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

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

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Post by guiambros » Wed, Jan 04, 2023, 5:08 AM UTC

wyclif wrote: post #33

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.

Couldn't agree more. Having said that, I'm very happy with the Dark Hacker extension [1], and have been using it for years.

I'm using it unpacked as I wanted to tweak a few colors and make it compatible with the "HN: Mark All Read", but you can also find it in the Chrome webstore.

[1] https://github.com/TheLastAirsickLowlander/DarkHacker

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

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Post by alhirzel » Wed, Jan 04, 2023, 5:14 AM UTC

wereallterrrist wrote: post #17

uBlock Origin, Tree Style Tabs, Sponsorblock, Auto Tab Discard, the rest I can live without. (not an extension: userChrome.css to remove tab bar) (preview of Tree Style Tabs + userChrome = https://i.imgur.com/81OpEOy.png )

+1 for Tree Style Tabs, I have the same setup.

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

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Post by Semaphor » Wed, Jan 04, 2023, 5:23 AM UTC

Sorted roughly by order of importance.

uBo, of course.

uMatrix, which despite being EoL has a vastly superior interface to uBo for selective resource (un-)blocking

KeePassXC as password manager

LanguageTool, less shady Grammarly, and selfhostable

NopeCHA, shady captcha solver, but better than doing that shit myself, fuck you recaptcha, cloudflare and hCaptcha.

Refined HackerNews, some HN QoL improvements

Nitter Redirect, redirects Twitter links to a chosen Nitter instance which is slightly more readable and has none of the annoying JS.

Copy Me That, recipe extractor for my chosen recipe and shopping list manager.

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

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Post by subtlemuffins » Wed, Jan 04, 2023, 5:50 AM UTC

Highly recommend Hyperweb on iOS — very impressive!

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

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Post by sum1ren » Wed, Jan 04, 2023, 6:03 AM UTC

Blocksite.co - for getting rid of distractions

Fetcher.page - for getting distractions in a controlled way

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

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Post by philonoist » Wed, Jan 04, 2023, 6:42 AM UTC

Semaphor wrote: post #43

Sorted roughly by order of importance. uBo, of course. uMatrix, which despite being EoL has a vastly superior interface to uBo for selective resource (un-)blocking KeePassXC as password manager LanguageTool, less shady Grammarly, and selfhostable NopeCHA, shady captcha solver, but better than doing that shit myself, fuck you recaptcha, cloudflare and hCaptcha. Refined HackerNews, some HN QoL improvements Nitter Redir…

Thanks for uMatrix and NopeCHA. This saved my life from shortening( just from frustration).

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

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Post by ashwagary » Wed, Jan 04, 2023, 6:42 AM UTC

cmeacham98 wrote: post #39

ashwagary wrote: post #29

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

Copy pasting one password into a phishing website.

vs.

Whole database of passwords being compromised in one swoop due to browser/plugin bug, change of terms, or change of ownership.

The latter is more dangerous no matter how we slice it. Manual process (isolation) and a bit of care are the logical choice imo.

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

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Post by philonoist » Wed, Jan 04, 2023, 6:49 AM UTC

subtlemuffins wrote: post #44

Highly recommend Hyperweb on iOS — very impressive!

Thanks and it works on PC, for those who are looking for PC.

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

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Post by philonoist » Wed, Jan 04, 2023, 6:57 AM UTC

menshiki wrote: post #40

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

The listed sites block me using Cloudflare when I installed this.

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

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Post by philonoist » Wed, Jan 04, 2023, 6:59 AM UTC

surprisetalk wrote: post #10

Tab exporters (to plain-text)! I use Tabitha for Safari, but there are plenty of different options for each browser. I find that it's super easy to clean up my tabs by dumping them to my plain-text notes.

OneTab goes beyond these expectations.