I would love to find extensions that make me think “How did I live without this?”

  • Matth78@lemm.ee
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    6 months ago

    Surprised nobody already suggested some kind of mouse gestures extension. I use foxy gestures and once you learn a few gestures (starting with closing a tab and undoing it) it becomes hard to live without it! Gesturefy is also a popular alternative.

    • nebulaone@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
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      6 months ago

      Genuine question: How are gestures faster / more efficient than clicking a button, or using keyboard hotkeys? Or is this mainly for notebooks, tablets and smartphones?

      • Matth78@lemm.ee
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        6 months ago

        Compared to clicking a button I would say a lot faster as you don’t have to move your mouse to start initiating your gestures. It’s maybe more marginal compared to a short key. Still your hand is already on the mouse ready to execute a gesture. Personally I find it really convenient and for me it’s the second most useful add-on after ublock. When using a browser on other computers that don’t have these I find it really tedious and I am shocked at how much ad there is.

  • FilterItOut@thelemmy.club
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    6 months ago

    LibRedirect is pretty great. Everything from reddiot, fandom, youtube, imgur, google maps… (it’s a long list)

    has open source or alternatives that you get sent to instead of the big corpo tracking site. I love the fandom, reddit, and youtube redirects, because so many times I end up being linked to those. You can also turn off the redirect per site if you want, so if an invidious link (for example) just refuses to load, you can let youtube track you and see the video.

  • RainfallSonata@lemmy.world
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    6 months ago

    I don’t want to say its name, cause I worry (maybe unnecessarily) about making it a target, but there’s a downloader for YouTube that’s the only extension I’ve ever paid for.