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What are your favorite browser extensions? (beehaw.org)

submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Ublock Origin is an obvious one, but I also can't stand not having Foxy Gestures anymore. It adds customizable mouse gestures, so you can set it up to have easy swipes to go back a page, reload a page, close a tab, etc, and it feels wonderful and smooth to use compared to just using the traditional buttons to do everything. Honestly it's kinda wild to me that this isn't more popular now that people are so used to phone gestures. It's good for the same reasons!

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

More comments at https://beehaw.org/post/432185

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

These are all I use:

Edge on desktop:

Ublock Origin
DownThemAll
IDontCareAboutCookies

Safari on iOS:

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

Gestures. Hover zoom images. Tab tree view.

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

web of trust, or mywot. puts a little sign next to every link telling you if they're trustworthy. fucken game changer. botsight is a great one for twitter. and buzzkill, well, kills buzzfeed

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

These are my current favs for safari.

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

I use touchpad gestures. Two fingers left-right: back-forward. Three fingers up-down: cycle between tabs Three fingers left-rigtht: close tab-reopen tab Four fingers pinch in: Home Three fingers pinch in: New tab

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

Ublock origin
Zhongwen learning tool
Zoom page we
Mailvelope
Youtube audio
Firefox multi-account containers
Imtranslator

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

I recently got into preventing browser fingerprinting and apparently extensions can make you more identifiable, so I cut down on the extensions I used and I would be on just uBlock Origin if I didn't love Return Youtube Dislike and Sponsorblock so much

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

Ublock + Sponsorblock are a killer combo I couldn't use the internet without. I also use keepa to see amazon price history.

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

If you already use Ublock, isnt another blocking extension (Sponsorblock) kind of meaningless?

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

I love Read Aloud on FF. It has mobile support and also works with PDFs via some integration that they have available. It's great!

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