What are your favorite add-ons for Firefox?
What are your favorite add-ons for Firefox?
Vimium-C.
Well, it goes right after UBlock Origin, which was mentioned many times already.
Nope, when I was choosing an extension I guess many people told me that tridactyl is a bit buggy and not polished enough.
That was many years ago, I’m not sure what is the situation now.
the ones that I actively use Rotate and Zoom Image; Image extract; SVG Export; Simple mass downloader; PassLok Image Steganography; Color Changer; Save Screenshot; Behind the Overlay Revival
those that work in the background Redirect AMP to HTML; Chameleon; JPEG XL Viewer;
Ublock [1] and Noscript [2] are must have. you could also checkout Privacy Badger [3].
If you use arkenfox user.js [4] you could also use I still don’t care about cookies [5]
[1] addons.mozilla.org/en-US/…/ublock-origin/ [2] addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/noscript/ [3] addons.mozilla.org/en-US/…/privacy-badger17/ [4] github.com/arkenfox/user.js/ [5] addons.mozilla.org/…/istilldontcareaboutcookies
Ublock Origin and Vimium C. That’s it.
I used Dark Reader until last week, when I discovered a native Firefox setting that does the job better: Settings > Language and appearance > Colors > Manage > set background to Black and override to Always.
No more white flashes, EVER (yes, I tried absolutely everything but on some sites there was nothing to be done, even with every possible CSS hack). And no more Dark Reader speed penalty (to be fair it was small, and Dark Reader is still an amazing tool).
Now the web looks pretty ugly but it is fast and always dark. White flashes banished FOREVER.
All of this may beg the question: What add-ons would we like to see?
One that doesn’t exist is QOI Viewer that would render the Quite OK image format into a png for Firefox to display.
It involves editing the user chrome CSS or whatever it’s called.
In addition to Tree Style Tabs, I use Tree Style Tab Mouse Wheel which eases navigation and Simple Tab Groups which also helps with organising the browsing sessions.
uBlock Origin
Deepl
Tineye
uBlock Origin, Tridactyl, and Translate Web Pages.
User Agent Spoofer whenever I need it.
Tree style tabs, which gives vertical tabs that you can arrange in a hierarchy to keep related ones together
Simple tab groups, which lets you have multiple sets l sets of open tabs you can switch between (can you tell I have a problem with too many tabs?)
Unstick!, which removes any sticky elements, I.e. parts of three page that stay on your screen while you scroll. It’s great for removing all the bars and obstructions to reading that pages like to put in your way
Read aloud, a good text to speech extension to read pages or parts of pages to you. It can be used with cloud based neural voices from Google and Amazon with some setup
Consent-o-matic, which gets rid of the cookie consent popups for you and it’s configurable as to which types of cookies it will refuse or consent to for you
SponsorBlock for YouTube, which can auto skip sponsor reads and various other kinds of segments you select to be skipped
A few short months ago I would have said RES but, well 🤷♀️
I see some of these have already been mentioned, but they do deserve repeating;
FYI- I was about to install “I don’t care about cookies” when I noticed all the 1 star reviews. People saying its been purchased by Avast and is now data mining.
“I still don’t care about cookies” is a community fork, does the same thing but isn’t owned by a big company.