Favorite Firefox addon that isn't just ublock, darkreader, etc? I throw out Singlefile but you probably have that
Do not send me Chrome addons. I do not care that you have a worse version of uBlock
SorteKanin @feddit.dk - 1mon
Consent-o-matic: automatically rejects cookie banners, even the most annoying ones.
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waka @discuss.tchncs.de - 1mon
I-dont-care-about-cookies is my favorite variant of this, since it also rejects the Cookies itself on top automatically where possible. Exceptions can be made if wanted.
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cristian64 @reddthat.com - 1mon
That one was compromised. The good fork is "I still don't care about cookies".
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vext01 @lemmy.sdf.org - 1mon
This sounds fantastic!
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TheFeatureCreature @lemmy.ca - 1mon
Bitwarden.
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mistermodal - 1mon
Oh for sure I raise you Keepass's addon but they have the same use case with minor differences (Keepass is easier to automate for things like providing bots with changed social media credentials)
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Mora @pawb.social - 1mon
is easier to automate for things like providing bots with changed social media credentials
Tbh, sounds a bit like a cursed use case for a password manager, but I am curious how you set that up.
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stonkage @aussie.zone - 1mon
Yep and selfhosting it is a great option as well
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d-RLY? - 1mon
I think all of these also have Chrome versions, but still better on FF due to being able to install (or side-load if not listed or not whitelisted for mobile) onto the mobile version. The day I learned how to get non-whitelisted ones to install and install from xpi was game over for bothering with other mobile browsers.
FastStream for downloading videos from YT and a lot of other sites (I daily use it for grabbing stuff on Twitter)
Bypass Paywalls Clean for the obvious (this one is to the dev's not github but same kind of site site as it has to be installed via xpi)
Watch on Odysee for seeing if a YT channel also uploads to Odysee to go watch there if possible and at least give my view there
SponsorBlock for being able to skip hard-coded ads from the uploads and other sections of YT videos
DeArrow for being able to view titles for YT videos that are more reflective of content
Privacy Possum for more aggressive blocking of tracking (though it does require remembering it is on if a site breaks as it will block things that uBO isn't the cause of the issue)
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Sushi - 1mon
Fuck yeah, i swear by sponsor block, I'm truly ad free with that, but also skipping intros and stuff is nice.
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terk @lemmy.ca - 1mon
Multi-account containers. Let's you have 2 different Gmail accounts open at once. Also I try to silo different parts of my life to prevent tracking.
Something like this for Facebook? Fuck Facebook, but Facebook marketplace murdered craigslist. That and the legal troubles that for some reason dont apply to Facebook.
I understand that you might want to run your own JavaScript and not others' JavaScript, but I had a brief laugh at listing "no JavaScript" and "MOAR JAVASCRIPT" together.
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burntbacon @discuss.tchncs.de - 1mon
Snowflake - help others bypass censors
Port authority - stops port scanning of your local network [and I found out how many fucking assholes do this. My own employer freaking does it >:( ]
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mistermodal - 1mon
Hmm interesting, would librewolf kill that alrdy?
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burntbacon @discuss.tchncs.de - 1mon
I use librewolf, and I still get the notifications from port authority. Maybe that means librewolf wasn't doing it, or port authority just detects that it's supposed to happen even if librewolf has already stopped it.
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mistermodal - 1mon
Sounds like jshelter, i doubt i need it but it definitely does something because it breaks websites even more, cheers
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gwl @lemmy.blahaj.zone - 1mon
In no particular order;
Unpaywall - for research papers tries to find legal and free copies of them
Stylus - overwrite style on a per-website basis (I use the Compact Subscriptions style on YouTube, for example)
uBlacklist - additional to uBlock that deletes some URLs from search results (such as an anti-AI list, or Pinterest from image search)
Surmount - jumps over paywalled news articles using archive.ph
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thermogel - 1mon
Adnauseam Silently click-spams ads to drain their bandwidth, with the purpose of making the horrible advertising business unprofitable.
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Hirom @beehaw.org - 1mon
Adblocking is a more efficient way to make adversiting unprofitable, as it avoid wasting both yours' and adtech's bandwidth.
Wasting resources isn't a great strategy, even if someone else is paying for it.
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geneva_convenience - 1mon
A minor amount of bytes is not "wasting resources". It is wasting ad revenue.
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theneverfox @pawb.social - 1mon
It's basically just burning through the credit they've paid Google and making their numbers look like the ad was effective, but conversion was low
Google has been caught doing similar things to make their metrics look better
This does hurt advertising in a nebulous kind of accelerationist way, but it does end up with more ad money being given to Google
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geneva_convenience - 1mon
Indeed. This in turn devalues ads by dropping their conversion rate. Thus people won't use Google services anymore.
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Hirom @beehaw.org - 1mon
It's both, and not a small amount of bytes.
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PearOfJudes - 1mon
this is built on ublock origin, so if your using it get rid of ublock origin as well.
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001Guy001 @sh.itjust.works - 1mon
Tab Snooze - allows you to close a tab and have it reappear at a chosen time later
Domain Volume Control / Better Volume Booster - allow you to set default volume per-domain (note that unfortunately, in the 1st one the set volume gets changed when you change the volume through a site's player, and the 2nd one currently causes an issue on Nightly with unpaused videos)
Playback speed - allows you to change the speed of videos/audio on any site, even only by x0.01 at a time (you can also change the buttons that appear when you click on the addon in the toolbar/addons menu to have specific speeds readily available) (note that it doesn't change the pitch of the audio)
Specifically for YouTube you can also use an addon like Improve YouTube. To configure the feature click on the addon in the toolbar/addons menu > Shortcuts > Playback speed. To change the shortcut so that you hold Ctrl and use the mousewheel (while hovering over the video) click Ctrl and release it before using the mousewheel up or down accordingly (otherwise it acts as a zoom to the settings window)
Media URL Timestamper - automatically inserts the current timestamp of the YouTube/Twitch video you're watching and updates it in the history in case you accidentally close/navigate away from the page or go to a different time in the video
Feedbro - an RSS reader with filtering capabilities
Tab Snooze - allows you to close a tab and have it reappear at a chosen time later
Can't Firefox already do this though?
Right-click > Unload Tab on a tab.
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001Guy001 @sh.itjust.works - 1mon
It's not for saving memory but to postpone a tab to check it later (for example to see new comments on a post, or if you don't currently have time to read an article and want to read it tomorrow)
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DrDystopia @lemy.lol - 1mon
Snooze and Sleep are completely unrelated, naturally.
But then loading an unloaded tab reloads the page, does it not? Or does it go strictly by the cached version? If it is the former, then it should load the newest comments.
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001Guy001 @sh.itjust.works - 1mon
It opens it again as a new/refreshed tab, though it does it automatically at the postponed time and so it's more convenient than having to do it manually (especially when you snooze several tabs)
Oh I see so there really is no difference functionally aside from the fact that the native functionality is manual restoration while the addon functionality is automatic restoration?
Er...sorry. I guess what I meant by that is that from what you tell me it seems that there is virtually no difference between what the native "tab unloading" function is and what the addon's "tab snooze" function is, that difference being that the former requires manually reactivating a tab while the latter can do it at a specific time/duration like an alarm clock.
Is that about right?
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001Guy001 @sh.itjust.works - 1mon
Right, though I believe that when you unload a tab it stays there? With the snooze thing it closes the tab and reopens later
That's really cool that the snooze thing makes it go away!
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wellheh @lemmy.sdf.org - 1mon
Firefox multi account containers and temporary containers
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DrDystopia @lemy.lol - 1mon
Killer combo
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Rooster326 @programming.dev - 1mon
What do they do?
Firefox just implemented profiles so long as you have separate emails
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DrDystopia @lemy.lol - 1mon
Container tabs
It's like how different browsers can be logged in to different accounts with the same webmail at the same time, but all in the tabs instead.
Temporary containers
Basically a new incognito window in each new tab.
They play nicely together, my usual setup is temporary containers for regular browsing and a pop up asking me which user I'm logging in as - in that specific tab - when visiting sites I'm regularly logging in to.
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wellheh @lemmy.sdf.org - 1mon
It's basically having website cookies completely isolated in the same profile. You can also create containers for each website automatically so they can't talk to each other. If you like having multiple emails from the same provider open, you can do that without logging out or making a new Firefox profile, so it's like having all your settings and add-ons with the website flexibility of another profile.
Haven't had to deal with annoying "LeGiTiMaTe iNtErEsT" cookie pop-ups for nearly a year. Honestly forgot they existed until I needed to deactivate it to briefly log back into my reddit account recently (I swear that entire website's UI is just malware at this point).
Their website is also surprisingly gorgeous. I was surprised since most app makers usually don't put much effort into something people are probably only gonna see once, if they even have one at all. It's so well put together.
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UltraGiGaGigantic - 1mon
Not to encourage people to use reddit, but we're you using old.reddit? I don't have pop-ups and I didnt have to use a email to sign up
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g0d0fm15ch13f - 1mon
Tree style tabs
Makes it simultaneously easier to open a billion pages but also manages them nicely
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Damage @feddit.it - 1mon
I prefer Sidebery to Tree Style Tabs
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mistermodal - 1mon
I tried this one of the tree tab addons, that may have been it, but it actually had a noticeable performance cost - made me sad :(
Now that hq finally added the fucking vertical tab sidebar I use that
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attero @discuss.tchncs.de - 1mon
Redirector - redirect pages to where you want them to go.
make the youtube subscription feed the first thing you see / convert shorts without needing another addon
fix stupid machine translated localizations of pages looking at you learn.microsoft.com or reddit does this too now
Can definitely find a use for this thx have been using regex and Libredirect separately anyways
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Sushi - 1mon
I love Indie Wiki Buddy, it auto redirects fandom links to the newer official independent wikis for things that have them (minecraft is one example). God I hate fandom so much truly the worst wiki experience.
Maybe this counts as a "worse version of uBlock" but I use AdNauseam, which in addition to blocking all the ads, it registers as clicking them too, which fucks up their tracking and costs them money. I remember seeing somewhere that the ad blocking itself was based on uBlock, but I couldn’t find it on the extention page so i may have imagined it.
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mistermodal - 1mon
Libredirect is taking care of the fandom wiki thing for me check that out. Their page is also a cool repository of self-hostable frontends & services
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TrackinDaKraken - 1mon
Sponsor Block--Skips some YouTube ads.
Language Tool--keeps me from making stupid grammar errors.
Cookie Quick Manager--you can lock cookies and other stuff.
Wouldn’t chameleon make you just as trackable unless you’re also switching your vpn every time you switch user agents?
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mistermodal - 1mon
In general user agents dont do much although i didnt scrutinize chamrlron. You could use a foxyproxy tab. I generally use the super generic kind of antifingerprinting options w foxyproxy, but presumably they would work together
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ccx @sopuli.xyz - 1mon
The one I want to point out the most is
WebScrapbook,
which is alternative to SingleFile.
It can either snapshot the current DOM or the document source (handy for PDFs), can use proper directory structure and provides full-text search over the stored pages.
It has support for separate server should you want to keep the files outside browser storage or share an instance between several browsers.
I use this with text browser as renderer to make summarizing pages into VimWiki easier.
Unfortunately it can't do sync between instances, that's something I wanted to add to it but I'm currently juggling way too many other projects.
Then there's
Feed Previews
for getting those RSS/ATOM feeds where they still exist so I can avoid using the browser, or worse, getting notifications through antisocial media. (-:
Web Archives is making access to webpage archives much more convenient.
Especially useful when dredging through old academic research pages full of link rot, or using TOR and getting locked out constantly.
While I prefer keyboard control for most things, and certainly
Tridactyl
goes the furthest from existing addons, it just can't really handle all the screens as it was possible with the XPI addons. sheds a tear
For content blocking it's the run of the mill
uBlock
with JS disabled by default (F8 mapped to selectively enable it on a page) and
LocalCDN
which has rule generator for whitelisting locally provided resources in uBlock.
And because some sites are broken mess and don't work even with conservative Firefox setup I've had to use
Allow CORS
once or twice.
Non-addon bonus: Searx-NG has a CSV output which can be integrated with tools like rofi or dmenu so you can do web searches outside web browser and easily pick the result.
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mistermodal - 1mon
Will check some of these out although pretty used to vimium & livemarks already
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morgan423 - 1mon
I use a bunch of YouTube enhancing extensions.
SponsorBlock. so very, very good. First user into a video after it drops, who has this extension, marks the portion of it that is the YouTuber's ad read / sponsor segment. Extension auto-skips it for every user who watches after. Saves a lot of time.
Multiselect for YouTube. Just what it sounds like, you can select multiple videos at once to add or delete from playlists, instead of doing them one at a time.
PlayerTube. Use approximations of player UIs from bygone years. I'm partial to 2013 myself.
Return YouTube Dislike and YouTube Shorts Block. Self explanatory from titles.
Others (non-YT) I use...
Change Case. I watch my keyboard and not my screen whilst typing, and this just lets me quickly flip large chunks of unnoticed caps-lock text back to normal once I discover it, rather than having to retype it all.
Simple Translate. Quickly run highlighted text through a translator on the right click menu.
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_deleted_ - 1mon
Cookie Autodelete
I don’t care about cookies
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Sushi - 1mon
I head that "I don't care about cookies" got bought by Avast or something and had some spyware in it or something (can't quite remember I looked into it a while back).
I think there's another version called "I still don't care about cookies" that avoids that.
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_deleted_ - 1mon
I hadn’t heard that, thanks, I’ll check it out.
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waka @discuss.tchncs.de - 1mon
Best underrated combo.
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menny @lemmy.world - 1mon
I like to use mouse gestures since the time Opera had its own engine.
So basically the Gesturefy add-on for Firefox is a must for me.
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DrDystopia @lemy.lol - 1mon
The rocker gestures are nice for laptops and trackpads but has been made obsolete by multitouch gestures.
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tyler @programming.dev - 1mon
Sidebery
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EldritchFemininity - 1mon
The first thing I add after an ad blocker on a fresh Firefox install will always be Shinigami Eyes: a crowd-sourced system for marking transphobes and allies across the web.
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hexagonwin @lemmy.sdf.org - 1mon
nuTensor. Paired with uBO it's easily the best browser firewall system.
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FruitLips - 1mon
Tridactyl is a must for me. It's as close to the Qutebrowser experience as I can find (especially with ':guiset none') but I get to keep my ublock/sponsorblocks.
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poweruser @lemmy.sdf.org - 1mon
On desktop I really like Vimium. It enables keyboard navigation on basically any site
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Strayce @lemmy.sdf.org - 1mon
Tabs aside.
Nothing you can't do with bookmarks, but it's a much nicer interface.
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mistermodal - 1mon
Is that basically like OneTab?
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Strayce @lemmy.sdf.org - 1mon
Sort of? Never used OneTab but it looks like a single list. Tabs aside breaks up tab sets into sessions / windows.
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Username @lemmy.nz - 1mon
Onetab does this too
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Krudler - 1mon
SteamDB makes Steam actually usable
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carg - 1mon
CAD Cookie Auto Delete
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HiddenLayer555 - 1mon
JShelter?
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mistermodal - 1mon
V important tool
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blackbrook @mander.xyz - 1mon
Tabby. A tab manager, but I mainly use it to search for tabs.
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ayyo @sh.itjust.works - 1mon
Markdown here
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runner_g @lemmy.blahaj.zone - 1mon
uBo has never worked on twitch for me, even with custom filters people say work (probably a me issue) so I'll through out Purple Ads Blocker TTV LOL PRO. I only ever have 1 activated at a time. 1 will work for awhile and the twitch will change something and the one I'm using stops working so I switch to the other.
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mistermodal - 1mon
I have to go on there I usually open it in Xtra Android app and the systemwide/dns adblockers get it
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stardust @lemmy.ca - 1mon
I've seen people say setting vpn to serbia or albania will have ads not show on twitch. Worked the few times I tested it out, but what country ads don't run might have changed.
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mystic-macaroni - 1mon
Tridactyl
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jh29a @lemmy.blahaj.zone - 1mon
Surprised no one has Simple Tab Groups. Maybe the Tree Style Tabs ecosystem is more popular, I haven't tried it. It's just a 2-level hierarchy instead of a tree, but it serves me well. I have one tab group for each class I have at university, plus some other ones for interests like lean 4 or minecraft, and two for other compulsory online services like banking and travel planning. The Add-On combines saving the hassle of reopening tabs with reducing the work looking through the open ones.
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RoquetteQueen @sh.itjust.works - 1mon
Is there any add-on for me to get YouTube on Firefox to behave more like the YouTube kids app? I've been trying to find a way to set up YouTube with an allowlist on my kids' computer but for now I just have the entire site blocked. They don't need YouTube but they watch educational videos on it at school and they want to watch them at home, too. Blocking individual channels is like playing whack-a-mole.
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mistermodal - 1mon
You could probably do this by hosting Invidious or Piped, only allowing certain channels, proxying the video stream thru the Invidious server, and blocking youtube on your kids' devices. There are apps for the services you can bind to the website
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RoquetteQueen @sh.itjust.works - 1mon
Thanks, I'll try that out.
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mistermodal - 1mon
Oh I just had a midnight idea. Let your kids add channels to the allowlist somehow. Since they know you'll review it, they won't add anything shitty
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AgentRocket @feddit.org - 1mon
apart from all the adblocking and privacy stuff, gesturify is one of my favourites. i got used to mouse gestures back when opera was still good and happily kept using them in vivaldi. if it wasn't for this addon, i probably wouldn't have been able to switch, when google enforced their manifest v3 bullshit.
streaming enhanced is another great one. it automatically skips intro and outro of shows, so you don't have to fumble around with whatever remote you use. It also shows imdb ratings, so it's easier to avoid stinkers, that the services are trying to push.
finally, i'd like to mention comet. i know we hate Reddit here, but usually reddit comments are still better than youtube comments.
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syzygy - 1mon
Gesturify looks really cool, can you share with us your use cases?
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AgentRocket @feddit.org - 3w
My most used gesture is right click on link, then down and up to open it in a new background tab. imo the gesture is easier than finding that function in the context menu. always handy. when a page has multiple interesting links, that i want to look at after finishing the first page (e.g. youtube start page)
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SuperDuperKitten @lemmy.blahaj.zone - 1mon
BlockTube: Allows you to block YouTube Channels and Video as using "Do Not Recommend Channel" doesn't exactly work
Bitwarden - Loves the auto-fill feature
uBlacklist - More easier to block URL result on various search engine. Only use it as I can't be arsed tried to learn how to manually make filter on uBlock and want something that I can block Daily Mail on my search with just a click. It's just the job done so happy to use it.
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lietuva @lemmy.world - 1mon
Adnauseam, based on ublock, but clicks obfuscates and clicks adds for you so google gets bad data
mistermodal in asklemmy
Favorite Firefox addon that isn't just ublock, darkreader, etc? I throw out Singlefile but you probably have that
Do not send me Chrome addons. I do not care that you have a worse version of uBlock
Consent-o-matic: automatically rejects cookie banners, even the most annoying ones.
I-dont-care-about-cookies is my favorite variant of this, since it also rejects the Cookies itself on top automatically where possible. Exceptions can be made if wanted.
That one was compromised. The good fork is "I still don't care about cookies".
This sounds fantastic!
Bitwarden.
Oh for sure I raise you Keepass's addon but they have the same use case with minor differences (Keepass is easier to automate for things like providing bots with changed social media credentials)
Tbh, sounds a bit like a cursed use case for a password manager, but I am curious how you set that up.
Yep and selfhosting it is a great option as well
I think all of these also have Chrome versions, but still better on FF due to being able to install (or side-load if not listed or not whitelisted for mobile) onto the mobile version. The day I learned how to get non-whitelisted ones to install and install from xpi was game over for bothering with other mobile browsers.
Fuck yeah, i swear by sponsor block, I'm truly ad free with that, but also skipping intros and stuff is nice.
Multi-account containers. Let's you have 2 different Gmail accounts open at once. Also I try to silo different parts of my life to prevent tracking.
Noscript and tampermonkey too.
Seconded for Tampermonkey.
Specifically recommend their Youtube Age Verification Bypass script. Cause they ain't gettin my ID lol
Something like this for Facebook? Fuck Facebook, but Facebook marketplace murdered craigslist. That and the legal troubles that for some reason dont apply to Facebook.
https://getfoxyproxy.org/
I understand that you might want to run your own JavaScript and not others' JavaScript, but I had a brief laugh at listing "no JavaScript" and "MOAR JAVASCRIPT" together.
Snowflake - help others bypass censors
Port authority - stops port scanning of your local network [and I found out how many fucking assholes do this. My own employer freaking does it >:( ]
Hmm interesting, would librewolf kill that alrdy?
I use librewolf, and I still get the notifications from port authority. Maybe that means librewolf wasn't doing it, or port authority just detects that it's supposed to happen even if librewolf has already stopped it.
Sounds like jshelter, i doubt i need it but it definitely does something because it breaks websites even more, cheers
In no particular order;
Adnauseam Silently click-spams ads to drain their bandwidth, with the purpose of making the horrible advertising business unprofitable.
Adblocking is a more efficient way to make adversiting unprofitable, as it avoid wasting both yours' and adtech's bandwidth.
Wasting resources isn't a great strategy, even if someone else is paying for it.
A minor amount of bytes is not "wasting resources". It is wasting ad revenue.
It's basically just burning through the credit they've paid Google and making their numbers look like the ad was effective, but conversion was low
Google has been caught doing similar things to make their metrics look better
This does hurt advertising in a nebulous kind of accelerationist way, but it does end up with more ad money being given to Google
Indeed. This in turn devalues ads by dropping their conversion rate. Thus people won't use Google services anymore.
It's both, and not a small amount of bytes.
this is built on ublock origin, so if your using it get rid of ublock origin as well.
Tab Snooze - allows you to close a tab and have it reappear at a chosen time later
Domain Volume Control / Better Volume Booster - allow you to set default volume per-domain (note that unfortunately, in the 1st one the set volume gets changed when you change the volume through a site's player, and the 2nd one currently causes an issue on Nightly with unpaused videos)
Playback speed - allows you to change the speed of videos/audio on any site, even only by x0.01 at a time (you can also change the buttons that appear when you click on the addon in the toolbar/addons menu to have specific speeds readily available) (note that it doesn't change the pitch of the audio)
Media URL Timestamper - automatically inserts the current timestamp of the YouTube/Twitch video you're watching and updates it in the history in case you accidentally close/navigate away from the page or go to a different time in the video
Feedbro - an RSS reader with filtering capabilities
Can't Firefox already do this though?
Right-click > Unload Tab on a tab.
It's not for saving memory but to postpone a tab to check it later (for example to see new comments on a post, or if you don't currently have time to read an article and want to read it tomorrow)
Snooze and Sleep are completely unrelated, naturally.
But then loading an unloaded tab reloads the page, does it not? Or does it go strictly by the cached version? If it is the former, then it should load the newest comments.
It opens it again as a new/refreshed tab, though it does it automatically at the postponed time and so it's more convenient than having to do it manually (especially when you snooze several tabs)
Oh I see so there really is no difference functionally aside from the fact that the native functionality is manual restoration while the addon functionality is automatic restoration?
Er...sorry. I guess what I meant by that is that from what you tell me it seems that there is virtually no difference between what the native "tab unloading" function is and what the addon's "tab snooze" function is, that difference being that the former requires manually reactivating a tab while the latter can do it at a specific time/duration like an alarm clock.
Is that about right?
Right, though I believe that when you unload a tab it stays there? With the snooze thing it closes the tab and reopens later
Yes, it stays there.
That's really cool that the snooze thing makes it go away!
Firefox multi account containers and temporary containers
Killer combo
What do they do?
Firefox just implemented profiles so long as you have separate emails
Container tabs
It's like how different browsers can be logged in to different accounts with the same webmail at the same time, but all in the tabs instead.
Temporary containers
Basically a new incognito window in each new tab.
They play nicely together, my usual setup is temporary containers for regular browsing and a pop up asking me which user I'm logging in as - in that specific tab - when visiting sites I'm regularly logging in to.
It's basically having website cookies completely isolated in the same profile. You can also create containers for each website automatically so they can't talk to each other. If you like having multiple emails from the same provider open, you can do that without logging out or making a new Firefox profile, so it's like having all your settings and add-ons with the website flexibility of another profile.
Oooo, PopUpOff
Haven't had to deal with annoying "LeGiTiMaTe iNtErEsT" cookie pop-ups for nearly a year. Honestly forgot they existed until I needed to deactivate it to briefly log back into my reddit account recently (I swear that entire website's UI is just malware at this point).
Their website is also surprisingly gorgeous. I was surprised since most app makers usually don't put much effort into something people are probably only gonna see once, if they even have one at all. It's so well put together.
Not to encourage people to use reddit, but we're you using old.reddit? I don't have pop-ups and I didnt have to use a email to sign up
Tree style tabs
Makes it simultaneously easier to open a billion pages but also manages them nicely
I prefer Sidebery to Tree Style Tabs
I tried this one of the tree tab addons, that may have been it, but it actually had a noticeable performance cost - made me sad :(
Now that hq finally added the fucking vertical tab sidebar I use that
Redirector - redirect pages to where you want them to go.
Example Usage: https://github.com/einaregilsson/Redirector?tab=readme-ov-file#examples
This extension is how I learned to love RegEx.
Can definitely find a use for this thx have been using regex and Libredirect separately anyways
I love Indie Wiki Buddy, it auto redirects fandom links to the newer official independent wikis for things that have them (minecraft is one example). God I hate fandom so much truly the worst wiki experience.
Maybe this counts as a "worse version of uBlock" but I use AdNauseam, which in addition to blocking all the ads, it registers as clicking them too, which fucks up their tracking and costs them money. I remember seeing somewhere that the ad blocking itself was based on uBlock, but I couldn’t find it on the extention page so i may have imagined it.
Libredirect is taking care of the fandom wiki thing for me check that out. Their page is also a cool repository of self-hostable frontends & services
Sponsor Block--Skips some YouTube ads.
Language Tool--keeps me from making stupid grammar errors.
Cookie Quick Manager--you can lock cookies and other stuff.
I'll throw out a few.
LibRedirect
Chameleon
NoScript
Wouldn’t chameleon make you just as trackable unless you’re also switching your vpn every time you switch user agents?
In general user agents dont do much although i didnt scrutinize chamrlron. You could use a foxyproxy tab. I generally use the super generic kind of antifingerprinting options w foxyproxy, but presumably they would work together
The one I want to point out the most is WebScrapbook, which is alternative to SingleFile. It can either snapshot the current DOM or the document source (handy for PDFs), can use proper directory structure and provides full-text search over the stored pages.
It has support for separate server should you want to keep the files outside browser storage or share an instance between several browsers. I use this with text browser as renderer to make summarizing pages into VimWiki easier.
Unfortunately it can't do sync between instances, that's something I wanted to add to it but I'm currently juggling way too many other projects.
Then there's Feed Previews for getting those RSS/ATOM feeds where they still exist so I can avoid using the browser, or worse, getting notifications through antisocial media. (-:
Web Archives is making access to webpage archives much more convenient. Especially useful when dredging through old academic research pages full of link rot, or using TOR and getting locked out constantly.
For managing tabs I'm sticking with the venerable Tree Style Tabs together with few handy plugins like TST: Colored Tabs and TST: Unload Tabs.
While I prefer keyboard control for most things, and certainly Tridactyl goes the furthest from existing addons, it just can't really handle all the screens as it was possible with the XPI addons. sheds a tear
For content blocking it's the run of the mill uBlock with JS disabled by default (F8 mapped to selectively enable it on a page) and LocalCDN which has rule generator for whitelisting locally provided resources in uBlock.
And because some sites are broken mess and don't work even with conservative Firefox setup I've had to use Allow CORS once or twice.
Non-addon bonus: Searx-NG has a CSV output which can be integrated with tools like rofi or dmenu so you can do web searches outside web browser and easily pick the result.
Will check some of these out although pretty used to vimium & livemarks already
I use a bunch of YouTube enhancing extensions.
SponsorBlock. so very, very good. First user into a video after it drops, who has this extension, marks the portion of it that is the YouTuber's ad read / sponsor segment. Extension auto-skips it for every user who watches after. Saves a lot of time.
Multiselect for YouTube. Just what it sounds like, you can select multiple videos at once to add or delete from playlists, instead of doing them one at a time.
PlayerTube. Use approximations of player UIs from bygone years. I'm partial to 2013 myself.
Return YouTube Dislike and YouTube Shorts Block. Self explanatory from titles.
Others (non-YT) I use...
Change Case. I watch my keyboard and not my screen whilst typing, and this just lets me quickly flip large chunks of unnoticed caps-lock text back to normal once I discover it, rather than having to retype it all.
Simple Translate. Quickly run highlighted text through a translator on the right click menu.
I head that "I don't care about cookies" got bought by Avast or something and had some spyware in it or something (can't quite remember I looked into it a while back).
I think there's another version called "I still don't care about cookies" that avoids that.
I hadn’t heard that, thanks, I’ll check it out.
Best underrated combo.
I like to use mouse gestures since the time Opera had its own engine. So basically the Gesturefy add-on for Firefox is a must for me.
The rocker gestures are nice for laptops and trackpads but has been made obsolete by multitouch gestures.
Sidebery
The first thing I add after an ad blocker on a fresh Firefox install will always be Shinigami Eyes: a crowd-sourced system for marking transphobes and allies across the web.
nuTensor. Paired with uBO it's easily the best browser firewall system.
Tridactyl is a must for me. It's as close to the Qutebrowser experience as I can find (especially with ':guiset none') but I get to keep my ublock/sponsorblocks.
On desktop I really like Vimium. It enables keyboard navigation on basically any site
Tabs aside.
Nothing you can't do with bookmarks, but it's a much nicer interface.
Is that basically like OneTab?
Sort of? Never used OneTab but it looks like a single list. Tabs aside breaks up tab sets into sessions / windows.
Onetab does this too
SteamDB makes Steam actually usable
CAD Cookie Auto Delete
JShelter?
V important tool
Tabby. A tab manager, but I mainly use it to search for tabs.
Markdown here
uBo has never worked on twitch for me, even with custom filters people say work (probably a me issue) so I'll through out Purple Ads Blocker TTV LOL PRO. I only ever have 1 activated at a time. 1 will work for awhile and the twitch will change something and the one I'm using stops working so I switch to the other.
I have to go on there I usually open it in Xtra Android app and the systemwide/dns adblockers get it
I've seen people say setting vpn to serbia or albania will have ads not show on twitch. Worked the few times I tested it out, but what country ads don't run might have changed.
Tridactyl
Surprised no one has Simple Tab Groups. Maybe the Tree Style Tabs ecosystem is more popular, I haven't tried it. It's just a 2-level hierarchy instead of a tree, but it serves me well. I have one tab group for each class I have at university, plus some other ones for interests like lean 4 or minecraft, and two for other compulsory online services like banking and travel planning. The Add-On combines saving the hassle of reopening tabs with reducing the work looking through the open ones.
Is there any add-on for me to get YouTube on Firefox to behave more like the YouTube kids app? I've been trying to find a way to set up YouTube with an allowlist on my kids' computer but for now I just have the entire site blocked. They don't need YouTube but they watch educational videos on it at school and they want to watch them at home, too. Blocking individual channels is like playing whack-a-mole.
You could probably do this by hosting Invidious or Piped, only allowing certain channels, proxying the video stream thru the Invidious server, and blocking youtube on your kids' devices. There are apps for the services you can bind to the website
Thanks, I'll try that out.
Oh I just had a midnight idea. Let your kids add channels to the allowlist somehow. Since they know you'll review it, they won't add anything shitty
apart from all the adblocking and privacy stuff, gesturify is one of my favourites. i got used to mouse gestures back when opera was still good and happily kept using them in vivaldi. if it wasn't for this addon, i probably wouldn't have been able to switch, when google enforced their manifest v3 bullshit.
streaming enhanced is another great one. it automatically skips intro and outro of shows, so you don't have to fumble around with whatever remote you use. It also shows imdb ratings, so it's easier to avoid stinkers, that the services are trying to push.
finally, i'd like to mention comet. i know we hate Reddit here, but usually reddit comments are still better than youtube comments.
Gesturify looks really cool, can you share with us your use cases?
My most used gesture is right click on link, then down and up to open it in a new background tab. imo the gesture is easier than finding that function in the context menu. always handy. when a page has multiple interesting links, that i want to look at after finishing the first page (e.g. youtube start page)
Adnauseam, based on ublock, but clicks obfuscates and clicks adds for you so google gets bad data
These are pretty good
popup blocker (strict)
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