Browser extensions are underrated: the promise of hackable software

1. webextensions-examples

   1 28 4,442 7.1 JavaScript

   Example Firefox add-ons created using the WebExtensions API

   

   Check out Firefox examples on github, you’ll like it, I’ve had great experience learning from them to add nifty features to my browser:

   https://github.com/mdn/webextensions-examples

2. SaaSHub

   www.saashub.com featured

   SaaSHub - Software Alternatives and Reviews. SaaSHub helps you find the best software and product alternatives

   

3. red-box-outline

   2 1 1 4.5 JavaScript

   Chrome extension that toggles a red outline around every element on the page

   

   I made this extension fully using chatGPT to diagnose some layout issues. It’s super simple but chatGPT was definitely useful setting up the chrome boilerplate (and commenting what each option meant). Make sure you ask it to target the most recent version, they recently changed (to v3?) and it seems chatGPT prefers writing for the old version.

   https://github.com/notzane/red-box-outline

4. score-extension-analytics

   3 1 0 4.5

   Analytics that Score uses

   

   The "read and change all your data" permission is a huge hurdle for our shopping extension, especially since we only need to identify shopping pages. What I've tried to build trust is to open source our tracking analytics (e.g. https://github.com/Score-Extension/score-extension-analytics...).

   Hopefully transparency is one way to overcome this trust barrier.

5. CSS-Selector-Helper-for-Chrome

   4 1 10 0.0 TypeScript

   

   https://github.com/jlawrence6809/CSS-Selector-Helper-for-Chr...

6. CSS-Selector-Helper-for-Chr

   5 1 - -

   https://github.com/jlawrence6809/CSS-Selector-Helper-for-Chr...

7. bookmarklet-platform

   6 6 75 8.8 TypeScript

   A platform for building and distributing JS bookmarklets created from GitHub gists

   

   How do you "compile" the bookmarklets? I know of https://bookmarkl.ink/ but then we're back trusting some third-party service again. I get that it's not rocket science, but this is definitively a small hurdle to overcome.

8. hoverzoom

   7 32 2,032 8.2 JavaScript

   Google Chrome extension for zooming images on mouse hover

   

   I will leave this as a gallery of emails with offers to buy extension hoverzoom: https://github.com/extesy/hoverzoom/discussions/670

   Sidenote: The "collaboration" offers come from time to time even to non-extensions projects, if they are reasonably widely used. E.g. simple tools (rather widely used suite of android apps recently sold).

9. hackernews-userscript

   8 2 13 5.7 Rust

   Hackernews Userscript wirtten in Rust WASM featuring regex-based filtering and softhide

   

   A somewhat-shameless plug here, since I've released this just yesterday:

   Browser Extension for Hacker News written in Rust WASM:

   https://github.com/drakerossman/hackernews-userscript

10. lunabrain

    9 3 70 8.9 Swift

    AI-assisted writing tool.

    

    What has always blown my mind is the lack of documentation/open source projects. With such powerful data we come across while browsing the web, it would only make sense to me there would be more tools to use an extend in this space. Browsing history is especially under valued. Even though the data technically exists, it is quite difficult to retrieve pages that have been visited, imo because of poor UX. Most people keep every Internet journey opened in hopes they will remember to return to it. I have been taking a stab at improving the UX with a history browser extension [1] which I have found myself legitimately finding value in using (a first for my personal projects lol).

    [1] https://github.com/lunabrain-ai/lunabrain/tree/main/js/exten...

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