Ublock Origin is an obvious one, but I also can’t stand not having Foxy Gestures anymore. It adds customizable mouse gestures, so you can set it up to have easy swipes to go back a page, reload a page, close a tab, etc, and it feels wonderful and smooth to use compared to just using the traditional buttons to do everything. Honestly it’s kinda wild to me that this isn’t more popular now that people are so used to phone gestures. It’s good for the same reasons!
Definetely libredirect. It redirects YouTube, Twitter, TikTok… requests to privacy friendly frontends.
I would like to add Indiewikibuddy. It’s basically a more fully featured version of the FandomDotCom features of Libredirect.
For example, you can set it to redirect from the Skyrim Fandom.com to the UESP.
Firefox Multi-Account Containers has to be one of my favorite extensions. Mixing work accounts and personal accounts in the same browser session but in different tabs has made my workflow much more efficient. You can force bind sites to a container so that you don’t accidentally use your personal account for anything workplace related.
This is has been so useful in my attempts to go FireFox full time. I always had Edge and Firefox on the work laptop to separate things when needed, but the containers completely eliminated that.
My one critique would be if the assigned links wouldn’t open an empty tab when that specific container opens.
Dark Reader, because dark mode rocks.
Count this as my vote as well. Take every other extension away (uBlock Origin excluded obv) but I simply can’t endure the eye-searing pain of the internet without Dark Reader.
The browsers have their own dark mode, in chrome://flags or edge://flags, but in my experience they don’t work as consistently, overall.
Yeah, you’re right. They try but it’s not the same.
Before Dark Reader I used to make custom dark theme CSS for all the sites that I frequented heavily and spent so much time tweaking things so it came out “mostly right”.
Dark Reader isn’t perfect all the time but the peace of mind it grants me is immeasurable:)
I shared one on reddit that replaces pictures of spiders with kittens and it was met with a pretty shocking amount of hatred and vitriol brought my way, so nervous to share it here. But still I thought it was nice.
I had a similar one but for the former president. I still have it installed and it always confuses me for a second until I remember it.
Yo could share a link that. I’d love to see it in action when a prowl the cesspool that is r/politics on Reddit. XD.
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/make-firefox-kittens-again/
That’s the one. May your day be brighter with more kittens while doomscrolling the news.
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/spiders-kittens-image-replacer/
here it is for firefox. I think there’s one for chrome and for edge too
I almost destroyed a phone once when I scrolled down to an unexpected spider image, my fight or flight response kicked in, and I threw the phone across the room. So this sounds amazing!!
Consent-O-Matic
Automatic handling of GDPR consent forms
DuckDuckGo Privacy Essentials
I mostly use this for the email protection (highly recommended!)
ScrollAnywhere
Drag scrollbar with middlemouse button anywhere on the page.
ScrollAnywhere is amazing. I’ve used BetterMouse on Mac for several months now and have grown accustomed to scrolling by click-dragging. Really wish there was some sort of similar app for Windows and Linux, but unfortunately I’ve spent hours searching and haven’t found anything.
