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!

  • noodlejetski@beehaw.org
    5·
    2 years ago

    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

    • Plume (she/her)@beehaw.org
      6·
      2 years ago

      …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.

    • Fylkir@lemmy.sdf.orgEnglish
      1·
      2 years ago

      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?

    • Fylkir@lemmy.sdf.org
      1·
      2 years ago

      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.

  • albert180@feddit.de
    3·
    2 years ago

    Consent-O-Matic, it declines all cookie banners for you (or accepts you can decide it in the settings)

  • Onihikage@beehaw.orgEnglish
    3·
    2 years ago

    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:

  • Taxxor@feddit.de
    3·
    2 years ago

    I don’t use many extensions, but apart from the usual UBlock Origin I’ll say something exotic: UltraWideo

    Because sites like disney+ still don’t know that 21:9 monitors exist so you have to force it to scale their 21:9 films to your monitor instead of giving you black bars on all sides

  • cmnybo@discuss.tchncs.de
    2·
    2 years ago

    Some of my favorite Firefox extensions:

    uBlock Origin: The best ad blocker you can get.
    Imagus: Enlarges images and displays linked images when you hover over them.
    Multi-Account Containers: Allows you to create containers to completely isolate specific sites.
    KeePassXC-Browser: Browser integration for KeePassXC password manager.
    SponsorBlock: Skips sponsored video segments on youtube.
    Hide Youtube-Shorts: Hides those annoying vertical videos on youtube.
    Enhancer for Youtube: Lots of extra configuration options and controls for youtube.

  • leanleft@lemmy.mlEnglish
    2·
    2 years ago

    umatrix. …underappreciated imo.
    take a shot for everytime sum1 mentions ublock.
    get $100 dollars everytime sum1 mentions umatrix.
    im still broke but wasted AF!

  • 📛Maven@lemmy.sdf.org
    2·
    2 years ago

    I’m on Vivaldi so I don’t know how many of these are available to Firefox. Leaving out all the obvious ones like adblocker, password manager, userscripts, etc.

    Privacy Pass; do less captchas. Every time you solve a captcha, it stores a few “tokens” in your browser, essentially verifying you as human extra times at once. The next few times you encounter the same brand of catcha, your browser will “spend” one of those tokens to automatically be treated as high confidence, skipping the captcha.

    Bot Sentinel; puts a little score next to people’s names on Twitter, showing how often they’ve been reported to the Bot Sentinel site for various things like spam, trolling, or hatespeech; it’s nice to know at a glance when you just shouldn’t engage with someone.

    Jiffy Reader; when it’s enabled, hilights the first couple letters of every word, which is great for ADHD because it makes your automatic reflex be to look at each word one at a time, rather than skim the whole section.

    Teleparty; watch netflix, etc, with friends, with a little built-in chatroom

    Trim; show IMDB/Rotten Tomato ratings on netflix, etc, thumbnails; a real minor tweak, but I’m a big fan

    Beyond20 and the VTT Enhancement Suite; specialized D&D addons that made playing online so much easier during the pandemic. Beyond20 pipes your character sheet macro rolls from D&D Beyond directly into Roll20, and VTTES adds all sorts of bonus functionality to Roll20.

    • leanleft@lemmy.mlEnglish
      1·
      2 years ago

      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.

  • TotoroTheGreat@beehaw.org
    1·
    2 years ago

    I use Firefox. 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.

  • flatbield@beehaw.org
    1·
    2 years ago

    Question: Does anyone know what security and privacy extensions are considered redundant in light of recent Firefox improvements in the past few years?

    For example, I saw several people recommend Privacy Badger for example. I thought I heard somewhere that was considered not needed now. I do not know for sure so am frankly confused by this and some of the other extensions which I too use to use.

    For me I have kind of stopped using most security/privacy extensions except uBlockOrigin and then just configuring Firefox rather tightly. Not sure if this is best approach or not. On one hand every extension increases the attack surface and the uniqueness of the browser so there is a point about less is better, on the other hand some may be useful too.

    Thoughts? Thanks.

    • confusedwiseman@beehaw.orgEnglish
      0·
      2 years ago

      Can y’all point me in the right direction on why grammarly is shady? Maybe that premium account was a bad idea, but I’ve loved it for the last few years to help me be a better writer.

        • confusedwiseman@beehaw.orgEnglish
          1·
          2 years ago

          I wish I could upvote this 2x. I’ll be trying some alternatives. I get they have to analyze the text to make suggestions, but then seriously, ditch the data.

          I was lazy and clicked through with the “big, common name should be OK” thought. *I’ll take my sticker of shame on this one, and try to do better in the future.

      • dtlnx@beehaw.orgEnglish
        1·
        2 years ago

        I’d say mainly privacy concerns. Everything you type is sent to Grammarly servers. I’m not sure what is done with that data.

    • cthonctic@kbin.social
      0·
      2 years ago

      @VulcanSphere

      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.

      • Dymonika@beehaw.org
        1·
        2 years ago

        The browsers have their own dark mode, in chrome://flags or edge://flags, but in my experience they don’t work as consistently, overall.

        • cthonctic@kbin.social
          0·
          2 years ago

          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:)

          • Dymonika@beehaw.org
            1·
            2 years ago

            Wait, what? You can force any website to comply with your own CSS? How (apart from manual Inspector edits every time)?

            • cthonctic@kbin.social
              2·
              2 years ago

              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. :)