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Markdown Preview
Markdown Viewer is the only cross-browser extension available, so there is not much choice here.
Enable Text Selection
Extensions to enable text selection on pages where developers have disabled it for some unknown reason.
- Chrome: Simple-Allow-Copy/chrome-extension-allow-copy
- Firefox: sarthakjain95/EnableSelect
Although these two options are satisfactory, I would have preferred to find a cross-platform extension with source code on GitHub.
The example page below where authors have disabled text selection:
Introduction - GitZip is cross-browser browser extension to download sub-folders/files of Github repo
Greedy Cache
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Greedy Cache is a browser extension that forces your browser to load scripts, images and styles from its cache. It’s particularly useful for sites that use content-addressed URLs, such as Facebook; these are URLs that are a hash of the content they represent, meaning that the content of such a URL never changes, making revalidation requests unnecessary.Greedy Cache on repo JustOff/greedy-cache is a browser extension that forces your browser to load scripts, images and styles from its cache. It’s particularly useful for sites that use content-addressed URLs, such as Facebook;
Interesting insights from 2017 in this Facebook article.