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Most useful Chrome extensions
What are the most useful Chrome extensions that you have come across?
I use this extension called Workona, which has been just amazing at dealing with my obsession with having hundreds of tabs open.
I'll start with the obvious, available for Chrome and Firefox: uBlock Origin. Very light on resources, configurable block lists, speeds the loading of some pages up substantially and good for privacy.
If you're looking for more fine-grained control over what scripts you want to allow on websites, can't go wrong with uMatrix.
Firefox
Chrome
I've been looking for something like Snaplinks for a long time. I used an extension that would mass open links but it didn't do check boxes which was super annoying, this great, thank you.
I read it but didn't pay too much attention to it and it probably would have bugged me, thanks.
What exactly does Tildes Extended do? The description on the github page is almost uselessly vague:
Edit: Never mind! The chrome extension page describes a few of its features.
I use a password manager (LastPass) and a couple of tools to help read and write (Google Dictionary and Grammarly).
As an IT Professional (lol) I took longer than i'd like to admit to finally get on board with a password manager, but man did it make a difference. A bit of pain to set up but really convenient once you do. I use 1Password myself.
A lot of the extensions I use frequently are pretty developer-focused, but some of them are more generally useful:
and finally, a bit of self-promotion: Tab Muter, which I posted about recently – it re-enables the "Mute Tab" feature that got removed relatively recently.
Treestyle tabs for Firefox
Aside from what's been mentioned, a few QOL things:
I've been using Hover Zoom instead of Imagus. I may have to give that one a try instead.
The Great Suspender, which suspends tabs that "time out" when you haven't focused on them for a configurable amount of time in order to save system resources that Chrome tends to hog. There are options to never suspend pinned tabs, tabs with unsaved form input, tabs playing audio, running on battery, etc.
As a lover of dark theming, Dark Reader is also vital to my every day browsing. A highly configurable extension to make most websites easy on my eyes out of the box.
I have to recommend DecentralEyes as well. It saves files from CDNs locally and serves them to websites, bypassing the CDN and halting monitoring from them.
Read Aloud for Chrome is pretty sweet. When I am at work I use it to read articles as audiobooks.
E: Oh also this plug is great because is can get through soft pay walls. You open a little window launching the plug-in and it shows article plain text. Pretty snazzy little work around that works on most papers.
I recently found out you can do the same thing in Firefox out of the box (as long as the site supports reader view).
Opening reader view there's an option to have the article read to you.
For me nothing is better than uBlock Origin
As for things that haven't already been mentioned. Most of these are fairly self explanatory.
As for ViolentMonkey scripts
These are for chrome (I use them with Vivaldi though). I left out security/adblock extensions from the list, because those are covered here many times already. (I mostly use uBlock Origin, Privacy Possum, HTTPS Everywhere and Decentraleyes)
For Chrome:
LastPass
Adguard (I have their desktop pro version too)
Privacy Badger
Stylus
Grammarly
Session Buddy
RES
Imagus
Remote Torrent Adder
Any reason you don't use ublock origin instead of adguard?
Well, I have the desktop version of Adguard (Pro) as well which integrates nicely with their browser extension. The desktop version lets you block ads in basically most other application.
Why limit to Chrome?