The only thing you really need is uBlock Origin and a password manager. Everything else is fluff.
Browser Extensions I Can't Live Without
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#62Nice list. There are still extensions I wish someone would come up with. Like an extension to make Google Image Search only return images, not videos. I've basically given up on embedding gifs into HTML because it's impossible to find an actual gif with Google. All you get is videos pretending to be gifs.
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#63I will also add flowcrypt in this list to send gpg encrypted mail. https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/flowcrypt-encrypt-...
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#64There's an incredibly useful extension that's not on that list that I bet a good number of HN folks would like: Vimium [1] It lets you use keyboard shortcuts to navigate through webpages, click buttons, jump to text boxes, etc. it's been huge for me both as a productivity tool (it's significantly faster than using a mouse for navigation) and also for reducing RSI/strain on my hands. Here's a video of it in action as…
There is also the Nyxt browser. Vim, emacs or CUA keybindings available.
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#65Earlier quoted context omitted.
+1 for bitwarden. Of all the things not to trust closed source software with, passwords are the main one
KeepassXC is fortunately the only sane password-manager; so; bite your heads off with all the other crap. Bitwarden is a POS over-commercialized POS; use KeepassXC instead. Obvisously not afflitiated with KXC; and certainly not Shitwarden. Good for you that KeepassXC is free; unlike Shitwarden! Have your choices.
If there were ever a post to drive me away from a product, this'd be it. Good to know that I should stay well away from KeepassXC, if this is what its defenders sound like.
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#66There's an incredibly useful extension that's not on that list that I bet a good number of HN folks would like: Vimium [1] It lets you use keyboard shortcuts to navigate through webpages, click buttons, jump to text boxes, etc. it's been huge for me both as a productivity tool (it's significantly faster than using a mouse for navigation) and also for reducing RSI/strain on my hands. Here's a video of it in action as…
banana_giraffe's comment is pointing out that you linked to an unrelated google doc – maybe you meant to link to the vimium homepage instead?
Fixed. Thanks for the heads up.
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#67There's an incredibly useful extension that's not on that list that I bet a good number of HN folks would like: Vimium [1] It lets you use keyboard shortcuts to navigate through webpages, click buttons, jump to text boxes, etc. it's been huge for me both as a productivity tool (it's significantly faster than using a mouse for navigation) and also for reducing RSI/strain on my hands. Here's a video of it in action as…
Vimium is a CPRA checklisk?
Ironically Vimium (and most extensions) are disabled on the Chrome Extensions domains. So when I hit 'yy' to copy the URL of the existing page it didn't copy it, so I instead pasted the last URL I had, which was the CPRA checklist.
Not something I had intended to do, but I hope the checklist was useful.
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#68Probably generation difference. The author is depending on google products and social platforms way more than I'd ever do. Facebook, youtube, gmail, chrome...
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#69>Grammarly Are we cool with them now or are they still stealing your data? I'm not up to date
I even pay them for premium. I can't send an email without it. It makes business emailing much more professional.
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#70>Grammarly Are we cool with them now or are they still stealing your data? I'm not up to date
As far as I know they still send everything you type to their cloud service, and their privacy policy gives them broad latitude to use that info to "improve the service."
Right now I use "LanguageTool" with the Java-based server running locally. After I imported the ngrams it works good enough to be a clear improvement over Firefox's bad built in spelling/grammar checker. The UI is passable. It does randomly decide I typed another language though and tell me everything I typed is misspelled in that language.
In an ideal world I'd prefer to pay LanguageTool money for their premium product, but they have the same privacy problems as Grammarly. Heck I'd pay Grammarly if they had a more private offering, it is a good idea.