Well worth moving over, I was never really bothered about moving until IE on Windows 10 which ran like shit for me.
Never going back, good list of extensions not really looked into this but will now
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| Author: | Mr Russell [ Thu May 18, 2017 9:41 ] |
| Post subject: | Chrome |
So I'm going to make the switch to the Chrome browser I think, just to help deal with the ridiculously wide images on here that IE11 cannot cope with. What are the extensions you use/need that will enhance my experience? I've already downloaded the Go Back With Backspace extension to re-enable the back button, but wondered if there was anything else I should get? |
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| Author: | devilman [ Thu May 18, 2017 9:53 ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Chrome |
My most used extensions - Adblock Plus Honey (finds vouchers for websites as you're using them) LastPass (for remembering passwords) Xmarks (bookmark syncing) There are others I use like Web Scraper for doing bulk scraping of website data and Fireshot for taking a screengrab of an entire webpage, but that's a bit more specialised |
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| Author: | Mr Russell [ Thu May 18, 2017 10:00 ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Chrome |
That Fireshot one is brilliant, I'm having that. Good selection of the others as well, hadn't thought about an ad-blocker. |
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| Author: | Grim... [ Thu May 18, 2017 10:00 ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Chrome |
General stuff: uBlock Origin - block adverts 1Password - connect with 1Password Always Autocomplete - stops websites using autocomplete="false" Honey - automatically enters discount codes for you (although I've only had it work once) Plain Text Offenders Alert - tells you about websites that don't encrypt your password Pushbullet - shows phone notifications on your PC, and lets you send SMS messages Reddit Enhancement Suite - makes Reddit look better Reddit Notifier - tells you when you have a Reddit reply The Camelizer - shows historical price data for items you're viewing Developer stuff: Chrome Logger - lets you use a PHP (and probably other backend languages) library to make stuff you write in PHP appear in your Chrome console CSS Reloader - reloads the CSS without reloading the page EditThisCookie - Lets you edit cookies Eye Dropper - Gets colours from the page Image Size Info - D'uh PageSpeed Insights - Tells you what you should to to make the page load faster |
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| Author: | Grim... [ Thu May 18, 2017 10:02 ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Chrome |
devilman wrote: Adblock Plus Companies can pay ADP to not have their ads blocked, which is why so many people jumped shit to uBO. |
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| Author: | asfish [ Thu May 18, 2017 10:09 ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Chrome |
Well worth moving over, I was never really bothered about moving until IE on Windows 10 which ran like shit for me. Never going back, good list of extensions not really looked into this but will now
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| Author: | Mr Russell [ Thu May 18, 2017 10:09 ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Chrome |
Thanks for the list as well Grim... |
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| Author: | DavPaz [ Thu May 18, 2017 10:26 ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Chrome |
Grim... wrote: devilman wrote: Adblock Plus Companies can pay ADP to not have their ads blocked, which is why so many people jumped shit to uBO. Hmmm. Which adblocker is baked into Brave, I wonder |
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| Author: | devilman [ Thu May 18, 2017 10:34 ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Chrome |
Grim... wrote: General stuff: Honey - automatically enters discount codes for you (although I've only had it work once) I find it works best with Papa Johns
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| Author: | Bamba [ Thu May 18, 2017 10:49 ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Chrome |
DavPaz wrote: Grim... wrote: devilman wrote: Adblock Plus Companies can pay ADP to not have their ads blocked, which is why so many people jumped shit to uBO. Hmmm. Which adblocker is baked into Brave, I wonder Neither. The method for adblocking will be pretty much the same across the board but it comes down to whatever list of objects each blocks. ADP will have baked something into their extensions to ignore instructions to block ads for their customer companies (or just hard-coded the list it uses to their own); whereas uBO will respect all block instructions without prejudice. Anyway, I dug around and apparently Brave uses the AdBlock Easylist and uBlock Origin filter lists so the combination of those two should cover everything. |
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| Author: | JBR [ Thu May 18, 2017 14:42 ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Chrome |
Fireshot yoinked, thanks! And I'll try a little Honey. |
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| Author: | devilman [ Thu May 18, 2017 14:57 ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Chrome |
Some of my other, lesser- used extensions - - User Agent Switcher for Chrome - Spoofs other browsers' agent strings. I can't remember what I needed this for at the time, but I've just left it installed - Page Analytics (by Google) - If you're logged into your Google Analytics account and you're on a site you're linked to, you'll get on-page analytics - Viewport Dimensions - As you resize the browser, you'll see the current viewport dimensions in the corner - Print Friendly & PDF - I've a feeling I tried this before I found Fireshot as I can't remember why it's installed - Whatfont - when enabled, hover over a bit of text and it'll tell you the font. Click the text for extra info - FBDown Video Downloader - just to download Facebook videos |
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| Author: | devilman [ Thu May 18, 2017 15:12 ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Chrome |
Grim... wrote: devilman wrote: Adblock Plus Companies can pay ADP to not have their ads blocked, which is why so many people jumped shit to uBO. Cheers. I've just made the switch. Grim... wrote: General stuff: Eye Dropper - Gets colours from the page I used to use Colorzilla for that kind of thing, but then I switched to Color Cop which is a Windows program so I can use it to grab colours from any application. |
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| Author: | Grim... [ Thu May 18, 2017 21:04 ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Chrome |
devilman wrote: - Viewport Dimensions - As you resize the browser, you'll see the current viewport dimensions in the corner It does that anyway if you've got the the console open, doesn't it? |
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| Author: | devilman [ Thu May 18, 2017 21:09 ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Chrome |
Grim... wrote: devilman wrote: - Viewport Dimensions - As you resize the browser, you'll see the current viewport dimensions in the corner It does that anyway if you've got the the console open, doesn't it? True. I can't remember why I initially installed it, to be honest. |
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