Mastodawn

Pigeon Jun 15, 2023

What are your favorite browser extensions?

What are your favorite browser extensions? - Beehaw

Ublock Origin is an obvious one, but I also can’t stand not having Foxy Gestures [https://addons.mozilla.org/fr/firefox/addon/foxy-gestures/] anymore. It adds customizable mouse gestures, so you can set it up to have easy swipes to go back a page, reload a page, close a tab, etc, and it feels wonderful and smooth to use compared to just using the traditional buttons to do everything. Honestly it’s kinda wild to me that this isn’t more popular now that people are so used to phone gestures. It’s good for the same reasons!

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cwagner Jun 15, 2023

Blocking: uBlock Origin and uMatrix (unmaintained, but works. Vastly superior to the mobile-friendly uBo interface)
Facebook Containers & Multi-Account Containers
Clickbait Remover for YT: You know those dumb faces? This randomized the thumbnail and normalizes titles.
LanguageTool: Grammarly, but multi-language, self-hostable and less shady
KeepassXC: Links to my password manager
better-history-ng: Makes Firefox history actually useful by using a calendar view. Disclaimer: I maintain that, but I only fixed the old non-ng version with minor changes, as it was unmaintained.

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squid010 Jun 15, 2023

LanguageTool

I'll have to look into that. I've always liked the idea of Grammarly, but it seemed like I was basically downloading a keylogger, which seemed... unwise, lol.

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cwagner

It’s nice, it has a free version that you can use hosted, or self-host. You can’t host the premium version yourself, though.