Best Firefox Extensions?
Best Firefox Extensions?
I just moved to Firefox and was wondering what extensions/themes people use and what's reccomended
Also good just as a general post for all good Firefox Extensions & Themes ect.
Thanks!
- ublock origin (not just ublock)
- bitwarden as password manager
- Bypass Paywalls https://gitlab.com/magnolia1234/bypass-paywalls-firefox-clean
Bypass firewalls clean is the GOAT.
Some extensions used by me:
- uBlock Origin
- Firefox Translations (works on-device)
- LibRedirect (redirects from certain sites (like youtube) to their frontends (like invidious))
For android I also use
Android PDF.js, to view pdf files on mobile.Thanks for Firefox Translations, I’ve been looking for such extension for a while.
on firefox nightly on android, I think pdf.js is built-in because I can view PDFs without having that extension.
Dark reader is a good one. It alters websites so they're dark mode, even if they don't officially support.
As an avid dark mode user, trying this has changed my life while breefly on random webites
Seconded! Just, be sure to adjust the settings if a site gives you trouble. Super helpful most of the time, but every once in a while the default makes modals invisible. 😅
uBlock Origin is a must for ad blocking. Anything else is just extra flavour. I like SponserBlock and Return YT Dislikes.
uBlock Origin is just required for me to block ads and other annoyances. Generally I also use it to block the annoying cookie popups instead of clicking any of their buttons instead of opting for a different extension, like I don't care about cookies.
I also almost always have Tree-Style Tab, though I've found that it can cause Firefox to be non-performant on memory-constrained devices. This extension gives you a tab sidebar (using a similar interface element like the bookmarks sidebar) that organizes your tabs in a tree. I will often have hundreds of tabs open normally, and this makes them more manageable, as I middle-click everything to open things in a new tab, particularly when I'm researching. It gives a nice rudimentary tree view of what content related to what, like if I'm on a Wikipedia dive or TV Tropes dive.
I also usually have Tampermonkey, as I usually want to make a website more accessible. A lot of the time, it's simply so I can autofill usernames in a text box, because the website might have the login flow split between pages, and Firefox does not recognize or allow me to select an autofill the username for me. Other times, it's to automatically click through that annoying Microsoft login flow "Keep me signed in? (Don't ask as often)".
For watching YouTube, I use the SponsorBlock addon, because sponsored segments have become very annoying, though some creators have been able to make them actually fulfilling to watch.
On Android Firefox, I also get Disable Page Visibility API. This allows me to use YouTube in Firefox and even background the app and listen to music that way. Plus, with uBlock Origin, I am also able to block ads. I also sometimes install this on different profiles for situations where I believe the web app may try to detect my visibility, such as an online coding test for job opportunities where it will not want me to change windows to look up answers or type code into a compiler (this saved me during a C++ multiple choice exam which asked many times "Which of these is invalid C++?" and "What is the output of [this complicated code block]?").
The below is for my work computers only, because I generally don't need them otherwise.
I will additionally have Firefox Multi-Account Containers and couple that with Simple Tab Groups as I have 6 logins, with one particular site requiring 3 of those logins. I essentially configure the URLs I need to be in certain groups, define one container for each, and then have a couple of default tab groups set as sticky groups that will allow all containers to stay as those containers so I can use multiple sites side-by-side. The interaction with Tree-Style Tab can be a bit janky, especially when configuring new catch tab regular expressions, but usually disabling and re-enabling both Tree-Style Tab and Simple Tab Groups will fix that. Mostly I do this, because my company refuses to fix their SSO breaking due to weird cookie issues, and it's pretty nice to be able to clear cookies for a particular tab group easily.
To clear cookies, and because I do that very often, I use Cookie Quick Manager. I can clear a tab group's entire cookie set by having a tab selected in that tab group, then using "Delete current Context Cookies" and usually that will fix my login issues, and also keep my logins to other sites. For my personal use, I generally don't need to clear cookies, or using a private window, clearing per-site via the web console, or clearing in settings is good enough.
Since I do a bit of web troubleshooting, Modify Header Value is pretty nice. I can call API endpoints that require a subscription key from my browser, even using the web console, and I don't need to worry about figuring out if my headers are correct. I can also get my team to get this add-on so they can do their basic troubleshooting. For my personal computer, I'm much more free to create ad-hoc scripts to test things that I can save somewhere, as sending others scripts in my organization also comes with implicit hours of training and coaching on how to use them (and our leadership has been very sensitive to explicit training hours to get everyone up to speed).
Finally, User-Agent Switcher and Manager for the sites that are built for Chrome, but have worse performance or broken features on Firefox, yet they work fine when Firefox sends them a Chrome user agent. Thankfully, I rarely have a use for this on my personal computer.
So diabling the page visibility API would allow to switch tabs in those cases ? Glad to know 😊
If you use youtube a lot, Return YouTube Dislike, SponsorBlock & uBlock Origin. uBlock is still blocking ads on youtube.
On top of those I also use:
- pockettube: allows you to manage your subscriptions into categories (e.g. Music, Video Editing, News, Design Tutorials, etc.) and automatically creates playlists of new videos in each group.
- Enhancer for Youtube: adds convenient buttons, themes and loads of other features like automatically selecting your desired resolution.
Fwiw, this is the kind of thread I used to love The Other Site for. Glad to find one here!
Ooh, can we refer to The Other Site apologists as TOSers now? 🤩
A few I have but haven't seen:
- SVG Export
- Chameleon
- Behind The Overlay Revival
- JPEG XL viewer
- PassLok Image Steganography, which works:
-- Inoreader
- Bitwarden
- uBlock
- Sponsorblock
- Dark Reader
- Font Changer
- Stylus
- Markdownload - web clipper
- Lasttab (Alt_Z back to last tab) A. Violentmonkey B. webcompat.com reporter C. Wikiwand D. YouTube Redux
Extensions I use:
- Bitwarden password manager
- Enhancer for youtube
- Firefox Multi Account Containers
- Old reddit redirect
- Reddit enhancement suite
- Return youtube dislike
- Search by image
- Simple Translate
- Sponsorblock for youtube
- Ublock origin
- User agent switcher
- Wayback machine
- Youtube audio
- Old reddit redirect
- Reddit enhancement suite
Not sure how much you need these anymore 👀
I hope Lemmy incorporates some of the features of RES, like something similar to the ability to +shortcut community links to an area (top or side) to quickly go to your favorite communities.
Firefox is great mostly on its own, and I only use two extensions:
- uBlock Origin: Enough said.
- Disable Javascript: Works great for getting around a lot of paywalls.
In case you don’t know, Ublock origin can block JavaScript per site basis. Just hit the “more v” at the bottom
I did not know that. lol.
It's not as easy to use as DJ's on/off toggle, but definitely nice to have as an alternative.
Haven't seen so far, so: ClearURLs
If you're using uBlock Origin. You can use ClearURLs for uBo & Actually Legitimate URL Shortener Tool filter lists with AdGuard URL Tracking Protection. They work has good.
i think adguard url tracking protection filter achieves the same thing on ublock origin but correct me if i am wrong
ublock origin bitwarden cookie autodelete dark reader copy plain text mastodon or graze noscript sponsorblock and occasionally grammarly complete black theme
What does the Mastodon extension do?
Black theme? A resounding "yes!"
uBlock, Bitwarden, Violentmonkey, Stylus are my top extensions.
- sidebery
- enhancer for yt
- multi account containers
- privacy badger
- ghostery
- ublock origin
- ublock origin
- noscript
- sponsorblock
- greasemonkey
SponsorBlock is so amazing for youtube. I've recently started to use DeArrow as well which is from the same creator as SponsorBlock. It changes titles and thumbnails to user voted ones so you can avoid all the clickbait videoes.
OMG, DeArrow is genius!
Dark Reader is one of my must haves. Turns dark mode on for every site. If a particular site already has its own native dark mode you can turn the extension off for just that site. Not perfect in all cases but works beautifully for most pages you view.
EDIT: Tap To Tab is really good if you are using a laptop without a mouse. Just double tap the trackpad to open a link in a new tab.
To add to this, there’s also a setting to detect native dark themes on websites so it will automatically disable itself on those sites. It’s a great add on.
I like to recommend Privacypossum, it returns garbage data to tracking companies: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/privacy-possum/
A few that no one has mentioned yet:
If you use Steam a lot:
What benefit does rejecting
image/webpgive?Many websites will serve you a WebP file instead of JPEG/PNG if you say that you can handle WebP. While WebP is generally an acceptable format for serving web content, it's an annoying format for images that you actually want to save to disk/archive - see my comment here as to why. Even if WebP was a fine format, odds are you're downloading a 2nd-generation lossy image converted from a JPEG/PNG, so it's usually better to just get the source file instead.
I'm on mobile at the moment, but one I haven't seen mentioned is force allow right click. Super useful for websites that won't allow you to copy images or download a video off their site. Won't always work with the second one, but can if the web developers lazy.
For video, there's always that extra stepof copy/pasting the URL into another site (eg. redditsave) to DL it. 👍🏼
Fair, with the right click add-on though, you can sometimes right click a vid and just save it. It'll override 2hatever they have right click doing (including disabling it)
Must-have addons for tab hoarders like myself.
Fellow tab hoarder here. Simple Tab Groups is my go to.
I use both often but how well does Tab Session Manager work for you? I've been using it for years and have had this issue for years where often when I'd try to restore a session, a bunch of tabs would be lost and replaced with blank new tab pages. It's really frustrating when I trust the extension with session up to literally 100s of tabs.
I have to say I've never had that happen, but I mostly use it as backup in case Firefox's own session restore fails or is overwritten somehow. I'm not sure what you can do, sorry :/
savefrom.net downloader extension
Oh dear!
Well that sucks for UK residents
This is AWESOME, thanks so much!
Dark Reader, LibRedirect, LanguageTool, TreeStyleTab, Return YouTube Dislike, uBlock Origin, Decentraleyes, DeArrow, Auto Tab Discard
It would be literally impossible for me to do my job effectively without Sidebery for container management in FF. As someone with multiple accounts used for various CSPs and other services, being able to spin up an environment with no irrelevant cached user sessions is something I depend on heavily (looking at you, Azure).
I can't speak for Sidebery, but Firefox's own Multi-Account Containers extension indispensable. Give it a try (maybe without Sidebery enabled in case it causes conflicts) and you'll notice how much it helps with managing multiple Azure accounts and other general browsing isolation. Particularly useful is the "always open this website in this container" feature.
There was a reason I switched to Sidebery over The native implementation but I can't remember. Maybe it was the Panels feature that FF Containers didn't offer at the time.
I do miss some of the functionality of the Mozilla add-on though, I don't think they opened up APIs to some of the extended tab/window options.
I love sidebery, but can’t use it anymore due to the amount of slow down and stutters I’ve experienced with it. If my browser is open for more than 4h or so I starts taking up to 1-2 seconds for me to create a new tab or switch between tabs in it.
- Bypass Paywalls Clean
- Copy PlainText
- Easy Youtube Video Downloader Express
- Feedbro
- Flagfox
- FoxClocks
- Grammar Checker & Paraphraser – LanguageTool
- Library Extension
- OneTab
- Print Edit WE
- Resurrect Pages
- Search by Image
- The Camelizer
- uBlock Origin
- Unhook - Remove YouTube Recommended Videos
- Video DownloadHelper
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I will check them out, thanks.
One that is more specific to Lemmy, which I am working on
While this is extension is mine and I have an obvious bias, I am using the extension constantly for my personal use as well. Might be nice for others too :)
Hi there! Looks like you linked to a Lemmy community using a URL instead of its name, which doesn't work well for people on different instances. Try fixing it like this: !instance_assistant@lemmy.ca
fixed!
That’s something my extension actually helps with as well :)
In addition to ublock,
I would also suggest-
decentraleyes
Stores commonly used librarys localy,
instead of downloading them from a third party. -
clearURLs
Removes tracking parameters from links. -
google search fixer
Shows the more advanced search features,
That firefox for Android currently doesn't get -
video Background Play Fix
What the name says,
Good when you use youtube in the browser.
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Vimium C - All by Keyboard – Get this Extension for 🦊 Firefox (en-US) https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/vimium-c/
- uBlock Origin
- ClearURLs
- Bitwarden
- ReturnYoutubeDislike
- I don’t care about cookies
- iCloud Bookmarks
- Undo Close Tab Button
- uBlock Origin
- Facebook Container
- Bypass Paywalls Clean
- AdBlocker for YouTube
- Video DownloadHelper
- Bitwarden
- NAS Download Manager
- Better TweetDeck
- The Camelizer
- YouTube mp3
- Simple Tab Groups
"I don't care about cookies" was acquired by Avast. I would suggest you use I still don't care about cookies.
Thanks! I didn’t had no idea about the adquisition
- I don’t care about cookies
- iCloud Bookmarks
- Undo Close Tab Button
- uBlock Origin
- Facebook Container
- Bypass Paywalls Clean
- AdBlocker for YouTube
- Video DownloadHelper
- Bitwarden
- NAS Download Manager
- Better TweetDeck
- The Camelizer
- YouTube mp3
- Simple Tab Groups
- I don’t care about cookies
- iCloud Bookmarks
- Undo Close Tab Button
- uBlock Origin
- Facebook Container
- Bypass Paywalls Clean
- AdBlocker for YouTube
- Video DownloadHelper
- Bitwarden
- NAS Download Manager
- Better TweetDeck
- The Camelizer
- YouTube mp3
- Simple Tab Groups
My 2 cents:
- LeechBlock - for blocking distracting websites on schedules
- Unhook - for hiding YouTube recommended videos, comments and other distractions
- Privacy Badger - for blocking trackers
- I don’t care about cookies
- iCloud Bookmarks
- Undo Close Tab Button
- uBlock Origin
- Facebook Container
- Bypass Paywalls Clean
- AdBlocker for YouTube
- Video DownloadHelper
- Bitwarden
- NAS Download Manager
- Better TweetDeck
- The Camelizer
- YouTube mp3
- Simple Tab Groups
Facebook Container, if you're like me and feel forced to use that godawful site because all your friends are still there.
Plus another vote for uBlock Origin (I have a feeling that one will come up a lot).
- My O'Reilly Downloader - if you have an account already, but want to persist some material to peruse at a later time
- TreeStyleTab
- ContainerProxy - I have mullvad running in gluetun container on my desktop PC, and it exposes HTTP proxy endpoint over Tailscale, so I can have VPN for my webbrowsing, without having to connect. This does not give me full protection, but I use tailscale a lot, and it doesn't play well with Mullvad.
- I Still don't care about cookies
Ublock Origin and Adblock Plus
> Unhook
Adblock Plus on top of uBlock?