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I really enjoy Firefox on Android as I can install a bunch of extensions and I find those extensions game changer, especially on the mobile.

One of my favorites are

  • Libredirect - literally one of my favorite ones. Redirects popular sites to privacy focused frontends, like YouTube to Invidious, etc.
  • uBlock Origin - I guess everyone knows this one
  • Privacy Badger - blocks trackers
  • Ghostery - blocks trackers, ads, scripts, etc.

What extensions do you guys use?

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 months ago

Dark Reader is sort of annoying to set up, but I like it. It would be better if you could choose to share your location with it rather than inputting your lat/long manually. (It's possible that's a limitation of extensions though.)

I use the DDG extension too but it's caused problems by blocking a webpage on localhost for some reason. Not sure what it does that uBO and Privacy Badger cannot.

I haven't used https://adnauseam.io/ but I like the idea of it. I stick with uBO and use AdGuard's public DNS in my router (too lazy to set up pihole).

[–] [email protected] 12 points 4 months ago
  • Augmented Steam - sales on other platforms and whatnot
  • BetterTV - emojis and whatnot on Twitch and YouTube
  • Bitwarden
  • Easy Container Shortcuts - makes container tabs nice to work with
  • Multi-Account containers
  • Steam Economy Enhancer - installed w/ Violentmonkey script manager; bulk sell Steam trading cards

And of course uBlock Origin. :)

[–] [email protected] 5 points 4 months ago (3 children)

Sieberry, it's what Mozilla is unable to do, nice looking and working vertical tabs.

Simple Translate is nice too just mark a text and instant translation.

I still don't care about cookies, yeah just leave me alone.

Scroll everywhere, right Click to scroll any page. Should be vanilla feature.

Keepa, for amazon price history of any product.

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[–] [email protected] 11 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (1 children)
  • Ublock Origin: No brainer. You can block just about every intrusive component of the modern internet with just this.

  • Stylus: Write CSS themes for websites

  • User-Agent Manager: For compatibility purposes, switch your user-agent to chromium on some websites

  • Libredirect

  • ClearURLs: Copy links without tracking or affiliation

  • Dark Reader: Dark mode everywhere

  • Temporary Containers: Provides some nifty shortcuts and features for creating temporary containers

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[–] [email protected] 9 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) (2 children)

Some of my picks to add to all other comments

  • Gesturefy: Mouse gesture addon. It can also run custom javascript. For example I have a script that makes copying text, links, buttons easier.
  • Imagus mod: Hover zoom addon with up-to-date sieves that actually work. The sieve team is quite good.
  • BetterViewer: Image viewer although some buttons don't work on firefox.
  • Fastforward: circumvents annoying link shorteners
  • Distill: Monitor webpage or feed for changes

I also have many ***monkey and stylus scripts.

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 4 months ago

My favourites are:

  • ProtonPass
  • DarkReader
  • uBlock Origin
  • Privacy Badger
  • Multi-account containers
  • Joplin (to save pages to my local Joplin notes)
[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 months ago

Since it's not mentioned before, check out DeArrow. It makes YouTube bearable.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 4 months ago (1 children)

ClearURLs

It makes, say, Amazon links not a three-page bookwork

[–] [email protected] 4 points 4 months ago (3 children)

Use uBlock Origin's wiki / rules for this instead. Reduces an add-on and achieves the same/better results!

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago

Indie wiki buddy. Fandom often times comes on top for most searches, but many games actually have their official wikis elsewhere. This extension hides fandom links for unofficial fandom wikis.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 4 months ago

Cloud to butt

I've been using it for such a long time. It's only on my PC. I don't use my PC for much anymore, so when I see the word "butt" when it should say "cloud," I get a little chuckle.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 4 months ago (1 children)
  • LocalCDN
  • HTTP Version Indicator
[–] [email protected] 6 points 4 months ago (1 children)

I have found localcdn to break some websites

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 months ago

Me too and I found remove/reinstall fixed the issue

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 months ago

enhanced-h264ify prevents my PC from cooking itself when playing YT.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 4 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 7 points 4 months ago (5 children)

whats the difference between adblocker ultimate and ublock origin?

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 months ago (2 children)

Not trying to hijack this post but does anyone know of an add-on that syncs your bookmarks toolbar? Its the only thing holding me back from being fully on librewolf.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 4 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago

Thanks for the info.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 4 months ago (2 children)

Librewolf has Mozilla sync, otherwise you could try using a third party syncing tool to sync your librewolf profile directory?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

Thanks, this will probably be the way I go.

More info for those curious:

https://librewolf.net/docs/faq/#can-i-use-firefox-sync-with-librewolf-is-it-safe-to-do-so

PS LibreWolf will not keep your accounts signed in unless you modify it. It was designed that way on purpose.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 months ago (1 children)

I'd second Mozilla sync, especially as you can self-host the server.

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

I may be biased, but I like Lemmy Infinite Scroller. It started out as a 20 minute project just as a proof of concept and then evolved into me trying to make an infinite scroller that works really well. It works well, I can't recall if I made it open-source but I didn't obfuscate the code or anything like that so it's practically open-source anyway even if I didn't make a repo for it. I just published the manifest v3 update of it last week so it's pretty futureproof too.

Other obvious extensions are uBlock Origin, uMatrix, and surprisingly one called Dark Background and Light Text (though Dark Reader is also cool too).

[–] [email protected] 13 points 4 months ago

Aside from the standard one's I see:
Streaming enhanced: Netflix Disney+ Prime Video

Automatically skip Ads, Intros, Credits and add Speed Control, etc. on Netflix, Prime video, Disney+, Crunchyroll and HBO max.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago

Making a note to myself about Sponsorblock and chameleon

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago (2 children)

I thought you could only select from a pre-defined list of addons in Firefox mobile?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago

Not anymore, if you use desktop website of addons.mozilla.org, you can install almost anything.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago

I think developers can upload their own addons for Android now. Or at least I saw quite a wide range of addons available when I went looking for some.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 months ago
  • Sponsorblock
  • uBlock Origin
  • I still don't care about cookies
  • Augmented Steam
  • BetterTTV
  • YouTube Shorts Redirect
  • Gumbo
  • Bitwarden

These are all the extension I have installed and they are all my favourite tbh. I also have Firefox set to use strongest protection.

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