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Beneficial Browser Extensions

Over the last few months, I’ve come across some excellent browser extensions, mainly through friends on Mastodon, so thought I’d share some of my favourites.

StreetPass for Mastodon by Tyler Deitz

If you’ve ever owned a Nintendo 3DS or Wii U, you might recall a similar functionality as this extension has.

In essence, if a website owner has a rel="me" link to their Mastodon profile on their website, this extension will add them to your StreetPass list in your browser, making it easier to follow people on Mastodon whose websites you’ve visited!

Indie Wiki Buddy by Kevin Payravi

Over the last several years, a lot of incredible independent wikis have been dismantled and replaced with ones hosted on sites like Fandom. I won’t beat around the bush; I strongly dislike the UI of Fandom, and even moreso detest the homogenization of wiki content under these types of umbrellas.

This extension does two main things for me:

  1. It will automatically redirect from wikis on Big Wiki sites (I might have just invented that term) to high-quality alternatives, if one exists.
  2. It will display these better wiki alternatives in search engine results, of which many search engines are supported. This saves me time from navigating to a Fandom-hosted wiki, grumbling with utter distaste, and going back to the search results to find one that, in all likelihood, has a better browsing experience in every conceivable category.

VisBug by Adam Argyle

VisBug is an invaluable set of tools for inspecting and understanding more about what’s on a webpage. It includes things like colour tools, contrast checking, font information, easy access to modify styles (padding, margin, flexbox position, etc.), the ability to move elements around, text editing, and so much more.

You can tell it’s a real passion project, and new features are still being added!

Wayback Machine by Internet Archive

Ever wanted to see what a website or webpage looked like in the past? The Wayback Machine has you covered.

This extension is really just a means of accessing what’s in the Internet Archive’s Wayback Machine and saving pages that you’re on from a UI built into your browser. Useful nonetheless!

This is post #26 of #WeblogPoMo2024 / Weblog Posting Month 2024, a one-month challenge to post as often as possible (daily, ideally) for the duration of May 2024!

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