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[–] [email protected] 79 points 1 year ago

Ublock origin ofc

[–] [email protected] 49 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

Ublock Origin and Vimium C. That's it.

I used Dark Reader until last week, when I discovered a native Firefox setting that does the job better: Settings > Language and appearance > Colors > Manage > set background to Black and override to Always.

No more white flashes, EVER (yes, I tried absolutely everything but on some sites there was nothing to be done, even with every possible CSS hack). And no more add-on speed penalty (to be fair it was small, and Dark Reader is still an amazing tool).

Now the web looks pretty ugly but it is fast and always dark. White flashes banished FOREVER.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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

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[–] [email protected] 34 points 1 year ago (3 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
[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago

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

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[–] [email protected] 23 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)
[–] [email protected] 18 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 year ago (1 children)

No script is redundant with ublock origin on advanced mode.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago (3 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.

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[–] [email protected] 17 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 🤷‍♀️

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[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I absolutely love Tree Style Tabs. I usually have a ton of tabs open (middle mouse click is my best friend) and that helps me keep it all organized, and quickly close all the ones I don't need anymore. I also did a change in the profile settings for Firefox to get rid of the normal tabs so now I only have the tree ones. (I don't really remember how I did that though, it was ages ago and involved editing some files in appdata)

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

It involves editing the user chrome CSS or whatever it's called.

In addition to Tree Style Tabs, I use Tree Style Tab Mouse Wheel which eases navigation and Simple Tab Groups which also helps with organising the browsing sessions.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 year ago (8 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.
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[–] [email protected] 15 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.
[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 year ago (1 children)
  • uBlock Origin
  • DarkReader
  • SiteDelta Watch
  • Show QRCode
  • Copy Tabs
  • Copy Link Extras
  • Select Same Origin Tabs
  • Open in Temp Container
  • more
[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

😄Those contributions are something to brag about.

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[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Vimium-C.

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

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[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (3 children)

BlockTube

Noscript

Sponsorblock

ublacklist

ublock origin

violentmonkey

  • Simple Youtube Age Restriciton Bypass
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[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago (4 children)

Chameleon - changes my browser fingerprint every 60 seconds

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[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago
  • Ublock Origin

  • Libredirect

  • Bypass Paywalls Clean

[–] [email protected] 9 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.

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[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I still don't care about cookies

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Okay but what extensions do you use? /s

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (3 children)

I recently learnt that it just auto accepts them so I stopped using, ublock has settings to actually block cookies which seems to work well, more tricky to enable though.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago

You can try Consent-O-Matic, which you can configure to reject cookies.

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[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago (3 children)
  • uBlock Origin
  • Tridactyl (vim like browsing)
  • consent-o-matic
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[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago

Bitwarden, KDE Connect, Plasma Integration, ublock (of course), foxy gestures

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)
  • uBlock Origin (of course)
  • Tab Stash: It lets you organize your tabs into groups and keep the groups around in a sidebar that unloads them when you don't need them at the moment. Very helpful for someone like me who always has a bunch of tabs open.
  • uBlacklist: It lets you blacklist domains from showing up in search results. It supports different search engines. Every helpful to get rid of SEO spam sites and mirror sites.
  • Duplicate Tabs Closer: It detects when you have multiple tabs open for the same webpage.
[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago

ublock origin, fast forward, pushbullet.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Channel Blocker for YouTube. Stop all those horseshit channels from reappearing in your suggestions.

Control Panel for Twitter. Allows you to customise your homepage by removing / changing parts of the UI, blocking ads and whatnot.

Save webP as png / jpg. Right-click to save those fucking awful files as something you can actual use.

Unwanted Twitch. Add channels / games / tags and keywords to a universal blacklist that stops them from appearing in the 'Browse' or recommended sections. Great for filtering out mince like IRL streams, shit like LoL etc. and chud streamers.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago

fucking awful files

Webp and Heic are great inventions and we shouldn't hate them. We should hate the image viewer and editing program developers for still not supporting them.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago

Decentraleyes, ublock origin, consent-o-matic

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago

Multi account container and temporary container.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Consent o matic it automatically fills out the gdpr boxes with your preferences. And it is developed by a danish university, so seems pretty safe. :)

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago

Bitwarden, AdGuard, DarkReader

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago

uBlock Origin, Tridactyl, and Translate Web Pages.

User Agent Spoofer whenever I need it.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (3 children)

All of this may beg the question: What add-ons would we like to see?

One that doesn't exist is QOI Viewer that would render the Quite OK image format into a png for Firefox to display.

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

uBlock Origin

Deepl

Tineye

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