What is your favorite browser extension?

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Give me ideas for must-have extensions for Chrome, Firefox, Safari... no matter. Tell me what I might be missing. 🤔

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I've always wanted a tool for highlighting stuff on the internet since it's my life long habit.
I've used Evernote and Pocket and everything together but it just didn't work out.

So I've made this web highlighter myself and it became one of the major tools for me and a lot of people's workflow.

It works seamlessly with Evernote, Pocket, and all sorts of tools. Take a look!

Jinu Kim · Answer

LINER now supports iOS app, Chrome Extension, Safari Extension, and Firefox Extension. 
And we have a plan to build Android, Opera Extension and Edge Extension as well.

Stay tuned!

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Many think this is the best extension to find emails as you browse websites.

Nilesh Babu · Answer

i use this on firefox, great help when replying business related emails.

Hugo Fauquenoi · Answer

The easiest way to add websites or emails to your task list. Can be used to bookmark an article for later, add yourself a reminder to reply to an email, adding stuff to a wishlist... Powerful.

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It keeps my Chromium Browser from sucking all the memory from the whole of Local Group on this part of the Virgo Supercluster. Also you can whitelist your favorite sites from suspension.

Gaurav Agrawal · Answer

Bookmark anything on the web.

Nikhildas C L · Answer

Such a wonderful extension. I like the random images and quotes and helps us to smile everyday.

Yulia Shimanova · Answer

Great extension for speakers of other languages who use English in everyday communication. Textly corrects spelling and grammar mistakes in a real time mode, just need to click and fix the issue. Highly recommend

Andrea Kilin · Answer

Since I rarely spend any time on my desktop anymore, I miss seeing beautiful pictures as background. So instead i found this plugin from Unsplash which shows a new pretty photo each time I open a new tab.

Kamil Rzeźnicki · Answer

Toby is my favourite tool for bookmarks management

Tinh Nguyen · Answer

Great content for designer

Spencer Hiltbrand · Answer

Keeps me motivated and people are always asking where I got it. Must be good, right?

Sumit Hegde · Answer

Because you know you'll forget your password, eventually.

Rob Diaz · Answer

Sometimes you just need to know what awesome font that is!

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Probably the most convenient app to write notes when you're under the rush, and certainly the most useful extension which you can have each time you open a new tab.

Kaushik Thirthappa · Answer

Maker here. I have discovered a number of books from this -

Empire of Cotton, Greek Science in Antiquity, Africa's World War are some examples.

Also, i was bored of new tab extensions i have used i the past like Panda (highly recommend, if you have not used it yet).

Elayan Hamamrah · Answer

When it comes to grammer correction it's realy great extension, helped me many times with official emails.

Ilya Azovtsev 💌+🤖=🚀 · Answer

Create tasks and check them :)

Sumit Hegde · Answer

Life saver!

Wesley James · Answer

Saves tons of time and money on Amazon

Daniel Jakobian · Answer

At night, this extension + f.lux make it really comfortable to use my Computer.

Kiran Raj Samarthyam · Answer

Collapse all your tabs when they are inactive. You can share or export it to anyone.

Abigail Ng · Answer

I use this almost every day - I can check multiple email accounts all from a popout, without leaving any of my work. Comes with rich notifications so that I can deal with mail as it come in, without even opening a new tab.

Jonathon Triest · Answer

"It's basically free money"

Maknar Kaswarh Nikitin · Answer

Good

Ruowei Wang · Answer

This is the best productivity tool I've ever had! As a product manager, I always juggle between tabs which causes a great waste of time. Ever since I started using Tabby, I feel I can finally breathe while looking at my browser - seriously, I highly recommend everyone to give it a try.

Astronault M · Answer

1. Great user-experience: the tool works for me in the background. I don't need to play around with the settings to make it work.
2. Great accuracy: the AI is actually working pretty well! Most of the decisions the AI are accurate - I restore fewer than 10% of the closed tabs.
3. Great efficiency: it saves me from thousands of clicks EVERY day, and my focus time on a page increases...

Emir Uckan · Answer

Best Researching Tool for Chrome. suitable for Product Managers, Project Managers, Academics (PhD students) . This tool replaces the history of chrome. And makes visual mapping where and how did you get on the site. For best view option: Switch to simple theme than colored theme.

From it's web site; "The page I saw earlier can not be found with the back button. I can not find it even if I look at the history. I also forgot the search keyword. I spent all my time and I did not find it after all. Have not you experienced this?

"History map" shows the history, so you can see the web page you saw at a glance. Many easy-to-use and convenient functions such as enlarging / reducing / moving / searching, organizing / editing, saving / deleting the map are also available.

It is especially recommended for those who have never used the history function, those who frequently browse WEB pages in large quantities. If you installed "history map", it was good to have installed! The time will surely come. Please help us to improve the efficiency of browsing WEB at work / hobbies."

Cameron Kalegi · Answer

Takes the clutter out of dev tools inspection when all you're interested in is design / css.  Fonts, colors, styles and more with one click - in a seriously well designed pop over.  Essential extension for front end devs.

Fekete Attila · Answer

Lovely extension, I recommend to you! :)

Jijo Sunny · Answer

Best way to lookup the tech stack of a website (any website).

Afshana Diya · Answer

It replaces the new tab with extremely high-quality marketing contents. I'm using it for almost 2 years in my new tab - it should clearly reflect "Zest is that great."<3

Afshana Diya · Answer

It replaces the new tab with extremely high-quality marketing contents. I'm using it for almost 2 years in my new tab - it should clearly reflect "Zest is that great."<3

Peter Schroeder · Answer

Zest is a new-tab feed of content suggested by marketers, for marketers. All manually moderated to cut through the noise and ensure quality.

Alexandra Persea · Answer

Lets me generate burner emails that forward to my personal inbox. No more spammy unwanted emails.

Nora Conrad · Answer

I LOVE lastpass, I use it all the time

Caleb Gleit · Answer

Pushbullet is great, use it on the go to quickly transfer drafts or quick notes to my phone.

Dimitar Raykov · Answer

A quick technology lookup tool. Using it on a daily basis.

Seema Thakur · Answer

Hi Dimitar, 
AeroLeads is one of the best and my favorite browser extension to find the email addresses of prospects. 
It fetches the email addresses and business phone numbers of prospects in real time.  You can operate it on the top LinkedIn, Angellist, CrunchBase, etc. 
What makes it unique from other sale prospecting tools is that it build the list in real time and verifies all the data before forming the list.

Peter Thaleikis · Answer

Shameless plug - it's my own project. But serious, I've been super annoyed by creating new accounts accidentally. That's exactly why I've created it. It's a real pain killer.

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Very useful, just drag and drop files to access them on all devices!
You can also send SMS from your computer and use their API to do whatever you think about with notifications and SMS!

Mushfiq Rahman · Answer

I handle a lot of different types of the task at work, and each type requires its own set of webpages to be opened. Qlearly lets me store URLs in convenient lists, and lets me open them all at a time.

SO for example, if I need to look at our traffic reports - I'd go to Qlearly and click open all on my Traffic Analysis list - and it would open GA analytics, Webmaster, SEMrush, etc.

Robert Headley · Answer

I don't know this is a recommend so much as a must have for me. It is the best Gmail checker there is.

Devesh Kumar · Answer

Allows me to save my reading articles in one click.

Sruthi Sv · Answer

It is your own personal storage for all those things that you can't read immediately without actually  taking up any space.

Amer Mallah · Answer

This is how Chrome's History SHOULD work

Siddhant Tiwari · Answer

One of my favorite chrome extension.
Whenever you find yourself with too many tabs, click the OneTab icon to convert all of your tabs into a list.

Rahul Nanwani · Answer

I do keep a lot of tabs open and Chrome ends up sucking all the memory and battery. This extension suspends them ensuring good performance for a longer time.

Kaushik Thirthappa · Answer

Need to log into a different account on twitter? Use sessionbox.

Jason Diller · Answer

Analytics on my life - Perfect for tracking where I spend time (gmail, slack, google drive) and for the RARE occasion that I forget to track time in @harvest on client work (rare = every time I work on client stuff) #agencylife

Anneliese Herbosa · Answer

Just installed this the other day... loving it so far. Very pleasing to the eyes, and serves as a refreshing 'break' when I'm heads down cranking.

Mudit Singh · Answer

You can take full paged screenshot of your webpage on  25+ different type of browsers, operating systems, and mobile devices in few clicks. Great tool for testers and developers

Dimitar Raykov · Answer

One more. I use it mainly as "Read it later" tool that however actually works and you don't end up with 100+ links in the end of the week. 👍

mlinaje · Answer

I'm getting in love :-) None of the task apps that I tested previously was like this one

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Use it everyday for making screnshots

Ilya Azovtsev 💌+🤖=🚀 · Answer

Notifications when the email comes :) Useful :)

Abdullah Mohammadi · Answer

When you have WhatFont extension, you don't need to remember the name of every font.

Robin Will · Answer

A bucket full of inspiration on every new tab. I love it.

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Its a very convenient way to keep track of tabs you wish to revisit later

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One of my faves. when I feel my macbook slowing, I quickly suck all of my open tabs up into OneTab.

Robin Solis · Answer

Finally had to pare down when I hit 15k tabs! Wonderfully robust until that number 😝

Dyana Aives · Answer

without a doubt my most used extension. I always have a ton of windows open, this puts them all into a nice neat list and saves memory, also if I don't get to finish up on one of them I can always go back to it, unlike my bookmarks list which I never use.

Patrick Loonstra · Answer

Great to focus on the important stuff and stuff the rest away for a while.

flo merian · Answer

I like how simple this Chrome extension is. Open a new tab and just write your thoughts.

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Quickly toggle a chrome extension on and off. : )

Emir Uckan · Answer

Great way to exploring dribbble

Anneliese Herbosa · Answer

Because sometimes you need that kick in the pants from Mr. LaBeouf himself. Pro tip: make sure your volume is on, but not cranked too high ;)

Alexander Polyakov · Answer

I hate stumbling upon toxic comments, especially when watching political videos on YouTube, this extension hides them.

Nono Ghannam · Answer

Every new tab is a new picture! Flight deals flying to "the picture." I love it.

Nono Ghannam · Answer

The saviour to my procrastinations.

Vishal Shah · Answer

Allows me to schedule Websites to visit at a particular time.

Arjun R Pillai · Answer

Helps in effective communication over emails

Adam DePasqua · Answer

The best one of these I've used.

Niko Draca · Answer

Really great tool for browsing Wikipedia, super lightweight too.

Robert Nachum · Answer

Probably the best proofreading tool out there

Grigori Mikayelyan · Answer

It's automatic, slick and quick.

Aaryan Ramzan · Answer

I've really saved some $$$

Dimitar Raykov · Answer

A must-have extension for every e-shopper! :))

Christoph Biering · Answer

I'm using it to rapidly take notes within a new browser tab.

Manoj Bagari · Answer

Discover a new book every time you open a new tab.

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I used it on daily basis to learn new words and get proper meaning for uncommon words.

Nitansh Rastogi · Answer

A great way to look for the meaning of the word, without even leaving the tab by simply double-clicking it. You can also find the meaning of other words by just clicking on the extension.

iMarty · Answer

For a new tab, inspiration.

Fayrooz Hashim · Answer

Its really helpful

Gouse Ashwak · Answer

It easy to search  while copying from phone and  pasting it on search box

LukeFernandez · Answer

It saves you money.. automatically.. for free.

Shop on Amazon? Wikibuy instantly checks other retailers (Jet, Walmart, Ebay, etc) for a better price.
Shop anywhere? Wikibuy automatically applies coupons at checkout on thousands of other sites.
Use Ebates for Cashback? Sync your account with Wikibuy for an additional 1-20% off on thousands of retailers.

Joe Ringenberg · Answer

Sending a video is easier than writing an email

Amer Mallah · Answer

I think this is by far the best tab manager - it saves windows and tabs, allows you to close them, backs them up to Google Drive.. None of the other solutions I've tried are as effective at managing a large number of tabs.

Josh · Answer

A super simple way to not only look at the fonts/colors projects are using, but also HOW they're using them. Also super helpful to look into how people organize their websites.

Jean Pierre Cuba · Answer

easy to organize

gokul · Answer

Well, it is self explanatory I guess! :)

gokul · Answer

You can't believe all those "deals" at their face value.

Edwin Carbajal · Answer

Joblink let's you gather all your personal links in one place for job applications. Perfect for those that are on the job hunt!

🤔 · Answer

Who wants to see ads?

Alexander Thomsen · Answer

Easy to save interesting articles and have it stored in folders across devices

sam · Answer

Record your screen. Share with your team. For free. From the browser extension view your previously recorded views and see how many people have viewed each video. Can't ask for more from a free extension.

Dennis Cahillane · Answer

Use facebook for events, messaging, and sharing without being manipulated by scientifically-designed software.

Steamed Fish · Answer

a great tab tool, very useful.

Sudarsan Gp · Answer

Works with just a single click

Profyts · Answer

Quick, easy way to glean all the software powering your favorite websites. Great for deep diving on the specific technologies to see adoption rates.

Aleksandra Strzelichowska · Answer

An effortless way to discover art and see something cool instead of blank tabs.

Just S · Answer

Wikipedia Modernized. I love what this does to the wiki UI!

Just S · Answer

Always ready and so easy to use and share!

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Not a browser extension per se, but one of the finest tools that's available from Firefox 57. I am glad they launched this. Very handy to take screenshots based on webpage elements.

Prateeka · Answer

The Chrome Extension makes expense management completely automatic!

Serge · Answer

Really easy to use.

Prajakt Karanjkar · Answer

Agile CRM chrome extension enables you to add contacts from your browser itself. If you are browsing through your Twitter profile and come across a relevant contact, you can add it to your Agile CRM with the help of that Chrome extension. The extension is free to download and easily syncs with your Agile CRM account.

Download link: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/agile-crm/eofoblinhpjfhkjlfckmeidagfogclib/related

Do give it a try!

Brad Chen · Answer

A Kindle-like reading  experience for Chrome. More powerful than Safari Reader Mode.

Chandu · Answer

Because I built it ;) Honestly it saves a lot of developer's time by enabling one-click copy from any website (yes even from StackOverflow)

Data is end-to-end encrypted so we can store sensitive data as well. Give it a try to believe it.

Nick Timms · Answer

It changes Gmail into a team product

Валерій Таловер · Answer

good app

Елена Пасичнюк · Answer

Eliminate mistakes in your writing anywhere on the web

Jacob Trazire · Answer

I don't use it because Product Hunt Tab is more ideal in my stage of work, but this is amazing if you need to manage a fan tangled mess of accounts.

Oliver Sauter · Answer

Helps you to find "that article you saw 2 months ago" again, but without the need to do any upfront work of saving stuff. 
If you don't like bookmarking, copy-pasting or have a lot of tab overload, this might be a good tool for you!

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Best way to quickly save images for inspiration.

Raj Mahal · Answer

Holds your 2FA codes in the browser so you can just copy paste instead of manually typing from phone.

Suraj Keshri · Answer

This is the only browser extension for both bookmarking and rich note taking. Think of it as Pocket and Evernote combined. I always wanted to have a good personal knowledge management tool so I built this. Please check it out.

Jared Gold · Answer

I like to be visually reminded of my goals, habits, and to-do's automatically on every new tab - without needing to remember to check multiple apps. [Disclaimer: I'm the founder of it ;-)]

Timothy Ogden · Answer

Much better than OneTab or Great Suspender for balancing the need to keep tabs open and "findable" and not consuming 64GB of memory

Timothy Ogden · Answer

Much better than OneTab or Great Suspender for balancing the need to keep tabs open and "findable" and not consuming 64GB of memory

JOSE FIGUEIRA · Answer

Excellent tab and bookmark manager.

Sarah Kennedy · Answer

Gmail is my life and I need it organized for me (and my team). Sortd does it all.

Christopher Blum · Answer

Unlike other grammar checkers: privacy-minded, supports more than just English

PoorPockets McNewHold · Answer

Having to switch to between my native language and English frequently was a pain for most of the grammar checkers who were English only. It's now, no more an issue!

Niko Wallner · Answer

Effective tool foe SEO purposes, digital marketing and even for common users

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The Hexometer (HX) algorithm assigns each website a numeric value. That value is a particular website’s HX Rank calculated by a proprietary formula using public data about the domain name, the website's technical parameters and structure.

Nikola Kučerová · Answer

It will let you change the speed on any HTML5 video.

Dan Makarov · Answer

In case you work in software development

Dan Makarov · Answer

Because Bird is the word :D

Dean Peters-Wright · Answer

If you want a quick and easy way of sending files, then the KwiqFlick Chrome extension might be something you'd want to check out.

Olga Lashkevich · Answer

Super handy! When I quickly need to check the website's traffic it is the best solution. Shows the number of users, geography and traffic sourced in a pop-up window, as I click to the plugin on the bar. Must-have.

Jana Cagorovic · Answer

I use it every day for site audit. It now offers even more in-depth info of a specific page, giving you insights of your code, <h>tags, content report and all the necessary info for better technical SEO optimization.

Pavan Sethi · Answer

Easy way to earn bitcoin while you shop.  They've been expanding to new stores quickly, so keep an eye out if a store isn't already on there.

Kaloyan Dobrev · Answer

By far best I get the best Dark Mode for any site that I visit. The extension is available to any browser so switching from one to another is not a problem.

Arun Godwin Patel · Answer

There is so much information on the web it can be really overwhelming and stressful. Crumble is great because it helps you to remove the clutter and organise text, images and videos that you find interesting! It also has some neat AI features that give you insights!

Maxim · Answer

has a firefox, chrome and Edge extension to help you extract data from any website. Automate marketing, lead generation, price watching and much more in just a few clicks

Maksym Shynkarenko · Answer

I love this minimalistic extension. It allows to save all tabs from the open window and then reopen them all in one click. Toast is that it is also available on Safari. I didn't find anything similar for Safari yet.

Before Toast extension I was stuck with 20+ tabs open all the time, because they are "needed", usually those were tabs related to some project that I'm not working on right now, but I wasn't able to close them or bookmark them as it would create a mess in bookmarks. 
Now I can save the tabs that I don't need right now to Toast and then very quickly get back to them as needed. And this syncs across all my browsers and devices.

Sharing feature is nice too.  So I can drop the link like this to someone to share all websites that I've found as an example: https://dotoast.com/sessions/39ada5162b4c7ced0f6301841c7cc5c1/show  -- (this is from Toast's home page)

My colleague also uses Toast to prepare for webinars. She created a session (they call a list of links this way) with all websites that she needs to start a webinar. Now she's ready to webinar in just a minute and she doesn't need to open all those pages one by one.

Isaure Petiet · Answer

Once you use Tabby, you won't be able to get rid of it ! A must-have for everyone

Dimitar Raykov · Answer

I start with Session Buddy. Extremely useful when researching for a project.

Merlin Laffitte · Answer

Built with a great team to solve a problem many have! Totally recommend tabby, do not hesitate to send me suggestions if you have some about the tool :)

Anneliese Herbosa · Answer

I normally like to group my tabs together contextually or thematically, so being able to name these sessions is super helpful.

Scott_Bean · Answer

So easy to on'n'off when you need a privacy

Thomas Smith · Answer

It is really helpful, it helps in password generator that locks your passwords and personal information in a secure vault and it also gives you secure access from every computer and mobile device.

David V. Kimball · Answer

Best ad-blocking extension out there. You can even right click and block specific elements from the page - it's brilliant.

Panayotis Kontogiannis · Answer

doing job well

Patrick Loonstra · Answer

Best adblocker and on my must-install list.

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Free and easy to use - does the job right!

უცნაური და არაამქვეყნიური ადამიანი · Answer

really lightweight

gokul · Answer

Block them ugly ads as you like! Light weight and super customizable.

Adeniji Ayo Charles · Answer

Blocks every annoying ads

Tahir Mia · Answer

Doesn't use much resources.

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I love this one. Design inspiration every time I open a new tab.

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Great Design Inspiration

Adeniji Ayo Charles · Answer

News feed for designers

Ziga N · Answer

Life saver if you are on battery

Valerie Fenske · Answer

this one saves my nerves and time!!! I always have a heavy load of open tabs

Deepak Fialok · Answer

Really handy for Somebody like me who do a lot of research work and needs to open gazillions of tabs...after installing this my chrome has never crashed..

Tahir Mia · Answer

Helps to keep memory usage low on tabs while gaming. So get extra power to gaming.

Raj Mahal · Answer

Use it daily. So useful and way better than keeping tabs opens

Menj · Answer

Very useful extension indeed!🙂

Manoj(Mj) · Answer

<3 Toby

Vishal Hooda · Answer

best extension to manage tabs. my favorite tool i use on chrome to increase productivity.

Rohith Raj · Answer

One of the best extension!

Mohit · Answer

Awesome tool to send stuff to your mobile app from desktop by Push Notifications

Naomi Assaraf 🔥 · Answer

Although this is my company's product, I definitely have to recommend it. We made it after we got tired of getting terrible (or unclear) email subject lines. It made organization a pain.

So, we launched this to solve a problem we assumed a multitude of people were having--it allows you to change the subject of an email. For example, I find myself changing the subject line "help" to something more descriptive, like "video not saving" or "account can't connect to x cloud provider."

Cheers and happy hunting!
Naomi

Jaime Leon B. · Answer

Can also be used to store markers, sorted by tags. It also has app for desktop and mobile.

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I use pocket all day every day, from saving links from email newsletters to stumbling across articles on Facebook, if I can't immediately read it, I Pocket it for later.

Adeniji Ayo Charles · Answer

This is good. It's like Dropbox for articles

Kuba Rogalski · Answer

I can't tell you how much my punctuation improved ever since I started using Grammarly!

Shamit Khemka · Answer

It enables advanced checks for punctuation
Correct grammar suggestions 
Tips for context, and sentence structure.

And other features like -
Vocabulary enhancement suggestions. 
Genre-specific writing style checks.

Shamit Khemka · Answer

This is the most efficient and productive browser extension I've ever used.

Dylan Cooper · Answer

I prefer to use Grammarly because it can check my texts at any time. Just install the Chrome https://rocketfiles.com/windows/browsers/web-browsers/google-chrome and start using the great extensions.

Stowe Boyd · Answer

Immensely helpful.

Przemysław Bober · Answer

Simply great!

Gualter Amaro · Answer

It helps me a lot when I have to write official emails or presentations.

Fanny Berrington · Answer

Quite useful extension, I must say. It's the best assistant, it saves my time greatly.

刘思雨 · Answer

I use firefox and  I also use Grammarly, a very useful grammar tool.

Shifra Goldberg · Answer

Native English speaker here.  Love @Grammerly!  Also, slick newsletter.

Vincent Bortone · Answer

This is a fantastic add-in.  The Outlook/Word add-in is also a great tool.

Vishal Hooda · Answer

very helpful & works superbly

Amokrane Tamine · Answer

I used to used this porducts but i dont liked it. There app was beutifull but I dont sea why people will use it. Micrsosoft World corrector is enought.

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I use this for a chrome extension it will help a lot to correct the spellings and while writing emails.

prince bazawule · Answer

a picture is worth a thousand words, right? well, this is absolutely killing it for me atm! 😜

Deepak Fialok · Answer

Absolute time saver, specially for efficiency carzy like me....

Maxim Leonovich · Answer

Vimium + ergonomic keyboard = wonderful life

Evan Moore · Answer

Makes browsing so much faster and more enjoyable

jairus · Answer

My fav Chrome extension thus far.

sam · Answer

I wish I used the goals section more. At the least I have a beautiful picture with some motivation for the day.

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This is a great extension, u have been using it since 2 years probably. New wallpaper daily, daily quote, and to do are my favorite

Jesper "Tehpson" Pettersson · Answer

it is great for doing short macros in your browser

Justina Malciüte · Answer

Great for navigation/search for those that love their tabs and don't want to close them :)

Gal Dubinski · Answer

Will help you to enrich your data about the people you email via Gmail, and it also works great with G suite.

Stowe Boyd · Answer

Work management within Gmail