9 Cool Chrome (And Firefox) Extensions - You NEED to Check Out!

NOTE: You can also install these extensions on any Chromium-based browser, including Edge, Brave, Opera, etc

8:51 authors often can't avoid a paywall on their articles, because publishing "open access" without paywall costs them between $1k and $10k. So as an author, you write the paper, you format the paper, you have it peer-reviewed by other voluntary scientists who are not paid at all, and then the journal wants you to pay them $10000 to upload your PDF on their website and to sign an agreement such that they can steal your copyright. It's so fucking rediculous. But scientists like me have to just accept this, because we need to publish in "prestigious" journals to make the papers count as such. Some universities pay the fee, and some just don't care, so as an author you are then stuck with having your paper behind a stupid paywall. Scientific publishing is one giant scam by the journals.

The functionality of Extensity is built-in in Firefox on the addons management page. (hamburger menu in the top right → Extensions and Themes). Here you can find a little switch for every extension seperately with wich you can dis-/enable it. 5:45 That's also built-in into Firefox in form of the "Reading mode". Although that's not as complex but it gets the job done ;)

Firefox has something similar to Bionic Reading, it's built in. It's called Caret Browser, activated by pressing F7

I love "I Don't Care About Cookies," but I have come across a number of websites that were broken in the most random and unusable ways (for stuff that you don't need an account for), and 9 times out of 10, disabling this extension solves the issue.

For Firefox: Snap Links Plus - allows you to right click and drag then opens all links caught in rectangle in new tabs. Great for e.g., galleries to quickly see original sized pictures. Song Identifier - pretty self explanatory. Play 5 seconds of unidentified music then it will search the database for result.

Unpaywall's never gotten me access to an article that wasn't already open access, but I keep it around just in case it'll help one day 😋. As a tip for when an article is behind a paywall, I've gotten into a habit of searching the first few authors' names and landing on their lab website. Funnily enough, researchers often upload their own article PDFs for free viewing, separate from the journals where they've also paid to publish them.

The reason why some websites blocks paste it’s because some viruses replace your copied text with other stuff (usually happened with crypto addresses)

Thank you so much for Bionic Reading. I've been looking for this kind of extension but didn't know how to describe it in the google

I have seen many videos on the same topic and found none useful - but this was really useful... Thanks Joe

The last one is built-in in Firefox (at least, Nightly), you just need to press Ctrl+Shift+M. You can switch the user-agent there as well

"Country Flag Fixer" is also a really great Chrome extension if you are on Windows and don't see the country flag emoji's correctly!

I love the SVG export because of the images, Font Defender, and the Cookie extension for privacy reasons. I wonder if there is an adblocking extension on chrome

I prefer Consent-o-Matic over I Don't Care About Cookies since you can really set what you want to accept and it's designed to work better with the GDPR compliant forms (and I use a Netherlands VPN). There's also Cookies Auto Delete but the problem is that one still has no syncing so it's a pain to backup and manually transfer the settings.

I love timestamps because that way you can skip the sponsors. But you got me on "A Very Good Thing" 🤣🤣🤣 Salute to your brain Joe!!

Another good one that's I think essential to everyone (at least who uses a lot of tabs) is Onetab. As you all know Chrome is a huge memory hog so onetab takes care of that. You just simply save the other tabs you're not using by taping the onetab funnel icon and then it saves those tabs as one page and you can do a lot with them for example share them, star them, rename them and a whole bunch more.

In the case of firefox you can force the context menu by holding shift + rightclick

Microsoft Edge has a built in supercopy feature, which can be accessed on any website and it's way more useful. For example, you can highlight text on Wattpad and right click, but for some reason you can't copy the text. Using Microsoft Edge, a simple Ctrl + Shift + X allows you to copy any text, and Ctrl + Shift + C allows you to take screenshots easily. Personally, I think Edge> Chrome, but we're all free to have our opinions.

These extensions look useful, but there are a couple extensions available for Chromium-based browsers and Firefox that I personally recommend (as well as other people). One is of course ublock origin, which we all know is used for blocking ads and blocking elements. Like whenever I see these annoying donation buttons from sites that seem untrustworthy to me (I don't like to donate anyway). Then I would block the element. Another extension I would also recommend is NoScript. It is a chrome and Firefox extension that would block JavaScript executions. Because we all know if we disable JavaScript systemwide, then the internet would pretty much be unusable. But with this extension, you can use the internet and you could potentially save yourself from potentially malicious JavaScript executions. In this extension there would be a dashboard for each tab where you can set it to be trusted, temporary trusted, untrusted, etc. And you can even disable it globally (not recommended) or for the tab you're using. It can be annoying to whitelist domains when you first use it. But after a while you'll see why this would be useful for protecting yourself from potentially malicious malware.

Another useful extension- YouTube Summary with ChatGPT & Notes-This can help us study videos