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!

  • startawave@beehaw.org
    21·
    1 year ago

    Firefox Multi-Account Containers is 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.

    • FuzzyHusky48@kbin.social
      4·
      1 year ago

      This is has been so useful in my attempts to go FireFox full time. I always had Edge and Firefox on the work laptop to separate things when needed, but the containers completely eliminated that.

      My one critique would be if the assigned links wouldn’t open an empty tab when that specific container opens.

    • Elw@lemmy.sdf.org
      2·
      1 year ago

      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.

    • Nick B.@beehaw.org
      1·
      1 year ago

      This one. I need to use Farcebook occasionally and this allows me to stay logged in without getting tracked elsewhere. Same for my Google account.

    • Fylkir@lemmy.sdf.org
      1·
      1 year 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.

    • cthonctic@kbin.social
      5·
      1 year 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
        4·
        1 year 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
          2·
          1 year 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:)

            • cthonctic@kbin.social
              2·
              1 year 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. :)

            • sourcerer@fosstodon.org
              2·
              1 year ago

              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.

  • bermuda@beehaw.org
    17·
    1 year ago

    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.

  • nonsense@beehaw.org
    14·
    1 year ago

    Consent-O-Matic
    Automatic handling of GDPR consent forms

    DuckDuckGo Privacy Essentials
    I mostly use this for the email protection (highly recommended!)

    ScrollAnywhere
    Drag scrollbar with middlemouse button anywhere on the page.

    • Notorious@lemm.ee
      3·
      1 year ago

      ScrollAnywhere is amazing. I’ve used BetterMouse on Mac for several months now and have grown accustomed to scrolling by click-dragging. Really wish there was some sort of similar app for Windows and Linux, but unfortunately I’ve spent hours searching and haven’t found anything.

  • milkytoast@kbin.social
    14·
    1 year ago

    uBlock Origin
    PrivacyBadger
    Return YouTube Dislike
    SponsorBlock
    Translate (Firefox doesnt have website translation as a native feature)

    • pm_me_weird_thoughts@lemm.ee
      5·
      1 year ago

      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
  • Saik0@lemmy.saik0.com
    12·
    1 year ago

    I run Firefox

    • 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 ™ (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?

  • TotoroTheGreat@beehaw.org
    10·
    1 year 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.

    • kotnik@lemmy.sdf.org
      3·
      1 year ago

      I use CamelCamelCamel for Amazon. Besides price history it allows notifications on sales or price drops.

    • ClammyMantis488@beehaw.org
      2·
      1 year ago

      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.

  • noodlejetski@beehaw.org
    9·
    1 year 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·
      1 year 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·
      1 year 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?

  • abrr1sz@beehaw.org
    9·
    1 year ago

    So, let’s try to compile a list.

    • “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.

    • Yoru_Sulfur@lemmy.davidbuckley.ca
      7·
      1 year ago

      In case you didn’t know, the “I don’t care about cookies” extension was recently sold to Avast. I don’t know if anyone has seen them make any sketchy changes yet, but personally I didn’t want to trust them and uninstalled it

  • flatbield@beehaw.org
    9·
    1 year 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.