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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)?

I've not. I'll give it a look thanks

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

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post #173

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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.

Could you please post your userChrome.css that you use to achieve this? Looks very neat to me, but I don't know how to configure it.

https://gist.github.com/stuartstein777/b7ebf62e3fd44f432b873...

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?

Containers isolate more than just cookies, they isolate all local storage. So each container acts like 3rd-party cookies are enabled, they get saved, everything works even when silly website authors use 3rd-party services for authenticaton, etc. But it's all isolated, so the sites in one container don't see any of the storage in another.

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

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post #34

Chrome extensions i use: adblock plus, google dictionary (just highlight a word and it will define it, or if it isn't an english word it will translate it to english), poper blocker, grammarly, "I don't care about cookies".

> adblock plus

i would suggest replacing that one with ublock origin since ABP has a very shady business model that directly interferes with their adblocking

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

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post #296

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I've been trying out Tabs Outliner. It seems exactly like something I'd need, and even works for Vivaldi, but it's a bit overwhelming haha. It's also a shame that the dev disappeared and there's no Firefox extension

Over the past half dozen years I've found the developer fairly responsive, but we're in a catch-22 situation. My interest (I want to delete the several hundreds of 'pages' of previous tab details in my history before I'd consider this something I'd pay for) and the developers interest (this is too hard to do for a non-paying customer) have been at odds.

Wait, they have? They haven't responded too any issues posted recently, and I heard from the guy who recommended this extension that you can't even pay for the premium anymore.

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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.

I mean I know AlternativeTo lists it as paid.

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

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post #191

Lots of good extensions in this thread. Here are some optional extensions I like: - Twemex - https://twemex.app/ - Adds a really useful sidebar to Twitter. - Recipe Filter - https://github.com/sean-public/RecipeFilter - Focuses recipes front and center on food blogs - Notion Boost - https://gourav.io/notion-boost - Adds a lot of really nice features to Notion - Tampermonkey - https://www.tampermonkey.net/ - Lets you…

https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/recipe-filter/ahlc... I made the recipe-filter extension you mentioned, which has the source available on GitHub at the link you gave and thus is trivial for others to fork, modify, install locally, and so on. All extensions wind up as an archive with JS that one could modify, but I've made this one especially transparent. With your ExtensionPay, I could add a check to see if…

Well, your extension has 50k+ users. What percentage do you think would try to get around the payment system? I'm guessing most of your users aren't that technical, they just hate those recipe card things :) And how many users does the next most popular fork of your extension have?

Notion Boost is also an open-source extension on Github with 20k+ users and has made a bunch of money from users paying for pro features. So there's at least one data point in your favor.

I'd also like to point out that you're speculating! You don't know what will happen :) One reason I made ExtensionPay was so that developers (including me!) can just try monetizing their extensions with no costs and very little time commitment and see what happens empirically — get the data.

How were you thinking about monetizing your extension anyway? Subscriptions? One-time? Freemium?

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