Ask HN: What is your must have browser extension? • Hacker News Board

Re: Ask HN: What is your must have browser extension?

#31

Post by rg111 » Wed, Jan 04, 2023, 4:13 AM UTC

- uBlockOrigin: to never see ads, anywhere.

- OneTab: to share all open tabs to an HTML/squish to one tab.

- tabcopy: to copy the addresses of all open tabs to plaintext (don't use it anymore)

- Privacy Possum: because privacy

- One Shot: arbitrary size screen capture of open web page

- Facebook Container: provides some protection when visiting sites owned by Meta

- archive.today: you are on HN- you know why

Re: Ask HN: What is your must have browser extension?

#32

Post by paulryanrogers » Wed, Jan 04, 2023, 4:17 AM UTC

Dark background light text

Browser Routr, to auto open some sites in a non-default browser; full disclosure: I made it and offer it as a premium app

Re: Ask HN: What is your must have browser extension?

#33

Post by wyclif » Wed, Jan 04, 2023, 4:17 AM UTC

guiambros wrote: post #28

>> Site / theme improvements: 1) Dark Hacker News 2) Hacker News: Mark All Read 3) DarkReader >> Tab management and workflow: 4) Unique Tabs 5) PowerSwitch 6) Switch between your two most recent tabs 7) Tabs Outliner 8) Session Buddy 9) JoinTabs >> Mastodon improvements: 10) Mastodon Handles in Twitter 11) Mastodon Link >> Video improvement: 12) Picture-in-Picture Extension (by Google) 13) Video Speed Controller 14)…

Really wish HN had a native dark mode. Oh, I know they don't want to do it. But it's the right thing to do.

Re: Ask HN: What is your must have browser extension?

#34

Post by dkersten » Wed, Jan 04, 2023, 4:24 AM UTC

Adblock and password manager

Re: Ask HN: What is your must have browser extension?

#35

Post by walterbell » Wed, Jan 04, 2023, 4:35 AM UTC

iOS:

  Wipr (adblock)
  StopTheMadness (URL/CSS/JS mods)
  DevonThink (web archive for local search)
  Codebook (password mgr, wifi sync)

Re: Ask HN: What is your must have browser extension?

#36

Post by tfsh » Wed, Jan 04, 2023, 4:42 AM UTC

Unclutter - next gen reader

Picture in Picture by Google

YouTube sponsor block

OneTab

Return YouTube dislike

Single FileZ

I still don't care about cookies

Re: Ask HN: What is your must have browser extension?

#37

Post by SanchoPanda » Wed, Jan 04, 2023, 4:49 AM UTC

bistro wrote: post #15

wetpaws wrote: post #12

Return Youtube Dislikes, SponsorBlock

I wish there would be some way to implement sponsorblock for podcasts.

Maybe [Comskip](https://github.com/erikkaashoek/Comskip) could be used for this, depending on whether or not the hosts are doing the read.

Re: Ask HN: What is your must have browser extension?

#38

Post by muffa » Wed, Jan 04, 2023, 4:51 AM UTC

Grammarly - Because I misspell all the time(Not supported on HN)

uBlock origin - Because I'm not a big fan of ads. Also works on firefox on android if you are tired of ads when browsing on your phone.

Bitwarden - Just switched from lastpass, and wow what can I say, such a breeze to use and it's free!

Re: Ask HN: What is your must have browser extension?

#39

Post by cmeacham98 » Wed, Jan 04, 2023, 4:56 AM UTC

ashwagary wrote: post #29

mekster wrote: post #27

Earlier quoted context omitted.

With your theoretical concern (anything specific?), you'd copy paste every time you need to login?

Yes, copy and paste everything. Trusting all passwords to a browser and hoping vendors don't ship updates with any vulnerabilities or feature-bugs randomly thrown in is a bit much to ask imo.

I consider "accidentally copy pasting my password into a phishing website" to be a much more likely threat vector than "browser includes exploit that allows access to integrated (but not external) password managers".

Thus, I use and recommend integrated password managers.

Re: Ask HN: What is your must have browser extension?

#40

Post by menshiki » Wed, Jan 04, 2023, 4:57 AM UTC

I don't see anyone mentioning Bypass Paywalls. It lets you bypass paywalls on most mainstream news outlets. It's a must-have for me and I wish it was available for Safari.

https://github.com/iamadamdev/bypass-paywalls-chrome