Here's a list of those I have installed:
- uBlock Origin https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/ublock-origin/
- Consent-O-Matic https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/consent-o-matic/
- SponsorBlock https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/sponsorblock/
- Youtube-shorts block https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/youtube-shorts-block/
- ClearURLs https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/clearurls/ (no longer needed since last update afaik)
- Proton Pass https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/proton-pass/ (or bitwarden if you use a password manager)
- Bypass Paywalls Clean https://gitlab.com/magnolia1234/bypass-paywalls-firefox-clean
- LibRedirect https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/libredirect/
- Firefox Relay https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/private-relay/
- SteamDB https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/steam-database/
Oh my god there's an add-on to block Youtube shorts?!?
You can also do it with some simple rules in uBlock Origin. https://github.com/gijsdev/ublock-hide-yt-shorts
You don't need an addon for blocking YouTube Shorts, you can also just use these uBlock Origin rules https://github.com/gijsdev/ublock-hide-yt-shorts
But most of these are not must haves. Like, SteamDB?
"a list of those i have installed" is probably not must have for you indeed 😅
Thanks for the list, and links. That was very helpful, and super easy.
Clean urls breaks a lot of things so I don't use it anymore. You can delete trackers if need be by yourself (usually everything after "ref" or everything after "?"
I would also like to add:
Ublock Origin with Javascript enable by default in settings
Container Tabs
Tree Style tabs
Bitwarden
Simplelogin
Privacy Badger
Dark Background and Light Text
Tampermonkey (use to redirect to old reddit to view without JS using ublock)
firefox has a built in function to "copy link without site tracking" now.
firefox also has total cookie protection which may (more may not) make Container Tabs kinda moot ?
Some that haven't been mentioned yet:
- Behind The Overlay (removes simple login banners/paywalls/anything that blocks the content)
- Don't Fuck With Paste (for those sites that think it's fun to override or even disable copy and/or paste)
Greasemonkey/TampermonkeyViolentmonkey
Stop suggesting Greasemonkey and Tampermonkey. Tampermonkey is proprietary and steals user data, and Greasemonkey hasn't been updated since 2021. Use Violentmonkey, it's completely FOSS and up-to-date.
Which greasemonkey scripts do you use? I've never used it but have heard it's a good one to have (also, it's been recommended several times on here)
If you want to use userscripts, definitely install Violentmonkey instead of Greasemonkey or Tampermonkey, as Tampermonkey is proprietary and steals user data and Greasemonkey hasn't been updated in years
As a college student, my must have plugins are
- DarkReader
- Firefox Multi-Account Containers
- Sponsorblock
- TWP - Translate Web Pages
and the goat itself, >!uBlock Origin!<
I find DarkReader to be pretty slow. You might want to look at Stylus. It works on a per site basis but it's much faster.
Thank you for the suggestion, will take a look at it.
Some that I use:
Dark Mode
I don't like having a light screen.
- Dark Reader. This does a pretty technically-impressive-to-me job of making reasonable dark versions of pages. It's not perfect -- there are a handful of sites that it needs to be toggled off for, makes something hard to read -- but I'm amazed that it does the job it does.
- Blank Dark Tab: Replace the new tab with a blank page matching Firefox's built-in dark mode
Privacy/Anti-Tracking/Ad-blocking
- uBlock Origin. Ad blocker.
- Privacy Badger. Targets cross-site tracking, EFF project.
- Decentraleyes. Targets CDN tracking.
Paywalls
Some paywalls can be bypassed.
Tweaking Frameworks
- Stylus: Doesn't do anything on its own, but permits collections of third-party themes to be applied to websites to fix annoyances.
- Greasemonkey. This doesn't do anything on its own, but it permits people to publish little modifications to be applied to webpages, permits for a lot of little scripts that fix annoyances on websites. There were a number of useful scripts that I used on Reddit.
Misc
- Edit with Emacs. Permits opening the contents of a textarea in an external emacs instance. Nice for things like, say, writing a large lemmy post in Markdown. I vaguely recall that, at least some years back, there was a way to embed a version of vim in Firefox textareas, so if vim's your cup of tea, that might be interesting, if it's still around.
- Instance Assistant for Lemmy and Kbin. A variety of quality-of-life fixes for lemmy and kbin. Lets one open a given lemmy/kbin post on their local instance if they wind up viewing a page on a remote instance.
- Reddit Enhancement Suite. If you still use Reddit, this has an enormous collection of quality-of-life improvements for Reddit.
EDIT: I don't know if this is the embedded vim that I recall, but Firenvim seems to do roughly the same thing, if not.
EDIT2: There's also some "overlay remover" plugin that can bypass a number of obnoxious overlays that I use on my desktop, but I don't have it installed on this machine. I think that it's Behind the Overlay.
Decentraleyes. Targets CDN tracking.
The Arkenfox's wiki says not to use it.
Privacy Badger. Targets cross-site tracking, EFF project.
Does uBlock Origin with it's filter lists and Firefox's Total Cookie Protection make Privacy Badger pointless to use?
Ublock origin
Any extension to re-enable right click. It’s annoying when they try to block me from downloading a picture/video, copy pasting, or inspecting elements
You don't need an extension. Shift+right click always overrides JavaScript.
Do you have any recommendations?
Makes most recipes appear as a modal dialog covering the stupid blogspam that the sites put up.
There's another one that I can't remember the name of on my desktop computer that allows you to block domains from web searches. Like pinterest.
Edit: it's uBlacklist
LibRedirect for me, works well on both desktop and android
There are only *two must have extensions in Firefox:
- uBlock Origin
- Your password manager’s browser extension
Beyond that it’s all optional. Most things I used to use extensions to accomplish are now possible to accomplish using Firefox’s built in settings or using uBlock Origin.
There are a few other extensions I use that I consider useful but optional:
- Dark Reader
- Facebook Container
- Libredirect
Add custom URL redirects, e.g. automatically use Piped or Invideous instance instead of YouTube, use Nitter instead of Twitter, remove Google amp
Edit: I just found out about Libredirect from this post - seems like functionally the same thing I'm using Redirector for, but with rules built in.
Yeah same. I initially used it for YouTube/Twitter but realized that it's reinventing the wheel that libredirect already created, and doesnt have the same features like pinging instances or being able to cycle through instances if one goes down.
I still find redirector useful, but now use it for things like redirecting away from guilty pleasure websites or when my locally-hosted teddit doesn't properly handle internal links.
I had never thought about using Redirector to lock myself out of websites! That's brilliant. I need to do that. Zero self control when I should be working.
uBlock Origin
Must have:
ublock origin.
Optional:
Cookie auto delete.
Nitter redirect.
Sponsor block.
Suggestion: Use LibRedirect, it does the same thing as Nitter redirect, but it also supports redirection for many other sites. For example you can redirect YouTube to Piped or Invidious, Reddit to Libreddit, etc.
You don't really need cookie auto delete since total cookie protection was rolled out.
uBlock Origin.
Don't have Firefox but the first plugin you must install on any browser or turn in your browsing license is uBlock Origin.
Ironically, in the future, Firefox will be the only browser to properly support uBlock Origin. Chromium will kill adblockers through their MV3 garbage. Switch to Firefox, use the proper version of uBO and keep your browsing license.
I really love the built-in container extension (Multi-Account Containers or something like that). Really good if you need to log in to the same site multiple times or if you don't want someone track you across sites.
Surprised no one has mentioned VideoDownloadHelper yet - https://www.downloadhelper.net/
I've used this since I was a kid and it made me really popular in high school lol. Everyone thought I was a hacker or something.
It's gotten worse with a lot of things. JDownloader is much better now
I used to use this but now I just use yt dlp since it seems to handle random stuff with more success and it's just as easy to use
this stopped working with archive.org right? it used to be so good with that.
Dark Reader
uBlock OriginOptional:
TWP Translate (is better than the new feature)
Tabliss (Another take on the "new page" in chrome)Is there a Deepl plugin? By far the most accurate translator I've used. Will check later
Just downloaded it to my work pc.
It has Google, Bing, Yandex and DeepL as translation integrations.
Better? Firefox Translations does it locally without sending data to the cloud. The languages it support are very few though
Feel like I have more and better control and quality of translation with TWP than with the local option.
If you prefer local, be my guest.
Tabliss is very underrated. Nowadays, I rarely see my desktop background but always see the "new tab" and so "new tab" serves as the modern desktop background. I use great photos of my city but there are many categories in unsplash
-
DownThemAll!
-
Firefox Translations
-
Imagus
-
uBlock Origin
-
Grammarly
Imgus is great
What's the use case for DTA these days? Didn't the extension system change gut the useful features?
I have jDownloader set up on my Synology server which does everything that DownThemAll would do for me and more. There are desktop clients available for jDownloader as well.
-
uBlockOrigin, DarkReader & ProtonPass
Definitely ublock. When my friends send me a FB link and I open it in anonymous window, I can't get past the logo. 🤙🏻
Indeed, uBlockOrigin is super helpful.
ProtonPass
Bitwarden's better. ;)
uBlock Origin
Optional: Dark Reader Wappalyzer if you want to see cool web info
If you like Wappalyser you may like BuiltWith and WhatRuns. 👍
Nobody mentioned Tridactyl yet so... Tridactyl. It's the best vim keybindings extension for Firefox I've tried.
Ublock Origin or AdGuard Containers
KeePassXC-Browser (Or your preferred password manager)
Beyond the other obvious choices of DarkReader, uBlock Origin, and Tree Style Tab:
-
Leechblock NG - limit time spent on addictive websites
-
Tab session manager - save tabs in a more flexible way than the default behaviour
-
Augmented Steam - Price history etc on Steam, including third party stores
Would I end up having Leechblock activate on here? 🤣
I recently discovered sidebery for tabs. I recommend taking a look. It’s fantastic
-
I recommend:
- Ublock
- Sponsor Block for Youtube
- Return Youtube Dislike
- Hide Shorts for Youtube (I actually like shorts, but only on my phone)
- Stylus
- Decentraleyes
- Don't Accept image/webp
- Rotate Image (rotates images in 90 degree increments)
Doesn't ublock handle the sponsors on YouTube? I never see those.
Just wanted to mention that Piped has SponsorBlock and DeArrow built in. It's also better for your privacy since you don't connect to Google servers directly.
Flagfox if you wanna see where a site is hosted. Provides little actual benefit but it's cool to have anyway!
All the ones that are most important to me have already been mentioned.
Flagfox is actually really helpful to me. So many websites have authentication in different countries, it gives me a heads up when unblocking pages on a firewall.
- Ublock origin
- Cookie delete
- Bypass Paywalls Clean
- Firefox Relay
- Dark Reader
Must have is quite personal tho
Not a plugin but also consider using searx. Recent convert but love it
I'm a recent convert myself. Definitely underrated and if you experience any issues with the publicly hosted versions, they are often resolved through customization if you host your own docker instance
uBlock Origin and some kind of mouse gesture with rocker commands extension. Those are the only two universal types I use. Everything else I can't live with is pretty specific to my own usage to alter the function of specific websites (like RES for Reddit, but for other sites).
Are you getting paid to post or are you just a terminally online Lemmy-addict? It's not good for your mental health to be online this much.
Is it being silly online or simply reality that is really affecting my mental health?
Basic Plugins:
- uBlock Origin
- Dark Reader
- Password Manager Bitwarden or KeePassXC-Browser. If you going to use KeePassXC. You need to download the manager itself.
Youtube
Random Ones
I didn't know Fastforward. I won't need to wait 10 s on 1 of those sites anymore. Thanks.
Obviously, uBlock Origin. Others are multi-account containers, facebook container, privacy badger, bitwarden (if you use it as a password manager), and keepa (if you shop on amazon).
Ublock origin Ghostery Containers (so darn useful) Tampermonkey if you know JavaScript, little tweaks can make some sites much more usable
Custom Context search (forgot the actual name of it and I'm on mobile now). It allows you to add custom searches to your right click, so if you select text and right click, you can search for it on any site with search functionality.
Sidebery is much better from my experience.
Foxy Gestures
Might not be a useful plugin, but fans of Terry Pratchett might like the GNU Terry Pratchett idea. For librewolf I use this slightly updated add-on which fixes some minor issues (source available).
Since it hasn't been mentioned yet, NoScript imo. Some sites run an absolutely absurd amount of scripts and the majority are not required for the site to function. So at best, there's no value from letting them run.
I prefer uBlock Origin on hard mode instead, personally. Of course it probably isn't as through.
That used to be a must-have for me about 20 years back, but today, it just breaks too much on too many websites.
I could maybe see selectively-blacklisting particularly obnoxious websites, but I don't think that whitelisting them is really practical today.
Flagfox, not that useful but it's interesting to see
You really don't need anything besides uBlock Origin. With that said:
- Your password manager's extension would be convenient.
- LibRedirect is great so that any social links get redirected to privacy-respecting frontends.
- Dark Reader to save your eyes.
About some other ones that are mentioned:
- ClearURLs is not necessary if you configure uBlock Origin to remove the tracking parameters.
- Bypass Paywalls Clean is not necessary if you configure uBlock Origin to replicate this functionality.
Other:
- Firefox Multi-Account Contains is good for managing accounts.
- Temporary Containers is also good for isolating tabs.
IIRC, Privacy Badger and Decentraleyes are no longer necessary with uBlock Origin. Neither is HTTPS Everywhere.
For me, I cannot go without the flagfox extension on PC. Otherwise, I'd probably just be going over extensions everyone else has been beating like a dead horse.
Can you explain why? I installed Flagfox and it's interesting especially cos I used to be a web dev but I don't get why you'd really need to have it? No offence I just wanna know if I'm missing some hidden feature! 😂
I just use it because I like to see where a website's server is supposedly located. No hiddeb features, just server location.
umatrix (or ublock or noscript)
chameleon
neatURL
foxyproxy
singlefileuBlock Origin can do everything that NeatURL does. Just enable the "AdGuard URL Tracking Protection" filter list in the settings.
seems like a pretty good list https://raw.githubusercontent.com/AdguardTeam/FiltersRegistry/master/filters/filter_17_TrackParam/filter.txt
Other than ublock:
- Vimium to let you scroll and navigate with your keyboard.
- Your password manager of choice.
On desktop,
-
uBO, of course
-
Bitwarden (replace with your own password manager)
-
Redirect AMP to HTML
-
Redirector
-
Multi-Account Containers
With these five, you have control over the entire Internet. You can bend it to your will. On mobile, just 1, 3, and 4 (assuming you have your password manager installed at the system level, and until Containers works on mobile).
I also really like Notes for Firefox and Dark Reader, but they're not what I'd call must-have.
-
tab scroller. So you can right-click + scroll to change tabs.
