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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!

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[–] Maven@lemmy.sdf.org 2 points 1 year ago

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.

[–] SuiXi3D@kbin.social 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Sponsorblock. Makes YouTube, even with Premium, a lot more enjoyable.

[–] danieljoeblack@kbin.social 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)
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[–] Tin@beehaw.org 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

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.

[–] marco@beehaw.org 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Ps I don't care about cookies extension was recently sold to Avast.

https://www.theregister.com/2022/09/21/avast_buys_i_dont_care_about_cookies_addon/

[–] dawnerd@lemm.ee 2 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Chrome:

Safari:

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[–] gzrrt@feddit.de 2 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I physically can't use a browser without Vimium anymore.

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[–] Zamboniman@lemmy.ca 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year 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

[–] ragebol@beehaw.org 2 points 1 year ago
  • PrivacyBadger
  • Consentomatic
  • Bitwarden
  • something for mouse gestures
  • Sponsorblock
  • YouTube enhancement suite (not sure about the name)
[–] mizmoose@beehaw.org 2 points 1 year ago

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)

[–] Chapi_Chan@lemmy.one 2 points 1 year ago

Gestures. Hover zoom images. Tab tree view.

[–] Hyperi0n@lemm.ee 2 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Does anyone know of an extension that let's you view privated subs on Reddit? I'm tired of the not being able to access important info because of the blackouts. If anyone knows of an extension or a TamperMonkey script please let me know!

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[–] aponigricon@beehaw.org 2 points 1 year ago

I literally cannot browse the web anymore without HoverZoom+

[–] modulartable@beehaw.org 2 points 1 year ago

Ublock origin Adguard Aguard Extra Bitwarden Privacy badger Tampermonkey Dark reader Sponsorblock

[–] lentilhoarder@beehaw.org 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

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.

[–] mindyabeesnes@beehaw.org 1 points 1 year ago

I love Read Aloud on FF. It has mobile support and also works with PDFs via some integration that they have available. It's great!

[–] sandayle@iusearchlinux.fyi 1 points 1 year ago

I use touchpad gestures. Two fingers left-right: back-forward. Three fingers up-down: cycle between tabs Three fingers left-rigtht: close tab-reopen tab Four fingers pinch in: Home Three fingers pinch in: New tab

[–] Jezebelley@kbin.social 1 points 1 year ago

These are my current favs for safari.

[–] deephurting@beehaw.org 1 points 1 year ago

FoxScroller, I like to scroll pages while practicing music, which always impresses people. Gesturefy, gotta have those mouse gestures. With a tiny Windows program called NeatMouse I can do it all with the keyboard, too. Kinda off topic. Imagus, what is this clicking and opening crap? SessionSync is good for saving your tabs. Fun to see what you were wasting time on 5 years ago.

[–] BigVault@kbin.social 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)
[–] werewolf_nr@fig.systems 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

uBlock Origin
Read Aloud
FB Purity
Facebook Container
SAML-tracer (for work)

[–] Whimseymimple@beehaw.org 1 points 1 year ago

Oooh, I need to check out SAML tracer. Thanks!

[–] dominoko@kbin.social 1 points 1 year ago

I use Grammarly, Facebook Container and uBlock Origin.
Facebook Container keeps facebook from spying on your internet traffic

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