Some that haven’t been mentioned yet:
- Behind The Overlay (removes simple login banners/paywalls/anything that blocks the content)
- Don’t Fuck With Paste (for those sites that think it’s fun to override or even disable copy and/or paste)
Greasemonkey/TampermonkeyViolentmonkey
Stop suggesting Greasemonkey and Tampermonkey. Tampermonkey is proprietary and steals user data, and Greasemonkey hasn’t been updated since 2021. Use Violentmonkey, it’s completely FOSS and up-to-date.
Oh, I didn’t know that. Thanks!
No problem. Unfortunately Tampermonkey is recommended in many articles, guides, blog posts, etc. because people are unaware of what it does. Violentmonkey should be far more popular, so users stop downloading proprietary crap, simply because it’s the best known userscript extension.
Hey I’m also using Violentmonkey and always recommend it over other options. But your comment got me wondering and I’ve checked. Turns out Greasemonkey actually dropped a new version a month ago. Not that this changes anything for me, just wanted to correct the statement.
I’m certain that I saw somewhere that the last update was from January 2021, I can’t find that anymore though, my bad.
No need to look for it, the changelog is right at the website and previous update was indeed in 2021.
Exactly, I saw that on their website.
Which greasemonkey scripts do you use? I’ve never used it but have heard it’s a good one to have (also, it’s been recommended several times on here)
If you want to use userscripts, definitely install Violentmonkey instead of Greasemonkey or Tampermonkey, as Tampermonkey is proprietary and steals user data and Greasemonkey hasn’t been updated in years
Thank you - I love how it can look at the site and suggest scripts - and you can’t go wrong with Opensource. Thank you.
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.
Thank you for the suggestion, will take a look at it.
LibRedirect for me, works well on both desktop and android
Any extension to re-enable right click. It’s annoying when they try to block me from downloading a picture/video, copy pasting, or inspecting elements
You don’t need an extension. Shift+right click always overrides JavaScript.
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Do you have any recommendations?
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
Must have:
ublock origin.
Optional:
Cookie auto delete.
Nitter redirect.
Sponsor block.
Suggestion: Use LibRedirect, it does the same thing as Nitter redirect, but it also supports redirection for many other sites. For example you can redirect YouTube to Piped or Invidious, Reddit to Libreddit, etc.
You don’t really need cookie auto delete since total cookie protection was rolled out.
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ClearURL (strips tracking elements from URLs)
If you use the “AdGuard URL Tracking Protection” under Privacy in uBlock Origin. Also add Actually Legitimate URL Shortener Tool & ClearURLs for uBo. You don’t need ClearURL.
You can add lists by going to Filter lists -> Import… at the bottom of the page -> C&P the URL in the box -> Apply Changes -> Done.
Add custom URL redirects, e.g. automatically use Piped or Invideous instance instead of YouTube, use Nitter instead of Twitter, remove Google amp
Edit: I just found out about Libredirect from this post - seems like functionally the same thing I’m using Redirector for, but with rules built in.
Yeah same. I initially used it for YouTube/Twitter but realized that it’s reinventing the wheel that libredirect already created, and doesnt have the same features like pinging instances or being able to cycle through instances if one goes down.
I still find redirector useful, but now use it for things like redirecting away from guilty pleasure websites or when my locally-hosted teddit doesn’t properly handle internal links.
I had never thought about using Redirector to lock myself out of websites! That’s brilliant. I need to do that. Zero self control when I should be working.
There are only *two must have extensions in Firefox:
- uBlock Origin
- Your password manager’s browser extension
Beyond that it’s all optional. Most things I used to use extensions to accomplish are now possible to accomplish using Firefox’s built in settings or using uBlock Origin.
There are a few other extensions I use that I consider useful but optional:
- Dark Reader
- Facebook Container
- Libredirect
uBlock Origin.
Surprised no one has mentioned VideoDownloadHelper yet - https://www.downloadhelper.net/
I’ve used this since I was a kid and it made me really popular in high school lol. Everyone thought I was a hacker or something.
It’s gotten worse with a lot of things. JDownloader is much better now
this stopped working with archive.org right? it used to be so good with that.
I used to use this but now I just use yt dlp since it seems to handle random stuff with more success and it’s just as easy to use
uBlock Origin
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DownThemAll!
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Firefox Translations
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Imagus
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uBlock Origin
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Grammarly
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Ublock Origin or AdGuard Containers
