coming up i've got 10 recommended
extensions that you can use on any
chromium web browser
hi guys welcome back to the channel now
the browser wars have certainly been
going on for the last few months
with edge upping its game but i wanted to
take it down a notch and get everybody
involved
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appreciate your support so what you're
about to see
are 10 of my recommended browser
extensions
now these extensions are available in
the chrome web store
but as they are based on chromium
whether you're a chrome user
an edge user or many others such as
brave and opera
you can use these extensions on your
browser
no need to hang about let's get into the
first one now you're all sat here
watching this video
on youtube so i suspect this first one
might be useful to you all
it's called pocket tube pocket tube
amongst other things
allows you to group your subscriptions
by topic let's have a closer look so
pocket tube then just type pocket tube
into the chrome web store
add to chrome and once it's done that go
to your youtube page you'll see a thing
added in there called subscription
groups this is where you add your
channels for your different
subscriptions now to add
the different ways to add channels to it
you could click on subscription groups
which will open this page
modify the group now you could rename it
and put it in a parent
group so you could have groups within
groups i'm not going to go too
much into it but you can change the
icons as well now it comes with
a plethora of icons but you could upload
your own as well
all right so if you want to add channels
to it these are other channels you're
subscribed to
so let's go to well let's let's go to
alex pandrea
you'd click that and you could set it to
a group
and let's have another look
so i would do brittec online
would be tech you get the idea
and that's what you need to do and as
you do that you'd find
in your groups they'd appear in your
groups
so you can categorize all the channels
you're subscribed to
quick and easy next up we've got
something called mercury reader
now this is pretty similar to the edge
feature called immersive reader
what it does is when you have this
installed is you can read a page
and it'll strip away all the ads and
distractions from that page
just leaving you with the text and
photos that are pertinent to the article
let's have a look mercury reader then
i'm going to go to a web page
and just for everybody i'm not a daily
mail reader
definitely not daily mail reader but it
shows you how
horrible their web page is but this is
the type of thing that becomes hard to
read if that was a
a web page that you did want to read
and all you do
is once it's on there is give it a click
and it strips it away from all the
rubbish
that you can see and if you wanted to go
and read the daily mail
then this is what you'd get pretty
simple
there you go number three on the list is
something called
midnight lizard now a lot of people
including myself prefer the dark theme
if it's available
what midnight lizard can do is give you
a custom
color theme for all your web pages that
you browse
it's something different let's have a
look again another simple one is
midnight lizard i mean i use a dark
theme for everything
but if you didn't want the dark or light
theme you wanted a custom theme then
this is the extension for you go to the
midnight lizard icon it will pull up i
didn't realize how in depth it was until
i started using it however
there's some down here some different
themes you could let's choose apple mint
that's what it would look like so it
gives you a preview of what it looks
like and if you like it
click on apply and in a few seconds
it changes customize it yourself
simple and effective that's midnight
lizard
up next is something called keepa
keepa
is a amazon prize history tracker and
this lets you see the price history of
an item on amazon
to see if you can get it for a better
price now i was really surprised when i
first started using this
how much an item can fluctuate in price
i knew they changed but i didn't know
how they can change so much let's look
at this a little more in depth
so keepa it's an amazon price history
tool
go to amazon and when you get there find
something that you're looking at buying
and this is a portable ssd it's a
samsung
t5 if you come down here it will show you
all the historical prices
now along the side here you'll can see
the differences
now amazon is those that are sold and fulfilled by
amazon and you can see there just a few
days ago
it was £120 it's still not quite
what they're saying up here
i recommend a retail price but they're
selling it for £120 quid and it's now down to
85 but at the same time there was
somebody new
a third party selling it new at
£81.99 so it's still cheaper
right now to buy it
from a third-party seller but it's up to
you it's good to look at where an item
has been historically and you can see
it's pretty much
rolled a straight line pretty much the
same without going too much into it
it's a handy tool to have and it's it's
not intrusive if you just get this
page here there you go next is something
i've used quite a lot recently
and it's called loom now loom is well
it's a screen recorder
but it's so simple to use instead of you
typing out instructions
to a relative or something of how to use
something on the screen
you can click start record what you need
to do
and send it to them it's really simple
to use
and it's very effective let's have a
look let's have a look at loom then
again find it from the store add to
chrome
so we'll go back to the samsung t5 that
was on before
all you need to do is click on loom on
the web page that you want to use
now you get options here screen and cam
which obviously the screen and you get
the cam in the bottom
you can have screen only which will be
with no cam
or you could just have camera and you
just click
start recording and you choose which
screen we're talking about
you get a countdown and there we go you
are now recording your screen and
everything you do
would be recording
tell them how to do this
you get the idea and then stop sharing
then you go to this page within loom
so you can edit the title you can add a
link to the actual page that you was on
for something like this you wanted to go
to
you can send your video there's the link
where it goes to
and you know there's other things you
can do settings custom thumbnail
loads of stuff and it'll be in your
folder and you can just send that that's
how easy it is
have a play around with it it's a very
useful tool just as we're at the halfway
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we've got something called push bullet
really convenient little extension
and it allows you to receive
notifications and text message on your
computer
desktop screen allows you to answer text
and messages
share files and folders all without ever
picking up your phone and if you're on
an android device it
even lets you get your phone call
notifications let's have a quick look
okay push bullet
realiy useful tool this once you first
start push bullet you'll have to sign up
yeah and that's all you need to do is
set up your phone set up your computer
and and that's pretty much it you'll get
all your notifications
messages sms you can send links between
the two
really easily copy and paste files
photos chat with people without even
lifting your phone
next on the list is something called
language tool which is
a spelling and grammar tool it works on
almost any
text input fields that you're using
social media sites and that sort of
stuff
you don't need an account to use it and
it's very secure
and it also works in many other language
other than english let's take a look
okay so language tool then let's have a
look at this one the basics of it
is any multi-line text field
such as facebook or twitter for this
instance
what you will see is you'll get a little
tick in the bottom corner say that it's
everything's ready to go and as it
stands everything's correct
if you start typing
you'll see analyzing it and then it's
come up with a number one
saying there's one change you could
possibly make
i'll have a red line under it where it
is just left click on it i'll tell you
it's a
spelling and what it should be and if
you want to change it you just click on
it and it'll change
it check spelling it checks grammar
simple there you go
now we've got a pretty simple one it's
called momentum
and it just lets you replace the new tab
page with a personal dashboard with
to-do lists
and weather and things like that it's
pretty simple have a look
so momentum then real simple if you
don't know how to turn this extension on
there is a link there to take you to it
and i'll give you a quick
rundown how to do it but i'll show you
how to do it now you just go to your
settings
go down to extensions
find the one you want to turn on which
in this one is momentum
and turn it on and this is what you get
this will be
your new tab keep the changes and then
you set it up and it's
fully customizable that's especially if
you log in that's what i'll give you
calendar entries and stuff like that
i'll give you a time
if you just down here has got all the
things
that you can do have a play around with
it it's just a different way to look at
your
new tab page i think it's pretty cool
now we've got something that's really
handy it's called click and clean
this completely free tool that allows
you to delete your cache your typed urls
delete your browsing history and your
download history
all from a click of one button really
easy to use really effective
have a look click and clean then a
really really useful tool
okay and first time it downloads you
will get
to a quick start guide and the quick
start guide takes you through stuff to
do
essentially what it's telling you to do
is click on it
for the first time and then if you hover
over these buttons you'll see a cog
go to any one of them and it will
open up the options
this is where you choose
what these buttons do and the actions it
will take
and it's just a simple case of once
you're surfing
the web if you click on this
secure browser it'll clear all private
data clear the cache
clear the history clear downloads
one click to obliterate them all really
easy to do
fantastic tool and the last one it's a
bit of fun really probably better for
the kids especially with the summer
holidays coming up
it's called custom cursor what is it
well the clue's in the name
it's just a custom cursor that you can
change with a click of a button there's
everything from shrek
to minecraft to tik-tok themes there's
loads on there click of a button
and it will change your cursor have a
quick look so here we are with
custom cursor for chrome that's its
actual name so if you want to use it
that's what you need to search for and
it's as simple as clicking on
and having a look at what you want click
on more cursors it will take you to
their web page where you can download
even more
and then you've got the ones that you've
added so you click on that to
initiate there it is that is now your
cursor i now have a tik-tok cursor and
i don't
even have a tik-tok account but that's
it once it's there it's there
and to take it off all you have to do is
go back there there's
like a little power button if you click
it and it'll return back to normal
there you go have some fun now my bonus
for this video is called
extensity i wanted to leave it to the
bonus because if you're like me
and what you do is you add extensions
before you know it you've got
miles more than you thought especially
if you've watched this video and you've
just added the last 10.
what extensity does is with one click it
opens up a list of all your extensions
and you can enable or disable extensions
saves on computer resources and it will
make your computer run that little bit
faster
it's really handy and really easy to use
let me show you how to do it
so extensity this is a fantastic
extension you'll see why in a second as
once it's installed you click on it and
it will pull up all the extensions
you've got
installed and you can click on
let's have a look let's get rid of
custom cursor let's disable that let's
disable language tool
let's disable keepa loom mercury reader
microsoft editor midnight lizard but what you
do is it's just a one click
enable disable and it will absolutely
save your system resources especially
your ram and things will work quicker
you haven't removed them you've just
disabled them excellent tool
they have it some great extensions there
now they weren't in any particular order
and they're not aimed at any particular
user
but hopefully you've seen one or two
there that you didn't know about
that you can add and make your life
easier guys thanks for watching please
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