# Name Your Top 3 Browser Plugins **URL:** \ **Category:** Archive\ **Tags:** tools, exploratory-testing, automation, api-testing\ **Created:** [14 October 2020 07:00 UTC](https://club.ministryoftesting.com/t/name-your-top-3-browser-plugins/43809 "2020-10-14T07:00:06Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 15\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![heather\_reid](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex020/user_avatar/club.ministryoftesting.com/heather_reid/32/29_2.png) [@heather\_reid](https://club.ministryoftesting.com/u/heather_reid)\ **Post date:** [14 October 2020 07:00 UTC](https://club.ministryoftesting.com/t/name-your-top-3-browser-plugins/43809/1 "2020-10-14T07:00:06Z")
What are your top 3 favourite or most used plugins? Mine are: - Grammarly - ColorPick Eyedropper - [Spectrum](https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/spectrum/ofclemegkcmilinpcimpjkfhjfgmhieb) ---
**Author:** ![jesper](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex020/user_avatar/club.ministryoftesting.com/jesper/32/8341_2.png) [@jesper](https://club.ministryoftesting.com/u/jesper)\ **Post date:** [14 October 2020 07:12 UTC](https://club.ministryoftesting.com/t/name-your-top-3-browser-plugins/43809/2 "2020-10-14T07:12:19Z")
- 1Password (Password manager) - uBlock (ad blocker) - Google docs … that’s all I have really. 🙂 … Grammarly could be neat though, thanks for the tip ---
**Author:** ![moorpheus](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex020/user_avatar/club.ministryoftesting.com/moorpheus/32/6220_2.png) [@moorpheus](https://club.ministryoftesting.com/u/moorpheus)\ **Post date:** [14 October 2020 07:27 UTC](https://club.ministryoftesting.com/t/name-your-top-3-browser-plugins/43809/3 "2020-10-14T07:27:04Z")
- Selenium IDE (the new updated one is quite handy to quickly find multiple locators for an object) - BlazeMeter plugin (allows for record and replay integration with JMeter - again, handy to detect exactly what API calls are triggered as you go around a site) - Axe for accessibility scans. ---
**Author:** ![heather\_reid](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex020/user_avatar/club.ministryoftesting.com/heather_reid/32/29_2.png) [@heather\_reid](https://club.ministryoftesting.com/u/heather_reid)\ **Post date:** [14 October 2020 08:00 UTC](https://club.ministryoftesting.com/t/name-your-top-3-browser-plugins/43809/4 "2020-10-14T08:00:38Z")
Grammarly can be hit and miss for me, sometimes it says that the slang words I use have an aggressive tone 😅 but it’s mostly helpful 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![AdyStokes](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex020/user_avatar/club.ministryoftesting.com/adystokes/32/14440_2.png) [@AdyStokes](https://club.ministryoftesting.com/u/AdyStokes)\ **Post date:** [14 October 2020 09:18 UTC](https://club.ministryoftesting.com/t/name-your-top-3-browser-plugins/43809/5 "2020-10-14T09:18:19Z")
- WAVE (Web Accessibility Evaluation Tool) great tool by WebAIM for an overall evaluation of accessibility. Watch out for false positives like every automated a11y tool but I like the build in colour contrast checker that you can adjust to find a winning combination. [https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/wave-evaluation-tool/jbbplnpkjmmeebjpijfedlgcdilocofh](https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/wave-evaluation-tool/jbbplnpkjmmeebjpijfedlgcdilocofh) - Loom, great for screen recording to show what the app or system is doing. Its been incredibly useful working remotely. [https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/loom-for-chrome/liecbddmkiiihnedobmlmillhodjkdmb](https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/loom-for-chrome/liecbddmkiiihnedobmlmillhodjkdmb) - Bug Magnet, last but not least has to be this brilliant field testing tool. At a right click it has so much to offer from postcodes to unicode to SQL injection. Also customisable [https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/bug-magnet/efhedldbjahpgjcneebmbolkalbhckfi?hl=en](https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/bug-magnet/efhedldbjahpgjcneebmbolkalbhckfi?hl=en) I know it said top three but I also have Google Drive, Web Developer tools, aXe, adblock and 1password amongst other as well as using DevTools quite a bit too. ---
**Author:** ![francesco](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/e47c2d/32.png) [@francesco](https://club.ministryoftesting.com/u/francesco)\ **Post date:** [15 October 2020 15:59 UTC](https://club.ministryoftesting.com/t/name-your-top-3-browser-plugins/43809/6 "2020-10-15T15:59:09Z")
Fireshot, json formatter, setupVPN ---
**Author:** ![ernie](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex020/user_avatar/club.ministryoftesting.com/ernie/32/2340_2.png) [@ernie](https://club.ministryoftesting.com/u/ernie)\ **Post date:** [15 October 2020 21:09 UTC](https://club.ministryoftesting.com/t/name-your-top-3-browser-plugins/43809/7 "2020-10-15T21:09:15Z")
I’m on Chrome and mainly do API testing. Besides LastPass: - [JSON Viewer](https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/json-viewer/gbmdgpbipfallnflgajpaliibnhdgobh) - pretty prints JSON - [EditThisCookie](https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/editthiscookie/fngmhnnpilhplaeedifhccceomclgfbg) - monitoring and editing cookies - [Jira HotLinker](https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/jira-hotlinker/lbifpcpomdegljfpfhgfcjdabbeallhk) - “quick access to Jira metadata when hovering over ticket numbers! This extension will show a tooltip when hovering over a jira ticket number on github or a ticket link.” My just for fun one is [Tabby Cat](https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/tabby-cat/mefhakmgclhhfbdadeojlkbllmecialg) that has little cartoon cats on each new browser tab. ---
**Author:** ![autozen](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/c77e96/32.png) [@autozen](https://club.ministryoftesting.com/u/autozen)\ **Post date:** [15 October 2020 21:25 UTC](https://club.ministryoftesting.com/t/name-your-top-3-browser-plugins/43809/8 "2020-10-15T21:25:38Z")
Evernote web clipper, Loom recorder, 1Password, AdBlock, and, of course, Grammarly:) ---
**Author:** ![juliovalls](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/45deac/32.png) [@juliovalls](https://club.ministryoftesting.com/u/juliovalls)\ **Post date:** [20 October 2020 07:11 UTC](https://club.ministryoftesting.com/t/name-your-top-3-browser-plugins/43809/9 "2020-10-20T07:11:41Z")
Nice ones, to add something a bit different: Wappalizer, handy to know which technologies and versions are being used on the site. Key Jump keyboard navigation, use keys instead of the mouse to open links. Session Buddy, keep saved sessions of tabs to readily open them and work with them. ---
**Author:** ![heather\_reid](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex020/user_avatar/club.ministryoftesting.com/heather_reid/32/29_2.png) [@heather\_reid](https://club.ministryoftesting.com/u/heather_reid)\ **Post date:** [20 October 2020 09:12 UTC](https://club.ministryoftesting.com/t/name-your-top-3-browser-plugins/43809/10 "2020-10-20T09:12:28Z")
> [@AdyStokes](#): > > Loom, great for screen recording to show what the app or system is doing. Its been incredibly useful working remotely. > [https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/loom-for-chrome/liecbddmkiiihnedobmlmillhodjkdmb](https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/loom-for-chrome/liecbddmkiiihnedobmlmillhodjkdmb) I tried this today, the first record crashed my browser 😮 I don’t know how I managed it but I did 😅 ---
**Author:** ![AdyStokes](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex020/user_avatar/club.ministryoftesting.com/adystokes/32/14440_2.png) [@AdyStokes](https://club.ministryoftesting.com/u/AdyStokes)\ **Post date:** [26 October 2020 16:55 UTC](https://club.ministryoftesting.com/t/name-your-top-3-browser-plugins/43809/11 "2020-10-26T16:55:51Z")
> [@heather\_reid](#): > > I tried this today, the first record crashed my browser 😮 I don’t know how I managed it but I did 😅 Loom has made a change so you can’t use it for recording talks anymore without buying a plan. Mine went flaky for a bit too. ---
**Author:** ![heather\_reid](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex020/user_avatar/club.ministryoftesting.com/heather_reid/32/29_2.png) [@heather\_reid](https://club.ministryoftesting.com/u/heather_reid)\ **Post date:** [27 October 2020 08:15 UTC](https://club.ministryoftesting.com/t/name-your-top-3-browser-plugins/43809/12 "2020-10-27T08:15:44Z")
I was just trying to record dev tools on here while testing something out 🙈 ---
**Author:** ![katepaulk](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex020/user_avatar/club.ministryoftesting.com/katepaulk/32/8469_2.png) [@katepaulk](https://club.ministryoftesting.com/u/katepaulk)\ **Post date:** [27 October 2020 12:46 UTC](https://club.ministryoftesting.com/t/name-your-top-3-browser-plugins/43809/13 "2020-10-27T12:46:04Z")
I’m rather fond of RGBlind which just sits in my toolbar and only needs a couple of clicks to simulate what a page would look like to someone with protanopia or deuteranopia (the two “flavors” of red-green color blindness). ---
**Author:** ![heather\_reid](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex020/user_avatar/club.ministryoftesting.com/heather_reid/32/29_2.png) [@heather\_reid](https://club.ministryoftesting.com/u/heather_reid)\ **Post date:** [27 October 2020 13:02 UTC](https://club.ministryoftesting.com/t/name-your-top-3-browser-plugins/43809/14 "2020-10-27T13:02:31Z")
I love plugins that allow that 😁 ---
**Author:** ![heather\_reid](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex020/user_avatar/club.ministryoftesting.com/heather_reid/32/29_2.png) [@heather\_reid](https://club.ministryoftesting.com/u/heather_reid)\ **Post date:** [4 November 2020 14:43 UTC](https://club.ministryoftesting.com/t/name-your-top-3-browser-plugins/43809/15 "2020-11-04T14:43:38Z")
Some suggestions from Kevin Tuck in his recent blog > **[My top four Chrome extensions for software testers - Kevin Tuck](https://kevintuck.co.uk/my-top-four-chrome-extensions-for-software-testers/)** > > A few weeks ago, I shared my favourite tools to aid me with my software testing activities. I created that post to not only document the software that I