Browser Extensions I Can't Live Without

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Post by maskys » Tue, Aug 11, 2020, 2:29 PM UTC

Browser Extensions I Can't Live Without
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Post by xahrepap » Tue, Aug 11, 2020, 3:01 PM UTC

I can't live without Tree Style Tabs[0] in Firefox. It's The Thing that finally got me to switch back to FF and I will never look back.

0: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/tree-style-ta...

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Post by 5986043handy » Tue, Aug 11, 2020, 3:01 PM UTC

Would add HTTPS Everywhere https://www.eff.org/https-everywhere and NoScript https://noscript.net/ to that list

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Post by melenaos » Tue, Aug 11, 2020, 3:03 PM UTC

Great addons, also available at the firefox browser.

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Post by bzb4 » Tue, Aug 11, 2020, 3:04 PM UTC

Imagus to zoom into images maybe? Buster to solve captchas?

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Post by fendy3002 » Tue, Aug 11, 2020, 3:08 PM UTC

Color picker, produce approx. hex n rgb color of page

screenshot whole page (not always produce good result)

Magnifier

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Post by motorbreath » Tue, Aug 11, 2020, 3:09 PM UTC

5986043handy wrote: post #3

Would add HTTPS Everywhere https://www.eff.org/https-everywhere and NoScript https://noscript.net/ to that list

These are essential- I also add Privacy Badger and uBlock Origin. I choose Firefox over Chrome.

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Post by alsdkfjkqjwer » Tue, Aug 11, 2020, 3:10 PM UTC

one thing I only started doing recently was to (in firefox, not sure chrome even gives you that control) disable the option to use fonts.

I set my serif/san-serif fonts (ubuntu, ubuntu mono) and disable "allow website to choose their own font"

It's incredible how having a standard font all over makes reading easier.

Only downside is a handful of sites that uses the neo-windings (fontawesome et al) for icons. But it's not hard to click the button with an "S" instead of the one with a magnifying glass.

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Post by yingbo » Tue, Aug 11, 2020, 3:17 PM UTC

If you can live without Chrome, you can live without all Chrome extensions in the article; If you can live without a desktop/laptop, you can live without all Chrome extensions. I just don't like this kind of eyeball-attracting title: Too much exaggeration

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Post by mrweasel » Tue, Aug 11, 2020, 3:17 PM UTC

That’s an insane amount of extensions, most of which seems to deal with fixing “broken” website or at least make them tolerable.

Reader mode is a little surprising, doesn’t Chrome have that built in?