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What are some must have Firefox plugins?

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What are some must have Firefox plugins?

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  • inlandempire@jlai.lu
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    Here’s a list of those I have installed:

    • uBlock Origin https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/ublock-origin/
    • Consent-O-Matic https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/consent-o-matic/
    • SponsorBlock https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/sponsorblock/
    • Youtube-shorts block https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/youtube-shorts-block/
    • ClearURLs https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/clearurls/ (no longer needed since last update afaik)
    • Proton Pass https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/proton-pass/ (or bitwarden if you use a password manager)
    • Bypass Paywalls Clean https://gitlab.com/magnolia1234/bypass-paywalls-firefox-clean
    • LibRedirect https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/libredirect/
    • Firefox Relay https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/private-relay/
    • SteamDB https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/steam-database/
    • Dehydrated@lemmy.world
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      You don’t need an addon for blocking YouTube Shorts, you can also just use these uBlock Origin rules https://github.com/gijsdev/ublock-hide-yt-shorts

      • inlandempire@jlai.lu
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        Wow that’s great, thanks for sharing !!

    • WhyJiffie@sh.itjust.works
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      But most of these are not must haves. Like, SteamDB?

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        “a list of those i have installed” is probably not must have for you indeed 😅

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      Thanks for the list, and links. That was very helpful, and super easy.

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      Clean urls breaks a lot of things so I don’t use it anymore. You can delete trackers if need be by yourself (usually everything after “ref” or everything after “?”

      I would also like to add:

      Ublock Origin with Javascript enable by default in settings

      Container Tabs

      Tree Style tabs

      Bitwarden

      Simplelogin

      Privacy Badger

      Dark Background and Light Text

      Tampermonkey (use to redirect to old reddit to view without JS using ublock)

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        firefox has a built in function to “copy link without site tracking” now.

        firefox also has total cookie protection which may (more may not) make Container Tabs kinda moot ?

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    Some that haven’t been mentioned yet:

    • Behind The Overlay (removes simple login banners/paywalls/anything that blocks the content)
    • Don’t Fuck With Paste (for those sites that think it’s fun to override or even disable copy and/or paste)
    • Greasemonkey/Tampermonkey Violentmonkey
    • -RJ-@lemmy.worldB
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      Which greasemonkey scripts do you use? I’ve never used it but have heard it’s a good one to have (also, it’s been recommended several times on here)

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        If you want to use userscripts, definitely install Violentmonkey instead of Greasemonkey or Tampermonkey, as Tampermonkey is proprietary and steals user data and Greasemonkey hasn’t been updated in years

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          Thank you - I love how it can look at the site and suggest scripts - and you can’t go wrong with Opensource. Thank you.

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      Stop suggesting Greasemonkey and Tampermonkey. Tampermonkey is proprietary and steals user data, and Greasemonkey hasn’t been updated since 2021. Use Violentmonkey, it’s completely FOSS and up-to-date.

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    As a college student, my must have plugins are

    • DarkReader
    • Firefox Multi-Account Containers
    • Sponsorblock
    • TWP - Translate Web Pages

    and the goat itself, >!uBlock Origin!<

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      I find DarkReader to be pretty slow. You might want to look at Stylus. It works on a per site basis but it’s much faster.

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        Thank you for the suggestion, will take a look at it.

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    Dark reader https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/darkreader

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    Some that I use:

    Dark Mode

    I don’t like having a light screen.

    • Dark Reader. This does a pretty technically-impressive-to-me job of making reasonable dark versions of pages. It’s not perfect – there are a handful of sites that it needs to be toggled off for, makes something hard to read – but I’m amazed that it does the job it does.
    • Blank Dark Tab: Replace the new tab with a blank page matching Firefox’s built-in dark mode

    Privacy/Anti-Tracking/Ad-blocking

    • uBlock Origin. Ad blocker.
    • Privacy Badger. Targets cross-site tracking, EFF project.
    • Decentraleyes. Targets CDN tracking.

    Paywalls

    Some paywalls can be bypassed.

    • Bypass Paywalls Clean

    Tweaking Frameworks

    • Stylus: Doesn’t do anything on its own, but permits collections of third-party themes to be applied to websites to fix annoyances.
    • Greasemonkey. This doesn’t do anything on its own, but it permits people to publish little modifications to be applied to webpages, permits for a lot of little scripts that fix annoyances on websites. There were a number of useful scripts that I used on Reddit.

    Misc

    • Edit with Emacs. Permits opening the contents of a textarea in an external emacs instance. Nice for things like, say, writing a large lemmy post in Markdown. I vaguely recall that, at least some years back, there was a way to embed a version of vim in Firefox textareas, so if vim’s your cup of tea, that might be interesting, if it’s still around.
    • Instance Assistant for Lemmy and Kbin. A variety of quality-of-life fixes for lemmy and kbin. Lets one open a given lemmy/kbin post on their local instance if they wind up viewing a page on a remote instance.
    • Reddit Enhancement Suite. If you still use Reddit, this has an enormous collection of quality-of-life improvements for Reddit.

    EDIT: I don’t know if this is the embedded vim that I recall, but Firenvim seems to do roughly the same thing, if not.

    EDIT2: There’s also some “overlay remover” plugin that can bypass a number of obnoxious overlays that I use on my desktop, but I don’t have it installed on this machine. I think that it’s Behind the Overlay.

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      Decentraleyes. Targets CDN tracking.

      The Arkenfox’s wiki says not to use it.

      Privacy Badger. Targets cross-site tracking, EFF project.

      Does uBlock Origin with it’s filter lists and Firefox’s Total Cookie Protection make Privacy Badger pointless to use?

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    Ublock origin

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    Absolute essentials:

    • Ublock (ad blocker and tracker blocker). There’s some ssential filters for it as well, but that’s a separate story, I guess)
    • Consent-o-matic: (Autofills cookie prompts, by answering no to everything)
    • Multi Account Containers (separates login info, useful when you have several logins for a single site)
    • DarkReader (dark mode for webpages)
    • Bitwarden (password manager)
    • ClearURL (strips tracking elements from URLs)

    For Youtube in particular:

    • Sponsorblock
    • Return youtube dislike
    • Youtube nonstop
    • Any auto hd plugin (haven’t found a “best one” yet)

    For Reddit in particular

    • Reddit RES (lots of qol)
    • Old Reddit Redirect (good for when browsing Reddit when not logged in, e.g. in private mode)
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      ClearURL (strips tracking elements from URLs)

      If you use the “AdGuard URL Tracking Protection” under Privacy in uBlock Origin. Also add Actually Legitimate URL Shortener Tool & ClearURLs for uBo. You don’t need ClearURL.

      You can add lists by going to Filter lists -> Import… at the bottom of the page -> C&P the URL in the box -> Apply Changes -> Done.

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      Multi Account Containers

      You don’t need an extension for that, containers are built into FF.

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    Must have:

    ublock origin.

    Optional:

    Cookie auto delete.

    Nitter redirect.

    Sponsor block.

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      You don’t really need cookie auto delete since total cookie protection was rolled out.

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    recipefilter.

    Makes most recipes appear as a modal dialog covering the stupid blogspam that the sites put up.

    There’s another one that I can’t remember the name of on my desktop computer that allows you to block domains from web searches. Like pinterest.

    Edit: it’s uBlacklist

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    LibRedirect for me, works well on both desktop and android

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    Redirector

    Add custom URL redirects, e.g. automatically use Piped or Invideous instance instead of YouTube, use Nitter instead of Twitter, remove Google amp

    Edit: I just found out about Libredirect from this post - seems like functionally the same thing I’m using Redirector for, but with rules built in.

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      Yeah same. I initially used it for YouTube/Twitter but realized that it’s reinventing the wheel that libredirect already created, and doesnt have the same features like pinging instances or being able to cycle through instances if one goes down.

      I still find redirector useful, but now use it for things like redirecting away from guilty pleasure websites or when my locally-hosted teddit doesn’t properly handle internal links.

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        I had never thought about using Redirector to lock myself out of websites! That’s brilliant. I need to do that. Zero self control when I should be working.

  • Philo@lemmus.org
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    Don’t have Firefox but the first plugin you must install on any browser or turn in your browsing license is uBlock Origin.

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      Ironically, in the future, Firefox will be the only browser to properly support uBlock Origin. Chromium will kill adblockers through their MV3 garbage. Switch to Firefox, use the proper version of uBO and keep your browsing license.

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    uBlock Origin

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    uBlock Origin.

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    Dark Reader
    uBlock Origin

    Optional:
    TWP Translate (is better than the new feature)
    Tabliss (Another take on the “new page” in chrome)

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      Better? Firefox Translations does it locally without sending data to the cloud. The languages it support are very few though

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        Feel like I have more and better control and quality of translation with TWP than with the local option.
        If you prefer local, be my guest.

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      Is there a Deepl plugin? By far the most accurate translator I’ve used. Will check later

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        Here you go, https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/deepl-translate/

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        Just downloaded it to my work pc.
        It has Google, Bing, Yandex and DeepL as translation integrations.

    • macattack@lemmy.world
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      Tabliss is very underrated. Nowadays, I rarely see my desktop background but always see the “new tab” and so “new tab” serves as the modern desktop background. I use great photos of my city but there are many categories in unsplash

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