What are the best Chrome add-ons?

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The Best 1 of 74 OptionsWhy?

Best Chrome add-ons	Price	Blocking	Supported platforms
90 uBlock Origin	Free	Browser Only	Browser Addon
70 Pocket	Free / paid	-	-
64 HTTPS Everywhere	-	-	-
60 The Great Suspender	-	-	-
-- toby	FREE	-	-

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73 Other Options Considered

Pocket

Top Pro

Syncs to pretty much every platform

Pocket has iOS and Android apps, so you can save articles from chrome to then read on the go. See More

Yanis's Experience

Cool, easy and efficient ! See More

Specs

Platforms:Android, iOS, Kobo, web, macOS, Windows

Software Type:Google Chrome, Firefox, Edge, Safari extension, desktop app

Top Pro

Really fast & easy to save links to read later

Top Pro

Allows tagging bookmarks

Bookmarks can be tagged for search accuracy later on. See More

Top Pro

Well-finished GUI and UX

Top Pro

Included in Firefox

Pocket is now integrated into the Firefox web browser, and you can login using your firefox/mozilla login, instead of having to create a separate account. This login method can even be used natively on their website, regardless what browser is being used. See More

Top Pro

Available on the web and mobile devices

Pocket is available on iOS, Android, Kobo eReader and on the web. See More

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The Great Suspender

Top Pro

Whitelisting available by domain or URL

Quickly exclude any single web page or entire site with just a couple clicks of the mouse. This is great for domains with text fields you don't want to lose your progress in or streaming video players you don't want to lose their position in when paused for long periods of time. See More

Ryan Tidrick's Experience

Saves an incredible amount of system RAM when configured correctly. See More

Top Pro

Customizable

Allows for some changes in its functions including changing time after it suspends a tab, adding sites to whitelists and a few other options. See More

Peter J. Mello's Experience

I don't talk about this extension enough, probably because the little narcissist I keep locked away in the dungeon of my psyche naturally assumes that everyone on the Internet is a "20 tabs open or bust" user like me and has already found it. If you fit the above criterion and haven't, then sit down and allow me to become your new favorite person for awhile. ;) I know you use Chrome or a browser built on its Blink rendering engine (Opera, Vivaldi, etc.) at least part of the time, it's unavoidable. I also know that you constantly have to be mindful of how many tabs you leave open because Blink uses an obscene amount of system memory just at idle, and with a couple dozen tabs open it can start to lag like a car running out of gas. But with The Great Suspender those days can finally fade into being distant memories. This little extension puts tabs you haven't gotten back to in a while into hibernation, freeing the memory and letting your browser find its second wind. Can you imagine?? You really can't, it has to be experienced to be believed. Just don't come looking for me when they get around to starting a 12-Step program for internet addicts and your family holds an intervention, forcing you to start attending; at that point, you're on your own. See More

Top Pro

Saves valuable system resources by suspending tabs left open for a certain amount of time

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toby

Top Pro

Syncs your tabs cross-platform

Create an account and sync your tabs cross-platform. See More

Top Con

Doesn't scale up very well

Large bookmark collections can become unwieldy in Toby, even if you're using collections, teams, etc. See More

Ryan Tidrick's Experience

Great way to dock regularly accessed tabs and jump into them on the new tab page, all done with a simple drag and drop interface. See More

Top Pro

Collaborative digital bookmarking

You can create an organization in Toby and manage links in different teams and collections collaboratively. See More

Top Con

Doesn't work on mobile devices

Sarah's Experience

My team and I use this Chrome extension heavily and on a daily basis. It's become an integral part of our workflow. See More

Top Pro

Pause and resume work

Top Pro

Clear the clutter

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OneTab

Top Pro

Overall very useful

It takes all of your tabs (choose between all/all-except-current/current/all-to-right/all-to-left) and turns them into links in a special OneTab tab where you can further manage your tabs by dividing them into groups, removing duplicates and securing them so that they can't be removed unless unsecured. See More

Top Con

Can get messy

The OneTab tab has everything in a list format with just simple headings describing what you have in this or that list. It isn't comfortable to manage it when you have quite a lot of tabs in there. See More

SuccinctTefnut's Experience

Favorite extension See More

Specs

Platforms:Windows, Linux, Mac, Chrome, Firefox

Top Pro

You can organize links by dragging and dropping them

You can drag and drop links/tabs to reorder them by relevance, or to move them from one list to another. See More

Top Con

Slightly confusing UX

It's easy to forget that clicking on the OneTab button in the extensions bar doesn't show you options – it saves your current session by closing all your tabs in the given browser window. That might be slightly annoying if you were trying to access the OneTab dashboard or view OneTab options instead of trying to save your current session in OneTab, but this is only a minor inconvenience given how easy it is to restore your session. See More

RickZeeland's Experience

Saves up to 95% of memory because it reduces the number of open tabs in Google Chrome and Mozilla Firefox. See More

Top Pro

Non-invasive

The OneTab dashboard only appears the first time you open your browser after quitting, although you can also make it appear through the extension button in the extensions bar. This is less invasive behavior than the Chrome extensions that appear every time you open a new browser tab. See More

Top Con

Clicking on a tab/link to re-open it automatically deletes it from a session

This is not so much a con as much as it is a heads up for those who use OneTab as a form of transient digital bookmarking (like me!). When you click on a tab/link in any given OneTab session, that will cause it to disappear from the list of tabs in that section. It would be nice if there was an interim period or separate place where the link is still visible/accessible. That or it would be nice to have a version history of past closed tabs/links and sessions. See More

Sarah's Experience

OneTab is one of my favorite Chrome extensions of all time! It's been one of my biggest sources of inspiration when it comes to revolutionizing how we approach tab management and link repositories. See More

Top Pro

Provides just enough information

OneTab provides just the right amount of meta-info about the tabs you've saved. It groups them by session, and tells you how many tabs are in each session, as well as the date the session was created. Every saved tab includes the bookmarked favicon and page title. See More

Top Con

Data loss

When you run ccleaner or CleanMyMac, all OneTab data may vanish. See More

Top Pro

Management & sharing of saved sessions

OneTab makes it very easy to restore, delete, share, lock, rename, and favorite your saved tab sessions. OneTab also makes it easy to share, export and import URLs into your OneTab dashboard as a whole. See More

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Decentraleyes

Top Pro

Intercepts traffic, finds supported resources locally, and injects them into the environment

This supports other privacy extensions and behavioural usage of the browser to minimize data snooping by bad actors. The tracking this extension prevents by high degree of resources is impressive. Without this extension outside sources will be hailed to 'bring' the resources for whatever website your own from an external source, which can log you when you make use of these services. See More

slantedexpanded's Experience

This complements allot of other privacy and security addons without interfering with them. If wanted to be used together with https everywhere there is a task of 5 minutes or less to be done, which is explained plainly and easy to understand by the dev. This is also on of the extensions which will be included in any firefox / gecko/ chrome like build which supports it. See More

Top Pro

Thomas Rientjes (git handle), made this extension compatible with Palemoon and legacy clients as well

More platforms to use this useful extension on. See More

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Checker Plus for Gmail

Top Pro

Lets you quickly deal with email without going to Gmail

Tampermonkey and Stylish

Top Pro

Lots of pre-existing scripts and styles from which to choose.

http://userscripts.org/ currently has 113 261 scripts to choose from. http://userstyles.org/ currently has 62662 stylesheets to choose from. See More

Specs

NOT THE SAME EXTENSION:Tampermonkey and Stylish are not a single entity and should not be grouped as such.

Top Pro

It lets you modify any page to your liking

All you need is to write a piece of javascript to run when the page loads, add a custom header and install into Tampermonkey Or write a piece of CSS and tell Stylish on which pages it should be applied. You can pack several such rules into one package to toggle/import/export at once. See More

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Vimium

Add Video or Image

AdBlock Plus

Top Pro

Free & open source

Top Con

Uses too much RAM

AdBlock+ tends to use a lot of memory, which has been documented in many use cases as well as admitted by AdBlock themselves. Considering there are alternatives out there that can block ads successfully with half the RAM usage as AdBlock, one has to wonder why this is a problem specific to AdBock. See More

Alex's Experience

Classic adblocker See More

Specs

Platforms:Browser Add off

Blocking:All ads

Top Pro

Blocks a wide selection of annoying ads

Video ads on YouTube, Facebook ads, flashy banners, pop-ups, pop-unders and much more. See More

Top Con

Users automatically opted in to whitelist

AdBlock+ has an automatic whitelist when installed that allows certain advertisers through the blocking mechanism. The fact that these advertisers pay for this privilege makes this particular scenario rife with conflict of interest. See More

CooperativeLaverna's Experience

One of the best ad-blockers available. Automatically checks as soon as Chrome starts. No issues with anything it blocked and very easy to add sites I use extensively to its whitelist. Highly recommended to prevent ads from popping up in the browser. See More

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Adguard AdBlocker browser extension

Top Pro

Tons of different filters to choose between

Kobold's Experience

It even blocks ads on crunchyroll and hulu. See More

Specs

Platforms:Windows, Linux, Mac, iOS, Android, Browser

Top Pro

Filters can be set to automatically enable themselves

Top Pro

Easy to use

Get the paid version which you can try completly free for two weeks. See More

Top Pro

Offers an operating system-level solution in addition to per-browser extensions

While most ad blockers can only help you while viewing web pages and only in one specific browser inside which they're installed, AdGuard offers a Windows application which runs in the background of your system and blocks ads on all browsers and native applications from only a single process. See More

Top Pro

Easy to use, but also provides top notch protection

Not complex. However, the protection makes it seem like it is. See More

Top Pro

Stealth mode

Offers options to prevent user tracking like removing url tracking parameters disable browsing api (webrtc, push, location) remove/modify identifying browser request headers See More

Top Pro

Has a lighter mobile filters option

Top Pro

Option to allow useful ads

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Stay Focused

Add Video or Image

Privacy Possum

Top Pro

Powerful and open-source

It does a better job than Privacy Badger. See More

Grammarly

Top Pro

helpful and free

Top Con

Owned by microsoft, going by their below-bar privacy safe-guards on their latest windows10 platform if you care about privacy, be alarmed

Microsoft is known for injecting an enormous amount of spyware into their Windows project which reached an altime high with the release of win10. This makes this application while very 'easy and convenient' likely (not proven) to be subject to abuse as well. This might not be the case, but this is a disclaimer to be on guard. See More

Smith Anders's Experience

I thinks this extension is awesome. See More

Top Pro

Brilliant UI

I love it See More

Top Con

subscription required for the full version

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Momentum

Top Pro

Offline

Runs offline too. See More

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uBlock Origin

Top Pro

Open source

CulturedApaliunas's Experience

As well as blocking ads, it can be used to stop javascript running on a page and also allows any object on a web page being displayed elsewhere on the same web site. Unobtrusive by default but offers powerful tweaks for those who know what they're doing. Nano Adblocker is a simpler interface fork of Ublock Origin. See More

Specs

Blocking:Browser Only

Supported platforms:Browser Addon

Browsers::Available on Chrome,Firefox,Opera & Edge Stores. Can be used in brave & vivaldi with chrome store

Top Pro

Light weight

Sarah's Experience

So good you don't even realize it's there See More

Top Pro

Promised to remain commercial interest free

uBlock will remain free from any commercial as stated by the creator. uBlock is meant to be strictly for the users and completely free. See More

HealthyOmeteotl's Experience

Low resource overhead, fast webpage loading, quickly takes the trash out before I see it. See More

Top Pro

Lots of advanced features

For example, you can add more items to your HOST files like disable social tracking. See More

RickZeeland's Experience

uBlock Origin is a low resource ad blocking add-on for the Chrome and Edge browser. See More

Top Pro

Thoughtful UI

Its non-invasive design shows you how many times something's been blocked on a given web page – that number quickly jumps to the double- if not triple-digits in some cases. See More

Top Pro

Can be used on Firefox Mobile

Top Pro

Detects skimming

Skimming means replacing links so that they are rerouted, this is mostly a more friendly way to make money than showing ads. See More

Top Pro

Edge version

Also available for Microsoft Edge browser. See More

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The Best 1 of 74 OptionsWhy?

My Recommendation for uBlock Origin

My Recommendation for uBlock Origin

Open source

Light weight

Promised to remain commercial interest free

Lots of advanced features

Thoughtful UI

Can be used on Firefox Mobile

Detects skimming

Edge version

73 Other Options Considered

My Recommendation for Pocket

My Recommendation for Pocket

Syncs to pretty much every platform

Really fast & easy to save links to read later

Allows tagging bookmarks

Well-finished GUI and UX

Included in Firefox

Available on the web and mobile devices

My Recommendation for HTTPS Everywhere

My Recommendation for HTTPS Everywhere

Also available for Firefox

Seems to have some problems atm

My Recommendation for The Great Suspender

My Recommendation for The Great Suspender

Whitelisting available by domain or URL

Customizable

Saves valuable system resources by suspending tabs left open for a certain amount of time

My Recommendation for toby

My Recommendation for toby

Syncs your tabs cross-platform

Doesn't scale up very well

Collaborative digital bookmarking

Doesn't work on mobile devices

Pause and resume work

Clear the clutter

My Recommendation for OneTab

My Recommendation for OneTab

Overall very useful

Can get messy

You can organize links by dragging and dropping them

Slightly confusing UX

Non-invasive

Clicking on a tab/link to re-open it automatically deletes it from a session

Provides just enough information

Data loss

Management & sharing of saved sessions

My Recommendation for Decentraleyes

My Recommendation for Decentraleyes

Intercepts traffic, finds supported resources locally, and injects them into the environment

Thomas Rientjes (git handle), made this extension compatible with Palemoon and legacy clients as well

My Recommendation for Checker Plus for Gmail

My Recommendation for Checker Plus for Gmail

Lets you quickly deal with email without going to Gmail

My Recommendation for Tampermonkey and Stylish

My Recommendation for Tampermonkey and Stylish

Lots of pre-existing scripts and styles from which to choose.

It lets you modify any page to your liking

My Recommendation for Vimium

My Recommendation for Vimium

My Recommendation for AdBlock Plus

My Recommendation for AdBlock Plus

Free & open source

Uses too much RAM

Blocks a wide selection of annoying ads

Users automatically opted in to whitelist

My Recommendation for Reddit Enhancement Suite

My Recommendation for Reddit Enhancement Suite

Lets you view images inline

Awesome UI Improvements for Reddit

Makes the front page have infinite scroll

My Recommendation for Turn Off the Lights

My Recommendation for Turn Off the Lights

Works on all websites

Works on all websites

My Recommendation for Google Similar Pages

My Recommendation for Google Similar Pages

Clicking links opens a new tab by default

Googles tracking policy