this post was submitted on 13 Aug 2023
155 points (100.0% liked)

Firefox

449 readers
1 users here now

A place to discuss the news and latest developments on the open-source browser Firefox

founded 4 years ago
MODERATORS
top 50 comments
sorted by: hot top controversial new old
[–] kionite231@lemmy.ca 61 points 1 year ago

Ublock origin ofc

[–] gi1242@lemmy.ml 26 points 1 year ago (2 children)
  • Ublock origin: block ads
  • Vimium: browse with vim like keystrokes
  • Firenvim: edit text areas in neovim
  • Dark reader: dark colors on webpages
  • Containers: isolate browsing data
[–] gabriele97@lemmy.g97.top 7 points 1 year ago

The vim related extensions works for real? 😱 I need to try them ASAP!

[–] FreeLunch@feddit.de 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Did you try Tridactyl for vim like browsing? Is Vimium C better?

[–] gi1242@lemmy.ml 3 points 1 year ago

I started there. But then it migrated to pentadactyl, which i had trouble installing. Tridactyl was an improvement, and honestly would work great for me... But id already switched.....

[–] ace@lemmy.ananace.dev 13 points 1 year ago (3 children)

I see some of these have already been mentioned, but they do deserve repeating;

  • µBlock Origin - blocks ads, and does it well.
  • Privacy Badger - blocks trackers, rewrites some tracking URLs, etc.
  • Multi-Account Containers - for those places where you want to keep tabs separate, giving each container its own cookies/session/etc.
  • Consent-O-Matic - automatically handles a lot of pages that shove annoying (and often technically GDPR-illegal due to lacking a quick "reject all" button) consent forms in your face.
  • Imagus - shows linked images on hover, including support for galleries and scrolling through all the images contained.
[–] Nalivai@discuss.tchncs.de 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I use I don't care about cookies, I wonder how different it is from consent-o-matic

[–] Fibby@lemm.ee 9 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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.

[–] Nalivai@discuss.tchncs.de 6 points 1 year ago

Go damn it, why corporations are always ruining good things.
Thank you for the information

load more comments (2 replies)
[–] LynneOfFlowers@midwest.social 11 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

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 of open tabs you can switch between (can you tell I have a problem with too many tabs?)

Unstick!, which when clicked removes any sticky elements, i.e. parts of the 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. For some reason I have to click it twice for it to work

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 🤷‍♀️

[–] t0fr@lemmy.ca 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I love Simple tab groups, great way to save tabs for later.

I'm also definitely going to give Consent-o-matic a try

[–] trclst@lemmy.ml 11 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)
[–] kostel_thecreed@lemmy.ca 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

No script is redundant with ublock origin on advanced mode.

[–] trclst@lemmy.ml 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Would you please let me know how do i get the same "all scripts are blocked" and allowlist specific domains only like in noscript? As far as i know ublock enable/disable javascript for whole website not subdomains. I could be wrong. And noscript have xss protection.

[–] boerbiet@feddit.nl 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I have used noscript for a long time but after trying umatrix (from the ublock origin developer) I doubt I'm going back since this one feels more powerful. Maybe you want to give that one a try 🙂. I use it alongside ublock.

[–] trclst@lemmy.ml 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

as far as i know umatrix is unmaintained. so the default ublock + noscript seems the best combination.

[–] sudman@lemmy.ml 6 points 1 year ago

Umatrix became unmaintained because ublock origin can handle most of its use cases. You just need to run Ublock origin in medium or hard mode. More info ca he found on wiki: https://github.com/gorhill/uBlock/wiki/Blocking-mode:-medium-mode

[–] vort3@lemmy.ml 10 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Vimium-C.

Well, it goes right after UBlock Origin, which was mentioned many times already.

load more comments (2 replies)
[–] abc@lemmus.org 9 points 1 year ago
  • uBlock Origin: Blocks ads, annoying popups and cookie banners.
  • Bitwarden: For password management and logins.
  • SponsorBlock: Skips sponsors and self-promotions on YouTube. A huge time-saver.
[–] gordonthefatengine@lemm.ee 8 points 1 year ago
  • Ublock Origin

  • Libredirect

  • Bypass Paywalls Clean

[–] FreeLunch@feddit.de 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)
  • uBlock Origin
  • Tridactyl (vim like browsing)
  • consent-o-matic
[–] Ashiette@lemmy.one 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Can consent-o-matic refuse cookies ?

[–] fabiomzz@feddit.it 7 points 1 year ago

I still don't care about cookies

[–] library_napper@monyet.cc 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Chameleon - changes my browser fingerprint every 60 seconds

[–] stebo02@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] el_bhm@lemm.ee 1 points 1 year ago

Digital Shadow is composed of multiple things. One is a browser fingerprint.

[–] craigevil@lemmy.ml 6 points 1 year ago
[–] B3_CHAD@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 points 1 year ago

ublock origin, fast forward, pushbullet.

[–] hitagi@ani.social 5 points 1 year ago

uBlock Origin, Tridactyl, and Translate Web Pages.

User Agent Spoofer whenever I need it.

[–] InFerNo@lemmy.ml 5 points 1 year ago

Decentraleyes, ublock origin, consent-o-matic

[–] lud@lemm.ee 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I use:

  • uBlock origin (of course) (also on my phone)
  • Web archives (also on my phone)
  • ClearURLs (also on my phone)
  • Consent-O-Matic
  • Bitwarden
  • Search by image
  • Enhancer for YouTube™
  • SponsorBlock
  • Return YouTube Dislike
  • Augmented Steam
  • Dark reader
  • Tree Style Tab
  • Feedbro
  • User-Agent Switcher and Manager
  • Disable WebRTC

And probably a few more I don't remember.

[–] Xelnoc@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 points 1 year ago

Lord almighty my 8gb ram could never handle that

[–] NENathaniel@lemmy.ca 4 points 1 year ago

Bitwarden, AdGuard, DarkReader

[–] DagingAnalog@lemmy.my.id 3 points 1 year ago

Multi account container and temporary container.

[–] gamey@feddit.rocks 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Ublock Origin, Privacy Badger, LocalCDN, Multi Account Container and Dark Reader.

[–] windtorn 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Anyone here use AdNauseam?

[–] gothicdecadence@lemm.ee 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I do! Though I'm not sure how well it works since I also use uBlock and have a Pihole on my network lol

load more comments (1 replies)
[–] reddfugee@feddit.de 2 points 1 year ago

uBlock origin

[–] nido@feddit.ch 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)
  • Reopen closed Tabs

I often want to reopen a tab i recently closed, so this is very handy for me.

  • Languagetool

On the fly rule-based Spelling check. Works very good and in many languages. And the best: It's Open Source.

  • Facebook-, Google- and Microsoftcontainer

Uses the Firefox Tab-Container Fwature, to lock those companies in Tab-Groups just with themselves. I don't use Tab-Groups aside of that, so it comes in handy.

  • Firefox Translate

  • (Not really an extention, but still nice) Firefox Gnome Theme, for my personal machines and Firefox UI Fix for the machines at work to make Firefox look more at home on Linux and Windows.

[–] GlenTheFrog@lemmy.ml 5 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Reopen closed Tabs

What's wrong with the built in shortcut of ctrl+alt+t?

[–] moitoi@feddit.de 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

People want to reopen the 3rd or 4th without opening the others.

[–] nido@feddit.ch 1 points 1 year ago

This. Sometimes i want to reopen the last closed tabs. And generally, i use the mouse to do most things, i'm not used to most shortcuts.

load more comments (1 replies)
[–] preussischblau@lemmy.ca 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I see a lot of the same addons here, as one would reasonably expect, but I'm surprised there's been no mention of uMatrix. Using uMatrix and denying most elements by default, you can manually allow scripts, media, etc. per domain and save those rules for pages you go to often. It gives you more granular control than simply choosing to allow/deny all third-party scripts, and you can see exactly what's going on under the hood.

[–] RandomTech@feddit.uk 2 points 1 year ago

I used uMatrix for many years, that is until it was retired. Raymond Hill no longer maintains/updates the addon and the github was archived in July 2021. There are some forks but none appear to be in active development. Just be aware the version of uMatrix on addons.mozilla.org is now 2 years old and may not be blocking everything it claims to be.

load more comments
view more: next ›