What are your favorite add-ons for Firefox?

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.

• Ublock origin: block ads
• Vimium: browse with vim like keystrokes
• Firenvim: edit text areas in neovim
• Dark reader: dark colors on webpages
• Containers: isolate browsing data

• uBlock Origin
• Dark Reader
• KeePassXC-Browser
• Skip Redirect
• Return YouTube Dislike
• SponsorBlock
• Reverse Image Search

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]

• [1] https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/ublock-origin/
• [2] https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/noscript/
• [3] https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/privacy-badger17/
• [4] https://github.com/arkenfox/user.js/
• [5] https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/istilldontcareaboutcookies

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)

I see some of these have already been mentioned, but they do deserve repeating;

• µBlock Origin - blocks ads, and does it 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.

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 🤷‍♀️

Vimium-C.

Well, it goes right after UBlock Origin, which was mentioned many times already.

• uBlock Origin: Blocks ads, annoying popups and cookie banners.
• Bitwarden: For password management and logins.
• SponsorBlock: Skips sponsors and self-promotions on YouTube. A huge time-saver.

BlockTube

Noscript

Sponsorblock

ublacklist

ublock origin

violentmonkey

• Simple Youtube Age Restriciton Bypass

Chameleon - changes my browser fingerprint every 60 seconds

Bitwarden, KDE Connect, Plasma Integration, ublock (of course), foxy gestures

I still don't care about cookies

• uBlock Origin
• Tridactyl (vim like browsing)
• consent-o-matic

• uBlock Origin (of course)
• 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.

• Ublock Origin

• Libredirect

• Bypass Paywalls Clean

I use:

• uBlock origin (of course) (also on my phone)
• Web archives (also on my phone)
• ClearURLs (also on my phone)
• Consent-O-Matic
• Bitwarden
• Search by image
• Enhancer for YouTube™
• SponsorBlock
• Return YouTube Dislike
• Augmented Steam
• Dark reader
• Tree Style Tab
• Feedbro
• User-Agent Switcher and Manager
• Disable WebRTC

And probably a few more I don't remember.

Bitwarden, AdGuard, DarkReader

ublock origin, fast forward, pushbullet.

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. :)

Decentraleyes, ublock origin, consent-o-matic

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.

uBlock Origin, Tridactyl, and Translate Web Pages.

User Agent Spoofer whenever I need it.

Multi account container and temporary container.

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

Deepl

Tineye

• Reopen closed Tabs

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.

uBlock origin

Ublock Origin, Privacy Badger, LocalCDN, Multi Account Container and Dark Reader.

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.

Behind the overlay

The ones I am unable to use a browser without:

• Sidebery
• Darkreader
• Bitwarden
• uBlock origin
• uMatrix (even if it won't get any more updates)
• Firefox Multi account containers (although I probably can just do this with Sidebery)

Nice to haves:

• Tabby
• Don't Fuck With Paste (this is really nice when login pages try to prevent password manager for “Security” reasons)
• Augmented Steam
• ProtonDB for Steam
• Imagus
• HTTPS everywhere (because websites still to this day can't set a proper redirect)
• Facebook container
• 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)
• Custom Scrollbars
• User-Agent Switcher and Manager

I used to have plugins for reddit (like RES and old reddit redirect), but won't need them anymore.

@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.

NoScript, uBlock Origins, Privacy Badger, HTTPS Everywhere

@t0fr uBlock Origin, Bitwarden, Firefox Translations

Hoxx vpn for those spicy and not allowed sites