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Ask HN: What browser extensions are you currently using?

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Imagus

When you hover your cursor over an image it opens over your cursor and you can enlarge it

Can't live without now

This just made my life so much easier, thanks for posting this. IT Glue recently introduced a bug they have acknowledged where you can no longer hover over large images to see the full size, making half of our documentation illegible unless you want to force open the image in a new tab. This fixes that entirely.

I may as well post my must have extensions while thanking you:

DarkReader - this combined with f.lux on the machine will save your eyesight

SponsorBlock - makes youtube so much more usable, as well as other video sites

CookieNoticeBlocker - Im guessing there is a way to use ublock to achieve similar results, but it blocks those annoying popups for you

Behind the Overlay- useful for sites that use an overlay to hide article content, click the button and it hides any overlays and suddenly the page is there again

UnPayWall - find the full text to scholarly articles

It's not really an extension, but I installed the Wayback Machine as a seach engine with the keyword "rez". Now I can rez any URL in my address bar.

Primarily uBlock Origin.

I have some browser profiles for testing out extensions which have broad permissions and I don't really trust them. I don't have them on my main surfing profile for security & privacy reasons. If some of them are malicious, they get very little data.

Kill Sticky, it it lets you kill all sticky elements with a keyboard shortcut (Alt+K on Windows/Linux, Cmd+K on Mac). Super useful for "sign-up to read" types of popups.

Some I use and recommend:

ReviewMeta (Amazon review analyzer)

Linkclump (Open lots of links at once by drawing a selection box)

Privacy Badger (The EFF's tracker blocker)

Google Docs In Dark (Night mode for Docs)

Hacker News Enhancement Suite (A couple of quality of life tweaks)

Prompt Helper has been pretty helpful for repeated prompts on ChatGPT https://prompt-helper.xyz/

Old Reddit Redirect. Reddit is pretty much unusable without this thing.

Netflix 1080p (it renders in 720p if not using the OS-default browser, ridiculous)

SponsorBlock (removes sponsored ads in YT)

Empty New Tab Page (I hate start pages, when I open a new tab I usually just want to start typing in an URL, so blank is an improvement)

Buster: Captcha Solver for Humans (Auto completes CAPTCHAS, doesn't always work but saves a lot of time)

Auto Tab discard: Aggressively discards tabs, letting me have more of them.

DuckDuckGo !bangs but faster: Runs their lovely '!' functionality locally, making things faster.

Bitwarden

Enhancer for Nebula: Used to redirect YouTube videos that have a Nebula Page too Nebula.

Fediact: Adds a follow button on non-home Mastodon instances. Enhancer for Youtube: Used to hide "related videos" section.

Firefox Multi-Account Containers

Impule Blocker: Used to block Facebook/Reddit usage.

If you the way you use computers is keyboard driven, I recommend Vimium. Nice expirience for browsing with the keyboard only

Does it truly allows you to not use mouse with browser at all?

https://joinflipside.com

This is just a 403.

Edit: now a 404 if I add www

I used to use a firefox extension that showed the number of open tabs in the corner, as I found firefox would sometimes go wrong and loose everything I had open when I got to about four thousand open tabs.

I didn't get around to reinstalling it after a fresh install.

>when I got to about four thousand open tabs.

Thank you for putting my tab hoarding in perspective.

FoxyProxy, uBlock, KeepassXC, floccus, vue tools.

Previously, Krypton Authenticator

1Password, (must have)

Chrome Tab Counter

Dark Reader

Don't add custom search engines

Enhancer for YouTube

Export Tabs

Fix IDRAC .jnlp file

Netflix 1080p

Honey

Privacy Pass

Refined Github

Revolut (on click only)

Tampermonkey

uBlacklist (must have)

uBlock Origin (must have)

Wappalyzer (on click only)

uBlock Origin, SponsorBlock, MrBeastify, and DeArrow. MrBeastify is my favorite out of all of them.

uBlock Origin Firefox Multi-Account Containers

Vimium

ublock origin; google voice

uBlock Origin

1Password

Box Tools

DEVONthink, Clip To

uBlock Origin, SponsorBlock, Bypass Paywalls Clean, ClearURLs. On my personal machine, I also have Facebook Container.

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