Could mean essentials you wouldn’t want to live without, neat little things you just found, all time favorites— really whatever comes to mind.
Tree Style Tab
Trees are awesome
I used that for so long and just switched to Sidebery. Both are great.
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.
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 BlockDeArrow
Return YouTube dislike
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
That brings us to today’s sponsor RAID SHADOW LEGENDS
No no, today’s is Nord VPN.
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.
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.
Lib redirect
Ublock Origin, NoScript, Chameleon, Libredirect, DarkReader, OneTab, Stack Overflow Prettifier, Classic Mode For Wikipedia, Vimium
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/
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.
CamelCamelCamel
Price tracking for amazon. Find out if deal are deals, or “we doubled the price last week and made it 25% off”.
Foxy Gestures, Zoom Page, Consentomatic and Bitwarden and UBO, of course.
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.
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.
- For Instagram - unmuting videos + setting their default volume
- For YouTube - disabling the subtitles/captions + disabling “autoplay next” for playlists + disabling autoplay of channels homepage video
- a way to disable specific keyboard shortcuts (you need to manually add the code as a new script). I use
/^(Key)?(End|I|O)|(Digit|Numpad)\d$/instead of/^(?:Digit|Numpad)\d$/(thanks to this post), to also disable the End/I/O keys in addition to the number keys. (note: this can also be used for other sites, but you might need to changestopPropagationtostopImmediatePropagation, for example on Patreon)
- a way to disable specific keyboard shortcuts (you need to manually add the code as a new script). I use
- Note that, at least for Violentmonkey, if the userscript doesn’t have the “://” part of the url in the @match line then you need to add it in the userscript settings after installing the script (for example, if the @match line of the script only has
*.youtube.com/*then put*://*.youtube.com/*in the “@match rules” line in the settings)
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)
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!
I’m new to it, but I’m really enjoying libredirect so far.
