I used Dark Reader until last week, when I discovered a native Firefox setting that does the job better: Settings > Language and appearance > Colors > Manage > set background to Black and override to Always.
No more white flashes, EVER (yes, I tried absolutely everything but on some sites there was nothing to be done, even with every possible CSS hack). And no more add-on speed penalty (to be fair it was small, and Dark Reader is still an amazing tool).
Now the web looks pretty ugly but it is fast and always dark. White flashes banished FOREVER.
I started there. But then it migrated to pentadactyl, which i had trouble installing. Tridactyl was an improvement, and honestly would work great for me... But id already switched.....
I absolutely love Tree Style Tabs. I usually have a ton of tabs open (middle mouse click is my best friend) and that helps me keep it all organized, and quickly close all the ones I don't need anymore. I also did a change in the profile settings for Firefox to get rid of the normal tabs so now I only have the tree ones. (I don't really remember how I did that though, it was ages ago and involved editing some files in appdata)
It involves editing the user chrome CSS or whatever it's called.
In addition to Tree Style Tabs, I use Tree Style Tab Mouse Wheel which eases navigation and Simple Tab Groups which also helps with organising the browsing sessions.
Would you please let me know how do i get the same "all scripts are blocked" and allowlist specific domains only like in noscript? As far as i know ublock enable/disable javascript for whole website not subdomains. I could be wrong.
And noscript have xss protection.
I have used noscript for a long time but after trying umatrix (from the ublock origin developer) I doubt I'm going back since this one feels more powerful. Maybe you want to give that one a try 🙂. I use it alongside ublock.
Tree style tabs, which gives vertical tabs that you can arrange in a hierarchy to keep related ones together
Simple tab groups, which lets you have multiple sets of open tabs you can switch between (can you tell I have a problem with too many tabs?)
Unstick!, which when clicked removes any sticky elements, i.e. parts of the page that stay on your screen while you scroll. It's great for removing all the bars and obstructions to reading that pages like to put in your way. For some reason I have to click it twice for it to work
Read aloud, a good text to speech extension to read pages or parts of pages to you. It can be used with cloud based neural voices from Google and Amazon with some setup
Consent-o-matic, which gets rid of the cookie consent popups for you and it's configurable as to which types of cookies it will refuse or consent to for you
SponsorBlock for YouTube, which can auto skip sponsor reads and various other kinds of segments you select to be skipped
A few short months ago I would have said RES but, well 🤷♀️
Privacy Badger - blocks trackers, rewrites some tracking URLs, etc.
Multi-Account Containers - for those places where you want to keep tabs separate, giving each container its own cookies/session/etc.
Consent-O-Matic - automatically handles a lot of pages that shove annoying (and often technically GDPR-illegal due to lacking a quick "reject all" button) consent forms in your face.
Imagus - shows linked images on hover, including support for galleries and scrolling through all the images contained.
FYI- I was about to install "I don't care about cookies" when I noticed all the 1 star reviews. People saying its been purchased by Avast and is now data mining.
"I still don't care about cookies" is a community fork, does the same thing but isn't owned by a big company.
ads are really annoying arent they. What do you use on ur mobile device, the experience is quite limited there(hate those redirects to ad sites when you try to click any thing)
I recently learnt that it just auto accepts them so I stopped using, ublock has settings to actually block cookies which seems to work well, more tricky to enable though.
Tab Stash: It lets you organize your tabs into groups and keep the groups around in a sidebar that unloads them when you don't need them at the moment. Very helpful for someone like me who always has a bunch of tabs open.
uBlacklist: It lets you blacklist domains from showing up in search results. It supports different search engines. Every helpful to get rid of SEO spam sites and mirror sites.
the ones that I actively use: Rotate and Zoom Image; Image extract; SVG Export; Simple mass downloader; PassLok Image Steganography; Color Changer; Save Screenshot; Behind the Overlay Revival
those that work in the background: Redirect AMP to HTML; Chameleon; JPEG XL Viewer; + the usual blockers & security
I often want to reopen a tab i recently closed, so this is very handy for me.
Languagetool
On the fly rule-based Spelling check. Works very good and in many languages. And the best: It's Open Source.
Facebook-, Google- and Microsoftcontainer
Uses the Firefox Tab-Container Fwature, to lock those companies in Tab-Groups just with themselves. I don't use Tab-Groups aside of that, so it comes in handy.
Firefox Translate
(Not really an extention, but still nice) Firefox Gnome Theme, for my personal machines and Firefox UI Fix for the machines at work to make Firefox look more at home on Linux and Windows.
I see a lot of the same addons here, as one would reasonably expect, but I'm surprised there's been no mention of uMatrix. Using uMatrix and denying most elements by default, you can manually allow scripts, media, etc. per domain and save those rules for pages you go to often. It gives you more granular control than simply choosing to allow/deny all third-party scripts, and you can see exactly what's going on under the hood.
I used uMatrix for many years, that is until it was retired. Raymond Hill no longer maintains/updates the addon and the github was archived in July 2021. There are some forks but none appear to be in active development. Just be aware the version of uMatrix on addons.mozilla.org is now 2 years old and may not be blocking everything it claims to be.
LanguageTool (semi open-source alternative to Grammarly)
Invidious (this redirects YouTube links to invidious instance selector)(There are like 4 different ones, all not updated in 2–4 years, I am thinking of learning enough coding to support this)
Tabliss (this is a nice new tab where I can add reminders of what I am
supposed to be doing instead of what I am doing)
I used NoScript for over a year until I gave up the insanity. Having to spend time whitelisting scripts on every site was way too much work and some stuff was just way harder to do, like banking and buying stuff.
Now I just blacklist a few scripts (like analytics) using unlock origin instead.
Ublock origin ofc
Ublock Origin and Vimium C. That's it.
I used Dark Reader until last week, when I discovered a native Firefox setting that does the job better: Settings > Language and appearance > Colors > Manage > set background to Black and override to Always.
No more white flashes, EVER (yes, I tried absolutely everything but on some sites there was nothing to be done, even with every possible CSS hack). And no more add-on speed penalty (to be fair it was small, and Dark Reader is still an amazing tool).
Now the web looks pretty ugly but it is fast and always dark. White flashes banished FOREVER.
Did you try Tridactyl for vim like browsing? Is Vimium C better?
That one seems a bit beta right now. Vimium C works fine.
Nice, thanks for the tip. Just disabled Dark Reader!
The vim related extensions works for real? 😱 I need to try them ASAP!
Did you try Tridactyl for vim like browsing? Is Vimium C better?
I started there. But then it migrated to pentadactyl, which i had trouble installing. Tridactyl was an improvement, and honestly would work great for me... But id already switched.....
I absolutely love Tree Style Tabs. I usually have a ton of tabs open (middle mouse click is my best friend) and that helps me keep it all organized, and quickly close all the ones I don't need anymore. I also did a change in the profile settings for Firefox to get rid of the normal tabs so now I only have the tree ones. (I don't really remember how I did that though, it was ages ago and involved editing some files in appdata)
It involves editing the user chrome CSS or whatever it's called.
In addition to Tree Style Tabs, I use Tree Style Tab Mouse Wheel which eases navigation and Simple Tab Groups which also helps with organising the browsing sessions.
Ublock [1] and Noscript [2] are must have. you could also checkout Privacy Badger [3].
If you use arkenfox user.js [4] you could also use I still don't care about cookies [5]
No script is redundant with ublock origin on advanced mode.
Would you please let me know how do i get the same "all scripts are blocked" and allowlist specific domains only like in noscript? As far as i know ublock enable/disable javascript for whole website not subdomains. I could be wrong. And noscript have xss protection.
I have used noscript for a long time but after trying umatrix (from the ublock origin developer) I doubt I'm going back since this one feels more powerful. Maybe you want to give that one a try 🙂. I use it alongside ublock.
as far as i know umatrix is unmaintained. so the default ublock + noscript seems the best combination.
Umatrix became unmaintained because ublock origin can handle most of its use cases. You just need to run Ublock origin in medium or hard mode. More info ca he found on wiki: https://github.com/gorhill/uBlock/wiki/Blocking-mode:-medium-mode
Tree style tabs, which gives vertical tabs that you can arrange in a hierarchy to keep related ones together
Simple tab groups, which lets you have multiple sets of open tabs you can switch between (can you tell I have a problem with too many tabs?)
Unstick!, which when clicked removes any sticky elements, i.e. parts of the page that stay on your screen while you scroll. It's great for removing all the bars and obstructions to reading that pages like to put in your way. For some reason I have to click it twice for it to work
Read aloud, a good text to speech extension to read pages or parts of pages to you. It can be used with cloud based neural voices from Google and Amazon with some setup
Consent-o-matic, which gets rid of the cookie consent popups for you and it's configurable as to which types of cookies it will refuse or consent to for you
SponsorBlock for YouTube, which can auto skip sponsor reads and various other kinds of segments you select to be skipped
A few short months ago I would have said RES but, well 🤷♀️
I love Simple tab groups, great way to save tabs for later.
I'm also definitely going to give Consent-o-matic a try
I see some of these have already been mentioned, but they do deserve repeating;
I use I don't care about cookies, I wonder how different it is from consent-o-matic
FYI- I was about to install "I don't care about cookies" when I noticed all the 1 star reviews. People saying its been purchased by Avast and is now data mining.
"I still don't care about cookies" is a community fork, does the same thing but isn't owned by a big company.
Go damn it, why corporations are always ruining good things.
Thank you for the information
Does consent-o-matic also rejects them or just accepts them?
@Daefsdeda @ace you can choose what kind of cookies to accept and reject in the extension's settings.
Thanks that is amazing
There was an imagus fork which is actively maintained
Wow, Consent-O-Matic sounds super interesting. I'm definitely going to give this one a try
😄Those contributions are something to brag about.
Vimium-C.
Well, it goes right after UBlock Origin, which was mentioned many times already.
Did you try Tridactyl for vim like browsing? Is Vimium C better?
Nope, when I was choosing an extension I guess many people told me that tridactyl is a bit buggy and not polished enough.
That was many years ago, I'm not sure what is the situation now.
BlockTube
Noscript
Sponsorblock
ublacklist
ublock origin
violentmonkey
ads are really annoying arent they. What do you use on ur mobile device, the experience is quite limited there(hate those redirects to ad sites when you try to click any thing)
Mull (a firefox privacy fork you can find on fdroid) plus ublock origin
I use Firefox, which supports uBlock Origin as well.
Chameleon - changes my browser fingerprint every 60 seconds
How does this compare to Privacy Badger?
Privacy badger just blocks things; it's not comparable to what Chameleon does.
Digital Shadow is composed of multiple things. One is a browser fingerprint.
Bitwarden, KDE Connect, Plasma Integration, ublock (of course), foxy gestures
I still don't care about cookies
Okay but what extensions do you use? /s
That one it is called "I still don't care about cookies", also uBlock origin...
I recently learnt that it just auto accepts them so I stopped using, ublock has settings to actually block cookies which seems to work well, more tricky to enable though.
You can try Consent-O-Matic, which you can configure to reject cookies.
Oh, I didn't knew that...
Yeah, I never got that to work properly so I’ve been using Hush on mobile and I Still Don’t Care About Cookies (grudgingly).
Can consent-o-matic refuse cookies ?
Yes.
This is the way.
For I don't care about cookies, uBO has a list for that.
I have that list enabled, the pop-ups still hang around. I don't care about cookies tends to catch them. I don't know why there's a difference.
Ublock Origin
Libredirect
Bypass Paywalls Clean
I use:
And probably a few more I don't remember.
Lord almighty my 8gb ram could never handle that
Decentraleyes, ublock origin, consent-o-matic
ublock origin, fast forward, pushbullet.
Bitwarden, AdGuard, DarkReader
Consent o matic it automatically fills out the gdpr boxes with your preferences. And it is developed by a danish university, so seems pretty safe. :)
You saying we can trust the Danes?!? Have you heard their language!?!
All of this may beg the question: What add-ons would we like to see?
One that doesn't exist is QOI Viewer that would render the Quite OK image format into a png for Firefox to display.
It's very specific but I'd love an auto-skip intro add on for Plex like I have for Netflix.
Plex has that feature built in. No idea if it's included in the free version though. It works by analyzing sound and it's pretty good.
I love this feature in Plex so much it's why I basically watch all my tv shows on my Android tablet instead of my tv
Multi account container and temporary container.
uBlock Origin, Tridactyl, and Translate Web Pages.
User Agent Spoofer whenever I need it.
uBlock Origin
Deepl
Tineye
the ones that I actively use: Rotate and Zoom Image; Image extract; SVG Export; Simple mass downloader; PassLok Image Steganography; Color Changer; Save Screenshot; Behind the Overlay Revival
those that work in the background: Redirect AMP to HTML; Chameleon; JPEG XL Viewer; + the usual blockers & security
Ublock Origin Dark Reader Proton Pass Zotero Betterfox UserJS
uBlock origin
I often want to reopen a tab i recently closed, so this is very handy for me.
On the fly rule-based Spelling check. Works very good and in many languages. And the best: It's Open Source.
Uses the Firefox Tab-Container Fwature, to lock those companies in Tab-Groups just with themselves. I don't use Tab-Groups aside of that, so it comes in handy.
Firefox Translate
(Not really an extention, but still nice) Firefox Gnome Theme, for my personal machines and Firefox UI Fix for the machines at work to make Firefox look more at home on Linux and Windows.
What's wrong with the built in shortcut of ctrl+alt+t?
People want to reopen the 3rd or 4th without opening the others.
This. Sometimes i want to reopen the last closed tabs. And generally, i use the mouse to do most things, i'm not used to most shortcuts.
Some people want different things
Ublock Origin, Privacy Badger, LocalCDN, Multi Account Container and Dark Reader.
Behind the overlay
Swisscows search engine, can't live without it
I see a lot of the same addons here, as one would reasonably expect, but I'm surprised there's been no mention of uMatrix. Using uMatrix and denying most elements by default, you can manually allow scripts, media, etc. per domain and save those rules for pages you go to often. It gives you more granular control than simply choosing to allow/deny all third-party scripts, and you can see exactly what's going on under the hood.
I used uMatrix for many years, that is until it was retired. Raymond Hill no longer maintains/updates the addon and the github was archived in July 2021. There are some forks but none appear to be in active development. Just be aware the version of uMatrix on addons.mozilla.org is now 2 years old and may not be blocking everything it claims to be.
The ones I am unable to use a browser without:
Nice to haves:
I used to have plugins for reddit (like RES and old reddit redirect), but won't need them anymore.
HTTPS Everywhere has been dead since January 2023.
NoScript, uBlock Origins, Privacy Badger, HTTPS Everywhere
I used NoScript for over a year until I gave up the insanity. Having to spend time whitelisting scripts on every site was way too much work and some stuff was just way harder to do, like banking and buying stuff.
Now I just blacklist a few scripts (like analytics) using unlock origin instead.
uBlock Origin hard mode is great
I understand the struggle. I just got used to deal with it, I guess.
Wouldn't want to miss it tho. Having to deal with a non-NoScripted-Internet is quite a no-go for me by now. (as ridiculous are it sounds)
Hoxx vpn for those spicy and not allowed sites
@t0fr
uBlock
NoScript
ControlPanel for Twitter
Youtube Shorts Block
Enhancer for Youtube
Decentraleyes
ClearURLs
Mute Twitch Ads
TinEye
For themes: Foxkeh Cloud or Purple Sparkle.
What does Mute Twitch Ads do? Does it just mute ads? But not block them?
@t0fr uBlock Origin, Bitwarden, Firefox Translations