What are some must have Firefox plugins?
What are some must have Firefox plugins?
What are some must have Firefox plugins?
Here's a list of those I have installed:
Oh my god there's an add-on to block Youtube shorts?!?
Description says it plays then in the normal video screen. Don't see the point, maybe someone can fill me in.
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
Wow that's great, thanks for sharing !!
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:
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.
Oh, I didn't know that. Thanks!
Hey I'm also using Violentmonkey and always recommend it over other options. But your comment got me wondering and I've checked. Turns out Greasemonkey actually dropped a new version a month ago. Not that this changes anything for me, just wanted to correct the statement.
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
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.
Privacy/Anti-Tracking/Ad-blocking
Paywalls
Some paywalls can be bypassed.
Tweaking Frameworks
Misc
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:
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:
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 Origin
Optional:
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
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:
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:
Doesn't ublock handle the sponsors on YouTube? I never see those.
It removes ads but doesn't handle sponsored content that is included directly in the video
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.
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:
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.
I could maybe see selectively-blacklisting particularly obnoxious websites
That's what uBlock Origin already kinda does for you. It's not just an adblocker, it also blocks tracking JavaScript from various sites as well as a bunch of other crap.
Flagfox, not that useful but it's interesting to see
You really don't need anything besides uBlock Origin. With that said:
About some other ones that are mentioned:
Other:
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
singlefile
uBlock 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:
On desktop,
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.