Improve Your Reddit Experience With These Chrome Extensions
Reddit’s endless stream of memes, comments, and anecdotes can intimidate newbies . Even if you’ve been reading this site for years, there are still many new subreddits to discover . But no matter how well you know Reddit, you can get even more fun by installing a few additional Chrome extensions.
Here’s a guide to some of the best extensions to help you get even more from Reddit.
Best overall experience
Reddit Enhancement Suite is what you need if you are looking for just one extension that does a lot of functions. It offers several useful updates and tweaks to iron out some of Reddit’s rough edges, including a built-in image viewer, keyboard shortcuts, easy account switching, and the ability to track other users. It even reveals hidden vote totals for and against messages.
Minimalist redesign
Reddit is not that easy on the eyes. For some people, this is part of the site’s charm, but if you don’t agree with it, you can try Readr for Reddit . This Chrome extension gives Reddit a sleek minimalism. If you want to read a specific comment, just click “Read” to clear up all the clutter around it and not be distracted.
Clear comments
Here’s another Chrome extension designed to take away some of Reddit’s overwhelming design. Collapser’s comment does exactly what its name promises, adding colored lines that make it easy to hide the comment and all responses to it so you can scroll faster through longer streams.
Set reminders
If you’ve ever stumbled upon an interesting Reddit thread and would like to save it for later, then this Chrome extension is for you. RemindMeBot allows you to bookmark a post on Reddit and receive alerts at any time in the future. This is especially useful if you see a thread discussing something that interests you (like old horror movies or taco trucks in your area) and want to come back later to see what suggestions come up.
Avoid scams
Reddit Scam Labeler does exactly what you’d expect. It finds scammers who use the website based on this regularly updated list and marks any messages from them as scams. If you spend a lot of time on subreddits where people sell and sell video games, electronics, or discount codes, then this extension is a must.
Open all tabs
Sometimes you don’t want to scroll through Reddit, you just want to open all the links at the same time. Enter the Reddit Tab Opener , which launches all links on one subreddit page with one click. What’s more, the original description from Reddit will carry over to each new tab so you really know what you’re looking at.
Move between subreddits like a pro
Last but not least, this Chrome extension makes it easy to navigate from one subreddit to the next. After installing Reddit Hyper Jump, all you have to do is type Alt + r to open the navigation bar at the bottom of the screen. Then just enter the name of the subreddit and you will be there in a few seconds.