cross-posted from: https://hexbear.net/post/1309480

I use Vivaldi (Chromium).

I currently use uBlock Origin, Tab Count, Dark Reader, Read Aloud, Google Docs Offline, Srroll In, OneTab Plus (the original OneTab app kept glitching on me), and Dyslexic Browser.

I'm willing to have 15 apps/extensions for my browser and then probably no more after that (otherwise, the memory it'll take up will just make browsing super-slow, at least up until I finally upgrade my RAM card, which should be soon). Dunno if you can really use more than 15, to be perfectly honest, but I'm open to advice.

I want apps/extensions for university, research, reading and comprehension, language-learning, video-editing, and general QoL changes.

Also, let me know if I should still be using Vivaldi. What browser do you use? To me, Vivaldi is so far the best browser out there, at least currently (after having tried Mozilla Firefox, Google Chrome, Microsoft Edge, and Opera). What extensions do you use as well for your browser of choice?

Let me know and let's give each other advice or whatever. Cheers!

  • loathesome dongeater@lemmygrad.ml
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    7 months ago

    Honestly I think Firefox with uBlock Origin is more than enough for 99.9% of the scenarios. I have several other extensions installed like stylus, sponsorblock, libredirect but I wouldn't consider any of them essential. I have never used vivaldi.

    • Pluto [he/him, he/him]
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      7 months ago

      Noted! And yeah, Mozilla Firefox and uBlock Origin seem like the best combination for privacy and ads and all that

  • Swinging6917@lemmygrad.ml
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    7 months ago

    Keep your extensions to a minimum. The more you install, the greater your risk of being fingerprinted by websites and installing a malicious extension. I just use uBlock Origin, Bitwarden, Multi Account Containers and Sponsorblock.

  • albigu@lemmygrad.ml
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    7 months ago

    The "Web Archives" add-on saves me a lot of time with paywalls.

    https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/view-page-archive/

    Besides that I also like the official Containers one to isolate sessions

    https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/multi-account-containers/?utm_source=addons.mozilla.org&utm_medium=referral&utm_content=search

  • Water Bowl Slime@lemmygrad.ml
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    7 months ago

    I like using Imagus to expand pictures without needing to open them in a new tab or rifle through a site's HTML. Though it can be a distraction since I often go through comment sections just looking at everyone's full pfps (sometimes they're even gifs)