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!

    • Fylkir
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      3 years 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.

  • leanleft@lemmy.mlEnglish
    2·
    2 years ago

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

  • albert180@feddit.de
    1·
    3 years ago

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

  • flatbield@beehaw.org
    1·
    3 years 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.

    • leanleft@lemmy.mlEnglish
      1·
      2 years ago

      or u can save the page using the browser menu.
      sometimes this allows for smaller size. and also ability to crop out unwanted resources. but then the page breaks and having a resource folder is messy to deal with.

  • TotoroTheGreat@beehaw.org
    1·
    3 years ago

    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
      0·
      3 years ago

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

    • ClammyMantis488@beehaw.org
      0·
      3 years 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.

    • cthonctic@kbin.social
      0·
      3 years 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
        1·
        3 years 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
          0·
          3 years 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:)

          • Dymonika@beehaw.org
            1·
            3 years ago

            Wait, what? You can force any website to comply with your own CSS? How (apart from manual Inspector edits every time)?

            • cthonctic@kbin.social
              1·
              3 years 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
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              3 years 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.

  • Himawari@lemmy.4d2.org
    0·
    3 years ago

    Mine’s Redirector. I use it to force redirection of some URLs, for example:

    • Redirecting an amp URL to a non-amp
    • Redirecting the URL of a small-scaled image to the URL of the original size
    • Redirecting a mobile site to its desktop equvalent (e.g. Wikipedia)
    • When I was using Reddit, I also used this extension to force all links to go to old.reddit.com
    • jiggs@beehaw.org
      0·
      3 years ago

      Haven’t been able to live without it for at least 15 years now. I remember years ago the switch to the ‘new’ addon system when Firefox had a major update. I stayed on the old Firefox until Tree Style Tab was ported to the new one.

  • Zamboniman@lemmy.ca
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    3 years ago

    For Lemmy:

    Stylus. And then find Lemmy scripts on UserStyles.world to install into Stylus and you can change the look and feel for Lemmy to make it more like Reddit, or whatever. I currently use a combination of ‘Better Lemmy’ and ‘Old reddit-ish Lemmy’.

    For general browsing:

    uBlock Origin for ads

    Privacy Badger for tracking

    For YouTube:

    Enhancer for YouTube

  • bermuda@beehaw.org
    0·
    3 years 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.

    • ollien@beehaw.org
      0·
      3 years ago

      LanguageTool is super cool because you can run it locally! I love it because of that, alone.

    • squid010@beehaw.org
      0·
      3 years ago

      LanguageTool

      I’ll have to look into that. I’ve always liked the idea of Grammarly, but it seemed like I was basically downloading a keylogger, which seemed… unwise, lol.

    • confusedwiseman@beehaw.orgEnglish
      0·
      3 years ago

      Can y’all point me in the right direction on why grammarly is shady? Maybe that premium account was a bad idea, but I’ve loved it for the last few years to help me be a better writer.