Having to type out your password is a typical roadblock when browsing the web, and it becomes doubly annoying when we end up mistyping our passwords. If you have a long password, then the chances are you will get your passwords wrong a lot. Visual Hashing is a free extension for Firefox/Chrome that provides visual [...]
If you use Firefox as your main browser and also have eyesight problems that require you to see bigger fonts wherever possible on the computer, then you’d like this add-on. The name pretty much says it all. It helps you make the fonts in the browser address bar bigger in size. It makes it easy [...]
You probably know that when you visit a website, be it any kind of site, usually some tracking cookies and other script based trackers automatically get placed in your browser. Sheepish is a site that intends to reveal which sites are doing this and also lets you block them if you want to. It’s an [...]
I’m sure you have come across websites on the Internet that start playing those video ads without your permission, or may be a video sharing site that starts playing videos even before you hit the play button. This can be annoying and FlashControl is a Chrome extension that helps you prevent this from happening on [...]
Generally, QR codes are regarded as a mobile thing. This makes sense because more often than not, you are encountering them when you are on the go. However, this may not always be the case. There might be a website with a QR code on it that you are interested in scanning for one reason [...]
Turning on private browsing in Chrome is pretty simple. Just use the keyboard shortcut Ctrl+Shift+N or click through the wedge icon menu to open an incognito window. This mode enables you to browse websites without saving session data, cookies, history, and cached files. However, having to remind yourself to go into incognito mode can be [...]
If you are a heavy Chrome user, you probably have lots of extensions installed. However, none of us use all of our extensions all the time and they just sit there eating up screen real estate. Context helps you manage extensions by sorting them into groups so you can switch from one group of extensions [...]
Even though Google Chrome has a built-in popup blocker, it still misses out on a lot of annoying popups such as alerts and confirmation boxes that may be hidden. Better Popup Blocker is exactly what the name suggests, a tool that blocks popups better than the default tool in Google Chrome. When a popup is [...]
Do you want to share websites and navigate through them with your friend? Then here is a simple browser extension that will get the job done. Friend-Pointer is a cool tool that lets you surf and navigate websites from multiple PC’s with your friends in real-time. The implementation is pretty simple – once you have [...]
Chrome Speak, as the name suggests, is an add-on that enables the Chrome browser to read content selected on a website in a human voice. So basically, you can select a paragraph on a webpage, right click on it, go to the Chrome Speak option (assuming you have it installed) and then click “Read the [...]