Awesome Tips Series about Chrome
Must-Have Chrome Extensions
- Use The Great Suspender together with Chrome Vimium, the Suspender reduces the memory usage, use Chrome Vimium to find and go to specific tab quickly.
Chrome Extensions for Tabs
- The Great Suspender
- Force suspend all other tabs in this window
- Restore session
- Assign shortcut at chrome://extensions/shortcuts
Ctrl+Shift+StoSuspend/Unsuspend active tabsCtrl+Shift+AtoSuspend all other tabs in active windowCtrl+Shift+KtoSuspend all tabs in all windows
- Tab Position Customizer 2
- Open new tab/link on the right of the current tabs
- Open pop-up window as new tab
- This can be useful when you want to take a screenshot of the pop-up window
- We can also set exceptions for some website (if it doesn’t work for them)
- Tab Scissors - split tabs into 2 windows
- Tab Modifier
- OneTab - save memory
Chrome Extensions for Reading
Ad Blocker
- Adblock Plus
- Able to enable/disable ads on specific sites
- AdBlock
Dark Reader
- Also enable Mac’s dark mode at Preferences -> General
Reader View
- This opens the page in chrome-extension:// and we have to wait until (at least) the main content of the page is loaded.
- The greatest thing is it reduces the memory usage a LOT for pages that load a lot of flashes, ads.
- e.g. reduces this page from around 450+ mb to 87mb.
- This also works well together with
The Great Suspender: the page in reader view will not be suspended as it runs in extension mode. - Assign shortcut
Ctrl+Shift+RtoToggle the Reader View - Print and save the reader mode version, show or hide image.
- Able to change the speed of
text-to-speech - The Cron is it doesn’t work with other extensions, e.g., Chrome Vimium
- as It opens the page in chrome-extension.
Tips about Reader View
- Before
Ctrl+Shift+Rto enter reader view:- Copy the url
Ctrl+l then Ctrl+coryyfrom Chrome Vimium Cmd+downto scroll to the end of page first to make sure the page load completes.
- Copy the url
- It adds the page url to the first line from there we can copy the page url
Just Read
- Able to change theme(dark or light), width, font size and save the config.
- Assign
Ctrl+Shift+LtoOpen the Just Read format for the current page - Assign
Ctrl+Shift+KtoEnable user text selection mode using Just Read, then choose which part you want to select then enter (it will automatically try best to choose), it will show the section in read mode. - When it doesn’t work(e.g. in quip), use
View this selection in Just Read. - Works with Chrome Vimium
Clearly
- Assign shortcut
Ctrl+Shift+CtoToggle Clearly - Make
not easy to copy texteasier to copy - Support outline, different themes, fullscreen, text-to-voice
- Cron: Can’t change the width
- Distill Page from Chrome
- the result is not that good, and hard to run the command.
Mercury Reader
- can’t change width
Summary
- Use Reader View when the page(website) is slow: load lots of ads, flash, uses a lot of memory and you will take time(2+ mins) to read it.
- Use Just Read in other case.
- Use Clearly to check the outline.
Chrome Extensions for Writing
- Grammarly
- Add
contenteditable="true"to div(div class="post-outer" in blogger) to make Grammarly work anywhere. - Also a standalone Mac App
- Use this together with Chrome’s native spell checker
- Check on demand: Change “Site access” to “On Click” (to reduce memory usage)
- Add
- Make Google Images Great Again
- Markdown Here
- Write Email with Markdown.
Chrome Extensions for Sharing
- Buffer
- Assign shortcut
Ctrl+Shift+BtoBuffer -> Activate the extensionat chrome://extensions/shortcuts
- Assign shortcut
- Save to Pocket
- Also install the mobile apps, so we can save to pocket everywhere.
- Evernote Web Clipper
Chrome Extensions For Developer
- Chrome Regex Search
- Sight - Syntax Highlighter
- ModHeader
- Example: Set “Content-Type” in response to application/json
Chrome Extensions for Productivity
- Chrome Vimium
- Wide Github from Tampermonkey
- I don’t care about cookies
- Awesome Screenshot: Screen Video Recorder
More Extensions
- Search Plus
- Search tabs contains specific words
- Move these tabs into one window
- Shortkeys (Custom Keyboard Shortcuts)
- Disable command+shift+i(send email), command+shift+f(Always show toolbar in full screen)
- Activation Settings -> All Sites
- Disable command+shift+i(send email), command+shift+f(Always show toolbar in full screen)
- Click to Remove Element
- Simple Allow Copy
- Proxy SwitchyOmega
- Google Translate
- Picture-in-Picture Extension
Chrome Extensions for Youtube
- Auto Close YouTube Ads from Tampermonkey
- Video Adblocker for Youtube™ Extension
- Video Speed Controller
- Change speed up to 16x
- S - decrease playback speed.
- D - increase playback speed.
- R - reset playback speed.
- V - show/hide controller.
Always on top Floating Mini Player for YouTube™.
Chrome Extensions for Hacking
Unblock Youku
- Helps users access their web services while traveling outside mainland China.
Tampermonkey
- Find user scrips at openuserjs or greasyfork
- Auto Close YouTube Ads
- Wide Github
- Endless Google
- bye-flash-hello-html5
- Use HTML5 Player instead of flash player
Chrome Vimium
Change/Assign extension’s shortcuts
- chrome://extensions/shortcuts
Ctrl+Shift+StoThe Great Suspender > Suspend selected tabsCtrl+Shift+AtoThe Great Suspender > Suspend all other tabs in active window- Assign
Ctrl+Shift+RtoToggle the Reader View - Assign
Ctrl+Shift+CtoToggle Clearly - Assign
Ctrl+Shift+LtoOpen the Just Read format for the current page - Assign
Cmd+Shift+CtoOpen the Just Read format for the current page - Assign
Ctrl+Shift+BtoBuffer -> Activate the extension
