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What are your favorite browser extensions? (beehaw.org)

submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Ublock Origin is an obvious one, but I also can't stand not having Foxy Gestures anymore. It adds customizable mouse gestures, so you can set it up to have easy swipes to go back a page, reload a page, close a tab, etc, and it feels wonderful and smooth to use compared to just using the traditional buttons to do everything. Honestly it's kinda wild to me that this isn't more popular now that people are so used to phone gestures. It's good for the same reasons!

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Something that I recently started to use is Raindrop.io. It's a cloud bookmark organizer and I find it really useful. And the extension is also really good with lots of features. I think it's odd that people don't know/talk about it!

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (2 children)

What sort of benefits do you feel raindrop has over the native chrome bookmarks manager?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

Based on a quick look, the biggest features it has that browser bookmark managers generally don't have is the ability to search within saved webpages and documents without opening them. Plus, you can share bookmark collections with other people. Sounds a bit like a modern rendition of del.icio.us

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

It works with many browsers, it has an awsome app for mobile, it has better customization and it's open source and privacy friendly enough for the average user.