Owned by Meta (parent company of Facebook), WhatsApp is a very popular free instant messaging application. With this apps, users can send text messages, voice recordings, images, documents, maps, videos and make voice/video calls.
More than a billion people use WhatsApp every day. That is an indication of its popularity and usage globally. However, while the company has consistently made its new updates available on its mobile version, the features on its WhatsApp Web version are considered by many to be “limited” for a PC app.
According to the specialized portal Gizmodo, there are a series of browser extensions, compatible with Google Chrome and Microsoft Edge, that you can install to help you get more out of the platform.
WAToolKit
WAToolkit offers 2 settings for users. First, enable background notifications, so alerts about their messages arrive through your web browser, whether or not you have WhatsApp open. Second, it expands the text bubbles to the full width of the chat panel. You can have both features enabled or just one of them, as you prefer.
Privacy Extension
The purpose of this extension is to hide various elements of the Whatsapp Web interface until you hover your mouse over them. You can use it to hide messages, media files, the typing field, profile pictures and more using a simple toggle system..
It’s perfect if you’re using the WhatsApp web app on a device where someone might be watching what you’re doing.
web sender
Web Sender allows you to customize a series of quick responses, and also, schedule messages to be sent at a certain time in the futureand you can do this with multiple contacts at once.
WA Incognito
WA Incognito takes care of those read notifications that appear when you look at other people’s incoming messages. With this extension installed, you can see the chats without anyone knowing that you have watched them.. You can mark messages as read after a certain amount of seconds or not mark them at all, and the extension also blocks “last seen” updates that WhatsApp sendsin addition to allowing you to restore deleted messages.
Zapp
Although it is considered as aapp” niche, it can be useful for various users. Zapp allows you to change the speed and volume of the audio recordings you are listening to through the app.
Adds a new button to the toolbar, which you can click to see the interface. ANDVolume can be adjusted between 0 and 100%, and recordings can be heard from 0.5x to 2x speedwhich is very useful if you have a lot of voice messages to listen to on WhatsApp.
WA Web Plus
WA Web Plus has some different WhatsApp features that you can experiment with. You can blur messages and images, view statuses secretly (without them knowing you were active in the app), hide that you’re typing, pin conversations to the top of the list, apply custom chat wallpapers, add emoji reactions to messages and more.
Open the extension panel by clicking on the icon in the toolbar, make all the changes you want and they will be applied immediately.
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Source: Eluniverso
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