Ublock origin ofc
Ublock Origin and Vimium C. That's it.
I used Dark Reader until last week, when I discovered a native Firefox setting that does the job better: Settings > Language and appearance > Colors > Manage > set background to Black and override to Always.
No more white flashes, EVER (yes, I tried absolutely everything but on some sites there was nothing to be done, even with every possible CSS hack). And no more add-on speed penalty (to be fair it was small, and Dark Reader is still an amazing tool).
Now the web looks pretty ugly but it is fast and always dark. White flashes banished FOREVER.
Ublock [1] and Noscript [2] are must have. you could also checkout Privacy Badger [3].
If you use arkenfox user.js [4] you could also use I still don't care about cookies [5]
- [1] https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/ublock-origin/
- [2] https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/noscript/
- [3] https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/privacy-badger17/
- [4] https://github.com/arkenfox/user.js/
- [5] https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/istilldontcareaboutcookies
Tree style tabs, which gives vertical tabs that you can arrange in a hierarchy to keep related ones together
Simple tab groups, which lets you have multiple sets of open tabs you can switch between (can you tell I have a problem with too many tabs?)
Unstick!, which when clicked removes any sticky elements, i.e. parts of the page that stay on your screen while you scroll. It's great for removing all the bars and obstructions to reading that pages like to put in your way. For some reason I have to click it twice for it to work
Read aloud, a good text to speech extension to read pages or parts of pages to you. It can be used with cloud based neural voices from Google and Amazon with some setup
Consent-o-matic, which gets rid of the cookie consent popups for you and it's configurable as to which types of cookies it will refuse or consent to for you
SponsorBlock for YouTube, which can auto skip sponsor reads and various other kinds of segments you select to be skipped
A few short months ago I would have said RES but, well 🤷♀️
I absolutely love Tree Style Tabs. I usually have a ton of tabs open (middle mouse click is my best friend) and that helps me keep it all organized, and quickly close all the ones I don't need anymore. I also did a change in the profile settings for Firefox to get rid of the normal tabs so now I only have the tree ones. (I don't really remember how I did that though, it was ages ago and involved editing some files in appdata)
I see some of these have already been mentioned, but they do deserve repeating;
- µBlock Origin - blocks ads, and does it well.
- Privacy Badger - blocks trackers, rewrites some tracking URLs, etc.
- Multi-Account Containers - for those places where you want to keep tabs separate, giving each container its own cookies/session/etc.
- Consent-O-Matic - automatically handles a lot of pages that shove annoying (and often technically GDPR-illegal due to lacking a quick "reject all" button) consent forms in your face.
- Imagus - shows linked images on hover, including support for galleries and scrolling through all the images contained.
- uBlock Origin
- DarkReader
- SiteDelta Watch
- Show QRCode
- Copy Tabs
- Copy Link Extras
- Select Same Origin Tabs
- Open in Temp Container
- more
- uBlock Origin: Blocks ads, annoying popups and cookie banners.
- Bitwarden: For password management and logins.
- SponsorBlock: Skips sponsors and self-promotions on YouTube. A huge time-saver.
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Ublock Origin
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Libredirect
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Bypass Paywalls Clean
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I use:
- uBlock origin (of course) (also on my phone)
- Web archives (also on my phone)
- ClearURLs (also on my phone)
- Consent-O-Matic
- Bitwarden
- Search by image
- Enhancer for YouTube™
- SponsorBlock
- Return YouTube Dislike
- Augmented Steam
- Dark reader
- Tree Style Tab
- Feedbro
- User-Agent Switcher and Manager
- Disable WebRTC
And probably a few more I don't remember.
Bitwarden, KDE Connect, Plasma Integration, ublock (of course), foxy gestures
ublock origin, fast forward, pushbullet.
Channel Blocker for YouTube. Stop all those horseshit channels from reappearing in your suggestions.
Control Panel for Twitter. Allows you to customise your homepage by removing / changing parts of the UI, blocking ads and whatnot.
Save webP as png / jpg. Right-click to save those fucking awful files as something you can actual use.
Unwanted Twitch. Add channels / games / tags and keywords to a universal blacklist that stops them from appearing in the 'Browse' or recommended sections. Great for filtering out mince like IRL streams, shit like LoL etc. and chud streamers.
- uBlock Origin (of course)
- Tab Stash: It lets you organize your tabs into groups and keep the groups around in a sidebar that unloads them when you don't need them at the moment. Very helpful for someone like me who always has a bunch of tabs open.
- uBlacklist: It lets you blacklist domains from showing up in search results. It supports different search engines. Every helpful to get rid of SEO spam sites and mirror sites.
- Duplicate Tabs Closer: It detects when you have multiple tabs open for the same webpage.
Multi account container and temporary container.
Decentraleyes, ublock origin, consent-o-matic
Bitwarden, AdGuard, DarkReader
uBlock Origin, Tridactyl, and Translate Web Pages.
User Agent Spoofer whenever I need it.
Consent o matic it automatically fills out the gdpr boxes with your preferences. And it is developed by a danish university, so seems pretty safe. :)
All of this may beg the question: What add-ons would we like to see?
One that doesn't exist is QOI Viewer that would render the Quite OK image format into a png for Firefox to display.
Ublock Origin Dark Reader Proton Pass Zotero Betterfox UserJS
the ones that I actively use: Rotate and Zoom Image; Image extract; SVG Export; Simple mass downloader; PassLok Image Steganography; Color Changer; Save Screenshot; Behind the Overlay Revival
those that work in the background: Redirect AMP to HTML; Chameleon; JPEG XL Viewer; + the usual blockers & security
uBlock origin
uBlock Origin
Deepl
Tineye
Ublock Origin, Privacy Badger, LocalCDN, Multi Account Container and Dark Reader.
- Checker Plus for Gmail - Great way for me to see incoming emails in multiple inboxes, and mark as read/unread or respond
- Open With - quickly open a webpage in another browser
- SponsorBlock for YouTube - skips ads and sponsor segments in YouTube videos
- uBlock Origin - The best adblocker
- Video Speed Controller - Allows you to change the speed of a video, outside the normally allowed range (some slower videos are much better at 3x)
- Snap Links - Lets you draw a rectangle and opens all links inside. Great for checking out a list of links, like the links in this comment, for example
- Reopen closed Tabs
I often want to reopen a tab i recently closed, so this is very handy for me.
- Languagetool
On the fly rule-based Spelling check. Works very good and in many languages. And the best: It's Open Source.
- Facebook-, Google- and Microsoftcontainer
Uses the Firefox Tab-Container Fwature, to lock those companies in Tab-Groups just with themselves. I don't use Tab-Groups aside of that, so it comes in handy.
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Firefox Translate
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(Not really an extention, but still nice) Firefox Gnome Theme, for my personal machines and Firefox UI Fix for the machines at work to make Firefox look more at home on Linux and Windows.
Behind the overlay
Swisscows search engine, can't live without it
I see a lot of the same addons here, as one would reasonably expect, but I'm surprised there's been no mention of uMatrix. Using uMatrix and denying most elements by default, you can manually allow scripts, media, etc. per domain and save those rules for pages you go to often. It gives you more granular control than simply choosing to allow/deny all third-party scripts, and you can see exactly what's going on under the hood.
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uBlock Origin of course and Malwarebytes Browser Guard (because I'm fortunate enough to have one of those coveted lifetime keys)
@t0fr uBlock Origin, Bitwarden, Firefox Translations
The ones I am unable to use a browser without:
- Sidebery
- Darkreader
- Bitwarden
- uBlock origin
- uMatrix (even if it won't get any more updates)
- Firefox Multi account containers (although I probably can just do this with Sidebery)
Nice to haves:
- Tabby
- Don't Fuck With Paste (this is really nice when login pages try to prevent password manager for “Security” reasons)
- Augmented Steam
- ProtonDB for Steam
- Imagus
- HTTPS everywhere (because websites still to this day can't set a proper redirect)
- Facebook container
- LanguageTool (semi open-source alternative to Grammarly)
- Invidious (this redirects YouTube links to invidious instance selector)(There are like 4 different ones, all not updated in 2–4 years, I am thinking of learning enough coding to support this)
- Tabliss (this is a nice new tab where I can add reminders of what I am supposed to be doing instead of what I am doing)
- Custom Scrollbars
- User-Agent Switcher and Manager
I used to have plugins for reddit (like RES and old reddit redirect), but won't need them anymore.
Hoxx vpn for those spicy and not allowed sites
uBlock
NoScript
ControlPanel for Twitter
Youtube Shorts Block
Enhancer for Youtube
Decentraleyes
ClearURLs
Mute Twitch Ads
TinEyeFor themes: Foxkeh Cloud or Purple Sparkle.
