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!
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.
I shared one on reddit that replaces pictures of spiders with kittens and it was met with a pretty shocking amount of hatred and vitriol brought my way, so nervous to share it here. But still I thought it was nice.
AdNauseam (One step further than uBlock Origin, it actively clicks everything that missed my DNS blocks)
Bitwarden
Decentraleyes
Enhance-O-Tron for Plex (For some reason some videos in my library have black bars hard coded into them. I could probably re-encode them to get rid of the bars, but this add-on just hides the bars at a button click. It's only a problem for monitors wider than 16:9)
Enhancer for Youtube (TM) (Automatically expand the canvas out to the full screen and a bunch of other stuff.)
Facebook Container (I don't use facebook, but the containers are nice to keep shit separated)
Keepa - Amazon Price Tracker
NoScript
Redirect AMP to HTML
ShareX ( I have workflows that automatically store stuff into my nextcloud and setup share links)
SponsorBlock for Youtube - Skip Sponsorships
Stylus
I had stuff for Reddit... but since I've moved off the platform, that's been nixed. And for those of you using the cookie accepting apps... Why not just block the element with uBlock?
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.
"uBlock" does not need any kind of introduction. Most of the people who answered the thread use it anyway. But it is my favourite!
"Language tool" to help me spell things properly, lol
"I don't care about cookies" to get rid of annoying GDPR-compliance banners
"FoxyProxy" to easily switch between proxies
"Vimium C" to navigate the web using vi-like shortcuts
"SponsorBlock". I don't use YouTube as much nowadays but when I do, this add-on helps me skip in-video advertisements and irrelevant moments
"Search by image"
"Rikaichamp" is a great add-on for anyone who often needs to look up Japanese words
"Runet Censorship Bypass" because censorship circumvention is not a crime in my country. Yet.
Honestly, I thought it will be shorter. It makes me appreciate the authors of all these add-ons even more. If it weren't for their efforts, web browsing would be a much less enjoyable experience.
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.
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.
I don't think I can live without Sidebery anymore, it adds a sidebar for managing and easily grouping tabs. Although it's really made my habit of not closing them even worse...
Pushbullet - send stuff from my phone to my browser, or vice versa.
Camelizer - camelcamelcamel popup for Amazon browsing. CCC displays a price/time graph and lets you set alerts for when something is below a target price.
Youtube Playback Speed Control - I watch YT at 2x speed usually, sometimes 4x. This adds fine control and keyboard shortcuts for that.
LibRedirect: redirect Website links to alternative frontends like Nitter, invidious, rimgo etc. - couldn't live without it especially on mobile where using Twitter without the app is really obnoxious
CookieAutoDelete combined with 'I still don't care about cookies': delete cookies the moment you close the tab if not whitelisted, also remove cookie notices and accept all cookies.
Nano Gestures: mouse gestures for navigating websites
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
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
Does anyone know of an extension that let's you view privated subs on Reddit? I'm tired of the not being able to access important info because of the blackouts. If anyone knows of an extension or a TamperMonkey script please let me know!
Ads and privacy
UBlock Origin (AdBlocker)
Privacy Badger (Blocks some trackers)
ClearURLs (removes tracking elements from URLs)
DeleteNonio (in my country, all newspapers are trying to force you to sign up for this service with an annoying popup)
Don't Track me Google (removes tracking from Google search result links) Startpage.com (search engine)
Firefox Multi-Account containers/Facebook Container (so cookies cannot be accessed between all sites freely)
Reddit
Old Reddit Redirect (I really don't want the new design)
Reddit Enhancement Suite (nice features to have)
LeechBlock NG (to block Reddit during the blackout. See you next week...maybe)
YouTube
Enhancer for YouTube (some QoL features)
SponsorBlock for YouTube (skip sponsor parts in videos)
YouTube Auto Like (auto likes the videos you watch, depending on what you decide in the settings)
Youtube NonStop (no more "Video Paused. Continue Watching?")
QoL
Rikaichamp (translate Japanese on hover)
Augmented Steam (to check prices between stores, mostly)
Dark Reader (turn dark mode for select websites)
Firefox Translations (website translation, like Chrome and Edge have)
LanguageTool (to help me write fewer mistakes)
Metrification (convert imperial to metric on the fly)
Tampermonkey (to add some useful scripts to sites you want)
Visual
Firefox Color (to customize the theme)
Tabliss (new tab page)
Wide Github (change repos to be full width)
Stylus (add custom CSS to sites you want)
One on Firefox that's super helpful for work is Simple Tab Groups. It lets me keep plenty of tabs open without it turning into a disorganized mess. Better than Chrome's built-in tab organization, imo.
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?
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!
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.
Something that I recently started to use is Raindrop.io. It's a cloud bookmark organizer and I find it really useful. And the extension is also really good with lots of features. I think it's odd that people don't know/talk about it!
Anyone have some favorites related to Lemmy or Mastodon? I've seen a couple that claim to make following and subscribing easier on other instances but I'm not sure if they are trustworthy.
Stylus. And then find Lemmy scripts on UserStyles.world to install into Stylus and you can change the look and feel for Lemmy to make it more like Reddit, or whatever. I currently use a combination of 'Better Lemmy' and 'Old reddit-ish Lemmy'.
Startpage Privacy (I've also used Privacy Badger, giving this one a try and it seems to work well)
Vimium (browse using vim shortcuts)
New Window Without Toolbar (does what it says; opens the current page in a new window without any toolbar at all, nice minimal look)
New Tab Override (so new tabs land on my personal landing page, not the Firefox home or blank)
That's it really, my needs are simple.
Also, TIL about "I don't care about cookies" so I'm tempted to install that, but I do sort of care about cookies... but I also clear them relatively frequently, so it's probably fine.
Imagus [enlarges images, great for my old tired eyeballs]
Ad Observer (run by Cybersecurity for Democracy project at New York University, it examines any ads you DO get to look for patterns in how advertising is being used to influence people on social media.)
To Google Translate (Highlight something and send it straight to a Translate page)
Outside of ones already stated: Facebook Container is great. I have to use FB for work, so it's good to keep is separated from the rest of my browsing.
-Vimium (install and hit the letter 'f' key. You will immediately understand the appeal if you are a keyboard jockey)
-A Userscript handler (Violentmonkey)
-Dark Reader
-Save to Pocket
-Bitwarden
-Ublock if the browser doesn't have baked in Ad blocks.
Bypass Paywalls Clean - It allows me to read articles on a huge number of sites without having to login or pay. I already have access to news sites I care about through legitimate means but for the sake of being able to quickly read something, this extension cannot be beat.> English
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.
I use touchpad gestures.
Two fingers left-right: back-forward.
Three fingers up-down: cycle between tabs
Three fingers left-rigtht: close tab-reopen tab
Four fingers pinch in: Home
Three fingers pinch in: New tab
Highlighter + Notes helps my ADHD a lot by letting me highlight important phrases in big blocks of texts, especially any articles or posts I might be reading and replying to
Archive Page for archive.today is also self-explanatory, I like using it to create permalinks or de-paywalled links to news articles
umatrix. ..underappreciated imo.
take a shot for everytime sum1 mentions ublock.
get $100 dollars everytime sum1 mentions umatrix.
im still broke but wasted AF!
web of trust, or mywot. puts a little sign next to every link telling you if they're trustworthy. fucken game changer. botsight is a great one for twitter. and buzzkill, well, kills buzzfeed
FoxScroller, I like to scroll pages while practicing music, which always impresses people.
Gesturefy, gotta have those mouse gestures. With a tiny Windows program called NeatMouse I can do it all with the keyboard, too. Kinda off topic.
Imagus, what is this clicking and opening crap?
SessionSync is good for saving your tabs. Fun to see what you were wasting time on 5 years ago.