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10 magical Chrome extensions for developers

These browser extensions will blow your mind
Some are extremely useful and some are fun to have

1. Bypass Paywalls Chrome

Bypass Paywalls is a web browser extension to help bypass paywalls for selected sites

It can bypass paywall for quora, medium, glassdoor, bloomberg and many many more websites

You need developer mode ON to use this extension

Link ๐Ÿ‘‡
https://github.com/iamadamdev/bypass-paywalls-chrome

2. Headless Recorder

A Chrome extension that records your browser interactions

And generates a Playwright/Puppeteer script

Automate your entire browser interaction and tweek the script to do more

Link ๐Ÿ‘‡
https://www.checklyhq.com/docs/headless-recorder/

3. Dark Reader

It generate a dark mode that aims to reduce the eyestrain of the user

It is feature-rich and can be configured in many ways throughout the UI

Link ๐Ÿ‘‡
https://darkreader.org

4. cVim

Vim for Google Chrome

Control your browser with your keyboard only

Configure keybinding for every task

link ๐Ÿ‘‡
https://github.com/1995eaton/chromium-vim

5. Octotree

GitHub on steroids

Awesome code review & exploring

Quick pull request navigation

Tree-based file filtering

Multi-tab support

22 syntax themes

Link ๐Ÿ‘‡
https://www.octotree.io

6. Enhanced GitHub

Displays repo size

Displays each file size for every active branch

Show download link for each file

Copy file's contents directly to Clipboard

Link ๐Ÿ‘‡
https://github.com/softvar/enhanced-github

7. Google Unlocked

It unlocks hidden google search results

scans hidden search results that were censored by Google due to complaints

Only manual installation available

Link ๐Ÿ‘‡
https://github.com/Ibit-to/google-unlocked

8. Refined Hacker News

adds useful features and tweaks a few stuff on Hacker News to make the experience better

without changing the look and feel

Link ๐Ÿ‘‡
https://github.com/plibither8/refined-hacker-news

9. Treeverse

Treeverse is a tool for visualizing and navigating Twitter conversation threads

Open Twitter and click on the tweet that you would like to visualize the conversation

Link ๐Ÿ‘‡
https://github.com/paulgb/Treeverse

10. KeyFinder

Searches the DOM for any embedded script link, as script tag may contain keys for specific API(such as Google maps API)

You can add keywords to search for it at any website you visit

Link ๐Ÿ‘‡
https://github.com/momenbasel/KeyFinder

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