Ask HN: What browser add-ons/extensions do you use?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7948186

by Errorcod3 • 12 years ago

10 18 12 years ago

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I currently use AD-Block Plus and Ghostery. (Opera)

Wondering what other add-ons that are out there that seem like a necessity for you?

kinj28• 12 years ago

ad-block teamgum - for sharing links with community sniply - for content messaging google hangout - for chatting up with my team streamus - for music

gdewilde5• 12 years ago

Close Button 0.4.1

CopyAllUrls 0.9.8

google-no-tracking-url 1.3.1

Linky 3.0.0

Memory Restart 1.18

RequestPolicy 0.5.28

Tweak Network 1.8

Stylish 1.4.3

-Dark Hacker News - Solarized

-DuckDuckGo Lightweight

-GitHub Dark

-YouTube Black 2K13

greasemonkey 1.15

-Force AutoComplete always on. 1

-get all tabs 1

-GitHub login fix 1

-glitterhub

-IMDB Pirated Version 20120105

-khanAcedemy auto log in fix 1

-Torrentz.com download shortcut

-Torretz.eu: magnet and direct links 2014.1.10

-Userscript Search 2013 Nov 1st

-Wayback Google 0.2

-Wikipedia - Clean up Categories 1.0.3

-Wikipedia - Three-pane view 1.0.0

-Wikipedia Google search 1.0

-Wikipedia random colors 1.2

-Wikipedia Remove instruction templates

-Wikipedia - ajax archives 1.0

-Wikipedia - categories to the top

-Wikipedia - clean up interface

-Wikipedia - semi advanced search everywhere 1.0

-Wikipedia - rearrange other languages

-wp ip editor log link

-Background Black

-click 1

-onload ping 9001

-Highlight Search Words Everywhere

-icon collector 1

-Metric intervention

-Mouseover Popup Image Viewer 20013.5.12

-salamisushi rss/attom detector 1.03

-sanitazi

-Userscripts.org Scam Filter 5.206

gdewilde5• 12 years ago

Why the down vote? Am I doing it wrong?

dang3• 12 years ago

No doubt it was because of the massive copy-paste.

talles2• 12 years ago

Instead of just a bunch of adons names, why not just list the most important ones and a little reason on why you use/like them.

In other words: why not make your contribution interisting somehow?

Didn't mean to be rude... just saying!

_yfoe• 12 years ago

I've cut down on the extensions I use over the years. Here's my entire list:

* HTTP Switchboard - useful for debugging/blocking annoyances, also doubles as an adblocker

* LastPass - honestly, I'd probably be using 1Password if they had a linux client

* PDF Viewer - Mozilla endorsed drop-in pdf.js plugin

* Smile Always - converts amazon.com uris to smile.amazon.com, which donates a portion of your purchases to charity

mrlase• 12 years ago

In Chrome:

* Checker Plus for Gmail

* Google Cast

* Hangouts (I use this with a lot of people instead of SMS now, its great to be able to switch back and forth between my phone and Chrome)

* Lastpass

* Rapportive

* Reddit Enhancement Suite

* TeX the World

* Videostream (for Chromecast, so I can stream MKVs locally)

nittr• 12 years ago

Mozilla: ABP & Download-helper

talles2• 12 years ago

I find myself using lesser and lesser add-ons as the years passes (idk why). Right now it's just a matter of:

* SearchPreview (I'm so used to that little screenshot on the search results... can't live without it anymore).

* FlagFox (Just for the curiosity where the website is hosted!)

* Pocket (Mostly links that I found at work but didn't had time to read there, I then read at home)

* AdBlock (Yeah, guilty. Download websites becames sane plus I hate so much thosein video ads at youtube ).

Someone1234• 12 years ago

LastPass, Personal Blocklist (Google.com), Google Cast (Chromecast), HTTPS Everywhere (EFF), RES, Google Keep (cross-platform PostIt notes), and Google Docs (depreciated).

I no longer use an advert removal addon as they seem to make more issues than they solve, plus some sites do legitimately deserve to get paid.

I do however turn on Click-To-Play for all browser plugins (Flash, Java, etc) which stops a lot of the worst adverts.

gdewilde5• 12 years ago

Personal Blocklist seems nice. Do you have a lot blocked? How dramatic is the improvement?

akg_67• 12 years ago

Only extension I use with Safari and Chrome is Adblock. When browsing, I don't feel any need for additional features that are not offered by browser and OS.

As my ecosystem is Mac/iOS, I use Add to Reading List in Safari to save articles that I may read/refer later. One Feature I really like in Safari is Reader which removes extraneous stuff on a page and makes it easy to share/email/read/print the main content.

tmoullet• 12 years ago

The only one not mentioned so far that I use is DownThemAll.

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/downthemall/

It's nice for when you want to download a lot of files that appear on a page.

iroot• 12 years ago

TweetDeck,Quick Note and AdBlock primarily

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