9 extensions to fix the web's most annoying flaws

BehindTheOverlay

I am sure that you have seen many sites that annoyingly invite all visitors to subscribe to their newsletter, like on Facebook or send a message on Twitter. As soon as you start reading an interesting article, a pop-up banner appears in front of your eyes, which sometimes cannot even be closed.

The BehindTheOverlay extension handles these popup ads in no time. Now no one will bother you with their requests and distract you from reading.

Page One (Chrome, Safari) and Re-Pagination (Firefox)

Some overly cunning website builders break long articles into multiple parts in the pursuit of extra clicks and views. Thus, in order to read the material to the end, you have to look through several pages of the site, wasting precious time on transitions.

It's good that there are special extensions that solve this problem. They can load all parts of the article in the background and arrange them on one page.

Lazarus

There is probably no more terrible punishment than the work done senselessly. For example, you are typing some long-suffering post on a social network or a corrosive answer to an opponent on the forum, and then suddenly some kind of failure occurs and all your text disappears into nowhere. It's a shame, right?

If you want to avoid such problems, then install the Lazarus extension. It saves in the background all the texts that you enter on the sites, and allows you to restore them at any time. This useful utility has helped me out more than once.

Magic actions

YouTube contains a huge number of wonderful films, programs, lectures, but not everyone likes to watch them directly on the site. The reasons for this are an overloaded interface, an abundance of ads, inadequate commentators, and other distractions.

If you want to really enjoy watching YouTube videos, then install the Magic Actions extension. It cuts off all extraneous elements and turns this service into a real online cinema, where there is only you and the video you choose to watch.

Silent Site Sound Blocker and Smart Tab Mute

I don’t know what the SEO masters think, but sometimes they come up with completely crazy ideas. For example, to include any "very important" video for every site visitor without asking and confirming. You follow the link to read the article, and there, somewhere in the basement, there is a built-in player that starts telling you something. Terribly annoying.

The Silent Site Sound Blocker and Smart Tab Mute extensions will make it so that you won't even notice these troubles. With their help, you can fine-tune the rules of behavior for each tab. Now only you will decide which site you can talk to and which is better to be silent.

Imagus

Still very annoying are online galleries with such small previews that absolutely nothing can be seen on them. To view the image in full size, you need to open a new page each time, winding the counter of visits to the site owner.

It's much easier to install the Imagus extension and not worry. You can simply hover the mouse cursor over the picture of interest, and a pop-up window with a full version of the image will appear in front of you.

Pocket

Not all sites on the web are ideal for comfortable reading. Here you will find, sometimes, interesting material, but this terrible background, small print and constantly flashing ads on the sides spoil the whole impression!

To combat such shortcomings, there is Pocket. Just redirect articles to this service, and the output will be clean and beautifully designed for reading material that can be absorbed not only in a browser on a computer, but also on any mobile devices.

Social Fixer

If there is anything that annoys you on Facebook, then you absolutely must try Social Fixer. Its capabilities are very extensive: deleting messages about politics, changing the order of news delivery, easily finding posts and interlocutors with whom you spoke, removing Facebook ads, highlighting topics that are important to you, and much more.

Social Fixer for Facebook socialfixer.com

uBlock Origin

Well, finally, the turn has come to the main extension, which will save you from pop-ups, huge banners, page blockers and other advertising abuses. With uBlock Origin, the internet is fast, white and fluffy, so most users simply can't imagine surfing without this extension.

uBlock Origin Website