Ask HN: What is your favorite Google chrome extension?

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uBlock Origin

Without it, the web is a totally different place.

Amen. uBlock Origin >> AdBlock
Why? I ask as an adblock user. Never tried uBlock.
HackerTagger - Lets you tag people on HN if they're interesting in some way. I've also got tags for anyone who mentioned they're founder of X, for future context in comments.
Papier - replace your new tab page with a markdown scratchpad. Dead-simple, local, and beautiful.

https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/papier/hhjeaokafpl...

Visual History - augment back/forward with tree-like hierarchy navigation (disclaimer; made this one)

https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/visual-history/nkc...

Papier looks very nice. Is anyone aware of something similar for Firefox?
AdBlock is a given but I really like rikaikun which translates Japanese kanji on hover.
Google dictionary - double tap anything and it shows definition or translation.

"Click to remove element" - Remove any html element.

"Fix fixed" - remove sticky headers

And various adblockers I guess.

Seconded on Google Dictionary. I use that everyday it seems.
Vimium - I can't imagine using my browser without it anymore. I use it to:

* move around the page

* click on links

* opening new page from browsing history

* refresh page

Basically the only time I need to use mouse or trackpad are pages that have incorrectly marked links (they just add some on-click behaviour without marking element as link)

I use cVim to save some chrome's memory.
Vimium is a life changer. My fingers are on the keyboard 80-90% of the time and I get things done so much more efficiently.

Vimium + Alfred is a potent combination.

adblock plus

adblock for youtube

the great suspender

quick javascript switcher

h264ify - force youtube to use h264 instead of the VP8/VP9 codecs. Unlike h264, which can benefit from hardware decoding, VP8/VP9 are completely done by the CPU, so they eat battery like crazy on laptops.
just make sure your gpu supports accelerated h264 in all formats you are interested in (1080@60, 4K etc), otherwise Chrome will use its own internal SLOW AS CRAP unoptimized SINGLE THREADED software decoder which cant handle 1080@60 on 4GHz Haswell. While supposedly more cpu intensive VP9 plays just fine, Im sure its just coincidence.
Postman and its Http interceptor. fiddle with http requests, manipulate which headers are sent. even intercept Http requests and change values on the flight
That's going to become deprecated soon since 'Chrome Apps' are. There's a standalone electron app that's basically the same though.
Awesome Screenshot Minus – What does everyone else use to make nice screenshots?
Completely new screenshot tool =>

Marker - https://getmarker.io .

This Chrome extension allows you to capture a screenshot, annotate it and create a GitHub issue, a JIRA issue or a Trello Card without leaving your page

It's pretty powerful for bug reporting.

Disclosure: I'm the founder :)

All my extensions are like a handicapped version of Firefox feature or extension.

Dynamite [1] - right click on anything than Dynamite / Hide element or selection and it removes a DOM element that was under cursor. Sometimes you have to to this several times to remove something. Firefox has Nuke Anything Enhanced [2]. It allows me to:

- get behind obnoxious popups with no visible close button

- get through dumb subscribe-wall

- remove annoying floating navigation bars (really handy if you like to resize browser windows like me)

The Great Suspender [3] - it unloads tabs unused for specified time and allows to reload them on click. I forgot which one I used on Firefox.

FooTab [4] - blocks loading of tabs on startup - it would be great if The Great Suspender would do this (Firefox do this by default).

I use uBlock Origin and HTTPS Everywhere, but that's just baseline.

[1] https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/dynamite/djoedchmh...

[2] https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/nuke-anything...

[3] https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/the-great-suspende...

[4] https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/footab/anbodogikfb...

Why use dynamite when you can do the same thing with the developer tools fairly easily?
I don't think it is as easy.
`Ctrl+Shift+C` to select the element, `Delete` to remove it :)
>The Great Suspender

doesnt chrome hibernate tabs by default now?

When angular.js first came out, a chrome extension was released which displayed popular hacker quotes like "ship it" " when new tabs were opened. What was the name of that extension? I can't remember that after I sold my Mac mini, but that was my favorite.
SwithyOmega: to break the Great Firewall

Lightshot: to capture some part of the page as png

Google Transalte: to understand others

Adblock Pro: to block ads cruelly