1 yr. ago • 97%

What addons/scripts,etc do you consider necessary for firefox?

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Ublock origin, consent o matic

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- I would flip origin for Adnausem. It is built on top of unlock origin and it will click on the ads behind the scene and messes your digital footprint.
  
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  I love that, what a great idea!
  
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- Tried consent-o-matic yesterday, it saved me a bunch of clicks and F12s to ~~hide~~ remove cookies popups that always covers my screen.. thanks!
  
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uBlock Origin and I don't care about cookies. They're essential for me.

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- Just so you know IDCAC was bought by Avast, which is being bought by Norton/Symantec. There's "I still don't care about cookies" or the built in uBlock cookie banner options as a replacement.
  
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uBlock origin - block ad Dark reader - add dark mode to every website Tridactyl - keyboard navigation Bitwarden - password manager YouTube enhancer - add improvement to YT SponsorBlock - block sponsor segment in YT video Basr16 theme - have gruvboxdark theme

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- You nearly tricked me to install a vim plugin. I'd never be able to exit my browser again! /s
  
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  you say it like it's a bad thing
  
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- Commenting to go back to this later
  
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  You could save the original comment instead of
  
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Apart from what others mentioned I'd suggest installing DeArrow, from the maker of SponsorBlock. It gets rid of clickbait titles and thumbnails on YouTube.

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- But then where will I get to see an overexposed background image, some all caps text, and a portrait of someone with their mouth open, all at once?
  
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  You can click the dearrow button next to all thumbnails to see the original title and image.
  
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- DeArrow
  
  OMG This makes Youtube useable!!! Honestly, it just relieved so much anxiety for me.
  
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People have already covered the great ones so I will mention one of the more obscure.

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/don-t-fuck-with-paste/

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- Holy shit. Been looking for an addon like this
  
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uBlock Origin and SponsorBlock

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Ublock origin (Adblocker)

Sponsor Block(YouTube sponspor skip)

Clickbait remove (remove those awful thumbnails)

Bitwarden Password Manager

Clearurls (clean trackers in url)

Bonus

Decenteraleyes

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- Clearurls sounds divine. I'm always deleting that extra bs.
  
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- What about ghostery? I just started using it and I really like it, but, I just started using it :-)
  
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  I have heard that Ghostery was sponsored by the ad industry to collect data. Been a while though.
  
  Try ublock matrix for an alternative.
  
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uBlock Origin

Dark Reader

Return YouTube Dislike

SponsorBlock

Skip Redirect or Fast Forward

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- Dark reader screws up some sites for me, I prefer "dark background and light text" cuz it's more comprehensive and you can customize the asset colors
  
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The only add-on that I consider necessary is uBO (with advanced settings).

All others are very good to have installed, in fact I use many of them, but I can live on just fine without them.

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uBO and noscript

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Unlock origin, fast forward, dark reader, turbo downloader 3, sponsor block and terms of service; didn't read.

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Bitwarden, cookie autodelete

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Bypass for ublock for getting past paywalls

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Ublock origin is a requirement for all browsers, not just firefox. So definitely that one.

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UBO (lots of links already in this thread)

LocalCDN

Linguist Translator - use the Bergamot engine for total privacy

ClearURLs
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Outside of already mentioned:

Throttle Tabs – hides and closes tabs beyond a limit

LibRedirect – redirects to alternative frontends of sites (for example youtube)

Firefox Translations – offline translations

Web Archives
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I keep coming back to Firefox cuz no other browser has as good of a dark mode addon as "dark background and light text"

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Just uBlock.

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A user Agent switcher, saml tracer

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tab group add ons

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- as an addon for all the others
  
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uBlock Origin and Dark Reader.

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uBlock Origin simply required. Dark Reader is nice to have but not required.

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NoScript, uBlock Origin and Dark mode. (But I prefer the experimental darkmode setting in Vivaldi) Those are essential to me.

Panorama view is close to essential, I wish I found a tab stack alternative that works with it. (Haven't looked yet, Vivaldi is my current main browser, until Fifefox can get tames in the same way)

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I miss Session Manager

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- What is it
  
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I use Privacy Badger to just help block trackers and stuff, I think Firefox has this built in though now

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uMatrix
Firefox Multi Account Containers
Video Speed Controller
Cookie AutoDelete

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- uMatrix is unfortunately discontinued. It's successor is uBlock origin. I learned that some month ago and switched fully to UBO.
  
  There is an good article in the Github documentation from UBO, that can activate similar features like uMatrix.
  
  Blocking mode: Medium mode
  
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