I just moved to Firefox and was wondering what extensions/themes people use and what’s reccomended

Also good just as a general post for all good Firefox Extensions & Themes ect.

Thanks!

  • @[email protected]
    1•2 years ago
    • My O’Reilly Downloader - if you have an account already, but want to persist some material to peruse at a later time
    • TreeStyleTab
    • ContainerProxy - I have mullvad running in gluetun container on my desktop PC, and it exposes HTTP proxy endpoint over Tailscale, so I can have VPN for my webbrowsing, without having to connect. This does not give me full protection, but I use tailscale a lot, and it doesn’t play well with Mullvad.
    • I Still don’t care about cookies
  • Talos
    4•2 years ago

    Dark Reader is one of my must haves. Turns dark mode on for every site. If a particular site already has its own native dark mode you can turn the extension off for just that site. Not perfect in all cases but works beautifully for most pages you view.

    EDIT: Tap To Tab is really good if you are using a laptop without a mouse. Just double tap the trackpad to open a link in a new tab.

    • @[email protected]
      4•2 years ago

      To add to this, there’s also a setting to detect native dark themes on websites so it will automatically disable itself on those sites. It’s a great add on.

  • @[email protected]
    3•2 years ago
    • Bypass Paywalls Clean
    • Copy PlainText
    • Easy Youtube Video Downloader Express
    • Feedbro
    • Flagfox
    • FoxClocks
    • Grammar Checker & Paraphraser – LanguageTool
    • Library Extension
    • OneTab
    • Print Edit WE
    • Resurrect Pages
    • Search by Image
    • The Camelizer
    • uBlock Origin
    • Unhook - Remove YouTube Recommended Videos
    • Video DownloadHelper
  • @[email protected]
    24•2 years ago

    Some extensions used by me:

    • uBlock Origin
    • Firefox Translations (works on-device)
    • LibRedirect (redirects from certain sites (like youtube) to their frontends (like invidious))

    For android I also use Android PDF.js, to view pdf files on mobile.

    • @[email protected]
      2•2 years ago

      on firefox nightly on android, I think pdf.js is built-in because I can view PDFs without having that extension.

  • such_lettuce7970
    1•2 years ago

    Facebook Container, if you’re like me and feel forced to use that godawful site because all your friends are still there.

    Plus another vote for uBlock Origin (I have a feeling that one will come up a lot).

    • @[email protected]
      2•2 years ago

      I use both often but how well does Tab Session Manager work for you? I’ve been using it for years and have had this issue for years where often when I’d try to restore a session, a bunch of tabs would be lost and replaced with blank new tab pages. It’s really frustrating when I trust the extension with session up to literally 100s of tabs.

      • @[email protected]
        2•2 years ago

        I have to say I’ve never had that happen, but I mostly use it as backup in case Firefox’s own session restore fails or is overwritten somehow. I’m not sure what you can do, sorry :/

  • Karcinogen
    24•2 years ago

    Dark reader is a good one. It alters websites so they’re dark mode, even if they don’t officially support.

    • littleblue✨
      2•2 years ago

      Seconded! Just, be sure to adjust the settings if a site gives you trouble. Super helpful most of the time, but every once in a while the default makes modals invisible. 😅

  • notsharp
    6•2 years ago

    Extensions I use:

    • Bitwarden password manager
    • Enhancer for youtube
    • Firefox Multi Account Containers
    • Old reddit redirect
    • Reddit enhancement suite
    • Return youtube dislike
    • Search by image
    • Simple Translate
    • Sponsorblock for youtube
    • Ublock origin
    • User agent switcher
    • Wayback machine
    • Youtube audio
      • notsharp
        1•2 years ago

        I still rely on reddit for technical related subreddits. Now lemmy has very few technical contributors or either the community is very new with only few posts.

        • Kari'boka :v_com:
          3•2 years ago

          @EqMinMax @omgnvq My suggestion for everyone:

          Every time you find some important info only in reddit copy/paste or make a new text whatever on a reliable Lemmy server. If possible also save that page (the one you just did in Lemmy) to web archive.

      • @[email protected]
        2•2 years ago

        I hope Lemmy incorporates some of the features of RES, like something similar to the ability to +shortcut community links to an area (top or side) to quickly go to your favorite communities.

  • @[email protected]
    3•2 years ago

    It would be literally impossible for me to do my job effectively without Sidebery for container management in FF. As someone with multiple accounts used for various CSPs and other services, being able to spin up an environment with no irrelevant cached user sessions is something I depend on heavily (looking at you, Azure).

    • @[email protected]
      3•2 years ago

      I love sidebery, but can’t use it anymore due to the amount of slow down and stutters I’ve experienced with it. If my browser is open for more than 4h or so I starts taking up to 1-2 seconds for me to create a new tab or switch between tabs in it.

    • @[email protected]
      4•2 years ago

      I can’t speak for Sidebery, but Firefox’s own Multi-Account Containers extension indispensable. Give it a try (maybe without Sidebery enabled in case it causes conflicts) and you’ll notice how much it helps with managing multiple Azure accounts and other general browsing isolation. Particularly useful is the “always open this website in this container” feature.

      • @[email protected]
        2•2 years ago

        There was a reason I switched to Sidebery over The native implementation but I can’t remember. Maybe it was the Panels feature that FF Containers didn’t offer at the time.

        I do miss some of the functionality of the Mozilla add-on though, I don’t think they opened up APIs to some of the extended tab/window options.

  • Cynber
    2•2 years ago

    One that is more specific to Lemmy, which I am working on

    [email protected]

    While this is extension is mine and I have an obvious bias, I am using the extension constantly for my personal use as well. Might be nice for others too :)

    • CommunityLinkFixerBotBEnglish
      1•2 years ago

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      • CynberEnglish
        1•2 years ago

        fixed!

        That’s something my extension actually helps with as well :)

  • craigevil
    8•2 years ago

    ublock origin bitwarden cookie autodelete dark reader copy plain text mastodon or graze noscript sponsorblock and occasionally grammarly complete black theme

  • Knighthawk 0811
    5•2 years ago
    • sidebery
    • enhancer for yt
    • multi account containers
    • privacy badger
    • ghostery
    • ublock origin