Better Jira

Much needed interface improvements for Jira

What is Better Jira?

"Better Jira" is a Chrome extension designed to increase productivity by providing interface enhancements to JIRA. It allows resizing of Kanban cards, offers a Standup Mode to remove clutter for focused standups, enables opening GitHub links in new tabs, and more. It keeps updating regularly to match JIRA's features and offers unmatched convenience to all JIRA users.

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By: joshwhatk

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Users: 1,000+

Rating: 4.35 (20)

Version: 1.5.3 (Last updated: 2022-08-31)

Creation date: 2019-12-08

Risk impact: Moderate risk impact

Risk likelihood: Low risk likelihood

Manifest version: 2

Permissions:

https://*.atlassian.net/*
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Size: 142.34K

Email: jo*****@gmail.com

Ranking

# 25026 ▼ 213

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#25504 in Workflow & Planning ▼ 52

#8 in jira keyword 22 ▲ 2

#47 in column keyword 10 ▼ 1

#68 in resize keyword 41 ▲ 4

#130 in board keyword 22 ▲ 17

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Better Jira (v1.5.3)

3.75

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Extension summary

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Ever wished that large Kanban boards could not be squished? Now you can set your own custom Column width for all of your cards on all of your boards.

And what about that "Detail View"? Wouldn't it be cool if you could resize it to whatever size you wanted it to be with a simple drag of your mouse? Now you can! “Better JIRA” unlocks your productivity, getting the software out of your way and into the background where it belongs! JIRA added this feature so we no longer need to add it!

Also including "Standup Mode" that removes all of the clutter to keep your Standups focused and to the point!

Features:

Horizontal Scroll of Kanban boards
Resizable Cards on Kanban boards
Resizable Detail View (removed, this is now a default feature in JIRA)
Open Github Links in a new tab
Standup Mode that clears out the clutter of side navigations

Note: Access to all sites is requested to allow this plugin to work on JIRA instances that are not hosted by Atlassian, this extension only runs on JIRA instances.

User reviews

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Pros

Super useful!
Made viewing boards with many columns MUCH better.
Love standup mode!
Much easier to read cards now!
Best JIRA extension out there!

Cons

Does not remove headers or resize as expected.
Breaks with certain versions of Chrome.
Doesn't work for older instances of self-hosted Jira.
Column headers stay static and cause confusion when scrolling.

Most mentioned

Needs to be updated to fix current issues.
Issues with resizing and header visibility.
Works great for many users when functional.

Recent reviews

Is it possible to make it work with cross-project board like : `https://<company>.atlassian.net/jira/people/712320:4031e64e-e155-4537-95c8-a0f24a3f8598/boards/192/`? It will be really helpful.

Vladimir Skipor, 2024-02-15

Was great. But is broken as of now, does not remove any header and resizes nothing, AFAICS. So needs to be updated, to become that great plugin it was.