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submitted 2 years ago by Lowbird@beehaw.org to c/technology@beehaw.org

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!

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[-] modulartable@beehaw.org 2 points 2 years ago

Ublock origin Adguard Aguard Extra Bitwarden Privacy badger Tampermonkey Dark reader Sponsorblock

[-] Darohan@lemmy.sdf.org 2 points 2 years ago

Outside of ones already stated: Facebook Container is great. I have to use FB for work, so it's good to keep is separated from the rest of my browsing.

[-] boomboxnation@beehaw.org 2 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)
-Vimium (install and hit the letter 'f' key. You will immediately understand the appeal if you are a keyboard jockey)
-A Userscript handler (Violentmonkey)
-Dark Reader
-Save to Pocket
-Bitwarden
-Ublock if the browser doesn't have baked in Ad blocks.

I love reading the responses to this question.

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[-] lentilhoarder@beehaw.org 2 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

Bypass Paywalls Clean - It allows me to read articles on a huge number of sites without having to login or pay. I already have access to news sites I care about through legitimate means but for the sake of being able to quickly read something, this extension cannot be beat.> English

[-] emk@beehaw.org 2 points 2 years ago

I think uBlock Origin, SponsorBlock, and Dark Reader are my favs.

[-] Maven@lemmy.sdf.org 2 points 2 years ago

I'm on Vivaldi so I don't know how many of these are available to Firefox. Leaving out all the obvious ones like adblocker, password manager, userscripts, etc.

Privacy Pass; do less captchas. Every time you solve a captcha, it stores a few "tokens" in your browser, essentially verifying you as human extra times at once. The next few times you encounter the same brand of catcha, your browser will "spend" one of those tokens to automatically be treated as high confidence, skipping the captcha.

Bot Sentinel; puts a little score next to people's names on Twitter, showing how often they've been reported to the Bot Sentinel site for various things like spam, trolling, or hatespeech; it's nice to know at a glance when you just shouldn't engage with someone.

Jiffy Reader; when it's enabled, hilights the first couple letters of every word, which is great for ADHD because it makes your automatic reflex be to look at each word one at a time, rather than skim the whole section.

Teleparty; watch netflix, etc, with friends, with a little built-in chatroom

Trim; show IMDB/Rotten Tomato ratings on netflix, etc, thumbnails; a real minor tweak, but I'm a big fan

Beyond20 and the VTT Enhancement Suite; specialized D&D addons that made playing online so much easier during the pandemic. Beyond20 pipes your character sheet macro rolls from D&D Beyond directly into Roll20, and VTTES adds all sorts of bonus functionality to Roll20.

[-] sandayle@iusearchlinux.fyi 1 points 2 years ago

I use touchpad gestures. Two fingers left-right: back-forward. Three fingers up-down: cycle between tabs Three fingers left-rigtht: close tab-reopen tab Four fingers pinch in: Home Three fingers pinch in: New tab

[-] Mr_Grumpy@lemmy.fmhy.ml 1 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

Disconnect

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Consent-O-Matic

DDG Privacy Essentials Coin Mining Blocker Enhancer for YouTube Turbo Download Manager Ghostery uBlock Origin Surfshark VPN Extension Privacy Badger

[-] kalanggam@beehaw.org 1 points 2 years ago
  • uBlock Origin is pretty self-explanatory
  • Highlighter + Notes helps my ADHD a lot by letting me highlight important phrases in big blocks of texts, especially any articles or posts I might be reading and replying to
  • Archive Page for archive.today is also self-explanatory, I like using it to create permalinks or de-paywalled links to news articles
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[-] ericjmorey@beehaw.org 1 points 2 years ago
[-] jeena@jemmy.jeena.net 1 points 2 years ago
  1. Consentomatic
  2. Sponsor Block
  3. uBlock
  4. Mastodon Simplified Federation
[-] Chapi_Chan@lemmy.one 1 points 2 years ago

Gestures. Hover zoom images. Tab tree view.

[-] Dubois_arache 1 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)
  • Ublock origin
  • Zhongwen learning tool
  • Zoom page we
  • Mailvelope
  • Youtube audio
  • Firefox multi-account containers
  • Imtranslator
[-] a_crappy_pirate@aussie.zone 1 points 2 years ago

web of trust, or mywot. puts a little sign next to every link telling you if they're trustworthy. fucken game changer. botsight is a great one for twitter. and buzzkill, well, kills buzzfeed

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