Firefox
A place to discuss the news and latest developments on the open-source browser Firefox
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 @[email protected], 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.
Use ViolentMonkey it's open source and actively developed for Firefox, while TamperMonkey is originally developed for chrome
Thanks for adding the links, you the mvp
Thank you for this list! I found several add-ons I never knew I was missing
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.
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.
Tab Center Reborn
How is it different from TreeStyleTabs? I'll give it a try. Thanks for the recommendation.
clickbait remover for YouTube.. it replaces thumbnails with an actual frame from the video
Holy shit, I've dreamed of something like this existing, thanks!
DeArrow is a similar extension from the creator of SponsorBlock. It's suggestions for the title and thumbnail are crowdsourced as opposed to being randomised in the case of ClickBait Remover.
I really like consent-o-matic on firefox. You can set your cookie level to (dis)allow, and it goes through them automatically when you land on a site.
There is "i dont care about cookies", but I do care, I dont want your cookies and I dont want to go through your dark patterns!
I don't get it. So, it will save my cookies, keeping my logins are safe. But it will reject the site's cookies that they want to store for trackers?
These are the ones I cannot live without/use everyday:
- Bitwarden (I self host a vaultwarden instance)
- Facebook Container
- Firefox Multi-Account Containers (Makes using services like Office365 with multiple accounts at the same time much easier)
- Private Internet Access
- Return YouTube Dislike
- Redirect AMP to HTML
I have a few others installed that have already been mentioned plenty of times like SponsorBlock, uBlockOrigin. Not using an ad filter these days is like fucking a stranger without a condom, you're just asking for super syphilis.
There's the Multi-Container mention. Best native extension you could ever use. Can't recommend it enough, alongside many other mentions.
firefox has native container support now you shouldn't be using container extensions anymore
I honestly didn't even notice that! Disabled the extension and tested things out, it looks like there's no automatic "open this website in container X" option without using the extension. If I'm wrong I must have missed it. That's another main part of my workflow, basically have sharepoint sites for the various 365 accounts (one for the company I work for, others for clients), that way it always uses the correct account for each instance as an example.
- uBlock Origin: On medium mode. Honestly, the internet mostly sucks without this excellent extension.
- Dark Reader: Easy on your eyes and prolongs battery life on OLED displays.
- Redirector: This allows you to be in full control of which sites/urls you redirect and to where. As it allows the use of regex, you're even able to create your own 'bangs'. For example I used !x as a bang to redirect me to my favorite SearXNG instance. Kinda neat.
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
Sideberry, its like Tree Style Tabs but IMO is much more configurable and refined. It's honestly changed the way I use browsers, being able to bookmark entire trees of tabs, toggle between tab sets, and manually load/unload trees and groups. I legitimately worry about the extension api changing and disallowing it.
- uBlock origin of course
- Dark Reader
- Open in Reader View, which allows me to open a link directly in reader view. This can actually bypass some login walls surprisingly enough.
- Activate Reader View, which allows me to force a website to render in reader view even if the browser decides not to show the icon in the address bar.
- LocalCDN which hosts some CDN resources locally (it's a more frequently updated fork of Decentraleyes)
- Open With, which allows me to open a url in another browser or another command. I mainly use it for feeding urls to yt-dlp.
- Web Archives, which allows me to open a link in Archive.org among other archive services.
- LibRedirect, which allows me to open links in privacy frontends (up-to-date fork of Privacy Redirect)
For mobile only,
- OldLander, which makes old.reddit.com more usable in mobile. I started having issues with almost every teddit instance once the API changes came in, so I decided to bypass the frontends and use reddit directly.
Aside from the usual security & blocking, there is
- Behind The Overlay Revival
- Chameleon
- Color Changer
- Image extract
- JPEG XL viewer
- PassLok Image Steganography wonder where I've used that?
- Redirect AMP to HTML
- Save Screenshot
- SVG Export
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.
I've been using IPvFoo on all my PCs since I wrote it for Chrome 12 years ago. Recently I made it fully Firefox compatible. It's useful if you have IPv6 and want to see which websites are on board, though it's a bit depressing if your ISP only offers IPv4.
I've found it particularly interesting on Lemmy, because it connects to such a wide variety of independent servers:
I just realized i have no FF extensions active. Ive just been rawdogging the internet this whole time.
- 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.
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".
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.
Tree Style Tabs is a must for me. It makes the tab/tab goup functionality in other browsers feel awful.
Tab Session Manager