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  • 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.

  • 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

    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.

  • recipefilter.

    Makes most recipes appear as a modal dialog covering the stupid blogspam that the sites put up.

    There's another one that I can't remember the name of on my desktop computer that allows you to block domains from web searches. Like pinterest.

    Edit: it's uBlacklist

  • 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.

  • Nobody mentioned Tridactyl yet so... Tridactyl. It's the best vim keybindings extension for Firefox I've tried.

  • For me, I cannot go without the flagfox extension on PC. Otherwise, I'd probably just be going over extensions everyone else has been beating like a dead horse.

  • You really don't need anything besides uBlock Origin. With that said:

    • Your password manager's extension would be convenient.
    • LibRedirect is great so that any social links get redirected to privacy-respecting frontends.
    • Dark Reader to save your eyes.

    About some other ones that are mentioned:

    • ClearURLs is not necessary if you configure uBlock Origin to remove the tracking parameters.
    • Bypass Paywalls Clean is not necessary if you configure uBlock Origin to replicate this functionality.

    Other:

    • Firefox Multi-Account Contains is good for managing accounts.
    • Temporary Containers is also good for isolating tabs.

    IIRC, Privacy Badger and Decentraleyes are no longer necessary with uBlock Origin. Neither is HTTPS Everywhere.

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