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Tabzen is great for tab hoarders.<\/p><\/div>\n

As of late March, addons.mozilla.org<\/a> (AMO) has around 2,000 listed add-ons built with WebExtensions<\/a> APIs, the new cross-browser standard for writing add-ons. Average daily installs for them total more than 5,000,000. That\u2019s nice momentum as we hurtle towards the Firefox 57<\/a> release.<\/p>\n

Volume aside, I continue to be impressed with the quality of content emerging…<\/p>\n

Smart HTTPS (revived)<\/a> is the WebExtensions version of one of my favorite yet simple security add-ons\u2014it changes HTTP addresses to the secure HTTPS. Disconnect for Facebook (WebExtension)<\/a> is another fine privacy tool that prevents Facebook from tracking your Web movement by blocking all Facebook related requests sent between third-party sites.<\/p>\n

While we’re talking Facebook, you know what annoys me? Facebook’s \u201csuggested posts\u201d (for some reason I get served a lot of \u201csuggested\u201d content that implies I may have a fatty liver<\/em>). Kick Facebook Suggested Posts<\/a> puts an end to that nonsense.<\/p>\n

History Cleaner<\/a> conveniently wipes away your browsing history after a set amount of time, while History Zebra<\/a> features white and black lists to manage specific sites you want to appear (or not) in your browsing history.<\/p>\n

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Tab Auto Refresh lets you set timed refresh intervals per tab.<\/p><\/div>\n

Don\u2019t Touch My Tabs!<\/a> protects against hyperlinks that try to hijack your previous tab. In other words, when you typically click a link, it grants the new page control over the one you clicked from, which is maybe not-so awesome for a number of reasons, like reloading the page with intrusive ads, or hackers throwing up a fake login to phish your info.<\/p>\n

Speaking of tabs, I dig Tab Auto Refresh<\/a> because I follow a couple of breaking news sites, so with this add-on I set certain tabs to refresh at specific time intervals, then I just click over every so often to catch the latest.<\/p>\n

Tabzen<\/a> is another dynamic tab tool that treats tab management in a familiar bookmarking fashion.<\/p>\n

Turn any Reddit page into literally the darkest corner of the Web with dark page themer Reddit Slate Night 2.0<\/a> (while we\u2019re on the Reddit tip, this comment collapser<\/a> presents a compelling alternate layout for perusing conversations).<\/p>\n

Dark Mode<\/a> turns the entire internet goth.<\/p>\n

Link Cleaner<\/a> removes extraneous guck from your URLs, including tracking parameters from commerce sites Amazon and AliExpress.<\/p>\n

These are awesome add-ons from very creative developers! It’s great to see such diverse, interesting WebExtensions crop up.<\/p>\n

If you’re a developer of a legacy add-on<\/a> or Chrome extension<\/a> and want more info about the WebExtensions porting process, this should help<\/a>. Or if you’re interested in writing a WebExtension from scratch, check this out<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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