What are your favorite browser extensions?

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, (edited )

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.

reactormonk,

Have you figured out a way to combine it with windows, such that each window has a designated container, and all tabs open in that container?

nickb333,

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.

FuzzyHusky48,

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,

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.

leanleft,
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umatrix. …underappreciated imo.
take a shot for everytime sum1 mentions ublock.
get $100 dollars everytime sum1 mentions umatrix.
im still broke but wasted AF!

monerobull,

Ublock + Sponsorblock are a killer combo I couldn't use the internet without. I also use keepa to see amazon price history.

SlimTux,

If you already use Ublock, isnt another blocking extension (Sponsorblock) kind of meaningless?

cmnybo,

Some of my favorite Firefox extensions:

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.

Maven,
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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.

albert180,

Consent-O-Matic, it declines all cookie banners for you (or accepts you can decide it in the settings)

Hedup,

omg, I needed this so much! Thank you!

Taxxor,

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

lentilhoarder, (edited )

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.

Onihikage,
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Mandatory:

  • 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?
  • Translate Web Pages because not everything I want to read is in English

Nice to haves:

emk,

I think uBlock Origin, SponsorBlock, and Dark Reader are my favs.

noodlejetski,

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,

...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,

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?

ragebol,
  • PrivacyBadger
  • Consentomatic
  • Bitwarden
  • something for mouse gestures
  • Sponsorblock
  • YouTube enhancement suite (not sure about the name)
boomboxnation, (edited ) 
-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 (I have a Kobo ereader, this extension is a must for reading on the go)
-Bitwarden
-Ublock if the browser doesn't have baked in Ad blocks.

I love reading the responses to this question.

Lycan,

Can you explain how you use Pocket with your Kobo e-reader? Which model do you have? I have a Kobo Libra H2O and have never thought to use it for anything other than books I've checked out from the library.

boomboxnation, (edited )

It's quite simple. Create a pocket account at https://getpocket.com

Add some articles or Web Serial chapters to your pocket (easier with the Save to Pocket extension)

Add the Pocket account to your Kobo.

Sync your kobo.

It's such an under advertised feature of the Kobo devices.

Better but personally I don't like creating accounts on the kobo, would rather do on the desktop: https://help.kobo.com/hc/en-us/articles/360017763753-Use-the-Pocket-App-with-your-Kobo-eReader

lentilhoarder, (edited )

It’s such an under advertised feature of the Kobo devices.

💯 - it's one of the reasons I chose to get a Kobo over a Kindle, I've mentioned the feature to friends and they had no clue that they support Pocket.

Chapi_Chan,

Gestures. Hover zoom images. Tab tree view.

rfel,

Unhook - Remove YouTube Recommended Videos - This one simplifies the YouTube experience and helps you to spend less time watching videos endlessly.

noodlejetski,

if you replace the "youtube.com" with "piped.video" in the URL, you get all the videos with no ads, no tracking, and no distractions.

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