hey - trying to switch from Chrome to Firefox, what are your recommended extensions and/or quality of life addins, etc?

ublock origin with the annoyance list activated.

dark reader. It’s not perfect but I get most sites in a usable dark mode.

That’s mostly it.

Firefox Multi-Account Containers

Bypass Paywalls Clean is fantastic, need to install from xpi though

Something not so far mentioned is Tree Style Tab.

If you habitually have a lot of tabs open, you'll probably know how annoying it is finding things when each page title has been condensed down to 4-5 characters. On widescreen displays (especially 16:9), vertical pixels are also a lot more precious, while horizontal ones are plentiful.

For me (3840×2160 display, 200% scale), its vertical tab sidebar fits about 30 tabs before needing a scrollbar, and you get a full width title for each and every one.

It can be a bit of an adjustment at first, but I've been using this since the pre-WebExtensions days (since around Firefox 4.0), it's definitely one of my must-haves.

First of all, install Betterfox, it is not an extension per se, but a set of custom settings. Betterfox offers a lot of fixes, including removed Mozilla telemetry, increased speed, smooth scrolling, privacy protections, etc.

I believe, Betterfox can also be used on Floorp (In case their website doesn't work, here's a Github link - https://github.com/Floorp-Projects), which is a Firefox-based browser with Vivaldi/Opera-like interface. Sounds neat, but i didn't really test it yet.

In case you feel too lazy to install Betterfox/Arkenfox/other user.js modifications, you can use Librewolf instead. It is a version of Firefox with bundled Arkenfox and uBlock Origin.

uMatrix, uBlock Origin, and a mixture of add-ons from Dig Deeper's list are a must for privacy. Also, i recommend reading his other blogposts about software, too. Especially this one

If configuring Redirector is too confusing for you, you can use LibRedirect, it can automatically redirect YouTube to Invidious and Piped, Fandom to Breezewiki, Google to SearX, Twitter to Nitter, and so on, so you won't have to bother with popups and ads.

For password managers, use Bitwarden, if you want to have your passwords synced in the cloud, or KeepassXC, if you want to store them locally.

Block The Rich is a fun little extension for those who are tired of reading billionaire spam, but i did not test it.

Instance Assistant Is made to improve Lemmy and Kbin experience, but, once again, i did not test it.

Also, do not use Google, Bing, Yandex or Brave as your search engine, instead switch to DuckDuckGo, Mojeek, and 4Get or SearX

Ublock Origin
Enhanced Steam
TWP - Translate Wep Pages (works better than the native chrome version)
ytc filter (Youtube live chat filter. When general chat becomes spammy)
Tabliss (Better version of the chrome start page)
Camelizer (Amazon price history)
Return YT Dislike
Dark Reader (How could I forget that...)
Bitwarden (or password manager of your choice)

Can I plug my own extension that helps you learn languages by translating random words in sites you read?

• 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

As well as those others have already mentioned, I use:

Linguist is a translation extension that respects your privacy. If you switch to the Bergamot translator it acts in offline mode.

Redirector which allows you to set custom rules so you can redirect (for example) Twitter to Nitter, Instagram to PikUki and also rules to redirect pages that are behind paywalls via 12ft.io (or 1ft.io as 12ft is currently down) .

TamperMonkey a userscript manager. I don't have loads of userscripts but I do have things like SocialFixer for making FB a bit better, Absolute Enable Right Click and Bandcamp Volume Bar.

Honestly the less you can live with the better. For me essentials are always ublock for ads, imagus for better image viewing while browsing and simple translate because I deal with a lot of languages. Also containers is useful for work.

Containers. Makes it very easy to manage multiple accounts for the same sites, like YT, email...

My list:

• AdNauseam
• Bitwarden
• Don't fuck with paste
• Ecosia
• Fakespot
• Firefox Multi-Account Containers
• Greasemonkey
• Redirect AMP to HTML
• TrackMeNot
• User-Agent Switcher and Manager
• Wayback Machine

And now I have a special profile just for Youtube so I can run uBlock Origin to shut Google up about my adblocker.

Edit: Also, if you like dark themes, check out Dracula.

Ublock origin fast-forward and dark reader

ublock origin, noscript

Lemmy Instance Assistant It does things like if someone links a post and the link takes you to the post on another instance, it adds a button to show the post on your home instance. You can also right click on a page (say, an article on a news site) or image and choose the option to share it on lemmy, which creates a new post. It also has stuff to help you when you click a link to a community but the community is not federated to your server, or you can go to the list of communities on another instance and it will have links to take you to that community on your home instance. That sort of thing. Basically the beginnings of a RES for lemmy.

I also like Dictionary Anywhere, which lets you double click on a word to get a definition, a bit like the one Google one for Chrome.

There are also various container extensions such as a Facebook or Google one, that isolates those sites to attempt to prevent that activity being associated with your activity on other sites. It can be a little annoying to get used to but I use them. The annoying thing is that when you click say a google site from a search result on duckduckgo, it closes the duckduckgo tab and opens the site in a google container, but then you can't click back to go back to the search results.

The general container tabs extension is good too. It keeps separate cookies per container. So say if you have 3 different microsoft accounts, you can create different containers. Then you can open a new tab in a specific container and it will remember the account you logged into last time in that specific container, but doesn't affect other containers or tabs not in a container.

A bit offtopic here, but how can I auto hide cookie prompts in uBlock? What I do is that I manually hide them with cosmetic filter, then I never have to worry about accepting them or not (kinda like I still don't care about cookies extension)

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.

SimpleTabGroups - organize your tabs
\ uBlock Origin - adblocker
\ Prvacy Badger - block trackers
\ I still don't care about cookies - remove cookie prompts
\ Stylus - lets you create your own css based on url
\ Canvss Blocker - prevents finger printing but can break websites.

I still don't care about cookies is a must have, it is so nice to never have to click those prompts again.

A password manager is also nice. I recommend keepassxc and it's addon

I still don't care about cookies

Ublock
Imagus mod
Return Youtube Dislike
SponsorBlock for Youtube
Video Download Helper
Zoom Page WE

ublock was already mentioned couple of times. Additionally this one: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/cookie-autodelete/

Are there any tab group extensions that do it similarly to chrome, with collapsible groups in the tab bar?

Consent-o-matic

Ublock origin (activate cloud storage and sync rules between devices!)

Bitwarden

Onetab

Firefox translations

Dark reader

Privacy redirect

This is a switch I made yesterday, but instead of Chrome to Firefox, I switched from Vivaldi (Chrome, but kinda like old Opera) to Floorp (japanese fork of Firefox with focus on privacy and sane defaults).

I got Sponsorblock for YouTube, uBlock Origin for ads and Gesturify for those awesome mouse gestures (my main reason for using an Opera-like).

Sometimes, I use Tampermonkey for misc Scripts on different Pages, so I installed that aswell. But for now, no scripts for Tampermonkey, as I primarily focus on setting it up to be more like Vivaldi.

Other addons are Ghostery for more privacy and Session Buddy to prevent oopsies when playing around with Tabs and windows.

Floorp even has dark mode for bright pages already included in the box.

LibreWolf is Firefox without Mozilla telemetry, and with privacy settings on by default. Consider switching.

Be aware that the more extensions you add, the easier it is for websites to fingerprint (identify) you.

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.

Is there a way to do credit card autocomplete on the iOS app? It’s the only reason I haven’t made the switch

I use the following addons:

• Media Bias/Fact Check
• Shinigami Eyes
• Search by Image
• Purple Private Windows
• 10ten Japanese Reader (Rikaichamp)
• Read Aloud
• NoScript
• Decentraleyes
• DuckDuckGo Privacy Essentials
• Popup Blocker (strict)
• Redirector
• uBlock Origin
• User-Agent Switcher and Manager

It's the an extension for Google Passwords? It's my password manager for all my devices.

I would love to switch to Firefox, but I don't want to open chrome every time I need a to retrieve/save a password.

Surprised noone mentioned NoScript yet. It requires a bit more user interaction. But if you are worried about privacy and maybe security, it is important to know who is running scripts on your machine.

Does having a lot of extensions running slow performance?