HACKER Q&A
📣 cainxinth

What browser extensions are you currently using?


What browser extensions are you currently using?


  👤 Iulioh Accepted Answer ✓
Imagus

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

Can't live without now


👤 sp332
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.

👤 spansoa
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.


👤 RGBCube
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.

👤 cainxinth
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)


👤 ankitg12
Prompt Helper has been pretty helpful for repeated prompts on ChatGPT https://prompt-helper.xyz/

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

👤 neontomo
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)


👤 noiobeforebed
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.


👤 in9
If you the way you use computers is keyboard driven, I recommend Vimium. Nice expirience for browsing with the keyboard only

👤 switchstance

👤 eva_cananim
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.


👤 mikecoles
FoxyProxy, uBlock, KeepassXC, floccus, vue tools.

Previously, Krypton Authenticator


👤 KomoD
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)


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

👤 ryaneager
uBlock Origin Firefox Multi-Account Containers

👤 jafarlihi
Vimium

👤 brian_herman
ublock origin; google voice

👤 YVoyiatzis
uBlock Origin

1Password

Box Tools

DEVONthink, Clip To


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