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Ask HN: What’s your favorite Chrome extension?

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I work with a lot of Go (and so I review PRs written in Go), so my favorite extension is one that I wrote myself [0] which corrects GitHub's tab indentation to 2 spaces from the default 8 spaces. But then again, I only have a few extensions and I wrote the majority of them.

[0]: https://github.com/ezekg/chrome-github-auto-tab-indent

    Knockout Context Debugger
    uBlock Origin
    User CSS
    Simple REST Client

I prefer extensions that work without you creating an account on something. I am unlikely to use ones that require an account unless I am desperate to use it. I am also unlikely to use an extension when either a web site or desktop app will do.

I'm partial to do not disturb for gmail: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/do-not-disturb-for...

(But, I built it).

Because I just discovered that 5 days ago and it gives me a warm feeling of being tracked a little bit less:

- Decentraleyes

Ghostery - see trackers on sites.

Tab Cloud - Save tab clusters.

Link Clump - select groups of links on webpages

Murdoch Block - block Murdoch owned press.

Image Size Info - see image file sizes.

I use Google Dictionary religiously

Just read - strips off all noise, works quite well (better than mercury reader)

Adblock

uBlock Origin (Open-source efficient ad-blocker) The Great Suspender (It allows me to open +200 tabs) (Open-source) Session Buddy (Organizing tabs/sessions)

`uBlock Origin/Extra, uMatrix, FeedBro

HashPass, Fontanello, Grammarly

Google Cast

uBlock Origin

Restlet Client

Speed Dial 2

JSON Formatter

Sourcegraph.

Firefox (kidding).

Sourcegraph CEO here! Thanks for mentioning our Chrome extension. It adds IDE-like code intelligence to GitHub.com and other code hosts (when viewing code files and diffs/pull requests): hovers, go-to-definition, and find-references.

Check it out at https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/sourcegraph-for-gi.... Send feedback our way @srcgraph!

The extension is awesome, it could just have a bit more polish in the firefox version (font and icon don't seem to load properly in the browser bar, at least in most recent version of the firefox dev edition). Thanks for your hard work on sourcegraph though!

Thanks for the feedback! I'm glad it's helping you out in your day to day.

We're currently working on bringing the extension to Safari. This makes the extension more aware of browser differences which will allow us to keep everything polished in all of the browsers we support.

Keep your eye out for updates and as @sqs said, we'd love to hear any feedback you come across @srcgraph!

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