Switched to Firefox, what addons do i install?

  • mayo_cider [he/him]
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    4 years ago
    • https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/bypass-paywalls-firefox/ Pretty self-explanatory.
    • https://privacybadger.org/ Automatically blocks trackers (not relying on black lists or similar).
    • https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/multi-account-containers/ This allows you to separate different websites and services to different containers, minimizing the tracking they can do with cookies, it also helps if you want to use multiple accounts on same website at the same time. A bit more info on this.
    • https://noscript.net/getit - Choose which domains a website can run javascript from. This one is a bit more involved and takes some time to learn to use, it quite often breaks websites since they like to load javascript from dozens of different domains, so can't really recommend it to everyone but if you can stand using it you'll get a lot more control over what happens on your browser.

    Also remember that you can also install uBlock and quite a few other addons on Firefox Mobile (ad-free youtube on the go!).

  • SickleRick [he/him]
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    4 years ago

    https://github.com/iamadamdev/bypass-paywalls-chrome

    There's a Firefox option despite the URL saying "Chrome"

  • Multihedra [he/him]
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    4 years ago

    Mayo_cider (lol) gave a great list, I’ll also add Blur to the list

    https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/donottrackplus/

    I haven’t used it for password management, but I do use its masked email feature. Essentially, it’ll create a fake email (or many of them, I think) for you, and forward all emails to your normal one. So if you do get tons of spam after creating an account somewhere, you can stop forwarding it.

    It’s just an extra layer between online shit and your actual email, with a decent ability to keep the two insulated

  • YourBestComrade [he/him,none/use name]
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    4 years ago

    https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/enhancer-for-youtube/utm_source=addons.mozilla.org&utm_medium=referral&utm_content=featured

    https://addons.mozilla.org/enUS/firefox/addon/darkreader/utm_source=addons.mozilla.org&utm_medium=referral&utm_content=featured

    https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/swift-selection-search/

    https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/tree-style-tab/

    https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/simple-tab-groups/

    these are more general useful ones

  • fruity [they/them, any]
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    4 years ago

    Honestly, there’s two essential addons. ublock origin and social containers or whatever it’s called.