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What are some good extensions or apps that you use for your browser or desktop? Really useful ones outside of uBlock Origin or Dark Reader. (hexbear.net)

submitted 11 months ago by Pluto@hexbear.net to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

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cross-posted from: https://hexbear.net/post/1309480

I use Vivaldi (Chromium).

I currently use uBlock Origin, Tab Count, Dark Reader, Read Aloud, Google Docs Offline, Srroll In, OneTab Plus (the original OneTab app kept glitching on me), and Dyslexic Browser.

I'm willing to have 15 apps/extensions for my browser and then probably no more after that (otherwise, the memory it'll take up will just make browsing super-slow, at least up until I finally upgrade my RAM card, which should be soon). Dunno if you can really use more than 15, to be perfectly honest, but I'm open to advice.

I want apps/extensions for university, research, reading and comprehension, language-learning, video-editing, and general QoL changes.

Also, let me know if I should still be using Vivaldi. What browser do you use? To me, Vivaldi is so far the best browser out there, at least currently (after having tried Mozilla Firefox, Google Chrome, Microsoft Edge, and Opera). What extensions do you use as well for your browser of choice?

Let me know and let's give each other advice or whatever. Cheers!

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[–] Pluto@hexbear.net 3 points 11 months ago (1 children)

This is... pretty definitive.

You really put a lot of thought into this. Thank you! I'm saving this comment of yours.

[–] underscores@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (2 children)

This question gets asked pretty often, so I'd been meaning to write something up for a while. Browser extensions were one of the first ways I got interested in free software, and there's a lot of really useful ones out there.

If you want even more options, here's some I have installed but disabled.

Forcastfox (fix version) - Shows the weather.
Gesturify - Control the browser with just mouse gestures. I don't really use it because I try to use keyboard shortcuts, but it's really handy if you use a mouse a lot.
GNU LibreJS - Blocks any non-free javascript. This is not a easy or fun extension to use. I've got my one system set up to use only free software, with this enabled. It really shows you how much proprietary javascript you're using.
Picket Line Notifier - It tells you what products are from companies with ongoing strikes.
Kiwix - Download offline sections of wikipedia, stackoverflow, khan academy and a bunch of other websites. They also have desktop and phone apps, so I don't really use the browser extension.
Buster: Captcha Solving for Humans - I love how there's an add-on bot that can solve captchas to prove you're a human.
Allow Right Click - Turn this on when a website tries to block you from saving images.
User Agent Switcher and Manager - Occasionally you find a site that doesn't work in your browser, but just changing the user agent string often fixes it.

[–] Pluto@hexbear.net 2 points 11 months ago

thnx

[–] kotnik@lemmy.sdf.org 2 points 11 months ago (1 children)

You don't need Allow Right Click on Firefox: just press shift and then right-click. Firefox will then ignore JavaScript and show you default context menu.

[–] underscores@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 11 months ago

Thanks, I didn't know about that. I looked into this a bit more and there's actually a bunch of techniques, and shift right click only gets around some of them. There's a tester tool at https://webbrowsertools.com/test-right-click/ with examples of blocking right clicks, text selection, and copying/pasting text.