Chrome: Flix Plus, a new extension from us at Lifehacker, adds new features and tweaks to Netflix.com, letting you filter its recommendations, remove spoilers, use keyboard shortcuts, and a whole lot more.


Editor’s note: We at Lifehacker have always thrown together little apps and tools in our spare time, but today we’re announcing that we have a new in-house developer, whose job it is to create cool apps, extensions, and tools for the community. So welcome Jared Sohn, developer of previously mentioned MuteTab and Mute.fm, to the team!


Platform: Windows, Mac, and Linux with Google Chrome

Price: Free

Author: Jared Sohn

License: GNU Public License; Source available on GitHub

Last Update: July 2, 2015

Click Here to Download and Install

I built Flix Plus similarly to Lifehacker founder Gina Trapani’s Better Gmail and Adam Pash’s Music Plus: we collected a number of open source Netflix scripts found on the now-defunct userscripts.org, GitHub, and Google (and I wrote a few myself). Like the previous efforts, I built it with a new framework that makes it easier to convert multiple userscripts into an extension. Of the original 26 scripts, twelve were brand new, five involved major changes, and the remaining 9 were included with only minor changes. Some features (including fade watched, hide duplicates, move My List to top, hide spoilers, and hide postplay are exclusive to this extension (at the time of the original release).

Some of the features (including hide spoilers, hide postplay, and player keyboard shortcuts) are only possible if you configuire Netflix to use the HTML5 player instead of Siverlight, so be sure to enable the HTML5 player if you want to use them.


Features


Show Rotten Tomatoes and IMDB ratings and read more about the title or actors on sites like IMDB, Wikipedia, and Amazon.

Adds a Watch Trailer button

Hides episode spoiler images and text, and stops Netflix from shrinking your screen during the credits. ( Requires HTML5 player

Lets you move My List to the top of your home page

Adds a Play Random Episode button

Adds keyboard controls to navigate most of the site. Press “?” for a list.

Adds an “Open in New Netflix Tab” button

Enhances the manual view of “My List” with an ability to write a note saying why you added a movie and highlighting titles that will expire soon.

Show details instead of playing an episode when clicking on it (Kids section only)



Export your ratings and My List to a JSON file.

Makes it easier to navigate Netflix’s suggestions. You can tint or fade out shows you have watched, rated, or that are listed multiple times and hide entire sections.


How to Use Flix Plus


After installing Flix Plus, you need to open up a Netflix window and log in. Most features will be enabled by default. If you want to change which features are turned on, click on the red settings icon in the URL bar. Note that your preferences (including saved notes and which sections have sections hidden) are stored on a per Netflix profile basis and are synchronized between computers using on your Chrome login. You can see keyboard commands by pressing “?” and read more about each feature in the settings.

Try it out for yourself at the link below, and share your thoughts, feature requests, and bug reports in the comments!


Flix Plus | Chrome Web Store

Special thanks to Maarten, Joshua Blum , micflan, Michael Schade , Dustin Luck , Mike Morearty , William Skellenger, matthewpucc , Sam Stephens , mabuse, zigboom , and ayan4m1 for writing some of the userscripts used in this extension.