyboard browser control - darkreader makes all sites dark - ublock origin - tab redirect, force new tabs to hit a page i specified - password manager - instapaper, clips webpages/links for later

Just curious - have you tried Surfingkeys (an alternative to vimium)?

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

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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?

It's automated via the containerise addon, which can match url regexes. Google Regex, which works for a bunch of G-suite stuff (Gmail, Docs etc)

@.*\.google\.com.*username@gmail\.com.*$

A bookmark link for Gmail that works with that regex would be:

https://mail google.com/u/?authuser=username@gmail.com

Edit: What? Of fuck off HN, how the fuck are you supposed to post unformatted text? Ok, got it. I'm not translating the horrible YouTube url though.

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

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post #213

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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 )

I use Firefox an uBlock origin and definitely don't see ads on YouTube. I don't have any other ad blocking extension installed.

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…

How is this container strategy different from just disabling third-party cookies?

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

#276
I am looking and I don't see my preferred extensions without which I cannot live (I won't repeat the already mentioned ones):

- Selection Context Search - very extensible addon which will allows you to select in page and use that for opening an URL: search in any engine, add to search strings in Wikipedia, IMDB, torrents, almost anything

- Ant Video Downloader - downloads any video from page

- Bookmark Tab Here - bookmark by right clicking directly on bookmark folder

- HistoryBlock - blocklists sites from history (for example google.com, your search history)

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

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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

uMatrix can be configured similarly, but it is extremely limited. I am thinking something more like the Firefox/Chrome DevTools.

Also uMatrix is no longer maintained.

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

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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).

You can use Tree Style Tab or similar (AFAIR there are a few different extensions with different tradeoffs for similar features).

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

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Export Tabs URLs https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/export-tabs-u... Used to dump tab URLs into a text file for later use. Has the option of selecting and editing the text of the file before saving, filtering the file contents, only selecting tabs from the current window in Firefox, and adding the title of each tab above its URL.

Tab Session Manager will export tabs and much more (but the export is json).

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.

Reminds me of cloud to butt. https://github.com/panicsteve/cloud-to-butt

I don’t understand this. Why would you replace butt with butt?
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