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Another for Ublock Origin
Youtube Enhancer
Imagus [enlarges images, great for my old tired eyeballs]
Ad Observer (run by Cybersecurity for Democracy project at New York University, it examines any ads you DO get to look for patterns in how advertising is being used to influence people on social media.)
To Google Translate (Highlight something and send it straight to a Translate page)
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
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 Bitwarden Ublock if the browser doesn't have baked in Ad blocks.
I love reading the responses to this question.
can't live without:
- uBlock (goes without saying)
- Startpage Privacy (I've also used Privacy Badger, giving this one a try and it seems to work well)
- Vimium (browse using vim shortcuts)
- New Window Without Toolbar (does what it says; opens the current page in a new window without any toolbar at all, nice minimal look)
- New Tab Override (so new tabs land on my personal landing page, not the Firefox home or blank)
That's it really, my needs are simple.
Also, TIL about "I don't care about cookies" so I'm tempted to install that, but I do sort of care about cookies... but I also clear them relatively frequently, so it's probably fine.
I literally cannot browse the web anymore without HoverZoom+
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.
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.
Feedbro for RSS and LibRedirect for popular service redirects to other frontends
Gestures. Hover zoom images. Tab tree view.
uBlock Origin
Read Aloud
FB Purity
Facebook Container
SAML-tracer (for work)
Disconnect
ReviewMeta.com
Consent-O-Matic
DDG Privacy Essentials Coin Mining Blocker Enhancer for YouTube Turbo Download Manager Ghostery uBlock Origin Surfshark VPN Extension Privacy Badger
Ublock + Sponsorblock are a killer combo I couldn't use the internet without. I also use keepa to see amazon price history.