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🧵 What are your favourite Browser Extentions ?

Vedant Chainani on May 26, 2022

Here are my top 3 extentions - daily.dev - Get a feed of the hottest developer news personalized to you on your Homepage. Raindrop.io - All-in-o...

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Ben Halpern • May 26 '22

Tab Wrangler - Close unused tabs
JSON Formatter- More readable JSON
New Tab Notepad - Brutally simple notepad for new tabs. My best way to manage quick temporary notes when I need to remember something.

Max F. Findel • May 31 '22

I use The Marvelous Suspender for suspending tabs. It's very similar to the Tab Wrangler but I prefer it that way :)

GrahamTheDev • May 26 '22

I feel attacked by that first extension…it is like they can see into my soul! 🤣

Isn’t just PC…I currently have :) showing on the number of tabs open in Chrome on my phone (those who have seen this know what I mean!)

Guilherme Thomas • May 26 '22

Ublock Origin. Can't stand most sites without it.

Vedant Chainani • May 26 '22

You can use Brave browser for blocking ads and also get $BAT Tokens.

Marco Colonna • May 26 '22 • Edited

Brave browser default are not able to block all annoying things like adds pop-up etcetera, but uBlock Origin can be used on Brave browser.

Shubhendu Kumar • May 26 '22 • Edited

vimium
It will bring vim like key bindings to browser.

Abhinav Kulshreshtha • May 27 '22

Firefox Browser:

Isolation: -
- Multi Account containers
- Facebook Container
- Google Container
- Amazon Container
- Twitter Container
Adblocks and anti-tracking
- uBlock Origin
- Nano Defender for firefox
- Popup Blocker (Strict)
- Behind The Overlay
Youtube
- Return Youtube Dislike
- Sponsorblock
Utilities
- Speed Dial 2
- Video Download Helper
- OneTab
- Redirector
- Dark Reader
- Dynamic History
From external source
- Mega (Secure cloud storage)
- Bypass Paywall Clean

Vedant Chainani • May 27 '22

Is Multi Account containers Available for Chrome/Brave ?

Abhinav Kulshreshtha • May 27 '22

I don't think so, it is a browser feature of firefox, a way to isolate sites from perticular domain into its own isolated container seperate from rest of browsers.

Real Solly M • May 31 '22

I use

SessionBox - for Multi-Account containers and
Workona - for tab management, which hibernates other tabs for memory management.

Blue Byte • Feb 23

Unfortunately no.

Ángel Blanco • May 27 '22

Multi Account Containers + Simple Tab Groups is my killer combo to switch between work-related and personal-related tabs. Simple Tab Groups is even able to open tabs in a specific container by default, if you are in a designated tab group where you want all tabs to be in such container. Can't use another browser now because they don't have these two extensions.

malzeri83 • May 27 '22

AdBlock - because you need to block ads. I have a lot of claims last time, lot of sites started to indicate it active even if it swithed off. Hope will be fixed.
Google translate because I visit websites in a lot of languages, cannot deal without it.
Have others but they are not "must be"

Tim Carey • May 29 '22

UBlock Origin cause screw ads
NoScript to manage javascripts
Dark Reader for darkmode everywhere
ColorZilla for a color picker on any page
React Dev Tools
Reddit Enhancement Suite

O. AlQudah • May 27 '22

Vimium - gotta go fast
Dark reader - dark mode everywhere
Fake filler - fill forms with dummy data, useful for front-end devs
Refined GitHub - better GitHub
The Great Suspender Original - sleep unused tabs

Plus like a hundred more

Max F. Findel • May 31 '22

I think The Great Suspender is the one that has been accused of malware, is it not? That's why people prefer the open-source version (and fork of the original) called The Marvelous Suspender

O. AlQudah • Jun 1 '22

Yes, but The Great Suspender Original is the original great suspender (fork of the original repo). It doesn't have malware.

Andrew Baisden • May 26 '22

Apollo Client Devtools
Bitwarden - Free Password Manager
ColorZilla
daily.dev | The Homepage Developers Deserve
Google Translate
JSON Viewer
Lighthouse
Momentum
React Developer Tools
Redux DevTools
Save to Pocket
uBlock Origin
Video DownloadHelper
Wappalyzer - Technology profiler
Web Developer

GrahamTheDev • May 26 '22

Somewhere in the list is the only extension you need 😜 (totally biased! 🤣)

Andrew Baisden • May 27 '22

Good point actually I could uninstall some because i'm only using 11/15.

Real Solly M • May 31 '22

Lighthouse is now built into Chrome, so no need to have it installed separately.

Andrew Baisden • Jun 1 '22

Oh wow I did not know that thanks.

𒎏Wii 🏳️‍⚧️ • May 27 '22

uMatrix — Block all the random stuff websites want me to download
cVim — Vim bindings, because duh
User JavaScript and CSS — Because websites don't know what they want, but I do.

Yongchang He • May 26 '22

MetaMask for Blockchain and smart contract development and test; React Developer tools for chrome for react front-end development.

Shaylly • May 26 '22

My favorites extentions:

Jan Vlnas • May 27 '22

Snoozz for snoozing tabs
Stylus with a few of my userstyles
Twemex
SimpleLogin add-on for creating email aliases as needed (with paid subscription)

Max F. Findel • May 31 '22

SimpleLogin is so underrated! I love it with all my <3

Nick Taylor • May 29 '22

Here’s all the browser extensions I use.

I’d say Productive Twitter is the one I use the most.

Pascal Thormeier • May 28 '22

coordinates - Shows mouse coordinates (page, client and screen) and lets you measure things on screen. Amazing extension when stuff needs to be pixel-perfect.
ColorZilla Color picker, gradient generator, pipette, all in one.
JavaScript and CSS code beautifier - Untangles and highlights minified JS and CSS code, making it helpful for debugging prod code.
Silktide - Simulator for all kinds of visual impairments, including color blindness in many shapes, dyslexia, cataracts & myopia, loss of peripheral and central vision, as well as a screen reading simulator.

Posandu • May 27 '22

AntiRickroll
uBlock Origin
Daily.dev

Vedant Chainani • May 27 '22

AntiRickRoll is a must 😆🤣

Max F. Findel • May 31 '22

Keeper - A very good alternative (with no free plan) for Bitwarden
Toby - Manage tabs in collection and sync them in the cloud ☁
The Marvelous Suspender - Suspend unsued tabs (open source and malware free version of the original Great Suspender)

Mark Blakeney • May 29 '22

My most used extension is the very simple Go Incognito. I use it every time I come across one of those many annoying Medium articles which are hidden behind a paywall. Just press that extension and the page loads incognito so you can read without issue.

Sherry Day • May 26 '22

FoxClocks adds a status bar to keep up with what time it is in different parts of the world. Useful to reduce the mental overhead of keeping up with that in a distributed setting.

Natalia Asteria • May 29 '22

Dark Reader - Turn EVERY pages to dark mode!
Bitwarden - Free and open source password manager!
Youtube Sponsor Block - Block sponsor intermissions on Youtube.

C. Plug • May 27 '22

Firefox user here:

RESTClient: Browser extension for Firefox for all GUI curl-ing needs. It just works!
Grammarly: Grammar checker (Forem does not work well with this extension for some reason, though)
Adblock Plus: both ad-blocking purposes and testing purposes.

Ekim Cem Ülger • May 26 '22

Pesticide - for frontend developers, it shows you the layouts of components.
Colorzilla - helps you to take color code from website

Jigar Shah • May 27 '22

It's SEO Minion to manage my SEO stuffs.
Hoxx VPN for better VPN connection.
Bulk URL Opener to open multiple URLs in the browser at the same time.
Grammarly for Grammar.
AdBlock to block unnecessary websites.