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    • DeArrow - Crowdsource better YouTube titles and thumbnails, technically paid (1$), but you can request free access if you can't/don't want to pay
    • Firefox Color - Basic theming
    • LibRedirect - Redirect popular websites to privacy-respecting frontends (e.g. YouTube to Invidious, Twitter to Nitter, etc.)
    • PronounDB - Add pronoun support to Twitter, Twitch, Github, and Discord.
    • Return YouTube Dislike - The name says pretty much everything.
    • Shinigami Eyes - Mark transphobic or trans-friendly accounts as such for others with the extension to see
    • SponsorBlock for YouTube - Crowdsource sponsored segments in YouTube videos so you know what to skip past
    • uBlock Origin - AdBlock, update the block lists regularly if you want to use it with YouTube
    • User-Agent Switcher and Manager - Change what browser and OS websites think you're using
    • Vencord Web - Browser extension for the Discord client-mod Vencord, doesn't work rn because Discord is redoing some stuff
    • Good list. Ublock Origin and Sponsorblock are basically essential for YouTube these days. DeArrow helps to.

  • If, like me, you do a lot of Chromecasting from your browser, you'll want to install fx_cast. You need to do a bit of manual installation to get it running, but it works great when you do.

  • Bewarned that the mobile Firefox app is really not great.

    • I am a chronic tab-user (I have more than a hundred open right now. Yes I'm using pretty much all of them.) and 70% of the time when hitting the tab button it doesn't actually scroll to the most recent tab. I have to tap it repeatedly to get to where I was.
    • The tab list is horribly wasteful when it comes to space and I see no way to change it.
    • Some sites also shit the bed completely when auto-filling from my password manager. Like full on freeze the browser or crash it entirely.
    • When an app opens Firefox in an embedded browser to get you to log in, it will pretty much never direct you back to the app after putting your information in. You have to tap the three dots and open it in the actual app for even a chance that it will properly redirect you.
    • For 2fa sometimes this doesn't even work. I have to scan my 2fa key then quickly open it in the actual app through the menu before it finishes loading, otherwise it doesn't redirect or gets stuck in a login loop. Fun.

    The browser is fine overall, don't get me wrong, there's just some inconveniences that aren't getting fixed.

  • Cookies: Cookie autodelete or Forget me not

    Block site (so you're not sent where you don't want to go)

    Wayback Machine (if you use it much)

    Audio equalizer (to better understand mumbly / old Youtube audio)

    Dark background and light text (so you don't go blind)

  • This thread is full of good suggestions so here are a few that might not have been mentioned:

    • Torrent Control - useful for sending magnet links directly to a variety of clients.
    • Offline QR Code Generator - good for quickly sending all sorts of stuff to a phone or tablet.
    • Better YouTube Shorts - depends if you like them, but this adds autoplay which I love
    • TamperMonkey - extensions for your extensions! Usually site specific.
  • Foxy gestures is an enormous reason why I could never swap off Firefox in the first place

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