Ublock Origin is an obvious one, but I also can’t stand not having Foxy Gestures anymore. It adds customizable mouse gestures, so you can set it up to have easy swipes to go back a page, reload a page, close a tab, etc, and it feels wonderful and smooth to use compared to just using the traditional buttons to do everything. Honestly it’s kinda wild to me that this isn’t more popular now that people are so used to phone gestures. It’s good for the same reasons!
from https://beehaw.org/comment/80030:
uBO, of course. note: you guys don’t need ClearURLs with this list added.
LibRedirect for automatically opening Youtube, Twitter, TikTok etc. links in their privacy-focused front-ends. I just make sure to disable all the instances by esmailelbob since he’s a little homophobic shithead
Buster for automatic captcha solving
Consent-O-Matic automatically clicks through cookies banner to deny all the cookies that aren’t necessary, which I like better than just hiding the cookie banner
Redirect AMP to HTML because fuck AMP and fuck Google…I just make sure to disable all the instances by esmailelbob since he’s a little homophobic shithead
What? …alright let’s check the link.
Esmail is actively forbidding members or supporters of the LGBTQIA+ community to use their services via a TOS document.
Oh.
When you’re so drenched in queerphobia that you explicitly forbid the use of your services to LGBTQIA+ people and their ‘supporters’. Asbolutely normal and totally not deranged behavior.
Regarding AMP: Do people hate AMP or just Google’s implementation/control of it? Because in theory everything AMP does is remove a lot of what gunks up websites these days. Anyone know if there’s a Whoogle-like software that lets you self-host AMP links?
Other than Ublock Origin and Bitwarden, these are some of my favourites :
Temporary Containers is a new favourite of mine. It works just like container tabs, but the difference is that it deletes the history of that tab once it’s closed, similar to Incognito/Private instance.
Reddit Comments for Youtube - If a youtube video has been linked to reddit, then it basically gives a small box which lists all the subs the video has been linked to and shows you the comments. If you’re logged into reddit, then it will allow you to comment as well.
Keepa for Amazon. Let’s you track price history for any product, so you can see if a sale is actually a real sale or not.
Tab Session Manager - Basically lets you save tab sessions.
Enhancer for Youtube and Pockettube Subscription Manager - Gives various youtube enhancements.
Stylus - To style websites. I mainly use it to fix the youtube thumbnail and font size.
I use CamelCamelCamel for Amazon. Besides price history it allows notifications on sales or price drops.
Lmao that’s my only use for stylus too. And like 5 years ago I changed the roblox logo to a cheez-it with stylus. I need to find more websites to use with it but last I checked the website to get themes was terribly slow. It’s been a fat minute though.
Other than the good ole ad blocker, sponsorblock is a godsend
My half-serious, half-assed alternative to SB: https://butter.sonnet.io
This is awesome
Cookieautodelete is sooo underrated.
Dark Reader is amazing. Not just a great idea, but incredible execution.
It occasionally renders incorrectly, but yeah, I haven’t been able to find a dark-mode extension better than this!
I just assumed it would be terrible because it’s a hard problem to solve generally, but like 98% of the time I don’t even realize it’s on (and it’s really easy to turn off). It’s seriously incredible.
Definetely libredirect. It redirects YouTube, Twitter, TikTok… requests to privacy friendly frontends.
I would like to add Indiewikibuddy. It’s basically a more fully featured version of the FandomDotCom features of Libredirect.
For example, you can set it to redirect from the Skyrim Fandom.com to the UESP.
Firefox Multi-Account Containers has to be one of my favorite extensions. Mixing work accounts and personal accounts in the same browser session but in different tabs has made my workflow much more efficient. You can force bind sites to a container so that you don’t accidentally use your personal account for anything workplace related.
Definitely one of my favorites. My only wish is that they had a more flexible way to predefine lists of domains and containers and/or do wildcard matching for domains.
Dark Reader, because dark mode rocks.
Count this as my vote as well. Take every other extension away (uBlock Origin excluded obv) but I simply can’t endure the eye-searing pain of the internet without Dark Reader.
The browsers have their own dark mode, in chrome://flags or edge://flags, but in my experience they don’t work as consistently, overall.
Yeah, you’re right. They try but it’s not the same.
Before Dark Reader I used to make custom dark theme CSS for all the sites that I frequented heavily and spent so much time tweaking things so it came out “mostly right”.
Dark Reader isn’t perfect all the time but the peace of mind it grants me is immeasurable:)
Wait, what? You can force any website to comply with your own CSS? How?
You can use dark reader and stylus (firefox extensions).
I use stylus to ‘correct dark reader’ or if i want write own style, or to change few elements on website.
I don’t remember how, but in dark reader in settings you can define your colors (background etc.), you can even set font! I use for example nerd font “CodeNewRoman NF” it works.
Yeah, there are extensions that enable injecting custom CSS. I’m using Stylus in Chrome (switched to that from Stylish about two years ago) and essentially you need to override the native CSS with lots of !important style declarations. Basically like Inspect Element but will load every time once the relevant website(s) is done loading.
If the HTML classes and ids are straightforwards that’s fairly easy, like old.reddit for instance. But every time they change the classes you need to go in a manually tweak it. And once a site starts obfuscating their code it’s not worth the effort anymore.
But it’s possible and for a while I honed my meager CSS skills by doing my own bespoke stylesheets. :)
One i done see mentioned is OneTab. Allows me to take large groups of tabs and dump them to a text file, which I can also use to restore groups of tabs. It allows me to close entire browsers full of tabs but keep the links to prevent firefox from getting out of hand with ram consumption.
You can do something similar without any addons. Firefox allows selection of multiple tabs at once out of the box, and you can have it create bookmarks for this selection. You can then have it open all bookmarks in a bookmark folder at once.
Yeah I love this feature and use it all the time. Then I never look at those bookmarks again lol
You can. But I use bookmarks for specific things I need to re-reference. And i use it in a more permanent manner. Especially when I want to access across different synced browser.
When I’m doing research or troubleshooting I will often have loads of tabs and searches open. This allows me to “wipe the board” and keep going or keep links specific to that browser iteration. It’s basically a halfway house to bookmarks for when I’m deep in some research on a topic where in the end I may come with 5-10 bookmarks that I do group of authoritative links.
- uBlock Origin
- Dark Reader
- Bypass Paywalls
- Decentraleyes
- Enhancer for YouTube
- Return YouTube Dislike
ublock origin and firefox enhanced tracking protection already does what Decentraleyes is supposed to do, so its not needed if you already use firefox and ublock origins.
also, try out following extwnsions too:
- firefox multi account containers
- sponsorblock for youtube
- localcdn
I use Decentraleyes and Privacy Badger on top of uBlock
I also use CanvasBlocker alongside these.
I think uBlock Origin, SponsorBlock, and Dark Reader are my favs.
SingleFile ! Best method of keeping pages for offline use !
or u can save the page using the browser menu.
sometimes this allows for smaller size. and also ability to crop out unwanted resources. but then the page breaks and having a resource folder is messy to deal with.
- bitwarden
- simplelogin
- proton vpn
I just use these three.
Mandatory:
- Dark Reader for dark mode anywhere, and Invert Colors for the occasions when a site is not usable with Dark Reader.
- Ublock Origin of course, but I also still use uMatrix because even several years after it stopped being maintained, it’s STILL unmatched by any other addon in the content-blocker category. The granularity of being able to specifically allow scripts or frames or images or cookies from specific third-party domains or subdomains either everywhere or only on certain first-party domains, with a very intuitive visual grid (matrix) and subdomain selection, is incredible. I still don’t understand why it’s deprecated.
- Tree Style Tab and the related Tab Unloader. I forget things exist if they aren’t right in front of me, so if I have any intention of coming back to a site or a workflow, I need those tabs somewhere in front of me, tucked away in a tree waiting for me to get back to them. I regularly have between 100-200 tabs open. Being able to unload performance-heavy tabs without restarting the whole browser also helps a lot.
- Bitwarden because if you aren’t using some kind of password manager, do you even care about security?
- Translate Web Pages because not everything I want to read is in English
Nice to haves:
- Tranquility Reader, because the browser’s built-in Reader View often shits itself and doesn’t work, particularly on social media text posts. This lets me select the page contents I want it to grab in case the automated picker fails. It’s still a bit janky though; if anyone has a more polished alternative, I’d like to hear about it!
- Enhancer For YouTube, Sponsorblock, and Return YouTube Dislike
- stutter For when I feel like speed-reading
- Toolbox for Google Play Store