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Could mean essentials you wouldn’t want to live without, neat little things you just found, all time favorites— really whatever comes to mind.

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[–] Durandal@lemmy.today 30 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

Dark Reader - Seriously why can't more sites have a "don't blind me" mode in this day and age.

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/darkreader/

Swift Selection Search - It has a little configurable pop up whenever you highlight a word so you can send it to any number of destinations... search web, search youtube, search imdb, send to translate, look in wikipedia... you just build the search function in the extension and it becomes a little icon in the dialog box.

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/swift-selection-search/

uBo - besides the obvious, it's good for eliminating unwanted design elements from a site.

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/ublock-origin/

Simple Tab Groups - it lets you define groups of tabs as sort of work spaces. I have ones for cooking, working, hobbies... you just configure what you want and dump all the tabs you want into it then you can switch to them like presets. Very handy when you open lots of stuff for a project.

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/simple-tab-groups/

Auto Tab Discard - gives much more granular control of what tabs are slept or set to never time out and how quickly they do that. Good for keeping memory footprint lower if you use a lot of tabs.

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/auto-tab-discard/

Augmented Steam - links to isthereanydeal.com so that whenever I'm viewing steam pages on browser for a game, it's showing me all the current best deals from sellers.

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/augmented-steam/

ScrollAnywhere - more robust click to scroll feature. Let's me use a button to scroll and pan sites more like a touchscreen device while using my mouse.

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/scroll_anywhere/

BitWarden - cross platform open source password manager

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/bitwarden-password-manager/

[–] rain_worl@lemmy.world 0 points 2 months ago (1 children)

regarding dark reader-- you can set your browser to let sites know to switch to dark mode, in case you haven't already done that

[–] Durandal@lemmy.today 3 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Yeah... but they have to have a dark mode to switch to and unfortunately many don't... which is why I need a plugin.

[–] rain_worl@lemmy.world -1 points 2 months ago

my site hasn't a physical switch, simply follows your browser settings. you require js for a switch, only css for following browser settings.

[–] phanto@lemmy.ca 12 points 2 months ago

I really like the Firefox Multi account containers extension... It keeps my school stuff out of my shopping stuff, and my banking stuff separate. I keep all Google products in their own container.

[–] tamlyn@lemmy.zip 12 points 2 months ago (2 children)
[–] mp3@lemmy.ca 9 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I use the cookiebanners.service.mode entry in about:config set to 2, seems like to work well for me.

[–] tamlyn@lemmy.zip 4 points 2 months ago

Didn't know that. I try it out thanks

[–] Anivia@feddit.org 1 points 2 months ago (2 children)

Sadly that extension breaks a lot of websites,so you have to manually disable the extension on that site and reject the cookies

[–] tamlyn@lemmy.zip 5 points 2 months ago

I have seen a few comments like that, but haven't recognise something that affect me. There are other extension like that as well. superagent that has the option to remember your last choice and has settings to acception or decline cookies by default. But sadly need a account.

[–] NickwithaC@lemmy.world 1 points 2 months ago

There's a cookie popup setting in uBlock origin which does a better job, still breaks the occasional website but I only have to deal with it once a year or so.

[–] 001Guy001@lemm.ee 10 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Tab Snooze - allows you to close a tab and have it reappear at a chosen time later

Media URL Timestamper - automatically inserts the current timestamp of the YouTube/Twitch video you're watching and updates it in the history in case you accidentally close/navigate away from the page or go to a different time in the video

Feedbro - RSS reader with filtering capabilities

Redirector - auto-redirect specific URLs (for example, changing a YouTube Shorts url into a regular one, or changing Reddit links to always go to Old Reddit)

Undo Close Tab Button - adds a list of recently closed tabs to the tab context menu and allows you to restore them (including the tab's history in the back button) (max amount = browser.sessionstore.max_tabs_undo)

Violentmonkey - using userscripts that allow you to change things on websites.

YouTube Comment Reader - allows you to search through the comments of a video (by clicking on the addon in the Extension menu and then clicking on the "YouTube Comment Reader" at the top or the "X Comments" at the bottom of the tooltip)

Page Shadow - allows you to use dark and light themes on sites that don't have the option to change it.

And if you're like me and you find that some YT videos feel too slow but 1.25x is too fast, then you can use Enhancer for YouTube's "Playback speed" feature to have smaller speed steps. Then you can hold ctrl and use the scrollwheel (while over the video) to change the video's speed by the amount you chose (I use 0.05 speed variation, mostly changing to 1.05x or 1.10x)

[–] Vincent@feddit.nl 4 points 2 months ago

Media URL Timestamper - automatically inserts the current timestamp of the YouTube/Twitch video you're watching and updates it in the history in case you accidentally close/navigate away from the page or go to a different time in the video

Ooh, that's clever! I usually don't get many new extensions out of threads like these, but this is neat, thanks for sharing!

[–] johnefrancis@lemmy.ca 9 points 2 months ago (1 children)

AdNauseum. Built on uBlock Origin.

Block all the ads so you never seem them, but click them all so the advertisor pays.

[–] elucubra@sopuli.xyz 10 points 2 months ago (1 children)

So the advertiser, who may not be all that bad, pays and makes Google richer? No thanks.

[–] johnefrancis@lemmy.ca 3 points 2 months ago

part of the idea is that clicking every ad presented destroys the ad system's ability to do meaningful targetting. I'm happy about that. Without the data collection and analysis performed by Google, Amazon, and Meta, advertising through them is less attractive to advertisors.

Most of the advertisors are lying garbage too. I have no sympathy for them.

[–] helpImTrappedOnline@lemmy.world 9 points 2 months ago

CamelCamelCamel

Price tracking for amazon. Find out if deal are deals, or "we doubled the price last week and made it 25% off".

[–] Yankee_Self_Loader@lemmy.world 8 points 2 months ago

Sponsorblock and blocktube.

Sponsorblock lets users designate when there are ad reads on YouTube and will automatically skip over them.

Blocktube allows you to block YouTube channels wholesale so you don’t have to see people like Mr. Beasts stupid face if you open a private window or some such

[–] mp3@lemmy.ca 8 points 2 months ago

On Android, I use Redirect AMP to HTML and the essential uBlock Origin.

On desktop, I use MarkDownload to quickly convert and format webpages and snippets of text in markdown format.

[–] Zachariah@lemmy.world 7 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

Cookie AutoDelete • I have it set to delete any cookies unless I whitelist/graylist the site

DownThemAll! • I really don’t use this much anymore, but it really saved time when I needed it

Link Text and Location Copier • I can’t live without this.

NoScript • I only temporarily enable specific domains on each site I visit, but some sites get permanent whitelisting

uBlock Origin • How does anyone browse without this?

F.B Purity • I have this in a separate profile now for those rare times I have to reach out to family or some group only has a Facebook page, but it’s not enable in my main profile anymore

[–] AlexKnauth@lemmy.world 6 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

Tree Style Tab

Trees are awesome

[–] somehacker@lemmy.world 1 points 2 months ago

I used that for so long and just switched to Sidebery. Both are great.

[–] stinerman@midwest.social 6 points 2 months ago

I'm new to it, but I'm really enjoying libredirect so far.

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/libredirect/

[–] EtherWhack@lemmy.world 6 points 2 months ago

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/behind_the_overlay/

Removes a lot of those annoying signup pop-ups with a simple keyboard shortcut or mouse click.

[–] acockworkorange@mander.xyz 5 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

By install order wherever I get a fresh install for some reason:

uBlock Origin

Cookie Auto Delete

Dark Reader

Decentral Eyes

Privacy Badger

YouTube enhancements:
Sponsor Block

DeArrow

Return YouTube dislike

[–] elucubra@sopuli.xyz -2 points 2 months ago (2 children)

enhancements: Sponsor Block? I don’t mind a single ad, that helps pay the content makers directly and I can fast forward if I like. Sometimes they are even interesting. What’s wrong with sensible advertising. What I can’t stand is YouTube’s random advertisements every 3 minutes

[–] b0gl@sh.itjust.works 3 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

That brings us to today's sponsor RAID SHADOW LEGENDS

[–] acockworkorange@mander.xyz 1 points 2 months ago

No no, today’s is Nord VPN.

[–] acockworkorange@mander.xyz 2 points 2 months ago

Look up the extension. Fast forward is exactly what it does, and you can whitelist channels and types of adverts (self promotions, regular ads, etc.). I have several channels that I whitest because the authors make it funny and interesting to watch it.

[–] recursive_recursion@lemmy.ca 5 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)
[–] Winbombs@lemmy.world 4 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Tree Style Tabs has helped me organize and declutter my FF window. Very customizable.

[–] murtaza64@programming.dev 2 points 2 months ago

also Sidebery is an option, that's the one I use. very customizable

[–] JadenSmith@sh.itjust.works 4 points 2 months ago

Keepa.

It shows a graph, under every Amazon product page, showing what price changes have gone on in the past several months. There is also options to be alerted when the price goes to an amount you can set yourself.

Easier to get the cheapest prices on Amazon, if you don't mind waiting sometimes. Sometimes you genuinely find a product that's the lowest price it has been in years, but at least with Keepa you can see that for yourself.

[–] masterofn001@lemmy.ca 4 points 2 months ago

uBO of course.

Sideberry

[–] z3rOR0ne@lemmy.ml 3 points 2 months ago

Ublock Origin, NoScript, Chameleon, Libredirect, DarkReader, OneTab, Stack Overflow Prettifier, Classic Mode For Wikipedia, Vimium

[–] Mio@feddit.nu 3 points 2 months ago

Firefox container to separate all cookies into different containers. Built by Mozilla.

[–] ikidd@lemmy.world 3 points 2 months ago

Foxy Gestures, Zoom Page, Consentomatic and Bitwarden and UBO, of course.

[–] bi_tux@lemmy.world 3 points 2 months ago

besides ublock I only really use darkreader

[–] ghen@sh.itjust.works 2 points 2 months ago

Lib redirect

[–] hanrahan 2 points 2 months ago

The ones that spring to mind

Ublock origin Bitwarden Bypass Paywalls Clean - Via github Privacy Badger Notes

[–] zer0bitz@lemmy.world 2 points 2 months ago

Here are my favorite Firefox extensions—these are a mix of essentials I can’t live without, privacy tools, and some that just make browsing a lot easier:

Essentials:

uBlock Origin: The best adblocker out there. It’s fast and blocks ads, trackers, and more, which keeps things running smoothly. KeePassXC-Browser: Integrates KeePassXC to auto-fill passwords—super handy so I don’t have to type anything in manually. To Google Translate: Great for quick translations. Just highlight text, right-click, and you’re good to go.

Privacy & Security:

ClearURLs: Cleans up tracking elements from URLs, so when I share a link, it’s cleaner and more private. Firefox Relay: Creates alias emails to protect my real address, helping keep spam away. Privacy Badger: Blocks trackers automatically as I browse—set it and forget it. LocalCDN: Prevents my browser from connecting to third-party servers unnecessarily by using local resources instead. Consent-O-Matic: Fills in those annoying cookie consent forms for me, saving time while keeping my privacy settings intact.

Enhancements:

Dark Reader: Turns on dark mode for websites, perfect for late-night browsing. Augmented Steam: Improves the Steam store by showing better prices, deals, and user reviews. FoxScroller: Auto-scrolls pages, so I don’t have to keep manually scrolling long articles or threads. Save Page WE: Saves web pages as HTML, which is awesome for viewing them offline or archiving stuff. Download All Images: Lets me bulk download all images from a webpage—super useful. Simple Tab Groups: Keeps my tabs organized in groups so my sessions don’t get messy. Plasma Integration: Integrates Firefox with my KDE Plasma desktop for native notifications and media controls. Add custom search engine: Lets me add any site’s search bar to Firefox as a custom search engine for quicker searches. I mainly use this for SearXNG.

VPN:

Windscribe: My VPN extension for a secure connection with just one click.

[–] Onurtag@lemmy.world 1 points 2 months ago
[–] BendyLemmy@lemmy.world 1 points 2 months ago (1 children)
[–] SwordInStone@lemmy.world 2 points 2 months ago (1 children)

not really "'nuff said" if no-one knows what it is

[–] BendyLemmy@lemmy.world -1 points 2 months ago

If you don't know then install it and find out. Back in early 2000 it was the single greatest advancement in browser technology brought by Opera.

[–] Amoxtli@thelemmy.club -1 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

UBlock Origin — Wide spectrum ad blocker. https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/ublock-origin/

Tab Stash — Store tabs efficiently by using bookmarks. https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/tab-stash/

Web Archives -- Save and look up archived web pages. https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/view-page-archive/

Bypass Paywalls — Access premium articles. https://github.com/bpc-clone/bypass-paywalls-firefox-clean

CopyTabTitleURL — Copy title & URL as a format with one copy. https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/copytabtitleurl/?utm_source=addons.mozilla.org&utm_medium=referral&utm_content=search

EPUB Reader — Read EPUB files within Firefox. https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/epubreader/ Read Aloud: A Text to Speech Voice Reader by LSD Software — It works with EPUB Reader. https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/read-aloud/

Default Bookmark Folder — Save bookmarks to a specific folder by typing, and the most relevant directories appear as you type. https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/default-bookmark-folder/

Gesturefy — Use gestures to navigate pages. Instead of looking for the back and forward buttons, just gesture with the mouse, left or right swiping motions. https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/gesturefy/

Swift Selection Search — Create right-click context menu searches. You can group searches together to output multiple queries at the same time, if you need that. https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/swift-selection-search/

Undo Close Tab — Pretty self-explanatory. https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/undoclosetabbutton/

TinyURL — Shorten long URLs with one click. https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/tiny_url/

SponsorBlock - Skip Sponsorships on YouTube — Watch YouTube videos and skip through all the sponsorships and promotions. https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/sponsorblock/

Bookmark search plus 2 — As the name implies. Very useful for large bookmark collections. https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/bookmark-search-plus-2/

Firefox Multi-Account Containers — Segregate your cookies for security reasons. https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/multi-account-containers/

Search Engines Helper — Create searches for your search bar or omnibar. https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/search-engines-helper/

Tree Style Tab — Organize your vertical tabs in their own hierarchy of trees. https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/tree-style-tab/

[–] ChicagoTransplant@midwest.social -2 points 2 months ago (1 children)

OceanHero so every search goes to preventing or removing oceanbound plastic

[–] recursive_recursion@lemmy.ca 6 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

the cause is good but look at the permissions it seems like they sell your ad data, seems kinda sketch

[–] ChicagoTransplant@midwest.social 2 points 2 months ago

Firefox itself is now maintained by an ad company, so I think the ship is rapidly sailing.