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submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
 

I just moved to Firefox and was wondering what extensions/themes people use and what's reccomended

Also good just as a general post for all good Firefox Extensions & Themes ect.

Thanks!

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

If you use youtube a lot, Return YouTube Dislike, SponsorBlock & uBlock Origin. uBlock is still blocking ads on youtube.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

On top of those I also use:

  • pockettube: allows you to manage your subscriptions into categories (e.g. Music, Video Editing, News, Design Tutorials, etc.) and automatically creates playlists of new videos in each group.
  • Enhancer for Youtube: adds convenient buttons, themes and loads of other features like automatically selecting your desired resolution.
[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

uBlock Origin is a must for ad blocking. Anything else is just extra flavour. I like SponserBlock and Return YT Dislikes.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Bypass firewalls clean is the GOAT.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Fwiw, this is the kind of thread I used to love The Other Site for. Glad to find one here!

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Firefox is great mostly on its own, and I only use two extensions:

  • uBlock Origin: Enough said.
  • Disable Javascript: Works great for getting around a lot of paywalls.
[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

In case you don’t know, Ublock origin can block JavaScript per site basis. Just hit the “more v” at the bottom

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Some extensions used by me:

  • uBlock Origin
  • Firefox Translations (works on-device)
  • LibRedirect (redirects from certain sites (like youtube) to their frontends (like invidious))

For android I also use Android PDF.js, to view pdf files on mobile.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

One that is more specific to Lemmy, which I am working on

[email protected]

While this is extension is mine and I have an obvious bias, I am using the extension constantly for my personal use as well. Might be nice for others too :)

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Hi there! Looks like you linked to a Lemmy community using a URL instead of its name, which doesn't work well for people on different instances. Try fixing it like this: [email protected]

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

fixed!

That’s something my extension actually helps with as well :)

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago
[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

uBlock Origin is just required for me to block ads and other annoyances. Generally I also use it to block the annoying cookie popups instead of clicking any of their buttons instead of opting for a different extension, like I don't care about cookies.

I also almost always have Tree-Style Tab, though I've found that it can cause Firefox to be non-performant on memory-constrained devices. This extension gives you a tab sidebar (using a similar interface element like the bookmarks sidebar) that organizes your tabs in a tree. I will often have hundreds of tabs open normally, and this makes them more manageable, as I middle-click everything to open things in a new tab, particularly when I'm researching. It gives a nice rudimentary tree view of what content related to what, like if I'm on a Wikipedia dive or TV Tropes dive.

I also usually have Tampermonkey, as I usually want to make a website more accessible. A lot of the time, it's simply so I can autofill usernames in a text box, because the website might have the login flow split between pages, and Firefox does not recognize or allow me to select an autofill the username for me. Other times, it's to automatically click through that annoying Microsoft login flow "Keep me signed in? (Don't ask as often)".

For watching YouTube, I use the SponsorBlock addon, because sponsored segments have become very annoying, though some creators have been able to make them actually fulfilling to watch.

On Android Firefox, I also get Disable Page Visibility API. This allows me to use YouTube in Firefox and even background the app and listen to music that way. Plus, with uBlock Origin, I am also able to block ads. I also sometimes install this on different profiles for situations where I believe the web app may try to detect my visibility, such as an online coding test for job opportunities where it will not want me to change windows to look up answers or type code into a compiler (this saved me during a C++ multiple choice exam which asked many times "Which of these is invalid C++?" and "What is the output of [this complicated code block]?").

The below is for my work computers only, because I generally don't need them otherwise.

I will additionally have Firefox Multi-Account Containers and couple that with Simple Tab Groups as I have 6 logins, with one particular site requiring 3 of those logins. I essentially configure the URLs I need to be in certain groups, define one container for each, and then have a couple of default tab groups set as sticky groups that will allow all containers to stay as those containers so I can use multiple sites side-by-side. The interaction with Tree-Style Tab can be a bit janky, especially when configuring new catch tab regular expressions, but usually disabling and re-enabling both Tree-Style Tab and Simple Tab Groups will fix that. Mostly I do this, because my company refuses to fix their SSO breaking due to weird cookie issues, and it's pretty nice to be able to clear cookies for a particular tab group easily.

To clear cookies, and because I do that very often, I use Cookie Quick Manager. I can clear a tab group's entire cookie set by having a tab selected in that tab group, then using "Delete current Context Cookies" and usually that will fix my login issues, and also keep my logins to other sites. For my personal use, I generally don't need to clear cookies, or using a private window, clearing per-site via the web console, or clearing in settings is good enough.

Since I do a bit of web troubleshooting, Modify Header Value is pretty nice. I can call API endpoints that require a subscription key from my browser, even using the web console, and I don't need to worry about figuring out if my headers are correct. I can also get my team to get this add-on so they can do their basic troubleshooting. For my personal computer, I'm much more free to create ad-hoc scripts to test things that I can save somewhere, as sending others scripts in my organization also comes with implicit hours of training and coaching on how to use them (and our leadership has been very sensitive to explicit training hours to get everyone up to speed).

Finally, User-Agent Switcher and Manager for the sites that are built for Chrome, but have worse performance or broken features on Firefox, yet they work fine when Firefox sends them a Chrome user agent. Thankfully, I rarely have a use for this on my personal computer.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Facebook Container, if you're like me and feel forced to use that godawful site because all your friends are still there.

Plus another vote for uBlock Origin (I have a feeling that one will come up a lot).

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Haven't seen so far, so: ClearURLs

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

My 2 cents:

  • LeechBlock - for blocking distracting websites on schedules
  • Unhook - for hiding YouTube recommended videos, comments and other distractions
  • Privacy Badger - for blocking trackers
[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago
[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

In addition to ublock,
I would also suggest

  • decentraleyes
    Stores commonly used librarys localy,
    instead of downloading them from a third party.

  • clearURLs
    Removes tracking parameters from links.

  • google search fixer
    Shows the more advanced search features,
    That firefox for Android currently doesn't get

  • video Background Play Fix
    What the name says,
    Good when you use youtube in the browser.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I use both often but how well does Tab Session Manager work for you? I've been using it for years and have had this issue for years where often when I'd try to restore a session, a bunch of tabs would be lost and replaced with blank new tab pages. It's really frustrating when I trust the extension with session up to literally 100s of tabs.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

I have to say I've never had that happen, but I mostly use it as backup in case Firefox's own session restore fails or is overwritten somehow. I'm not sure what you can do, sorry :/

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

I like to recommend Privacypossum, it returns garbage data to tracking companies: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/privacy-possum/

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Vimium C - All by Keyboard – Get this Extension for 🦊 Firefox (en-US) https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/vimium-c/

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

This is AWESOME, thanks so much!

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)
  • ublock origin
  • noscript
  • sponsorblock
  • greasemonkey
[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

SponsorBlock is so amazing for youtube. I've recently started to use DeArrow as well which is from the same creator as SponsorBlock. It changes titles and thumbnails to user voted ones so you can avoid all the clickbait videoes.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

ublock origin bitwarden cookie autodelete dark reader copy plain text mastodon or graze noscript sponsorblock and occasionally grammarly complete black theme

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

What does the Mastodon extension do?

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Ublock Origin and Adblock Plus

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Unhook

Adblock Plus on top of uBlock?

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Extensions I use:

  • Bitwarden password manager
  • Enhancer for youtube
  • Firefox Multi Account Containers
  • Old reddit redirect
  • Reddit enhancement suite
  • Return youtube dislike
  • Search by image
  • Simple Translate
  • Sponsorblock for youtube
  • Ublock origin
  • User agent switcher
  • Wayback machine
  • Youtube audio
[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (2 children)
  • Old reddit redirect
  • Reddit enhancement suite

Not sure how much you need these anymore 👀

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

I hope Lemmy incorporates some of the features of RES, like something similar to the ability to +shortcut community links to an area (top or side) to quickly go to your favorite communities.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I still rely on reddit for technical related subreddits. Now lemmy has very few technical contributors or either the community is very new with only few posts.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

@EqMinMax @omgnvq My suggestion for everyone:

Every time you find some important info only in reddit copy/paste or make a new text whatever on a reliable Lemmy server. If possible also save that page (the one you just did in Lemmy) to web archive.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Dark Reader is one of my must haves. Turns dark mode on for every site. If a particular site already has its own native dark mode you can turn the extension off for just that site. Not perfect in all cases but works beautifully for most pages you view.

EDIT: Tap To Tab is really good if you are using a laptop without a mouse. Just double tap the trackpad to open a link in a new tab.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

To add to this, there’s also a setting to detect native dark themes on websites so it will automatically disable itself on those sites. It’s a great add on.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)
  • Bypass Paywalls Clean
  • Copy PlainText
  • Easy Youtube Video Downloader Express
  • Feedbro
  • Flagfox
  • FoxClocks
  • Grammar Checker & Paraphraser – LanguageTool
  • Library Extension
  • OneTab
  • Print Edit WE
  • Resurrect Pages
  • Search by Image
  • The Camelizer
  • uBlock Origin
  • Unhook - Remove YouTube Recommended Videos
  • Video DownloadHelper
[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

The more plugins you use, the easier you are to profile. If you value your privacy, try to limit your plugins.