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

10 points by Errorcod3 ↗ HN
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?

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kinj28
ad-block teamgum - for sharing links with community sniply - for content messaging google hangout - for chatting up with my team streamus - for music
gdewilde
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

gdewilde
Why the down vote? Am I doing it wrong?
dang
No doubt it was because of the massive copy-paste.
gdewilde
Ahhh of course, I keep forgetting how incredibly lazy people are.

They cant even imagine someone would type that.

Thanks for explaining.

dang
I presume this is obvious, but the problem there is not whether it was pasted or typed; it's with the content dump. Good HN comments are supposed to be like good conversation. Just as one wouldn't read a complete list like that in a conversation, so one probably shouldn't write it into a thread here.
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gdewilde
You've never used extensions?
dang
A list of extensions with descriptions of what they do or what you find valuable about them would of course be fine.

Please don't feel like I'm singling you out for criticism. I just randomly saw your question and was trying to provide information about why such a comment might have gotten downvoted. You didn't do anything wrong, especially in the context of this thread, and I'm sorry I didn't make that clearer.

talles
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!

randallma
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

[dead] Jacobs
ABE Add block edge - Add blocker that does not allow 'acceptable ads' like AB plus does.

HTTPS everywhere

Disconnect.me - Open source Ghostery

mrlase
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
Mozilla: ABP & Download-helper
talles
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
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.

gdewilde
Personal Blocklist seems nice. Do you have a lot blocked? How dramatic is the improvement?
akg_67
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.

iroot
TweetDeck,Quick Note and AdBlock primarily