Outside of what has already been mentioned, I still don’t care about cookies and cookie autodelete in tandem. The first accepts cookies. The second deletes them when you are done.
Or use Consent-o-matic to not accept cookies
Cookie autodelete is useless if you use Firefox on strict mode.
On my iPhone I have one called Save All Images. Basically you know how lots of sites especially any kind of social media where they want you there to see things… anyway they use a script or whatnot to prevent holding down on an image to get the save photo prompt. This is an extension that loads all images that are single level referenced and you can save any/all. I use it almost daily. Instagram, and the like, especially, they hate the notion of someone saving something.
In Firefox on my computer I have Element Blocker. Some websites just waste a lot of screen space so if you’re browsing a ton of content you’d like to get the most room, but some stuff takes up portions of the screen fixed and not movable. This extension lets you select an element and it makes it just disappear. It is absolutely essential.
if you’re going for ultimate privacy… none, ironically.
I disagree on that one. Ad blocking and tracking blocking will be more private.
Ok fair enough
Not a full list, but these are my day to day extensions that I use the most:
UBlock Origin - (obviously)
600% Sound Volume - managing volume for tabs
Dark Reader - Dark theme, that works well for *most *sites. Sometimes I need to manually disable it for certain sites that don’t play well, but that’s pretty rare
Fake Data - fill forms with random generated data - for every site i need to sign up for and don’t want to use PII
addy.io - extension for add.io email forwarding service (subscription needed) generate random emails for every website i sign up for that direct to my main email. If I start getting spam, I know which alias it came from and which site I made it for
password manager extension of choice - I prefer Bitwarden, but I get a 1Password subscription free with work so that’s what I use to share password records with family
firefox container manager - very handy for work tabs, logging in with family credentials, etc
Quick note, duckduckgo has a free alias email forwarding service and it integrates with bitwarden
Neat, I’ll check it out
**I checked it out, and there’s no reply functionality (which I use especially for support tickets), the email forwarding doesnt have a separate app, so it’s a bit clunkier to organize each alias through the duckduckgo app/extension itself. I’ll stick with addy.io for my use, but good to know they have that.
I really only run 3 addons in Firefox currently. Chrome is the same but without UBlock.
- UBlock Origin
- BitWarden
- Streetpass for Mastodon
I haven’t seen anyone mention these yet
LibRedirect - redirects common proprietary sites to a free and open source alternative Tampermonkey - allows you to find and install custom open source scripts that add functionality to websites
Check out ViolentMonkey, it’s an open source userscript manager
I think that’s basically the same thing as Tampermonkey. There’s also GreasyFork which hosts custom scripts.
That’s what he said “an open source” (alternative) . If it’s basically the same, then violentmonkey is the way to go.
Yeah, except you can check what it does, how it works, and make changes to it.
May only be available on Firefox:
Better Youtube Shorts (the shorts act more like normal videos, with rewind controls etc)
Decentraleyes (should help with website load speed by not fetching all the common CDN hosted stuff, as well as provide better privacy)
Song Identifier
Related to CDN stuff, there’s LocalCDN, which I believe downloads the most commonly used scripts from various CDNs and hosts them locally, reducing the amount of tracking they can do as they aren’t being pulled from the source each time.
That’s what decentraleyes does as well
I remember people recommending decentraleyes for some time and then I remember there being an argument against it. I don’t remember what the problem was though.
I happened across a thread on Lemmy recently that discussed the usefulness of certain extensions, and this “Don’t Bother” section of the Arkenfox wiki was linked:
https://github.com/arkenfox/user.js/wiki/4.1-Extensions#-dont-bother
A lot of conventionally useful extensions like Privacy Badger, HTTPS Everywhere, Decentraleyes/LocalCDN, etc are apparently not necessary (at least in Firefox) if you have certain browser preferences selected, like Strict Mode/Total Cookie Protection.
I felt outdated cause I still run Privacy Badger and Decentraleyes in my Firefox environments, but it was nice to see that a lot of these “extra” features that used to require extensions are now options built into the browser (or Firefox, at least).
Foxy Gestures. I love having mouse gestures for Close Tabs on Right, Back, and Close Tab, amongst other.
Zoom Page WE, automatically zoom to full width. Really useful for “convergence” pages, ie: lazy web developers that think every browser wants a 4 word wide column. You have to set “Automatically Zoom” in preferences, it doesn’t work out of the box.
https://github.com/pixeltris/TwitchAdSolutions if you’re a twitch user. Ublock by itself doesn’t have a way to handle twitch ads, last I checked.
The SingleFile extension. It saves the current webpage you’re looking at, including all images as a single webpage that you can view offline.
Why would I need offline internet?
Because webpages with valuable information are becoming increasingly rare and nothing lasts forever on the Internet?
Fair enough, I’m just not in the business of archiving the internet on my computer.
You already do to some extent, your cache is likely over 2GB already
I don’t know man. If I swim in the ocean, I get wet, but I still wouldn’t say I’m taking any of the ocean with me as I come out of it.
By the same logic, I’d say I’m not “saving” anything although yes I do understand at all times I will have some gigs of “the internet” on my local machine.
Not quite sure that example tracks. I’d say it’s more like you went food shopping yesterday and still have stuff leftover in the fridge today. Sure it might not be as fresh as when you got it from the store, but it’s still completely edible.
I disagree with your assessment. To an average user, whatever winds up saved in their browser cache is there mostly unintentionally. Yes, it’s saving info from sites they choose to visit, but after that initial choice, the user is out of the loop. The browser saves what it needs to without user notification or input. I might even wager that most users are unaware of their browser cache, or don’t know what’s in it or how to access it. Therefore, I believe your metaphor perhaps confers too active a decision-making process on something that most people are completely unconscious of.
To be clear, the strawman average user I’m using here is me. I know I have a browser cache, I know vaguely what is stored in it and why, and I know how to clear it if I’m having certain issues. That’s about it. I sure as heck don’t treat it as an archive.
Yup! I usually just pdf it.
Vimium C
Vimmium C denies the existence of Taiwan. Read the bottom of their github page.
Hmm interesting. Doesn’t have to be that one in particular there are many like it. I just like to have vim bindings for the web.
For sure. There is still the original vimmium and tridactyl.
Okay what does that have to do with the browser extension
LibRedirect. Excellent one, that.
Detrumpify
Despite uBlock, my first pick would be Tab Mix Plus. Firefox has yet to properly open up the API for tabs, so you still have to do some mucking around with internals, but TMP gives you multi-row tabs, specific tab-closing patterns, expanded right-click options, and a whole host of insanely useful tab features.
I have been using TMP almost since the beginning, a good 15+ years now, and consider it to be absolutely essential to a proper Firefox setup. I would be happy to punt my TMP config file to anyone interested.
surfingkeys - extension which add vim keybindings for control your browser without mouse
