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15+ Chrome extensions you should have in your pocket.

Jane Tracy 👩🏽‍💻 on October 25, 2020

This week I was looking at the chrome extensions that I have used so far and have been helpful in my journey. I love how some apps that I use also ...
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Nimrod Kramer

Have you tried daily.dev? We'd love to hear what you think about it and perhaps add it to your list :)

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Dhruv garg

Loved daily.dev, just installed it. Can we remove it from the new tab and only see it when clicked on the extension button. I would really like the option to remove it from the new tab.

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Gal Elmalah

it's great! I'm using it for about 3 years I think (maybe 2).

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Jane Tracy 👩🏽‍💻

I have been using it for a month or so. It has been great as well.
Learning a lot.

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Marvin Heilemann

Looks good, I will give it a go, but why am I auto opt-in into analytics? There was a banner which I closed through the X but it still opt-in, please add a reject button and read more about GDPR. Or consider using something like simpleanalytics.com/.

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Nimrod Kramer

Did you install on Chrome or Firefox?

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Jane Tracy 👩🏽‍💻

Chrome browser. I use it more often than firefox.

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Marvin Heilemann

Sorry, I meant the website not the extension

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Nimrod Kramer

Thanks for the feedback. We will take a deeper look into it :)

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Jane Tracy 👩🏽‍💻

Yeah, I do.
Let me update it on the list. 🙌
Daily.dev and smashing magazines are amazing resources.

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Nimrod Kramer

Thanks 🤗

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Josh Martens

I try not to load too many extensions in my browser, but like some of the suggestions! I need to make Wave one of the ones I always install.

For #4&5 I open dev tools, hit Ctrl+Shift+P (Windows/Linux), search for "Screenshot" and can take a full-page screenshot or even a screenshot of a specific node.

For #9 I open dev tools, go to the Network tab, then filter by Img and download the one(s) I need.

There is also an experimental "CSS Overview" tab you can enable in dev tools settings that give you similar features to #12.

I didn't have luck when testing this when it first came out, but they're also working on a native version of #6! chrome://flags/#tab-groups-collapse-freezing

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Jane Tracy 👩🏽‍💻

Great suggestions, Josh.

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bimlas • Edited

Some of these features are already included in the Vivaldi browser, plus there are options that you can't even access with a plugin in another browser (for example, any command can be assigned to mouse gestures, whether it's printing a page or hiding the user interface).

vivaldi.com/

EDIT

Because it's a Chromium-based browser, you can also install the plugins in the post.

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Jane Tracy 👩🏽‍💻

Great suggestion, I will take a look at the browser.
I love using chrome and Tor browser :)

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Simon Wicki

Hey Tracy, great list! apart from Wappalyzer I have to checkout your other other items in your post.

I made notyfy.co some time ago, your web notifications in one place, and I would love to hear your feedback! 🥰

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Jane Tracy 👩🏽‍💻

That's awesome Simon, I will check it out.
Thanks for developing it :)

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Simon Wicki

Thank you! I really appreciate it 😊

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Arulu-Gearhaus

I recently found out about Chrome's (new?) tap group feature; while this isn't an extension it's useful with other tab-aholic extensions
A brief for anyone else who hasn't heard yet - right click a tab and then select 'Add to Group' (you can also select multiple tabs beforehand)
You can add a name, a color, and if you click the group label/dot, it collapses the group!

I'll be trying out The Great Suspender with this, since I also often keep a lot of temporary tabs open that I promise I'll get through (eventually)((someday)). Thanks for the article!

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Jane Tracy 👩🏽‍💻

I totally get you. I use suspender because I open too many tabs sometimes.
Glad you enjoyed it and found it useful, Arulu :)

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Adrian Matei

I am an avid user (and creator) of Bookmarks.dev so I use every day the two extension to :

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Jane Tracy 👩🏽‍💻

Thanks for sharing Adrian. I will check it out :)

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entio

Please remove the great suspender from Your list as soon as possible. It has been sold to 3rd party that has made it into a malware; more info:
github.com/greatsuspender/thegreat...

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Jane Tracy 👩🏽‍💻

I will take a look. Thanks for sharing.

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entio

Yeah, I'd appreciate if you just take it off and maybe then take a look? Recommending a tool that's basically stealing data is not that fair tbh.

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astronault1 • Edited

What about tabby.us? I have a serious problem with tab accumulation, tried several tab managers and I think it's more robust than the great suspender. What do you think? It's basically a built-in AI that removes the tabs I don't use anymore automatically and it's working in the background.

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Jane Tracy 👩🏽‍💻

I haven't tried tabby.us. I will look into it.

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Kai Neuwerth

I'd also like to introduce PageLiner (link), which lets you place guide lines on a website, like you know it from Photoshop. I've written an article about this extension and why it got so bad ratings here on dev.to a while ago: My experiences with building a Google Chrome extension

Have a great day and stay healthy :)

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Jane Tracy 👩🏽‍💻

Hey Kai, I will check it out. Thanks for sharing.

You too, take care of yourself :)

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Brayden W ⚡️

Wow! I've never seen CSS Peeker before. Thanks for the resource!

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Jane Tracy 👩🏽‍💻

Yeah, try it Brayden. You will love it. ✨

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Sahil Langoo

myList =>{
Pushbullet,
whatsruns,
visbug,
PIP,
Daily Dev
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Jane Tracy 👩🏽‍💻

I haven't used whatsruns or visbug. I will take a look at them. Thanks for sharing Sahil. ✨

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davidchagrin

Thanks for sharing this list. I plan to check some of them out first thing in the morning.

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Jane Tracy 👩🏽‍💻

Glad you found the resources helpful, David.
Hope you share it with your fellow devs, they might find it useful as well. ✨🙌

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Nico

Check out tabliss.io/ for a free alternative to Momentum

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Jane Tracy 👩🏽‍💻

Yeah, it okay too :)

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Piyush Santwani • Edited

I published zoomiesoncall.xyz a couple of months ago for the pandemic times. I would be happy to have it reviewed by you :)

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Jane Tracy 👩🏽‍💻

Sure, I will take a look and let you know. ✔