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Must-have browser extensions?
What are some of your must have browser extensions?
I recently made an effort to switch to Firefox, and now I'm looking for some good browser extensions to make my web browsing experience better. Here are the ones I currently use:
Recommended Extensions from the Tildes Community
I also recommend tab wrangler if you have a tendency to let your tab collection grow out of control as I habitually do.
Wow, it didn't even occur to me to look for an extension to go back with backspace. I do that all the time and it is so frustrating! Thanks for sharing this list!
This isn't a browser extension, but an invaluable bookmarklet: Kill Sticky Headers.
It does exactly what it says on the tin. Push the button and all those annoying light boxes and overlays disappear. It is so much better than having to hunt around for one or more close button.
These are my favorites.
I've actually been thinking about learning how to make a browser extension just to get that functionality, so thank you.
it's so handy. After uBlock and the other standards, its the first thing I set up. The regex is pretty clean, too.
I'm liking Shut Up so far, though it did cause some confusion when I came to Tildes today and all the comments were blocked!
it's weird to see sites without comments, but once you enable it through the context menu, its like magic. if you dig for answers around StackOverflow, don't forget to enable comments there. I thought I was really special because I solved a common Google Sheets question -- then I remembered to enable comments and realized that, no, I wasn't special :)
Haha, that's about what I did here :)
So far I haven't noticed the lack of comments, but I think that's because it's working so well. Thanks for the recommendation!
happy to help! the internet without comments is such a happy place. :)
I'm certainly going to give this one a try. Grammarly is good but makes too many detection mistakes to not annoy me more than it should. Thank you for the tip.
I think OneTab is a fantastic tab management system. I'm a chronic tab hoarder who sits at near-max RAM util all the time and am always having to kill open tabs w/ the browser-task-manager to get just a sliver back so I can keep going -- oneTab makes that less of an issue since it allows automatic grouping and naming and essentially stores "sessions" so it's easy to pick back up where you left off should you want to save something for later. Beats the hell out of the native bookmarking system, IMO.
I didn't see it on the list, but I generally enjoy AdNasuem for Firefox. (Link: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/adnauseam/) They block ads, yet also making sure websites earn money by fooling the website into thinking you clicked on the ad. I absolutely love it and rarely ever see ads.
I like the idea of polluting the stream of clicks in order to penalize them, but it is very easy for them to disregard this kind of signal :(
Jeez I didn't realize that. Makes me kind of sad then :(
Adding:
LibreJS or failing that, noscript
dark reader
Cookie autodelete
History autodelete
Old reddit redirect + RES (even better, dont use that site)
It isnt an extension, but shadowfox is awesome if you like darkness.
Firefox colour is cool for theming
Firefox multi account containers are a must have.
You can also just type in "old." before the reddit url to change it. I guess it's an extra step, but I find lots of extensions tend to slow down my computer, so the more I can eliminate, the better.
is certainly some advice I'm trying to get myself to follow. If it wasn't for tildes I'd still be desperately hanging onto what the site once was.
I get SSL errors when I do that. Need the extension for some reason.
Hm, too bad. Glad you found a solution anyway.
Are you doing www.old.reddit.com? That will give an SSL error. It's just https://old.reddit.com.
It might be. Im doing old.reddit.com no www or https.
I used to do that, but I also use "reddit" often in certain google searches, so it's nice to just click on reddit links and other things and have it go straight to old.reddit. It's going to be a sad day when old.reddit is dead.
ShadowFox user checking in... I haven't actually confirmed this yet but I've heard that some new dark mode settings built into the latest version of Firefox have obsoleted it. Pretty cool project though. I wouldn't recommend anyone hack their browser in this way if there's now a native way to accomplish what you're looking for.
Dark Reader is fantastic, it basically forces dark mode for the whole web. There are a few extensions available that attempt this, but no others I've tried have produced as good results on as many sites. Downside needs to be mentioned though: it comes at a considerable performance cost. Pages load a lot slower and hog more resources with it installed. For me it was worth the trade-off but others may feel differently.
Oh yeah dark reader is slooww. Tried it once on my phone, never again. PC is fast enough though.
I saw Session Buddy in the recommended list but I will make a case for Tab Session Manager as a better alternative. One big advantage over SB is that you can set it to delete autosaved sessions beyond a specific number, so you don't end up with a million saved sessions in your history. I also just prefer the UI.
I used to have a bunch of extensions installed, but since I moved to using the iPad as my primary computer, I just have AdGuard Pro installed to block ads and my password manager to auto fill my passwords.
I’d love it if Apple added proper extension support to Safari on iOS though, instead of it requiring a special category of apps being “blessed” by Apple (like password manager or content blocker).
I use UBlock Origin, Ghostery, and HTTPS Everywhere for security purposes. I wonder though if Ghostery and UBlock Origin are redundant... anyone know?