If you're switching a couple extensions are uBlock origin and no script with Firefox, prevents most ads and lets you choose which hosts to accept JavaScript from temporarily or permanently.

[–] qprimed@lemmy.ml 11 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

noscript is your web condom. I will not touch a page without it.

[–] wafflez@lemmy.world 6 points 5 months ago (2 children)

Do you need noscript if you have ublock?

[–] erev@lemmy.world 7 points 5 months ago (2 children)

yes, noscript blocks all javascript from running unless allowed, while ublock just blocks ads and trackers to my knowledge.

[–] smowtenshi@lemmy.world 5 points 5 months ago (1 children)

You can set uBlock to disable/enable JavaScript per site too, as per wiki page.

[–] erev@lemmy.world 2 points 5 months ago

interesting, good to know!

[–] uhN0id@programming.dev 3 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Would noscript allow you to block things like when a site packs your history with their website making it impossible to back out to the page you came from? How does it work considering so many sites now are built with JavaScript libraries like React?

[–] whotookkarl@lemmy.world 3 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (1 children)

I dunno about the history but single page apps like react apps you can just accept the JS from the actual host in the address bar and leave all the rest turned off. Just tested on twitch. Accepting no JS loaded the home page and a spinner gif after selecting a stream. Accepted just twitch.tv and I could see the video stream and chat without having to accept any of the other hosts blocked.

[–] uhN0id@programming.dev 3 points 5 months ago

Rad. Thank you. Working on my switch to Firefox today. Between this noscript stuff and learning about styling Firefox with CSS I'm absolutely sold on the switch and no longer dread the process of ditching Chrome (mostly due to familiarity than anything else).

Thanks for the info!

[–] Tenkard@lemmy.ml 6 points 5 months ago

You can use the advanced mode of ublock to replace noscript too

[–] Valmond@lemmy.world 4 points 5 months ago (1 children)

I use ghostery to remove the obnoxious cookie popups here in the EU.

[–] Zerush@lemmy.ml 1 points 5 months ago

Vivaldi has in its inbuild ad/trackerblocker also filters to block cookie popups, no problem with this

[–] sudo42@lemmy.world 1 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (1 children)

Mouse gestures is the killer-app for me on Firefox. Hate surfing without it.

P.S. Do wish Firefox had tab groups tho.

[–] psud@aussie.zone 2 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Surely there is an add on for that

[–] sudo42@lemmy.world 1 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Firefox add-on for Tab Groups? I looked and couldn't find one. At some point they appeared to try to support tab groups, but gave up? I dunno. I've only used Chrome a little. I don't personally care for Chrome, but I found the tab groups useful.

[–] psud@aussie.zone 2 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (1 children)

I just searched "tab groups Firefox" and found results saying it has them. No idea as I wasn't able to find relevant settings last time I tried on a PC. Mobile just now I tried adding tabs to a collection, but it doesn't look like it did anything

[–] sudo42@lemmy.world 1 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Thanks, but I tried a few weeks back to get tab groups working for Firefox on MacOS. No joy.

[–] psud@aussie.zone 2 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

Hope someone else chimes in on how to do this. I typically have hundreds of tabs open, groups were a godsend

On mobile chrome I have ":D" tabs open which I occasionally go through and cull