What Chrome extensions do you find useful for programmers?

As a programmer, we may sometimes find some Chrome extensions useful for us to improve our daily life. Do you have any recommendation and why? Leave a note.

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Save as Type

An image converter while trying to save an image to local while using a browser. It can help you save the image as the type you want. Like if the original image is WEBP in the page, while you try to save, you can save it as PNG, it saves your time to download and convert it using another tool.

Drawbacks

  • It cannot remember your last saved location.

Search Filter

Can be used to filter contents don't want such as CSDN. The reason to recommend it is solely because don't want to see CSDN search results shown in Google search as this site is notoriously famous among programmers in China.

Drawbacks

  • The page would become lagging sometimes.

Reader Mode

Can remove format of webpage and only keep the necessary text content of the page. Just like reading e-book page.

Dark Reader

This extension can turn any website into dark mode even if the website doesn't support dark mode itself. It provides a set of different options where you can turn it on/off or adjust brightness, contrast etc.

Drawbacks

  • It may not work well if the links are colored as dark color explicitly through CSS

Awesome Screen Recorder & Screenshot

This is a screen recorder which can be used for capturing screenshot or record videos of screen. The recorded video can be stored on Cloud with Google account signed in. In addition, it supports recording different parts of the screen. The video format support MP4. It is very useful when trying to demonstrate code examples or program executions.

  REPLY  Posted by at 2024-09-03 21:39:01

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