I really only run 3 addons in Firefox currently. Chrome is the same but without UBlock.
- UBlock Origin
- BitWarden
- Streetpass for Mastodon
I haven’t seen anyone mention these yet
LibRedirect - redirects common proprietary sites to a free and open source alternative Tampermonkey - allows you to find and install custom open source scripts that add functionality to websites
Check out ViolentMonkey, it’s an open source userscript manager
I think that’s basically the same thing as Tampermonkey. There’s also GreasyFork which hosts custom scripts.
That’s what he said “an open source” (alternative) . If it’s basically the same, then violentmonkey is the way to go.
Yeah, except you can check what it does, how it works, and make changes to it.
For Firefox: uBlock origin (of course)
Privacy Badger - controls which sites are allowed to use cookies
Mind the time - tracks time spent on various Web sites
Video DownloadHelper - detects media and allows you to download and transcode it.
Bitwarden - password manager
Vimium C
Vimmium C denies the existence of Taiwan. Read the bottom of their github page.
Hmm interesting. Doesn’t have to be that one in particular there are many like it. I just like to have vim bindings for the web.
For sure. There is still the original vimmium and tridactyl.
Okay what does that have to do with the browser extension
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https://github.com/pixeltris/TwitchAdSolutions if you’re a twitch user. Ublock by itself doesn’t have a way to handle twitch ads, last I checked.
Isn’t NoScript redundant if you run UBO in medium mode?
Roughly similar to using Adblock Plus with many filter lists + NoScript with 1st-party scripts/frames automatically trusted. Unlike NoScript however, you can easily point-and-click to block/allow scripts on a per-site basis.
If you go in ublock origin settings, scroll all the way down, you can toggle a setting that disables JS by default. On each site you can whitelist it by clicking ubo and enable JS.
I wasn’t aware of this feature in UBO, but it doesn’t seem to be quite the same. As best I can tell (with a quick test), UBO lets me turn all scripts on or off for a site. I don’t see any sort of granular controls for selecting which domains to load scripts from (and I might just be missing it). For example, I may want to allow first party scripts to run on a site and maybe third party scripts from one or two domains. But, I don’t want scripts from other third party domains to execute. It’s very much a fine grained, least privileged style of script management. It’s a lot more work, as you often have to spend a few minutes sussing out which domains need to be whitelisted to allow a site to reach minimum functionality; but, you are not often caught offguard by a site doing strange things on your system.
If you check “I’m an advanced user” in the settings, then hit the “More” button in the dropdown a few times it’ll show the more advanced interface that lets you choose which third party domains to allow. It doesn’t work quite the same since it blocks both content and scripts per site, but I find it good enough for my usage.
edit: You can technically block just scripts per 3rd party site, but it involves manually editing the content type for your rules in the settings. It’s not part of the main interface, so I never bother using it.
Ah ok. I might give that a whirl then.
I don’t understand your edit, how is more things doing the same thing better? It adds complexity, attack surface while taking resources.
Wow, you are really confused. The argument about the functionality being already implemented by Firefox was about https everywhere. This has nothing to do with adblocking and it does break some sites (the one still not using https) but you can still access them with a click.
I thought HTTPS everywhere was baked into browsers now and didn’t need to be installed anymore? Is that not correct?
Yes i think firefox will do it if configured correctly
Yeah HTTPS-everwhere was important 10+ years ago, but now the main browsers all do this by default.
“Sponsor Block” is a game changer as well
I was a mad Opera user about 25 years ago, it was the best browser by miles at the time. One feature it had was mouse gestures. Mouse gestures and uBlock origin are the only two extensions I can’t love without, but these lists never mention them so I feel like the only one who uses them.
It’s hard to explain how cool and quick it is to be able to control your browser with the mouse. Open/close tabs, navigate tabs, back/forward etc. It doesn’t sound useful, I’m usually a mad keyboard shortcut fiend. But with web browsing in particular, your hand is already on the mouse, scrolling.
The specific extension I use is Gesturefy, I encourage people to install it and give mouse gestures a go.
Vivaldi (chromium) fully supports gestures and happens to have the best tab management on the market. Highly recommended.
Gesturefy
just installed now, seem great so far. ty
Outside of what has already been mentioned, I still don’t care about cookies and cookie autodelete in tandem. The first accepts cookies. The second deletes them when you are done.
Cookie autodelete is useless if you use Firefox on strict mode.
Or use Consent-o-matic to not accept cookies
On my iPhone I have one called Save All Images. Basically you know how lots of sites especially any kind of social media where they want you there to see things… anyway they use a script or whatnot to prevent holding down on an image to get the save photo prompt. This is an extension that loads all images that are single level referenced and you can save any/all. I use it almost daily. Instagram, and the like, especially, they hate the notion of someone saving something.
In Firefox on my computer I have Element Blocker. Some websites just waste a lot of screen space so if you’re browsing a ton of content you’d like to get the most room, but some stuff takes up portions of the screen fixed and not movable. This extension lets you select an element and it makes it just disappear. It is absolutely essential.
it’s a pretty controversial opinion that’s practically impossible to regulate but I think purposefully making TOS/Legal stuff harder to read solely to get away with stuff that the user would disagree with should be illegal
Imo, ToS;DR isn’t, and shouldn’t be, a replacement for a proper legal document. A proper legal document will contain all of the necessary definitions for clarity, and will word things accurately to cover all possible loopholes. ToS;DR simply provides a sort of point-form summary of the main rules and points that a person should be aware of in a very basic and quick-to-digest manner.
Foxy Gestures. I love having mouse gestures for Close Tabs on Right, Back, and Close Tab, amongst other.
Zoom Page WE, automatically zoom to full width. Really useful for “convergence” pages, ie: lazy web developers that think every browser wants a 4 word wide column. You have to set “Automatically Zoom” in preferences, it doesn’t work out of the box.
Besides what everyone else already said: Vimium-C. It lets you use Vim bindings in your browser. It’s also extremely customizable and even works with my bizzare keyboard setup.
Wtf are vim bindings
Bindings that are used in Vim editor
I’m completely clueless
vim is a text editor program which is the centerpiece of a lot of people’s workflow.
while vim itself alone is already impressively good, what makes it really stand out is the amount of Keybinds it has and how well you can use them.
hjkl for left up down right, for example. Sounds complicated, takes some getting used to, but after a while, it comes natural. hjkl in particular are great for navigation as that is where ur right hand is on the keyboard all the time, so no need to move it right hand to the arrow keys.
so a lot of other programs offer vim-like Keybinds to navigate or to do text stuff. This extension being one of them.
