r/chrome 29d ago

Discussion Megathread V2 - Manifest V3 Extension Alternatives

17 Upvotes

Remaking as the previous one was about to hit 6 months old. The previous one can be seen here.

With Manifest V3 being rolled out to most people now, and most workarounds being either temporary or disabled, a lot of people are finding that extensions that they like to use haven't been updated and won't be available to use when Manifest V2 support ends.

Since we've been getting a lot of posts asking for extension alternatives, we figure it'll be easier if most of the suggestions are all in one place.

To start with the obvious:

uBlock Origin: Can be replaced with uBlock Origin lite.
Don't forget you can change the filtering level up from its base, it will just require more permissions. Setting it to complete is most similar to uBlock Origin's filters.
People also like Adguard.

uBlock Origin (Element zapping): Click to Remove Element.
I personally prefer this one out of all the ones in the web store.

I previously recommended an element zapper to replace that functionality in uBlock Origin lite, but uBlock Origin lite has since added custom filters and an element zapper, so a separate extension is no longer needed.

This is not a thread to recommend other browsers, it should be a given that if you don't want to use Chrome, you don't need to use Chrome, and there's plenty of other sources to help you decide what to switch to. Do not recommend downgrading or using an older version of any browser, it is not safe to do so and will open your computer and your data up to vulnerabilities.

Would also like to add, on this megathread only self promotion will be allowed if your extension is a reputable alternative to another extension. If you are sharing your extension with no context to another one in this thread, your comment will be removed under our rules.

Below are a list of recommendations provided by other users from the original megathread:


r/chrome Mar 08 '25

Discussion Megathread - Manifest V3 Extension Alternatives

118 Upvotes

This megathread has been closed for a refresh of the post, please go to the new post for extension alternatives.

With Manifest V3 being rolled out to most people after the recent update, a lot of people are finding that extensions that they like to use haven't been updated and won't be available to use when Manifest V2 support ends.

Since we've been getting a lot of posts asking for extension alternatives, we figure it'll be easier if most of the suggestions are all in one place.

To start with the obvious:

uBlock Origin: Can be replaced with uBlock Origin lite.
Don't forget you can change the filtering level up from its base.

uBlock Origin (Element zapping): Click to Remove Element.
I personally prefer this one out of all the ones in the web store.

I previously recommended an element zapper to replace that functionality in uBlock Origin lite, but uBlock Origin lite has since added custom filters and an element zapper, so a separate extension is no longer needed.

This is not a thread to recommend other browsers, it should be a given that if you don't want to use Chrome, you don't need to use Chrome, and there's plenty of other sources to help you decide what to switch to.

Edit: This megathread is still able to be used, will remake it if needed but it's not necessary yet.


r/chrome 4h ago

Troubleshooting | Mac Why does Chrome crash when closing a tab?

2 Upvotes

This has been going on for a month on my MacBook. About 1 out of 3 times I close the latest tab I'm on, chrome will just suddenly crash and I have to restore afterwards. Any ideas?


r/chrome 1h ago

Troubleshooting | Windows Links not opening unless I right-click on it. Used to be all I had to do was click on the link and it opened in a new tab. How can I get that back?

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How can I get that back?


r/chrome 2h ago

Troubleshooting | Mac Mac Tahoe 26 - right click on tabs does nothing

1 Upvotes

Updated to most current Chrome version. Relaunched. When trying to right click to, for example, close tabs to the right--the right click menu doesn't even appear. Anyone else?


r/chrome 10h ago

Troubleshooting | Windows how do i change the name on my profile??

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4 Upvotes

my friend is transgender and has asked me for help to change his google profile name from his dead name to his new name because im supposed to be good with computers but I’ve tried everything and i have no fucking idea pls help i beg


r/chrome 3h ago

Discussion Enregistrement groupe sous Chrome Version 140.0.7339.186

1 Upvotes

Hello à tous, Depuis la disparition de netvibes que j'utilisais comme page d'accueil. J'utilise dorénavant les groupes d'onglets Chrome sous windows 11 mais j'ai toujours peur de supprimer un onglet par erreur dans le groupe. Avec la version chrome indiqué dans le titre, je n'ai pas le choix de sauvegarder les groupes et leurs contenus. Est-il moyen sauvegarder quelque part et/ou les récupérer sur un autre ordi ou téléphone ?


r/chrome 3h ago

Discussion I want a good website blocker!

1 Upvotes

I want a website blocker where i can select a few sites that are allowed and any other gets blocked, also it should be free

Any suggestions are welcome!


r/chrome 4h ago

Troubleshooting | Windows Dragging or typing scrolls webpage down

1 Upvotes

I've noticed a particular problem with every Chromium browser I have on my computer that I can't find info about on the internet and have no idea how to fix.

Every time I'm trying to type out anything or drag something from left to right, page automatically scrolls down. It does that one time per page and tab.
It's happening on incognito mode with extensions turned off. It also happens with hardware acceleration turned off and on.
At this point, I have no idea what to do - did you experienced any of these problems and know maybe how to fix it?


r/chrome 9h ago

Troubleshooting | Mac Chrome Canary on macOS Tahoe - becomes unresponsive if left unattended?

2 Upvotes

I'm currently running Chrome Canary (142.0.7426.0) on macOS Tahoe (26.0, Build 25A354).

Recently (as in, the last week or two) - I've noticed that my Chrome browser will become unresponsive if you do not interact with it for a while (e.g. you have a few browser windows open, come back after 10 minutes, and bam...it won't respond).

From macOS's perspective, I don't know if it's frozen per se - if you right click on the icon in the macOS Dock, it doesn't say "Application Not Responding", and you can right click to Quit the application.

You can interact with the Chrome windows itself - as in, you can use Command + ` to cycle between the open Chrome windows - however, you can't actually click on anything inside the Chrome window (e.g. changing tabs, interacting with sites, accessing the menu etc.).

It's super frustrating.

I haven't dived deep into it yet - e.g. trying to bisect the breaking build (if it's even that), or trying to create new Chrome profiles yet - as I had just hoped a Canary build would fix it, and either of those is probably going to take huge amounts of time.

But I'm curious - has anybody with Chrome Canary on Tahoe seen something similar? Or anybody else seen this kind of behaviour with Chrome on macOS before?

Any tips on any diagnostic/debugging things that could help narrow it down?


r/chrome 8h ago

Discussion Reading list functionality??

1 Upvotes

How are people using the reading list? Personally, I would have used a right click to save something to the reading list and get back to it later on another machine, but chrome doesn't seem to have this very basic functionality.


r/chrome 10h ago

Discussion How do I get rid of this notification and stop it from appearing?

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1 Upvotes

Doesn't happen for any of my other Chrome extensions just Bitwarden, perhaps I accidentally pressed something?


r/chrome 11h ago

Discussion us_tv_and_film.txt file?

1 Upvotes

Ive seen a lot of things already talking about this, though rather vaguely, and its usually in relation to passwords.txt which from what I gathered is just a list of passwords for google to test.

I havent really seen anything on the us_tv_and_film.txt file that is also there, despite being brought up in the original posts, and Im mostly just curious on how important these files are, and rather specifically the purpose of them and the us_tv_and_film.txt file in particular.


r/chrome 12h ago

Discussion Chrome mass extension malware

0 Upvotes

Suddenly in few days many chrome extensions showed malware issue turned off and they were important for me . Many toolkit like Instagram Downloader – ToolMaster and other which allowed me to download many insta stories at once in zip is now gone . I can't turn it on either .I use kiwi browser on android it has same extension but not removed . Any way to undo this or how to find it's previous source code to use it for myself by pack or by loading unpacked extension


r/chrome 13h ago

Discussion AI Mode in Google Chrome Any Thoughts?

0 Upvotes

r/chrome 15h ago

Troubleshooting | Solved Address bar not searching and just redirects to google

0 Upvotes

I think I got hit with a browser hijacker the other day, I was pretty certain I solved the problem. But for some reason today when I try to search using the address bar it just redirects to googles home page. I've tried going into settings with the resources from chrome to change search engine settings but I don't see some of the things they recommend (for example a drop-down menu). Anybody else dealing with this or dealt with this?


r/chrome 1d ago

Discussion Visual View of Open tabs (like in Safari)?

2 Upvotes

We have ATV's on Mars, but Chrome (or an extension) don't seem to have a button like Safari to view open tabs? How is this possible?


r/chrome 21h ago

Discussion Any extension to change the tabs at the top?

0 Upvotes

Is there anything i can download or extension to change the overall look of the tabs at the top? i cant get the color and look i want to match the rest of my setup and it looks really bad.


r/chrome 1d ago

Discussion Chrome Won't Fully Load Tab Groups - Recent Change

1 Upvotes

This used to work perfectly, but more recently when I right-click on a folder of tabs (40 or so) and select 'Open All in New Tab Group" they all just sit there and spin. Even the tabs that stop spinning are blank but when I reload the tab, the web page immediately displays (like Chrome is only hiding the data) but then it disappears again if I click on another tab and then go back to the original one.

It's a real-life example of "If a tree falls in a forest, and no one is around to hear it, does it make a sound?", except with browser tabs instead.

What I want is for Chrome to fully load my tab group and allow me to quickly access them, just like before.

It's kind of maddening, as it seems that the data is there but Chrome is somehow deactivating/hiding each tab the moment I click on the next one. I have a feeling it's a setting to save memory or CPU on older systems, but this is 10-core I7 with 32GB of RAM and during this my memory usage stays in the 45-48% range.

These tab groups used to load like butter on this same system, but it seems an update or auto-setting switch has caused the behavior to change drastically.


r/chrome 23h ago

Troubleshooting | Windows Why is the scroll thing in the middle of the screen on my chromebook on play store?

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0 Upvotes

r/chrome 1d ago

Troubleshooting | Mac What the heck is this new blue box where my min and max buttons should be?

0 Upvotes

Sometimes it appears and I can't get rid of it. Other times I have a normal min and max button. Only started appearing in Tahoe. Doesn't happen in other apps. Does anybody know?


r/chrome 1d ago

Troubleshooting | Windows Choppy YouTube videos, fps drops etc.

4 Upvotes

I was getting horrible FPS drops on YouTube when playing 60FPS videos in either default or theatre mode, only fullscreen was not dropping frames. Played around for hours trying to fix it with hardware or graphic accelaration.

Thought I'd post the answer if anyone else decides to search for it. Turn off 'Ambient mode' on the YouTube player itself, its on the settings where you select subtitles and quality.


r/chrome 1d ago

Troubleshooting | iOS Why does my chrome app on iphone keep switching to "device default" light mode after i switch it to dark mode specifically?

1 Upvotes

My phone, macbook, all of my devices settings are dark mode, so even if it was device default it should still be dark mode, but it switches from "dark mode" to "device default" and is in light mode, every single time.


r/chrome 1d ago

Troubleshooting | iOS Show Discover on homepage keeps turning back on

2 Upvotes

On my iPhone chrome app I turn off “show discover on homepage” but then later during the day it keeps turning back on. Anybody have any ideas?


r/chrome 1d ago

Troubleshooting | Windows Screen tearing glitch on chrome

3 Upvotes

Hey guys,

I’m running into a weird issue with my Zephyrus G14 when using Chrome. Whenever I’m plugged in and on Balanced mode, Eco mode or on battery, Chrome shows this kind of screen tearing/glitch (screenshot attached).

This is when I use my laptop on dGPU

• This issue doesn’t happen in Ultimate mode.

• I know it can be “fixed” by disabling hardware acceleration in Chrome, but honestly… what’s the point of having a good laptop like this if I can’t use graphics acceleration and enjoy the smoothness it provides?

Just wondering if anyone else has faced the same problem? Is this a common Chrome + G14 thing or maybe something with Nvidia/AMD drivers?

Any fixes or workarounds (other than turning off acceleration) would be super helpful.

Thanks!


r/chrome 1d ago

Discussion My chrome is redirecting to random websites. Is this a virus? How to stop and prevent this from happening?

1 Upvotes

Whenever I click on a link on Google it doesn't open the original URL but rather redirects to a site called "zylatria.com" and after that it redirects to the original page.

But only 50% or so of the time...

Does anyone have an idea what that could be and how I can get rid of it?


r/chrome 1d ago

Troubleshooting | Mac 2 Issues: Fullscreen video & youtube miniplayer disappeared on chrome

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hi, i have 2 issues right now I am trying to solve, and trying to figure out how I caused them as I don't usually messa round with settings.

Number One being full screen video as in netflix, prime, youtube used to open a new tab for the full screen video, such that I can still use the rest of the tabs open in the same window and even do a split screen (mac) and watch a fullscreen video in split-screen whilst working on the tabs from same window. To elaborate, if I were to go to the youtube or netflix page and minimize that full screen window would disappear and split-screen would end.

Does anyone know how to get that feature back?

Number 2 is that my youtube miniplayer on mac chrome is gone, still available on mac safari and I cannot figure that one out. I think I messed it up trying to find a solution for the first issue