Bypass firewalls clean is the GOAT.
Fwiw, this is the kind of thread I used to love The Other Site for. Glad to find one here!
Ooh, can we refer to The Other Site apologists as TOSers now? 🤩
uBlock Origin is a must for ad blocking. Anything else is just extra flavour. I like SponserBlock and Return YT Dislikes.
If you use youtube a lot, Return YouTube Dislike, SponsorBlock & uBlock Origin. uBlock is still blocking ads on youtube.
On top of those I also use:
uBlock Origin is just required for me to block ads and other annoyances. Generally I also use it to block the annoying cookie popups instead of clicking any of their buttons instead of opting for a different extension, like I don't care about cookies.
I also almost always have Tree-Style Tab, though I've found that it can cause Firefox to be non-performant on memory-constrained devices. This extension gives you a tab sidebar (using a similar interface element like the bookmarks sidebar) that organizes your tabs in a tree. I will often have hundreds of tabs open normally, and this makes them more manageable, as I middle-click everything to open things in a new tab, particularly when I'm researching. It gives a nice rudimentary tree view of what content related to what, like if I'm on a Wikipedia dive or TV Tropes dive.
I also usually have Tampermonkey, as I usually want to make a website more accessible. A lot of the time, it's simply so I can autofill usernames in a text box, because the website might have the login flow split between pages, and Firefox does not recognize or allow me to select an autofill the username for me. Other times, it's to automatically click through that annoying Microsoft login flow "Keep me signed in? (Don't ask as often)".
For watching YouTube, I use the SponsorBlock addon, because sponsored segments have become very annoying, though some creators have been able to make them actually fulfilling to watch.
On Android Firefox, I also get Disable Page Visibility API. This allows me to use YouTube in Firefox and even background the app and listen to music that way. Plus, with uBlock Origin, I am also able to block ads. I also sometimes install this on different profiles for situations where I believe the web app may try to detect my visibility, such as an online coding test for job opportunities where it will not want me to change windows to look up answers or type code into a compiler (this saved me during a C++ multiple choice exam which asked many times "Which of these is invalid C++?" and "What is the output of [this complicated code block]?").
The below is for my work computers only, because I generally don't need them otherwise.
I will additionally have Firefox Multi-Account Containers and couple that with Simple Tab Groups as I have 6 logins, with one particular site requiring 3 of those logins. I essentially configure the URLs I need to be in certain groups, define one container for each, and then have a couple of default tab groups set as sticky groups that will allow all containers to stay as those containers so I can use multiple sites side-by-side. The interaction with Tree-Style Tab can be a bit janky, especially when configuring new catch tab regular expressions, but usually disabling and re-enabling both Tree-Style Tab and Simple Tab Groups will fix that. Mostly I do this, because my company refuses to fix their SSO breaking due to weird cookie issues, and it's pretty nice to be able to clear cookies for a particular tab group easily.
To clear cookies, and because I do that very often, I use Cookie Quick Manager. I can clear a tab group's entire cookie set by having a tab selected in that tab group, then using "Delete current Context Cookies" and usually that will fix my login issues, and also keep my logins to other sites. For my personal use, I generally don't need to clear cookies, or using a private window, clearing per-site via the web console, or clearing in settings is good enough.
Since I do a bit of web troubleshooting, Modify Header Value is pretty nice. I can call API endpoints that require a subscription key from my browser, even using the web console, and I don't need to worry about figuring out if my headers are correct. I can also get my team to get this add-on so they can do their basic troubleshooting. For my personal computer, I'm much more free to create ad-hoc scripts to test things that I can save somewhere, as sending others scripts in my organization also comes with implicit hours of training and coaching on how to use them (and our leadership has been very sensitive to explicit training hours to get everyone up to speed).
Finally, User-Agent Switcher and Manager for the sites that are built for Chrome, but have worse performance or broken features on Firefox, yet they work fine when Firefox sends them a Chrome user agent. Thankfully, I rarely have a use for this on my personal computer.
Firefox is great mostly on its own, and I only use two extensions:
In case you don’t know, Ublock origin can block JavaScript per site basis. Just hit the “more v” at the bottom
One that is more specific to Lemmy, which I am working on
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 :)
Hi there! Looks like you linked to a Lemmy community using a URL instead of its name, which doesn't work well for people on different instances. Try fixing it like this: !instance_assistant@lemmy.ca
fixed!
That’s something my extension actually helps with as well :)
My 2 cents:
In addition to ublock,
I would also suggest
decentraleyes
Stores commonly used librarys localy,
instead of downloading them from a third party.
clearURLs
Removes tracking parameters from links.
google search fixer
Shows the more advanced search features,
That firefox for Android currently doesn't get
video Background Play Fix
What the name says,
Good when you use youtube in the browser.
Must-have addons for tab hoarders like myself.
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.
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 :/
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).
Some extensions used by me:
For android I also use Android PDF.js, to view pdf files on mobile.
I like to recommend Privacypossum, it returns garbage data to tracking companies: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/privacy-possum/
Vimium C - All by Keyboard – Get this Extension for 🦊 Firefox (en-US) https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/vimium-c/
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.
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.
SponsorBlock is so amazing for youtube. I've recently started to use DeArrow as well which is from the same creator as SponsorBlock. It changes titles and thumbnails to user voted ones so you can avoid all the clickbait videoes.
Extensions I use:
- Old reddit redirect
- Reddit enhancement suite
Not sure how much you need these anymore 👀
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.
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.
ublock origin bitwarden cookie autodelete dark reader copy plain text mastodon or graze noscript sponsorblock and occasionally grammarly complete black theme
What does the Mastodon extension do?
The more plugins you use, the easier you are to profile. If you value your privacy, try to limit your plugins.
Ublock Origin and Adblock Plus
Unhook
Adblock Plus on top of uBlock?
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