Extension Police for Chrome vets installed extensions
Extension Police is a relatively new Chrome extension that vets all installed browser extensions and gives you actionable advice for each. Chrome extensions are limited in what they can do and Chrome's […]
Adblock Plus parent company Eyeo launches Trusted News for Chrome
Trusted News is a brand new browser extension for Google Chrome by Adblock Plus's parent company Eyeo that highlights the credibility of content on websites with the help of MetaCert's MetaCert Protocol. […]
Iridium gives you more control on YouTube
Iridium is an open source browser extension for Google Chrome and Mozilla Firefox that gives you more control on YouTube. YouTube gives users only a handful of customization options and many of […]
Burner Emails for Firefox and Chrome
Burner Emails is a free browser extension and web service that adds options to Firefox and Chrome to create throwaway email addresses. Spam is still a big issue on the Internet and […]
Bypass link shortener URLs that require action
Universal Bypass is an open source browser extension for the Mozilla Firefox and Google Chrome web browsers that bypasses intermediary pages created by link shorteners so that you don't have to interact […]
Open archived and cached webpages in Firefox and Chrome
View Page Archive & Cache is a browser extension for the Firefox, Chrome and Opera web browsers to load cached or archived copies of any web page in the browser. The extension […]
PassProtect warns you about insecure passwords
PassProtect is a free browser extension for Google Chrome that warns you when you are about to create accounts online using insecure passwords or about to sign in to an account using […]
Group your YouTube Subscriptions by Topic
YouTube Subscription (Collection) Manager is a free browser extension for the Google Chrome web browser that lets you sort subscriptions into groups for better manageability and accessibility. YouTube's subscription system is quite […]
Trace blocks multiple tracking techniques in Firefox and Chrome
Trace is a privacy add-on for Mozilla Firefox and Google Chrome web browsers designed to block several tracking techniques used to track Internet user activity. The extension is available for Chrome and […]
Privacy Possum is Privacy Badger on Steroids
Privacy Possum is a new open source browser extension for the Mozilla Firefox and Google Chrome web browser by a former developer of the EFF's Privacy Badger extension. The extension focuses on […]
Syncmarx is a Xmarks bookmark syncing alternative
Syncmarx is a new browser extension for Mozilla Firefox and Google Chrome -- and web browsers that share the codebase with the two browsers -- that supports cross-browser bookmark syncing. The web […]
Windows Defender Browser Protection for Google Chrome first look
Microsoft published the new security extension Windows Defender Browser Protection for Google Chrome yesterday which adds another link vetting mechanism to Chrome to protect users against phishing and other malicious types of sites. […]
Save In: use multiple download folders in Firefox or Chrome
Save In... is a browser extension for the Firefox and Chrome web browser that you may use to add multiple download folders to Firefox or Chrome to switch between the folders when […]
WebAPI Manager: limit website access to Web APIs
WebAPI Manager is an open source extension for the Firefox and Google Chrome web browser that you may use to limit website access to Web APIs. Support for new features and technologies […]
Tusk KeePass password web browser extension
Tusk is a relatively new web browser extension for Chrome and Firefox -- and also compatible web browsers -- that adds support for KeePass password manager databases in supported browsers. KeePass is […]
Control Netflix's stream quality and block spoilers with Super Netflix
Super Netflix is a free browser extension for Google Chrome designed to give Netflix users more control of the service. The extension comes with some much-requested features, among them options to block […]
Convert web page data to Excel spreadsheets with Listly
Listly is a web service that you may use to convert data on web pages to Excel spreadsheets. The service is available as a free and subscription-based version, and as a Chrome […]
Bypass paywalls with Anti-Paywall for Firefox and Chrome
Anti-Paywall is a new browser extension for Firefox and Chrome designed to bypass website paywalls automatically when pages of supported sites are visited. Paywall systems are designed to keep anyone but subscribers […]
Monitor web pages for changes
SiteDelta Watch and SiteDelta Highlight are two WebExtensions for Firefox and Chrome that add website monitoring functionality to the browser. Both check a site for changes and notify you about them, and […]
YouTube Video Text Search extension for Chrome
Invideo for YouTube is a browser extension for Google Chrome that adds video text search options to the video streaming website. While you can use the search on YouTube to find videos, […]
Less CloudFlare captchas with Privacy Pass
Privacy Pass is a new browser extension for Mozilla Firefox and Google Chrome to reduce the number of captchas that legitimate users get when they access CloudFlare protected properties on the Web. […]
Bandwidth Hero: compress images to save data in Firefox and Chrome
Bandwidth Hero is a free extension for Chrome and Firefox that compresses images before they are sent to the browser that requested them. Images can make up quite a large chunk of […]
Audio Channel: audio equalizer for Chrome
Audio Channel is a free extension for the Google Chrome web browser that gives you better control over audio playback in the web browser. If you play audio or video content on […]
Another Chrome extension horror story: coinhive and domain registration
I'm not sure if things get worse by the day when it comes to the Chrome extensions system and Store, or if things have been bad all along and are publicized more […]
Chrome has a massive copycat extensions problem
You have probably read about the fake Adblock Plus extension that 37000 Chrome users installed before it was removed by Google after it was reported to the company. The verification system of […]
Cato: Control Google Chrome with Commands
Cato is a new browser extension for Google Chrome that adds a command interface to the browser to control Chrome with supported commands. The extension reminds me of Mozilla's Ubiquity project (which […]
First Chrome extension with JavaScript Crypto Miner detected
Google's automatic verification system for Chrome extension uploads to the official Chrome Web Store is a wreck; less than a day after the Steam Inventory Helper incident, another Chrome extension was found […]
Steam Inventory Helper monitors your browsing activity
A recent update for the popular Google Chrome extension Steam Inventory Helper added a monitoring component to the extension that monitors the browsing activity. Steam Inventory Helper is a popular Chrome extension […]
Wave goodbye to CloudFlare Captchas: Cloudflare Privacy Pass lands
If you connect to the Tor network or VPN services regularly, you may have noticed an increase in CloudFlare captcha challenges whenever you are connected to these networks. Depending on which sites […]
Microsoft's Windows 10 Accounts Chrome extension
Windows 10 Accounts is a browser extension by Microsoft for Google Chrome that improves the sign in process in Chrome for supported websites and services. Google Chrome is the world's most web […]
Canvas Defender: canvas fingerprinting protection
Canvas Defender is a free add-on for Firefox and Chrome that manipulates the canvas fingerprint to protect against canvas fingerprinting. Canvas Fingerprinting uses the HTML5 Canvas element. The Canvas element may be […]
Center Image brings Firefox's image viewer to Google Chrome
Center Image is a free browser extension for the Google Chrome web browser that changes the design of the browser's image viewer to that of the Firefox web browser. The default image […]
Context for Chrome: create Extension Groups
Context is a browser extension for the Google Chrome web browser that enables you to create extension groups that you can switch between easily. If you run a certain number of extensions […]
Microsoft releases Office Online extension for Google Chrome
While Google is ignoring Microsoft's Windows 10 operating system largely when it comes to company applications, Microsoft's change in business strategy has seen the release of several non-Windows applications in the recent […]
Find out more about words using Nifty for Chrome
Nifty is a brand new extension for the Google Chrome browser -- and compatible browsers -- that provides you with options to look up words or phrases found on any websites using […]
Keyboard Privacy for Chrome prevents behavioral profiling based on your typing
Most Internet users know that they are tracked when they are online. Common forms include scripts that run on sites, social buttons, or analytic software. Users interested in tracking, for instance to […]
Preview links from YouTube, Reddit, Twitter and more with Hovercard for Chrome
Hovercard is a new extension for the Google Chrome browser that reveals information about links in a small overlay on the screen on hover. It works in this regard similar to Imagus […]
Scan all downloads automatically with Metascan Online in Chrome
It is often a good idea to scan downloads using online virus scanners as a first line of defense before the download is canned by local antivirus solutions. Online scanners offer several […]
Spaces is a tab workspace manager for Google Chrome
Google Chrome offers barely any management features when it comes to tabs and windows that are open in the browser. While it is fairly easy to create new windows and tabs, keeping […]
Fix YouTube's broken Watched system
The video portal YouTube keeps track of watched videos automatically and indicates those with a watched flag so that they are easier to differentiate. The core issue that many users have with […]
