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Neat. Perfectly adapts to the colour of the website and also works with Dark Reader
at first i think it doesn’t do anything, if you use containers like me, should activate the option “Dinamic color update”
It’s amazing. I’ve wanted this for a very long time.
I have this css theme https://github.com/Neikon/Fox11 and this is my config if some one is interested
Chameleon, great privacy tool, but can break some crappy sites, unless you can configure it so it doesn’t. ScrollAnywhere, a mobile like scrolling with middle mouse button. I find it more efficient and intuitive. Ublock ofc (Forgot name), an addon that lets you skip link shorteners with ads.
Thanks for the suggestions!
Chameleon, great privacy tool, but can break some crappy sites
- User-Agent Switch is an alternative.
(Forgot name), an addon that lets you skip link shorteners with ads.
Well, user agent switch, will switch your user agent, but that is not the answer ponly feature of chameleon. It sets your referer pcolicy, cookie policy, spoofs some data and restricts certain APIs etc. Other addons I use as well would be audio equalizer, which allows me to change volume more precisely and ofc eq my sound. To that also screwmycode.in which changes the pitch together with speed, so you can make nightcore music easily and eq some bass back into it with the previous addon.
Nobody can forget amazing conteiners addons, like temporary containers, multi account containers and facebook container. They can revolutionise your workflow.
Other then addons, you can also set up profiles, to which you can create shortcuts, which is cumbersome, but works really well.
Also, firefox has a nice amount of CSS themes to apply onto it, making it look like a completely different browser.
tree style tabs / sidebery. it’s life changing to be able to organize your tabs and actually read the titles.
Yep, the grouping of tabs in TreeStyleTabs is very handy & convenient.
Tab Session Manager
Besides the one super-obvious (uBlockOrigin), my favorite single one would be Tab Center Reborn, which together with the styling from Firefox Vertical Tabs pretty accurate recreates the superb vertical tabs of MS Edge.
And on a desktop screen, I can’t imagine going back to horizontal tabs that waste the previous vertical space I got.
Tab Center Reborn
How is it different from TreeStyleTabs? I’ll give it a try. Thanks for the recommendation.
I wish firefox just copied Vivaldi in terms of tabs, groupings tilings, just do it.
Try Tree style tabs I hate having to use edge/chrome at work because the tabs are so bad.
Tried that, I thought it was cumbersome and a solution desperately looking for a problem, tbh. I never once in my life had the thought that my tabs need to be in a multi-tier structure. I’m not someone to collect thousands of tabs though.
I should also add that your second part makes no sense: Chrome doesn’t have the vertical tabs Edge has and that this setup recreates.
I find it great as it groups your thought processes. You Google something and it opens a group for that, then you read something in one of the search result tabs and need to go to some links there/Google more stuff - that’s now grouped under it so you can easily find things for that thought track. Once you are done, you can close all the tabs in one go.
As far as I’m aware you can’t nest groups in edge? I’m trying now and can’t even reliably create a group and it scrolls randomly when trying to move tabs around.
That final part is my point - as far as I’m aware the other browsers have nothing as powerful as this. May need to check if there is anything new though.
it groups your thought processes
TreeStyleTabs is awesome at this. The customisations on this are also deep.
I think Opera launched a similar features called ‘Tab Islands’, I’ve not tried it yet, though it seems they are not as powerful as this extension.
Cannot say whether someone has already said it or not, but Flagfox. I like to know if possible whether or not a site is hosted in certain countries or just might be curious sometimes as to where the site server is located.
This is neat. It has other handy features too. From its description:
- Site safety and malware checks
- Finding similar sites and reviews
- Automatic translation to your language
- Diagnostics like pings and traceroutes
- Whois and DNS information
- Page code validation
- Quick URL shortening
Also, an important distinction: It shows the country where the server is located rather than what the nationality of the domain name is.
A link to FlagFox.
Usability
- Kill Sticky: Kill off the annoying floating things blocking the website you’re trying to see.
- Tranquility Reader: Like native “reader view” but compatible with other addons and more options.
- Scroll Zoom: Zoom web pages with the left or right mouse button and the scroll wheel.
Image / Video
- Image Max URL: Finds larger/original versions of images (supporting 8800+ websites), including a powerful image popup feature
- Invert Image: The add-on inverts color of an image or color of any part of a page. Changes white color to black, for comfortable night time reading.
- Save webP as PNG or JPEG: Convert any image (WebP, AVIF, etc.) to PNG or JPEG (with choice of quality) for downloading.
- TinEye Reverse Image Search: Click on any image on the web to search for it on TinEye.
- Video Speed Controller: Speed up, slow down, advance and rewind any HTML5 video with quick shortcuts.
- Enhancer for YouTube™: Take control of YouTube and boost your user experience!
Tools
- EPUBReader: Read ePub files right in Firefox. No additional software needed!
- WebStickies: (Persistent) Sticky notes for the Internet
RSS
- RSSHub Radar: RSSHub Radar is a spin-off of RSSHub that helps you quickly discover and subscribe to RSS and RSSHub for your current site.
- RSSPreview: Preview RSS feeds in-browser
Customization
- Stylus: Redesign your favorite websites with Stylus, an actively developed and community driven userstyles manager.
- Tampermonkey: Tampermonkey is the world’s most popular userscript manager.
Advanced
- Request Control: An extension for controlling requests. See also Redirector, not as powerful, but much more user friendly.
- Modify Header Value (HTTP Headers): Add, modify or remove a header for any request on desired domains. I use this one to force sites to load only the image when opening images in new tabs.
- Cookie AutoDelete: Control your cookies! This WebExtension is inspired by Self Destructing Cookies. When a tab closes, any cookies not being used are automatically deleted. Keep the ones you trust (forever/until restart) while deleting the rest. Containers Supported
- uBlock Origin: Finally, an efficient wide-spectrum content blocker. Easy on CPU and memory.
- uMatrix: [EDIT-WARNING: as pointed by @sovietknuckles@hexbear.net, uMatrix it’s not longer maintained since 2021] Point & click to forbid/allow any class of requests made by your browser. Use it to block scripts, iframes, ads, facebook, etc.
What’s the difference between uBlock origin and uMatrix?
I cannot answer that properly, I don’t really understand them enough. I will add some copy-pasted answer on bottom. But, from a user perspective my experience is:
- uBlock origin: blocks a lot of (but not all) unwanted stuff without breaking (almost) anything. When some page does not work, tt’s very uncommon that uBlock origin is the cause.
- uMatrix: blocks (almost) all unwanted stuff, but it breaks many pages by default. If a page does not work, the first thing I look at is uMatrix.
- NoScript (and similar): It’s been some time since I used it (so those who are more familiar, please correct me if I’m wrong). What I remember is that it was even more strict than uMatrix. Something like uMatrix allows by default everything from the same domain as the URL but NoScript does not.
So I would recommend uBlock origin always and uMatrix only if you are ok with some micro-management page-by-page.
Here it’s a copy-paste of the answer from the first link in the google search ublock umatrix differences:
Chris’s Wiki :: blog/web/UBlockOriginAndUMatrix
While it’s true that uMatrix and uBlock Origin have overlapping functionality (and are written by the same person), they have different purposes and focuses. uBlock Origin’s focus is blocking ads and other undesired things as an out of the box experience with little configuration needed. uMatrix’s focus is on exerting tight and highly specific control over what resources a page is allowed to load and use, including Javascript and cookies (and requires a lot of configuration).
People still use uMatrix? gorhill archived the uMatrix repo/stopped maintaining it in 2021.
Oh, I had forgotten, I’m going to add a warning to my comment thanks for noticing!
When I was aware of that, I expected it to break at some point. But I didn’t find a proper replacement… and it still seems to be working fine.
Since you helped me with Image Max URL, I will suggest some too.
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Bazzacuda Image Saver 2 Plus: saves all images from opened individual tabs and auto closes them, is different from DownThemAll in that it bulk saves images opened individually instead of bulk downloading from each webpage
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Save All Tab URLs: lists all open URLs of all windows as a text file list
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Open Multiple URLs: copy paste URLs in a line by line text format, and you can choose to open them all at once or delay opening when you switch to each tab
Thanks!
Links for convenience:
I will definitivaly use the last 2 ones. I don’t usually need to mass download images, but it’s good to know the Bazzacuda one exists!
Bazzacuda is truly unique in what it does, and its very useful when you want to open dozens of images from a webpage or site, that you cannot conventionally batch download, since they may have cookies or expire tokens for each image URL. Many such sites exist, where you can use this. Keep it in your toolbox ;)
One question… do you know if it works with videos?
I don’t see anything on the addon page, but it seems weird because the use case is very similar.
Unfortunately, no. Your only options are video grabber extensions or software.
Software is IDM on Windows and XDM cross platform. Both work on just about any video, but for rare videos for which they will not work… extensions are VideoDownload Helper and Ant Video Downloader (both need their native plugin software on system). The software is easier, extensions are a secondary option, and if these do not work, nothing will, other than screen recording.
I think I don’t undestand it properly.
What I meant is: if I have some tabs with one video URL* in each of them, it seems trivial to just automate a “click download” for each one of them.
* I mean plain MP4 normal URLs with no tricks, like imgur MP4 URLS:
You have only one option, then. Video grabber utility in IDM/XDM. I think you can feed multiple links for batch download in them, and they auto fetch video files from website to download without browser. IDM on Windows is a lot more robust, if you do use Windows. Get it from Lrepacks, its safe.
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Use ViolentMonkey it’s open source and actively developed for Firefox, while TamperMonkey is originally developed for chrome
Thanks for the advice!
Sadly, I knew about that too late and I’m a heavy user of Tampermonkey. It would be painful to migrate now :(.
Thanks! These seem useful. I’ve only used a couple add-ons from your list. Time to try them out now.
Your are awesome for adding links too!
Thank you for this list! I found several add-ons I never knew I was missing
Thanks for adding the links, you the mvp
Tree Style Tabs is a must for me. It makes the tab/tab goup functionality in other browsers feel awful.
+1 for TreeStyleTabs!
Swift Selection Search is really useful. Highlight text on a page and you get a pop up with your search engines to quick search or you can copy the text to your clipboard.
I discovered this last week. It’s such a handy tool for quick searches. I wished I had known about this earlier.
In general:
- Bypass Paywalls
- Dark Reader
- HTTPS Everywhere
- I don’t care about Cookies
- Karrinator
- KeePassXC Browser
- NoScript
- Simple Tab Groups
- Tampermonkey
- UBlock
- UnloadTabs (Vor allem für Müll wie MS Teams)
- User Agent Switcher and Manager
- Vencord
- Video Download Helper
For YouTube:
- AutoReplay for YouTube
- Disable YouTube Seek by Number
- Return YouTube Dislike
- SponsorBlock
Most of those Addons are for me to not go insane or blind.
What’s Karrinator?
There’s nothing that explains it on its description page. Based on comments on its page (translated to English), my wild guess is: it’s making people laugh while reading news somehow by changing names of politicians in the news articles.
Thanks for the other suggestions too.
Damn, I just noticed I accidentally wrote in german, I didn’t even notice the post is in english lol. To Germans it would make sense, as it’s exactly what you noticed; it just changes Annegret Kramp-Karrenbauers name to something funny, she’s an ex-defense minister of Germany.
LOL.
Why specifically her though. Although, the idea is neat. Does it generate random funny names?
Well, it’s based on an apparently pretty large set of funny names for her, thought of by r/ich_iel etc.
How do you use no script these days, are you turning it on after visiting a page, or whitelisting when things don’t work?
I whitelist after visiting a page, if it breaks majorly so I can’t use it. And often I only need to allow the main page’s scripts and maybe video., img. or cdn. subdomains.
Firefox already has HTTPS Everywhere functionality built in these days
True, and according to some sources on the FF forum the builtin is better. I just installed it years ago and mostly forgot lol
Blocktube. Simple and advanced blocking of videos on youtube. Worth getting. Also stops youtube from auto pasuing after having watched a while.
Consent-o-matic. Set your preferences and it will automatically click those specific preferences when you visit a website, where it recognizes the cookie accept popup. No more need to click accept all, to move on. (It does not know all types of cookie pop ups, but it knoes the ones used by a large chunk of websites)
Imagus. Mouse over an image and this extension will attempt to show it (on your mouse location) in larger size. This works great for various things. News articles, social media etc. It can even do it for video and gifs. It can be annoying in some cases but… ive gotten used to it. I used to use it on reddit. Just mouse over the posts titles and the pic would pop up. And as said before, super nice for articles and photo albums etc
I don’t think I’ve seen this mentioned, likely because it’s a simple, non-privacy extension.
Reading List. It works like bookmarks, but it is targeted at news articles and other things you want to read but don’t necessarily want to “forever save”.
Damn! Neat tool. Hopefully this will help me declutter my Bookmarks. Also, how’s it different than Pocket offered by Mozilla?
A link to Reading List.
Not sure, this is the first I’m hearing of Pocket. I’ll have to check it out.
It’s made by Mozilla. The same devs that make Firefox. The articles you see below the search bar in the homepage when you first install Firefox are suggested by Pocket.
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There are definitely people who don’t know what adblockers are and the beauty of uBlock.
The Internet is not the same without it.
And Google is trying very hard to break this gem.
Stylus has been a pretty newish one for me, been using it a lot to make Lemmy feeds wider and take up my entire screen
There’s also a convert webp to anything extension that is really handy to have
Video download helper is cool too
I’m interested in both Stylus & Video DownloadHelper. For capturing video downloads i used to use IDM’s extension. But it’s not free to use. Now I’ll have to give this a try.
Video download helper is a bit funny with youtube videos, iirc it adds a water mark to any you dl, as it wants you to donate, if you don’t wanna donate just get ytdlp gui to get your YouTube videos
Video download helper works great for other videos that are sometimes hard to find the url of
- uBlock Origin (medium mode)
- Dark Reader
- Video Speed Controller
A couple that aren’t already mentioned by others:
- FeedBro RSS Reader
- Don’t Track Me Google - prevents google from replacing its search results and other links with redirect URLs
- Vimium - Vim style keybinds to navigate pages
Three comments down and there is the guy with vim keybindings.
