Useful Extensions of the Google Chrome Web Browser

It is clear that everyone has different tasks on the Internet, as well as habits, and therefore everyone uses those tools that solve his/her tasks, and to which he/she is accustomed. I, for example, started with Internet Explorer, then used a wrapper around it – MyIE, then there was Fifefox, and since then for many years this is Chrome (but at the same time, as a web developer, I always have all the other web browsers at hand: both the mentioned Firefox and Internet Explorer, and Opera). Anyway, few people are satisfied with the regular functionality of web browsers, and therefore it is expanded with additional modules. Below I wanted to share which extensions of the Google Chrome web browser I personally use.

All the Chrome extensions listed below are free, are located in the Chrome Web Store (links from logos and names lead there) and they are installed directly from it in a regular way. The list is given in the alphabetical order:

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  AdBlock Plus

  Blocking advertisement, including inserted into videos, for fresh versions of Chrome, with the ability to configure your own blocking rules. For example, my rules for blocking YouTube recommendations:

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  AdBlocker Ultimate

  Blocking advertisement, including inserted into videos, for old versions of Chrome, with the ability to configure your own blocking rules.

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  BrowSec VPN

  A proxy for bypassing network locks, and also for additional traffic encryption.

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  Context Menu Search

  A pop-up context menu for quick search of the selected text on other websites. My settings that can be imported:

  [
   ["-1","Google","https://www.google.com/search?q=TESTSEARCH",true],
   ["-1","Google Images","https://www.google.com/images?q=TESTSEARCH",true],
   ["-1","IMDb","https://www.imdb.com/find?s=all&q=TESTSEARCH",true],
   ["-1","Wikipedia","https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?search=TESTSEARCH",true]
  ]

• 

  Disable Content-Security-Policy

  Unblocking the ban of some sites (particularly, Facebook) of the embedding external code into them (particularly, my JavaScipt bookmarklets).

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  Download All Images

  Detecting all possible images on the current page and downloading them all at once in one ZIP archive to a local device.

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  Download Audio Message [from] Messenger/Instagram

  Downloading audio messages from Facebook Messenger and Instagram as audio files to a local device.

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  Empty New Tab Page

  A completely ascetic (white) new web browser tab, without any traces of history, advertising, etc.

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  IMDownloader

  Downloading original images (with high resolution), videos (including reels), stories (including highlights) from Instagram to a local device.

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  Instant Downloader

  Works like the Download All Images extension but specifically for Instagram profile pages, downloads all the selected images from there at once.

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  Web Audio Recorder

  Recording audio from the current tab and saving it as an MP3/Wave file to a local device.