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Wayback Machine and also archive.is’s addons. I archive webpages frequently so they’re super helpful. And if a webpage has been taken down you can easily go to an archived version with the Wayback addon.
Also, Vimium C. Not for everyone and definitely down to personal preference rather than “I recommend this to everyone”, but I’d struggle to browse the web comfortably without it.
Ublock, decentralize, adblockplus, noscript, snowflake. (This is what I used on ff, but I use brave for a while now and its so much easier, brave + invidious)
Decentralise and adblockplus do nothing uBlock Origin doesn’t already do. You can remove them. Also it’s uBlock Origin, not just uBlock.
Imagus feels like in an alternate universe it could be default browser behavior. When you hover over an image it will expand to full resolution and then you can press buttons to open in new tab, download, zoom in, etc.
Works on pretty much any website and is nice if the website has sized the images too small or if your eyesight is less than great.this looks interesting, gonna give it a go
Sidebery on Firefox. Life changer for organising tabs.
What does it do?
It’s a tab organiser, like tree style tabs.
Has a bunch of organisation features and makes it easier to manage lots of tabs.
Not a full list, but these are my day to day extensions that I use the most:
UBlock Origin - (obviously)
600% Sound Volume - managing volume for tabs
Dark Reader - Dark theme, that works well for *most *sites. Sometimes I need to manually disable it for certain sites that don’t play well, but that’s pretty rare
Fake Data - fill forms with random generated data - for every site i need to sign up for and don’t want to use PII
addy.io - extension for add.io email forwarding service (subscription needed) generate random emails for every website i sign up for that direct to my main email. If I start getting spam, I know which alias it came from and which site I made it for
password manager extension of choice - I prefer Bitwarden, but I get a 1Password subscription free with work so that’s what I use to share password records with family
firefox container manager - very handy for work tabs, logging in with family credentials, etc
Quick note, duckduckgo has a free alias email forwarding service and it integrates with bitwarden
Neat, I’ll check it out
**I checked it out, and there’s no reply functionality (which I use especially for support tickets), the email forwarding doesnt have a separate app, so it’s a bit clunkier to organize each alias through the duckduckgo app/extension itself. I’ll stick with addy.io for my use, but good to know they have that.
Ublock origin
My list of extensions
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Imagus - displays bigger image when hovered over (Imagus Mod recommended);
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Sponsor Block - Skips promotions on YT videos;
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TOS;DR - summarizes TOS and Privacy Policies;
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Cookie Autodelete - erases cookies when you close a tab, can make you log out regularly if you don’t put an website on a whitelist, though.
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Dark Reader - changes the page CSS and creates a dark mode version of any page, while it isn’t always 100% perfect, it has many useful configurations, like whitelisting websites OR words on them, changing to a light mode, but less bright version of it, setting up the time that it activates, and a few more.
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Open tabs next to current/Always Right - What the names says, 2 different extensions, but on Chrome I prefer to combine them.
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Wayback Machine - has an option to auto archive, can bring you to oldest or newest versions of websites and links.
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Search Image - gives you 6 or so options to search for an image online, kind of combines with Imagus.
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uBlock Origin - the best ad blocker so far, browsers with built in adblock use it.
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Privacy Badger - blocks hidden trackers once it sees then on 3 different websites
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WhatFont - displays the font name in a popup, this is more a personal thing, but I enjoy it.
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Anti fingerprinting extensions can possibly help.
This is a long list, but these are one of the extensions that I have and I most value, there are some otherb too, but those are more aesthetic than anything.
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Vimium.
is there a way to disable the plugin stopping when you get to a Firefox page like settings? It’s really annoying to be using hotkeys to scroll through tabs then just get stuck and have to use mouse
Test adding the preferences page to “excluded URLs” in the settings of vimium.
For Firefox:
UBlock Origin, of course.
And that extension that turns all Reddit pages into old Reddit pages. (I hate the redesign with a passion.)
I use Tampermonkey with a rule that turns all reddit links to old.reddit. ubo for disabling js on reddit
Just curious but how does disabling javascript on Reddit change the experience? Iir, diaabling it can break certain websites.
It won’t allow reddit to have any tracking or analytics since no JS is able to run, it’s practically a static html site. As for your experience, it works pretty much the same without JS
Am I mistaken, or would it make Reddit load slightly faster and use less resources? I might just give it a go.
Reddit Enhancement Suite I believe is the one you are referencing.
No, this one is on life support and it’s the one which injects extra controls for image links, Twitter links and whatnot. The one you are thinking of is old Reddit redirect. And yeah, couldn’t use Reddit without it
On Android I’m using Old Reddit Redirect. (I imagine just changing the URL is simpler, besides I’m not there enough to desire tons of features… I don’t even have a Reddit acct. currently.)
On PC I just use old reddit boolmarks, and a bookmarklet that toggles to old Reddit :D
uBO, Facebook container, Bitwarden, Privacy Badger. People say uBO already covers Privacy Badger but I like keeping it there because of the replace widget feature.
What’s the replace widget feature?
I just enjoy usimg both
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“Sponsor Block” is a game changer as well
Isn’t NoScript redundant if you run UBO in medium mode?
Roughly similar to using Adblock Plus with many filter lists + NoScript with 1st-party scripts/frames automatically trusted. Unlike NoScript however, you can easily point-and-click to block/allow scripts on a per-site basis.
If you go in ublock origin settings, scroll all the way down, you can toggle a setting that disables JS by default. On each site you can whitelist it by clicking ubo and enable JS.
I wasn’t aware of this feature in UBO, but it doesn’t seem to be quite the same. As best I can tell (with a quick test), UBO lets me turn all scripts on or off for a site. I don’t see any sort of granular controls for selecting which domains to load scripts from (and I might just be missing it). For example, I may want to allow first party scripts to run on a site and maybe third party scripts from one or two domains. But, I don’t want scripts from other third party domains to execute. It’s very much a fine grained, least privileged style of script management. It’s a lot more work, as you often have to spend a few minutes sussing out which domains need to be whitelisted to allow a site to reach minimum functionality; but, you are not often caught offguard by a site doing strange things on your system.
Ah ok. I might give that a whirl then.
If you check “I’m an advanced user” in the settings, then hit the “More” button in the dropdown a few times it’ll show the more advanced interface that lets you choose which third party domains to allow. It doesn’t work quite the same since it blocks both content and scripts per site, but I find it good enough for my usage.
edit: You can technically block just scripts per 3rd party site, but it involves manually editing the content type for your rules in the settings. It’s not part of the main interface, so I never bother using it.
I don’t understand your edit, how is more things doing the same thing better? It adds complexity, attack surface while taking resources.
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Wow, you are really confused. The argument about the functionality being already implemented by Firefox was about https everywhere. This has nothing to do with adblocking and it does break some sites (the one still not using https) but you can still access them with a click.
Ah, that makes sense. Fair enough, I guess Incan disable that plugin now.
I thought HTTPS everywhere was baked into browsers now and didn’t need to be installed anymore? Is that not correct?
Yes i think firefox will do it if configured correctly
Yeah HTTPS-everwhere was important 10+ years ago, but now the main browsers all do this by default.
surfingkeys - extension which add vim keybindings for control your browser without mouse
Ublock Origin Privacy badger Cookie AutoDelete
Privacy Badger is useless with uBlock Origin and cookie autodelete is useless with Firefox in strict mode.
As I’ve understood, privacy badger reliability on heuristic classification of trackers can help blocking the latest trackers that are still not present in ublock origin lists. And cookie autodelete allows me to choose which cookies I want to keep and delete the rest. And Strict mode only blocks cross-site cookies, I want them all deleted.
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Privacy Badger stopped using heuristic 4 years ago because it could be used to fingerprint you.
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Cookie autodelete simply does not work with Firefox’s Total Cookie Protection, which is enabled by default.
As of Firefox 86, strict mode is not supported at this time due to missing APIs to handle the Total Cookie Protection. Also as of Firefox 103, standard mode has also enabled Total Cookie Protection. Use ‘strict’ mode if using pre-86, use standard mode for versions 86-102, or from version 103+ use the custom configuration and set cookie to ‘cross site tracking cookies’ option (not the cross-site cookies).
https://addons.mozilla.org/fr/firefox/addon/cookie-autodelete/
You don’t even need an extension to automatically delete cookies, just enable
privacy.sanitize.sanitizeOnShutdownandprivacy.clearOnShutdown_v2.cookiesAndStorage. To add an exception: Ctrl+I>Permissions>Cookies>Allow.Check Arkenfox’s extension page and the section about sanitizing on shutdown.
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Adnausem. Built on top of unlock origin it will simulate clicks on ads it hides to mess up your advertising profile. Also has an ad vault so you can see the adverts it is hiding.
Consent-o-matic. Run by a Danish uni, it will auto deny all cookie popups by actually opting out of everything for you.
