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Tree Style Tabs is a must for me. It makes the tab/tab goup functionality in other browsers feel awful.
+1 for TreeStyleTabs!
Ever since Twitch Now stopped working, I found Gumbo which is working really well.
I’ve not used either of those. I don’t get it. Are these Third Party wrappers for Twitch or extensions that just push Twitch notifications?
In general:
- Bypass Paywalls
- Dark Reader
- HTTPS Everywhere
- I don’t care about Cookies
- Karrinator
- KeePassXC Browser
- NoScript
- Simple Tab Groups
- Tampermonkey
- UBlock
- UnloadTabs (Vor allem für Müll wie MS Teams)
- User Agent Switcher and Manager
- Vencord
- Video Download Helper
For YouTube:
- AutoReplay for YouTube
- Disable YouTube Seek by Number
- Return YouTube Dislike
- SponsorBlock
Most of those Addons are for me to not go insane or blind.
What’s Karrinator?
There’s nothing that explains it on its description page. Based on comments on its page (translated to English), my wild guess is: it’s making people laugh while reading news somehow by changing names of politicians in the news articles.
Thanks for the other suggestions too.
Damn, I just noticed I accidentally wrote in german, I didn’t even notice the post is in english lol. To Germans it would make sense, as it’s exactly what you noticed; it just changes Annegret Kramp-Karrenbauers name to something funny, she’s an ex-defense minister of Germany.
LOL.
Why specifically her though. Although, the idea is neat. Does it generate random funny names?
Well, it’s based on an apparently pretty large set of funny names for her, thought of by r/ich_iel etc.
Firefox already has HTTPS Everywhere functionality built in these days
True, and according to some sources on the FF forum the builtin is better. I just installed it years ago and mostly forgot lol
How do you use no script these days, are you turning it on after visiting a page, or whitelisting when things don’t work?
I whitelist after visiting a page, if it breaks majorly so I can’t use it. And often I only need to allow the main page’s scripts and maybe video., img. or cdn. subdomains.
ublock origin
- uBlock Origin (medium mode)
- Dark Reader
- Video Speed Controller
A couple that aren’t already mentioned by others:
- FeedBro RSS Reader
- Don’t Track Me Google - prevents google from replacing its search results and other links with redirect URLs
- Vimium - Vim style keybinds to navigate pages
Three comments down and there is the guy with vim keybindings.
I don’t think I’ve seen this mentioned, likely because it’s a simple, non-privacy extension.
Reading List. It works like bookmarks, but it is targeted at news articles and other things you want to read but don’t necessarily want to “forever save”.
Damn! Neat tool. Hopefully this will help me declutter my Bookmarks. Also, how’s it different than Pocket offered by Mozilla?
A link to Reading List.
Not sure, this is the first I’m hearing of Pocket. I’ll have to check it out.
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It’s made by Mozilla. The same devs that make Firefox. The articles you see below the search bar in the homepage when you first install Firefox are suggested by Pocket.
Swift Selection Search is really useful. Highlight text on a page and you get a pop up with your search engines to quick search or you can copy the text to your clipboard.
I discovered this last week. It’s such a handy tool for quick searches. I wished I had known about this earlier.
clickbait remover for YouTube… it replaces thumbnails with an actual frame from the video
Holy shit, I’ve dreamed of something like this existing, thanks!
DeArrow is a similar extension from the creator of SponsorBlock. It’s suggestions for the title and thumbnail are crowdsourced as opposed to being randomised in the case of ClickBait Remover.
Dearrow costs money now though.
I dont like clcikbait thumbnails… but… i dont wanna pay to replace them with a random screenshot from the video
here you go FL82g-00f9a
WTF? Until very, VERY recently it was a free extension. This shouldn’t be allowed. But I understand that maintaining something as big as this requires a budget. What a shame. I only used it of a day and kinda ditched it afterwards, since it’s not available on Revanced on mobile and I hoped it would be.
I did know know that DeArrow was a paid service.
Blocktube. Simple and advanced blocking of videos on youtube. Worth getting. Also stops youtube from auto pasuing after having watched a while.
Consent-o-matic. Set your preferences and it will automatically click those specific preferences when you visit a website, where it recognizes the cookie accept popup. No more need to click accept all, to move on. (It does not know all types of cookie pop ups, but it knoes the ones used by a large chunk of websites)
Imagus. Mouse over an image and this extension will attempt to show it (on your mouse location) in larger size. This works great for various things. News articles, social media etc. It can even do it for video and gifs. It can be annoying in some cases but… ive gotten used to it. I used to use it on reddit. Just mouse over the posts titles and the pic would pop up. And as said before, super nice for articles and photo albums etc
Is there anything that disables / stops sticky videos when scrolling on mobile?
I get pissed off when I’m reading a news article, scroll down, and their headline video (often just an ad) clips itself to the top 1/3 of the screen.
Well ublock origin. If it does not block it rigjt away, you can actually try to manually add a rule.
tree style tabs / sidebery. it’s life changing to be able to organize your tabs and actually read the titles.
Yep, the grouping of tabs in TreeStyleTabs is very handy & convenient.
SponsorBlock. An absolute necessity if you watch youtube on desktop. It skips host-read sponsors in videos, as well as other stuff you might want to skip like intro animations and Interaction Reminders (“don’t forget to like and subscribe!”).
“don’t forget to like and subscribe!”
what’s the issue with that?
Because they’re annoying, I don’t need to be reminded 11038139 times to subscribe and hit like.
Btw remember to like and boost this comment and also follow me
They’re normally not that short and I hate being asked to do the same thing a thousand times.
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Yep. Big youtubers should stop doing that when they have achieved decent growth. But nope.
I don’t like being told what to do. And everyone does it so it becomes an incredibly over done catch phrase. I’ll decide on my own if I want to like or subscribe, and I hate it when they ask at the beginning of the video. At that point they are telling you to blindly do it.
I agree with saying it at the beginning of the video but I don’t mind when it’s said at the end. If I’m still there I clearly enjoyed it and might want to consider subscribing.
I think in general I have a really bad attitude towards engagement interactions, since I was well aware of the cliche recommended sales people tactics that any of those techniques rub me the wrong way. I prefer more grounded deliveries that don’t leave me with the impression of a sales encounter.
Oh I didn’t realize that actually converted titles too. That’s amazing.
Rigjt until it begs for money
Begs? Bad take. It’s the developer’s full time job to make those two extensions. They don’t materialise out of thin air, someone has to dedicate themself to developing it, hosting the servers which store and send the information, managing the community around them, fixing bugs. That stuff isn’t free. The servers alone cost hundreds of dollars per month. If you value the utility that it gives you then paying a small amount for the server cost and the developer’s time is completely fair.
edit: oh and also dearrow is usable entirely for free. The payment is basically optional.
I love skip to highlight, and I hate interaction reminders more than sponsored ads or ads. I especially hate the ones that tell you to like and subscribe at the very beginning when you haven’t even seen the video to even decide if this is something you actually want to add to your feed or even liked.
It’s so obnoxious. Without sponsorblock I’d be just exiting out a lot of videos.
Block tube is also something I’ve come to love, since there’s some popular channels that always clutter search results even if you don’t watch their videos. So removing them makes results more relevant instead of having to keep looking down the list for other channel videos.
Block tube
I mainly use that to remove sharts from my YT experience. I hate them so f’ing much
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uBlock Origin and Mouse Gestures.
Literally all I have ever used. I love mouse gestures so much because of Opera. I was using that for a bit before I discovered Firefox back in the day.
You should go through the suggestions made on this post. They are great. Maybe, sometime later I’ll create a list and add it to this post’s description later.
Usability
- Kill Sticky: Kill off the annoying floating things blocking the website you’re trying to see.
- Tranquility Reader: Like native “reader view” but compatible with other addons and more options.
- Scroll Zoom: Zoom web pages with the left or right mouse button and the scroll wheel.
Image / Video
- Image Max URL: Finds larger/original versions of images (supporting 8800+ websites), including a powerful image popup feature
- Invert Image: The add-on inverts color of an image or color of any part of a page. Changes white color to black, for comfortable night time reading.
- Save webP as PNG or JPEG: Convert any image (WebP, AVIF, etc.) to PNG or JPEG (with choice of quality) for downloading.
- TinEye Reverse Image Search: Click on any image on the web to search for it on TinEye.
- Video Speed Controller: Speed up, slow down, advance and rewind any HTML5 video with quick shortcuts.
- Enhancer for YouTube™: Take control of YouTube and boost your user experience!
Tools
- EPUBReader: Read ePub files right in Firefox. No additional software needed!
- WebStickies: (Persistent) Sticky notes for the Internet
RSS
- RSSHub Radar: RSSHub Radar is a spin-off of RSSHub that helps you quickly discover and subscribe to RSS and RSSHub for your current site.
- RSSPreview: Preview RSS feeds in-browser
Customization
- Stylus: Redesign your favorite websites with Stylus, an actively developed and community driven userstyles manager.
- Tampermonkey: Tampermonkey is the world’s most popular userscript manager.
Advanced
- Request Control: An extension for controlling requests. See also Redirector, not as powerful, but much more user friendly.
- Modify Header Value (HTTP Headers): Add, modify or remove a header for any request on desired domains. I use this one to force sites to load only the image when opening images in new tabs.
- Cookie AutoDelete: Control your cookies! This WebExtension is inspired by Self Destructing Cookies. When a tab closes, any cookies not being used are automatically deleted. Keep the ones you trust (forever/until restart) while deleting the rest. Containers Supported
- uBlock Origin: Finally, an efficient wide-spectrum content blocker. Easy on CPU and memory.
- uMatrix: [EDIT-WARNING: as pointed by @[email protected], uMatrix it’s not longer maintained since 2021] Point & click to forbid/allow any class of requests made by your browser. Use it to block scripts, iframes, ads, facebook, etc.
What’s the difference between uBlock origin and uMatrix?
I cannot answer that properly, I don’t really understand them enough. I will add some copy-pasted answer on bottom. But, from a user perspective my experience is:
- uBlock origin: blocks a lot of (but not all) unwanted stuff without breaking (almost) anything. When some page does not work, tt’s very uncommon that uBlock origin is the cause.
- uMatrix: blocks (almost) all unwanted stuff, but it breaks many pages by default. If a page does not work, the first thing I look at is uMatrix.
- NoScript (and similar): It’s been some time since I used it (so those who are more familiar, please correct me if I’m wrong). What I remember is that it was even more strict than uMatrix. Something like uMatrix allows by default everything from the same domain as the URL but NoScript does not.
So I would recommend uBlock origin always and uMatrix only if you are ok with some micro-management page-by-page.
Here it’s a copy-paste of the answer from the first link in the google search ublock umatrix differences:
Chris’s Wiki :: blog/web/UBlockOriginAndUMatrix
While it’s true that uMatrix and uBlock Origin have overlapping functionality (and are written by the same person), they have different purposes and focuses. uBlock Origin’s focus is blocking ads and other undesired things as an out of the box experience with little configuration needed. uMatrix’s focus is on exerting tight and highly specific control over what resources a page is allowed to load and use, including Javascript and cookies (and requires a lot of configuration).
People still use uMatrix? gorhill archived the uMatrix repo/stopped maintaining it in 2021.
Oh, I had forgotten, I’m going to add a warning to my comment thanks for noticing!
When I was aware of that, I expected it to break at some point. But I didn’t find a proper replacement… and it still seems to be working fine.
Thanks! These seem useful. I’ve only used a couple add-ons from your list. Time to try them out now.
Your are awesome for adding links too!
Use ViolentMonkey it’s open source and actively developed for Firefox, while TamperMonkey is originally developed for chrome
Thanks for the advice!
Sadly, I knew about that too late and I’m a heavy user of Tampermonkey. It would be painful to migrate now :(.
Thanks for adding the links, you the mvp
Thank you for this list! I found several add-ons I never knew I was missing
Since you helped me with Image Max URL, I will suggest some too.
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Bazzacuda Image Saver 2 Plus: saves all images from opened individual tabs and auto closes them, is different from DownThemAll in that it bulk saves images opened individually instead of bulk downloading from each webpage
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Save All Tab URLs: lists all open URLs of all windows as a text file list
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Open Multiple URLs: copy paste URLs in a line by line text format, and you can choose to open them all at once or delay opening when you switch to each tab
Thanks!
Links for convenience:
I will definitivaly use the last 2 ones. I don’t usually need to mass download images, but it’s good to know the Bazzacuda one exists!
Bazzacuda is truly unique in what it does, and its very useful when you want to open dozens of images from a webpage or site, that you cannot conventionally batch download, since they may have cookies or expire tokens for each image URL. Many such sites exist, where you can use this. Keep it in your toolbox ;)
One question… do you know if it works with videos?
I don’t see anything on the addon page, but it seems weird because the use case is very similar.
Unfortunately, no. Your only options are video grabber extensions or software.
Software is IDM on Windows and XDM cross platform. Both work on just about any video, but for rare videos for which they will not work… extensions are VideoDownload Helper and Ant Video Downloader (both need their native plugin software on system). The software is easier, extensions are a secondary option, and if these do not work, nothing will, other than screen recording.
I think I don’t undestand it properly.
What I meant is: if I have some tabs with one video URL* in each of them, it seems trivial to just automate a “click download” for each one of them.
* I mean plain MP4 normal URLs with no tricks, like imgur MP4 URLS:
You have only one option, then. Video grabber utility in IDM/XDM. I think you can feed multiple links for batch download in them, and they auto fetch video files from website to download without browser. IDM on Windows is a lot more robust, if you do use Windows. Get it from Lrepacks, its safe.
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Clickbait Remover for Youtube makes that site a lot more pleasant. It’ll replace all thumbnails with a screenshot from early in the video, and un-capitalize all titles to make them consistent.
Nice Suggestion.
DeArrow is a similar extension from the creator of SponsorBlock.
He has highlighted the differences between the two in the description:
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Unlike Clickbait Remover, DeArrow’s main purpose is for crowdsourcing better titles and thumbnails
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When a crowdsourced title is not available, DeArrow will auto-format it according to your setting, but does it in a more sophisticated way than Clickbait Remover. Instead of only setting all words to lower case, or capitalizing every word, DeArrow supports casing systems such as “Title Case” and “Sentence case”. These will still allow acronyms and proper names to remain capitalized.
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When a crowdsourced thumbnail is not available, DeArrow by default shows a screenshot at a random timestamp in the video. Clickbait Remover’s thumbnails use YouTube auto-generated thumbnails, and while they are seemingly random, they are chosen by a machine learning algorithm to favor faces with expressions, and other overstimulating features. DeArrow uses truly random timestamps generated by its own server. DeArrow will also check the SponsorBlock database to ensure the randomized thumbnail is not inside of a sponsor segment.
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If only there was a Revanced patch for that.
Alternative Thumbnails is a feature available in the latest ReX patches.
ReX is a fork of the discontinued Revanced Extended project, which in itself was a fork of the official Revanced project.
I applied these patches using the Revanced Extended Manager on YouTube 18.33.37
Screenshots:
Here it is in action:
Dude this is dope, but I don’t know if it is worth making the change for that feature alone, if I lose the patch of my YT again I’ll try it!
I’m using the root way.
Thanks for the heads-up.
I’ve been trying this for 2 days now. I would say this works. The simple, boring thumbnails do not trick my brain into clicking the video.
if I lose the patch of my YT again
You can export/import:
- Applied patches from ReVanced managers:
Settings > Export patches selection - In-app ReVanced settings:
Profile Picture > Settings > ReVanced Extended > Miscellaneous > Import/Export > Export settings - SponsorBlock profile:
Profile Picture > Settings > Sponsor Block > (scroll all the way down) > Import/Export > (select and copy all the text) > (save this copied text in a text file OR pin it in your keyboard's clipboard) > (Now Go to new app and paste in Import)
I switched from ReVanced Extended (RVX) to ReX using my exported settings. Doing it this way makes switching APKs a breeze.
Ok, I don’t think we are using the same client because I definitely don’t have a profile picture, I am using this version.
- Applied patches from ReVanced managers:
