10 Chrome Extensions That Are Amazingly Useful #2
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Date: 2020-05-09
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Blue
Single job extensions are useless and ultimately clutter. The full screen/page capture tool. That is all it does... nothing more. I'd rather use, Nimbus Screenshot & Screen Video Recorder , which not only captures a full screen/page, it can capture what we see, what we select and it can record tab or desktop into webm format. Plus it has on screen editing tools in both screenshot and video record modes. Tools to add text, shapes, various arrows, blur out text and more. Much like how news reporters on TV add arrows to live traffic reports is what the tools in video mode can do. Panda 5, seems harmless to those who are oblivious to how it works and its requirements. It actually opens/load all sites into memory at once which allows it quick access to those pinned sites which means it takes 2-16+ Gigabytes of ram just by running that extension. Which means you need to be running Chrome 64b and not the 32b version, and have a minimum of 6+ RAM. I prefer FVD Speed Dial instead. It doesn't load all the pinned sites. It simply is a visual bookmarking tool which becomes your new homepage and has internal tabs which allow us to categorize a set of addresses. It also makes a screen cap of the site to be used as the thumb which can vary in size from 150x94 to 364x228. But best of all, it can export all dials and settings to a text file so should you need to re-installing Chrome, you can easily get back all your dials and settings by loading in the text file. I have 296 dials across 12 tabs. Hover Zoom (or Hover Zoom+ (different author)) is no longer the leading mouse over zoom extension because they couldn't get around the Chrome 3rd party download rules which disabled 3rd party download ability. Hover Zoom and Hover Zoom+ both allowed us to save the zoomed images by pressing a key. I switched over to Imagus which got around it somehow and not only zooms but allows me to save them again. As for uBlock Origins, I too use it but not for the reason you listed. It has its failures but at least the author doesn't bend to letting ads slip through. The author of uBlock Origins is the original author of uBlock (Raymond Hill), but his partners wanted to follow the footsteps of Ad Block and allow some ads. So he left and created uBlock Origins to continue his vision. The fail part is uBO doesn't always block elements on page reload and often items annoying visual items I select as blocked... on reload will reload again. But the plus is the footprint is smaller than Adblock Plus and uBlock.
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Single job extensions are useless and ultimately clutter. The full screen/page capture tool. That is all it does... nothing more. I'd rather use, Nimbus Screenshot & Screen Video Recorder , which not only captures a full screen/page, it can capture what we see, what we select and it can record tab or desktop into webm format. Plus it has on screen editing tools in both screenshot and video record modes. Tools to add text, shapes, various arrows, blur out text and more. Much like how news reporters on TV add arrows to live traffic reports is what the tools in video mode can do. Panda 5, seems harmless to those who are oblivious to how it works and its requirements. It actually opens/load all sites into memory at once which allows it quick access to those pinned sites which means it takes 2-16+ Gigabytes of ram just by running that extension. Which means you need to be running Chrome 64b and not the 32b version, and have a minimum of 6+ RAM. I prefer FVD Speed Dial instead. It doesn't load all the pinned sites. It simply is a visual bookmarking tool which becomes your new homepage and has internal tabs which allow us to categorize a set of addresses. It also makes a screen cap of the site to be used as the thumb which can vary in size from 150x94 to 364x228. But best of all, it can export all dials and settings to a text file so should you need to re-installing Chrome, you can easily get back all your dials and settings by loading in the text file. I have 296 dials across 12 tabs. Hover Zoom (or Hover Zoom+ (different author)) is no longer the leading mouse over zoom extension because they couldn't get around the Chrome 3rd party download rules which disabled 3rd party download ability. Hover Zoom and Hover Zoom+ both allowed us to save the zoomed images by pressing a key. I switched over to Imagus which got around it somehow and not only zooms but allows me to save them again. As for uBlock Origins, I too use it but not for the reason you listed. It has its failures but at least the author doesn't bend to letting ads slip through. The author of uBlock Origins is the original author of uBlock (Raymond Hill), but his partners wanted to follow the footsteps of Ad Block and allow some ads. So he left and created uBlock Origins to continue his vision. The fail part is uBO doesn't always block elements on page reload and often items annoying visual items I select as blocked... on reload will reload again. But the plus is the footprint is smaller than Adblock Plus and uBlock.
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Spirit
Rather idiotic move on Google's part to remove apps - effectively putting thousands of programmers in the poor house - now the browser is really more of an also ran - do we all really want a large number of little tiny icons up in the right hand corner where we have to remember what each is - Google is loosing it's soul and even it's employees have begun to wonder what kind of corps they are actually working for, especially after Google recently decided that it was a good idea to be a part of a murderous military contract...
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Rather idiotic move on Google's part to remove apps - effectively putting thousands of programmers in the poor house - now the browser is really more of an also ran - do we all really want a large number of little tiny icons up in the right hand corner where we have to remember what each is - Google is loosing it's soul and even it's employees have begun to wonder what kind of corps they are actually working for, especially after Google recently decided that it was a good idea to be a part of a murderous military contract...
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Erwin
Pretty much all screen capture plugins can take screenshots of a whole page. I am using Nimbus but they can pretty much all do it. With Nimbus, you can select between capturing the whole page, only the visible part or a selected area ... then you can edit it if you need (crop it, blur some parts, add arrows to point something, add texts, circle things, etc...). I really recommend it instead of the one you talked about in the video.
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Pretty much all screen capture plugins can take screenshots of a whole page. I am using Nimbus but they can pretty much all do it. With Nimbus, you can select between capturing the whole page, only the visible part or a selected area ... then you can edit it if you need (crop it, blur some parts, add arrows to point something, add texts, circle things, etc...). I really recommend it instead of the one you talked about in the video.
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gingerfloof
I wanna suggest an extension that you might find useful. Floating for Youtube. This extension lets you watch videos while you do other things on your laptop. It's a resizable window so you can watch stuff while you work. The only flaw it has is that it doesn't allow music videos to be played on their window, because they are licensed content.
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I wanna suggest an extension that you might find useful. Floating for Youtube. This extension lets you watch videos while you do other things on your laptop. It's a resizable window so you can watch stuff while you work. The only flaw it has is that it doesn't allow music videos to be played on their window, because they are licensed content.
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Adam
Many desperately need an extension to deep-six google doodles! I've read about setting flags, etc. but nothing seems to work. Later: Well, I seem to have done it, but I'm not sure how. It involved setting every flag suggested on the www, as well as multiple Chrome restarts and at least two 5 minute power downs. Good luck to all. It can be done.
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Many desperately need an extension to deep-six google doodles! I've read about setting flags, etc. but nothing seems to work. Later: Well, I seem to have done it, but I'm not sure how. It involved setting every flag suggested on the www, as well as multiple Chrome restarts and at least two 5 minute power downs. Good luck to all. It can be done.
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debeeriz
i find ghostery better than ublock as it can be paused to get on a movie site than will ban you if you have an adblocker and once loaded you can unpause it and only have to sit through the first ad, also savefromnet to downlod youtube videos, and videodownloadhelper to save other videos from 123 and yes movies etc
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i find ghostery better than ublock as it can be paused to get on a movie site than will ban you if you have an adblocker and once loaded you can unpause it and only have to sit through the first ad, also savefromnet to downlod youtube videos, and videodownloadhelper to save other videos from 123 and yes movies etc
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Stanislav
Hey thanks for the recommendations! Panda 5 looks interesting! I would recommend adding Night Eye in a future video. It is damn good if you are working/browsing at night. It enables dark mode on pretty much any website you visit and does it smartly (not just invert everything).
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Hey thanks for the recommendations! Panda 5 looks interesting! I would recommend adding Night Eye in a future video. It is damn good if you are working/browsing at night. It enables dark mode on pretty much any website you visit and does it smartly (not just invert everything).
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Aaron
hands down... uMatrix. Nothing better... looks complicated, but once you can read the matrix, it's very straightforward and intuitive. You won't believe who's tracking your every web move. Use these sites and don't let them run unnecessary scripts. Whitelist only what's needed.
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hands down... uMatrix. Nothing better... looks complicated, but once you can read the matrix, it's very straightforward and intuitive. You won't believe who's tracking your every web move. Use these sites and don't let them run unnecessary scripts. Whitelist only what's needed.
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Dismade
My 3 favorite addons: 3: Checker Plus for Gmail - Check your emails in a simple and easy to use GUI window. 2: Grammarly - Automatically check and fix grammar mistakes in any text box you're writing in. 1: AdBlock - Block ads on any website, including YouTube videos!
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My 3 favorite addons: 3: Checker Plus for Gmail - Check your emails in a simple and easy to use GUI window. 2: Grammarly - Automatically check and fix grammar mistakes in any text box you're writing in. 1: AdBlock - Block ads on any website, including YouTube videos!
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Erwin
I'll try the Panda5 extension. Right now I put the websites I visit everyday in a folder in the navbar. Every morning I right click on it and select Open all . It does what I need but Panda5 might be more user-focused. Thanks for the recommendation.
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I'll try the Panda5 extension. Right now I put the websites I visit everyday in a folder in the navbar. Every morning I right click on it and select Open all . It does what I need but Panda5 might be more user-focused. Thanks for the recommendation.
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