I just moved to Firefox and was wondering what extensions/themes people use and what’s reccomended
Also good just as a general post for all good Firefox Extensions & Themes ect.
Thanks!
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? 🤩
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:
- pockettube: allows you to manage your subscriptions into categories (e.g. Music, Video Editing, News, Design Tutorials, etc.) and automatically creates playlists of new videos in each group.
- Enhancer for Youtube: adds convenient buttons, themes and loads of other features like automatically selecting your desired resolution.
- ublock origin (not just ublock)
- bitwarden as password manager
- Bypass Paywalls https://gitlab.com/magnolia1234/bypass-paywalls-firefox-clean
uBlock Origin is a must for ad blocking. Anything else is just extra flavour. I like SponserBlock and Return YT Dislikes.
I like to recommend Privacypossum, it returns garbage data to tracking companies: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/privacy-possum/
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 :)
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.
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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 :/
Vimium C - All by Keyboard – Get this Extension for 🦊 Firefox (en-US) https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/vimium-c/
Firefox is great mostly on its own, and I only use two extensions:
- uBlock Origin: Enough said.
- Disable Javascript: Works great for getting around a lot of paywalls.
In case you don’t know, Ublock origin can block JavaScript per site basis. Just hit the “more v” at the bottom
This is AWESOME, thanks so much!
- Inoreader
- Bitwarden
- uBlock
- Sponsorblock
- Dark Reader
- Font Changer
- Stylus
- Markdownload - web clipper
- Lasttab (Alt_Z back to last tab) A. Violentmonkey B. webcompat.com reporter C. Wikiwand D. YouTube Redux
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.
- Bypass Paywalls Clean
- Copy PlainText
- Easy Youtube Video Downloader Express
- Feedbro
- Flagfox
- FoxClocks
- Grammar Checker & Paraphraser – LanguageTool
- Library Extension
- OneTab
- Print Edit WE
- Resurrect Pages
- Search by Image
- The Camelizer
- uBlock Origin
- Unhook - Remove YouTube Recommended Videos
- Video DownloadHelper
The more plugins you use, the easier you are to profile. If you value your privacy, try to limit your plugins.