Ask HN: What are your favorite browser extensions?

20 points by nsarafa ↗ HN
My favorites are Wappalyzer (https://wappalyzer.com/) for peaking under the hood of my favorite sites, and vimium (https://vimium.github.io/) for faster browsing. What are yours?

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Pocket Grammarly LightHouse uBlock Origin
NoScript. By default I keep JavaScript disabled. Safer browsing, and, as a highly beneficial side effect, very few ads.
- Authy

- Session buddy

- uBlock Origin

- Privacy Badger

- HTTPS Everywhere

- Imagus

- Momentum

Does anybody worry about extensions collecting data from your browsing ? Since most do read your website information ?
I don't worry about it but I don't install one if it requests permissions I don't think it should need.
I'll list ones that haven't been mentioned yet:

-Emoji Keyboard (2016) by EmojiOne

-ImprovedTube for a default x2 playback on yt

-Google translate, lets you select any text and get an instant translation

-Octotree, a directory tree for github

Wow. Octotree is unreal. Thanks for the tip!
uBlock Origin

Privacy Badger

The Great Suspender

No History

HTTPS Everywhere

Refined Wikipedia

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Tried many extensions for vim-like control of my browser, but pentadactyl is by far the most usable. Even without any customisation, just pressing 's' and instantly being able to search with auto completion ('b' for the same across all open tabs) is incredibly useful.

Hopefully it won't be discontinued soon..

- Bookmark Search , lets you type 'bm' + <space> and search any of your bookmarks in the omnibar
Adblock, similar web, Https everywhere, browsec, pocket, built with, evernote and mailtrack.
Google Dictionary - Double click any word and it will define or translate it in a popup.