If you’re a night owl, you know how much a regular white web page can hurt your eyes when you open it up. Here are two browser extensions for Chrome and Firefox that will make the web a little bit nicer at night.
Google Chrome now keeps all of your opened tabs in sync across your desktop, laptop and Android device (if it’s running Ice Cream Sandwich and has Chrome for Android installed). You never have to worry about leaving a web page behind.
Chrome: If you do a lot of shopping online, then you know it’s easy to lose track of an item unless you hit the buy button right away. Impulse is a Chrome extension that allows you to drop any product image from any store into a personalised shopping cart.
Chrome: Surrounding yourself as much as possible with a new language you want to master is one of the keys to learning a language quickly and fully. Language Immersion for Chrome gets you one step closer by switching select words on web pages into your target language.
You probably use YouTube every single day, but it’s not something you think about tweaking the way you do, say, Gmail. Yet YouTube is filled with annoyances, like obnoxious autoplay, intrusive ads and mind-numbingly stupid comments (to name a few). Here’s how to make YouTube more bearable.
Chrome: Twitter is a great source for news, articles and keeping up with friends, but it’s also sometimes a magnet for people obsessed with some annoying celebrity that you have no desire to read about. Purge Twitter Trends is a Chrome extension that strips specific celebrity trending topics from your feed so you can read in peace without being forced to unfollow them.
Chrome: If Chrome’s built-in new tab page looks a little plain to you, or if you like the look of Microsoft’s Metro UI, MySites is a Chrome extension that changes the new tab page into a start page decorated with a search bar and tiles that take you straight to your favourite sites.
Chrome: Tab Grouper is a simple extension that does one thing: groups all your tabs from the same site together, so you don’t have to go searching through your tab bar to find the right one.
Chrome: Even when you organise your bookmarks neatly into folders and subfolders, if you’ve got a ton of bookmarks, they can be hard to access quickly — and easy to forget about. Stashmarks solves this problem by indexing your bookmarks and making them searchable.
Gmail is Google’s golden child, but it isn’t perfect. It’s full of numerous user interface elements you don’t necessarily want or need, and there’s no way to turn them off. Gmelius offers you a way out of ads, the people bar and more while also making Gmail easier to navigate. It’s a great extension, it’s free, and it can dramatically improve your experience in less than a minute.