These are the browser extensions the Android Police staff can’t live without – Android Police

Ive been using it for many years now, and have contributed a grand overall of … well, its barely 20 bucks. However thats $20 more to the Transkids Purple Rainbow Foundation and $20 less for Jeff Bezos to line his pockets with!

I enjoy dark mode. Its bold charm embellishes all of my devices, from cellphones, to computer systems, and whatever in between. While a lot of mainstream operating systems now support dark mode system-wide, the web has actually been slow to capture up. Fortunately, the Dark Reader Chrome extension is able to switch off the lights on practically any webpage, making it match the bold aesthetic of the rest of my OS experiences. I extremely suggest providing Dark Reader a go if you dislike frying your retinas on the intense white web. Its not perfect, however its an action in the right instructions for a darker web experience. Plus, Darth Vaders their mascot.

Similar to I cant live without Myki on my phone, I require its Chrome extension on all my computers. Myki does things a little in a different way from other password managers, so I require to validate my internet browser once every day, and the information master is still my phone, however the extension makes adding new account details and editing existing ones easy, plus it immediately logs me into my websites and even inputs the 2FA code by itself when needed.

Clipboard History Pro.

Pushbullet is my go-to extension and app for getting links and screenshots from my phone to my computer system quickly. I do not care much for notice matching and most files I send out are smaller than 5 MB, so I stick to the totally free version of the service. Sure, Google provides something comparable for links in Chrome and images in Google Photos, however I discover Pushbullet much faster and more robust overall– plus, screenshots arent cluttering up my picture collection.

While I work, I typically encounter heaps of fantastic articles, however I barely have the time to read them when I ought to be looking into. Thats where Pocket and its extension Save to Pocket comes in for me. The extension lets you conserve short articles with the click of a button or via the right-click menu. You can then access a reader mode-like interface by means of the Pocket site or the services mobile app. I need to admit that my list is accumulating quite a bit at the minute because Im hardly out and about any longer due to the pandemic. I utilized to go through my reading on my phone while using public transport, which I try to avoid it as much as I can these days.

When it concerns password management, I recently changed from Bitwarden to MYKI, as advised by Rita. It may not be for everyone, however I enjoy that all my data is stored locally on my gadgets just– no server leakages possible. I still much prefer the Bitwarden extension over MYKIs. It offers keyboard shortcuts, making it possible to get in passwords without ever taking my fingers from the keyboard by striking Ctrl+ Shift+ L. For those password fields that the extension cant check out, copying your credentials is a one-click action, while MYKI makes you go into an items detailed overview, including another step to the process. In contrast to MYKI, Bitwarden is also entirely open-source, so if thats crucial to you, you might wind up liking the manager more.

Link to Text Fragment.

Caleb

Save Image As PNG.

LPEF – Photo Analyzer.

Rita.

Over the years, we found rather a couple of ways to make our lives easier with extensions, both for our tasks and our personal lives. It provides keyboard shortcuts, making it possible to enter passwords without ever taking my fingers from the keyboard by hitting Ctrl+ Shift+ L. For those password fields that the extension cant check out, copying your credentials is a one-click action, while MYKI makes you get in a products in-depth introduction, adding one more action to the process. For the previous 4 years, our own homegrown extension, Toolbox for Google Play Store, has been a pillar on all my computers. Its an easy extension that lets you search by keyword, exact image size or find images bigger than particular resolutions, filter by file types, only display images of faces, and generally brings back all the parameters that Google removed from Image Search a while ago. Thankfully, the Dark Reader Chrome extension is able to turn off the lights on simply about any webpage, making it match the strong visual of the rest of my OS experiences.

Smile Always

Manuel.

By far my most frequently used extension on Chrome is Text Blaze. Artem found it about a year back, then numerous people began using it and could not live without it. Its a totally free text expander (up to 30 products) that lets me save my address, signature, some regularly utilized phrases, and numerous of our internal AP format codes and place them with a few keystrokes. For example, I have a/ caption that place the “Left” and “Right” captions listed below screenshots that you typically see here on AP, with proper bold and italics format, and puts the cursor at the ideal place for me to start typing the caption. Other favorites include/ eur for EUR,/ gbp for ₤, and/ em for the em-dash considering that Chromebooks decline to have a regular method to type that.

For the past 4 years, our own homegrown extension, Toolbox for Google Play Store, has actually been a pillar on all my computer systems. I go to the Play Store on the web multiple times the extension and a day resolves numerous of my issues with it.

Toolbox for Google Play Store.

Pushbullet.

Cody.

Bitwarden.

Google eliminated a number of search filters from Images a few months ago, and while we found lots of workarounds to get them back, the one Ive been using is Advanced Image Search. Its a basic extension that lets you search by keyword, precise image size or find images larger than particular resolutions, filter by file types, just display pictures of faces, and essentially revives all the criteria that Google eliminated from Image Search a while ago. Plus, it doesnt utilize resources or need unique authorizations– basically, its just a URL contractor that adds the required filters in the URL and forces the outcome to come out in Google.

Ever go to a website established by a malicious, egomaniacal, bad guy that thinks users shouldnt have the ability to right-click or copy text from a websites? Im sure I have, but I havent noticed in a very long time since this extension disables those repressive restraints.

If you want to feel a little much better about your online shopping dependency, try out the Smile Always extension. It takes benefit of Amazons Smile effort, which contributes 0.5% of purchases on qualified items to a charity of your choice, and makes sure that every Amazon link you go to will be the Smile variation.

Stylus is sort of a stylesheet hacking tool that permits you to place your own CSS into a page. I was a die-hard Stylish fan long earlier, however switched to Stylus after the Stylish extension turned into spyware. While I do not require it as often nowadays, its still helpful to quickly apply some CSS tweaks (and hacks) to a page, whether its to hide an obnoxious pop-up or just to fix unreadable text styling.

Myki password manager.

Download All Images.

If Stylus felt like too much of a power user thing, youll desire to skip this one totally; however for the developers out there, this is “Find …” on steroids. The fundamental search function doesnt support wildcards or innovative operators, and that becomes a problem when youre digging through thousands of model numbers with numerous brief codes. If you know how to compose regex, it only takes a minute approximately to slap together a sufficient pattern that can conserve a lots of time.

I do not care about cookies.

Advanced Image Search.

We regularly need to grab large pieces of a websites for short articles, so a fast and basic screen capture tool that scrolls the entire page is a must. Numerous private screenshots stitched together and displayed in a brand-new tab where you can conserve or drag the image to another application.

Chrome Regex Search.

Dark Reader.

Stylus.

Complete Page Screen Capture.

Whether Im dealing with a news story, how-to guide, or a sponsored article, embedding images into a post is crucial to conveying the full story. Sifting through and getting the best images from a source can be a bit of a trouble. With Download All Images, Im able to download a zip folder that contains all the graphics on a single website with simply a click. I can open that folder, take out the images I want, edit them for the short article, and voilà, graphics galore!

The developer also has a subscription-based extension called No thanks that blocks all kinds of newsletter popups, chat boxes, notifications requests, survey popups, and more, if you wish to eliminate a lot more annoyances from the web.

Google is always running some kind of experiment with Chromes brand-new tab page, however Im never ever bothered by it, because my brand-new tab page is always covered in visual historical art work. The Google Arts & & Culture extension shows a brand-new selection varying from the terrific masters all the way to modern works from street artists around the world.

Save to Pocket.

As a member of the Android Police crew, Im continuously connecting previous posts weve composed to brand-new content Im working on. This makes it easier for readers like you to find appropriate information quicker when you click on these ingrained links, thus making both your life and mine a bit more efficient.

I cant keep changing tabs or windows each time I want to paste and copy something. Thats why I utilize the native ClipMenu app on my Mac, and the Clipboard History Pro extension on my Pixelbook. I can call it up with a keyboard faster way, make it save more than a hundred items, search in them, keep some favorites, and more.

Absolute Enable Right Click & & Copy.

Over the years, we discovered quite a few methods to make our lives much easier with extensions, both for our tasks and our personal lives. For this collection, we desire to share all of the extensions with you that help us handle our lives and our workday.

ClearURLs.

Zach Laidlaw.

WebP (and WebM) may be extensively supported across web browsers, but they never truly caught on with image editors– or WordPress, for that matter. However, Google still serves WebP to internet browsers that support it, so most of us at AP wind up downloading images in a format that have to be converted prior to utilizing them. This extension adds a simple context menu product to images so they can be converted to PNG and conserved locally without a long multi-step procedure.

I just began using this because my old EXIF viewer extension disappeared from the Chrome Web Store, but Im already a fan. Not just is it great for searching for embedded EXIF data on an image, however it likewise shows charts for color channels, luminosity, and color clipping. It likewise offers a practical and fast method to release Google Image Search.

Text Blaze.

Even though I like the idea of fewer websites leaving cookies on my computer system thanks to GDPR, I dont love the current system that has you clicking through cookie banner over cookie banner when you first check out a new website. The extension isnt always ideal and sometimes breaks websites, which is when you have to disable it, but I much prefer doing that over setting up my preferences over and over. I just obstruct third-party cookies in Chrome to keep out the worst transgressors.

The most current addition to my must-have extensions is ClearURLs. Its a cool little tool that strips out all the tracking from URLs, a lot of plainly those on Google and Amazon. Rather of super long links filled with unimportant info simply there to track you, youll see much shorter URLs likehttps:// www.google.com/search?q=android+policerather thanhttps:// www.google.com/search?q=android+police&oq=android+police&aqs=chrome..69i57j69i64l2j69i60l3j69i65.2662j0j1&sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8.This is also incredibly beneficial when you try to add tidy links just to your short articles. Far, I have not run into any damaged sites, however Ill keep you posted if I run into any issues.