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/
Thanks for the list, and links. That was very helpful, and super easy.
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)
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 ?
But most of these are not must haves. Like, SteamDB?
“a list of those i have installed” is probably not must have for you indeed 😅
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)
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.
Multi Account Containers
You don’t need an extension for that, containers are built into FF.
Ublock origin
There are only *two must have extensions in Firefox:
- uBlock Origin
- Your password manager’s browser extension
Beyond that it’s all optional. Most things I used to use extensions to accomplish are now possible to accomplish using Firefox’s built in settings or using uBlock Origin.
There are a few other extensions I use that I consider useful but optional:
- Dark Reader
- Facebook Container
- Libredirect
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.
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.
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.
uBlock Origin
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.
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.
uBlock Origin.
I really love the built-in container extension (Multi-Account Containers or something like that). Really good if you need to log in to the same site multiple times or if you don’t want someone track you across sites.
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/TampermonkeyViolentmonkey
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.
Oh, I didn’t know that. Thanks!
No problem. Unfortunately Tampermonkey is recommended in many articles, guides, blog posts, etc. because people are unaware of what it does. Violentmonkey should be far more popular, so users stop downloading proprietary crap, simply because it’s the best known userscript extension.
Hey I’m also using Violentmonkey and always recommend it over other options. But your comment got me wondering and I’ve checked. Turns out Greasemonkey actually dropped a new version a month ago. Not that this changes anything for me, just wanted to correct the statement.
I’m certain that I saw somewhere that the last update was from January 2021, I can’t find that anymore though, my bad.
No need to look for it, the changelog is right at the website and previous update was indeed in 2021.
Exactly, I saw that on their website.
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!<
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.
Thank you for the suggestion, will take a look at it.
uBlockOrigin, DarkReader & ProtonPass
Definitely ublock. When my friends send me a FB link and I open it in anonymous window, I can’t get past the logo. 🤙🏻
Indeed, uBlockOrigin is super helpful.
ProtonPass
Bitwarden’s better. ;)
Surprised no one has mentioned VideoDownloadHelper yet - https://www.downloadhelper.net/
I’ve used this since I was a kid and it made me really popular in high school lol. Everyone thought I was a hacker or something.
It’s gotten worse with a lot of things. JDownloader is much better now
this stopped working with archive.org right? it used to be so good with that.
I used to use this but now I just use yt dlp since it seems to handle random stuff with more success and it’s just as easy to use
uBlock Origin
Optional: Dark Reader Wappalyzer if you want to see cool web info
If you like Wappalyser you may like BuiltWith and WhatRuns. 👍
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