Ask HN: Excluding privacy ones, which Firefox plugins do you use regularly?

Posted by prower on Wednesday July 29, 2020 @12:05PM
from the ask-hn dept.

Excluding Ublock Origin, Facebook Container, Privacy badger and the other privacy-focused addons, what other addons you use most often? Personally I couldn't work without Panorama View (to create tab groups on the fly, which will get deleted as soon as I close the window), and for home I live on the shoulders of Speed Dial and Keepa Price Tracker for Amazon items.

What other nice ones do you use?

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Re:Ask HN: Excluding privacy ones, which Firefox plugins do ... by jeremiahlee on Wednesday July 29, 2020 @12:40PM (#23988727)

Coil is a Web monetization provider that streams micropayments to sites with a monetization HTML tag. For $5/month, I support the sites I actually spend time with and then don't feel bad about blocking ads.

https://coil.com/ https://webmonetization.org/

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Re:Ask HN: Excluding privacy ones, which Firefox plugins do ... by mike-cardwell on Wednesday July 29, 2020 @04:59PM (#23991537)

I have a few websites. I figured I'd go set this up. Can't be more than just sticking a meta tag in your html with a bitcoin address in it or whatever right?

No, you need to sign up with coil.com first, and then you need to sign up with some wallet provider as well and hook them up together or something.

Pass

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Re:Ask HN: Excluding privacy ones, which Firefox plugins do ... by sethammons on Monday August 03, 2020 @09:08AM (#24037260)

How else could it work? Maybe build that.

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Re:Ask HN: Excluding privacy ones, which Firefox plugins do ... by mike-cardwell on Monday August 03, 2020 @12:32PM (#24039866)

"Can't be more than just sticking a meta tag in your html with a bitcoin address in it or whatever right?"

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Re:Ask HN: Excluding privacy ones, which Firefox plugins do ... by jeremiahlee on Wednesday July 29, 2020 @12:27PM (#23988567)

Tab Tosser automatically closes tabs I have ignored for too long to free myself of digital clutter (with some safety features).

https://www.jeremiahlee.com/tab-tosser/

Admittedly, I made it, but other people seem to enjoy it and Apple thought it was such a great idea that it later built the functionality into Safari.

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Re:Ask HN: Excluding privacy ones, which Firefox plugins do ... by Fiveplus on Wednesday July 29, 2020 @01:39PM (#23989493)

I keep changing my addon list bar the privacy focused ones depending on the support an addon gets. These days I'm mostly using these:

1. Simplify Gmail: Brings the look of the good 'ol Inbox on desktop - https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/simplifygmail...

2. Behave: Addon that recognizes DNS Rebinding attacks to Private IPs - https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/behave/

3. Firefox's Multi Account containers: Lifeline of someone with multiple accounts that need switching. Also the superset of the facebook container - https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/multi-account...

4. YouTube's search fixer: a HN user shared this sometime ago and it's been really handy so far. Removes suggested results and overhauls some UI elements to look cleaner on desktop - https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/youtube-suite...

5. Web Archives: presents cached versions of web pages on more than 10 search engines- https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/view-page-arc...

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Re:Ask HN: Excluding privacy ones, which Firefox plugins do ... by kirubakaran on Sunday August 02, 2020 @11:12AM (#24029188)

My https://histre.com/ (Effortless Knowledge Base)

- Save your open tabs and then restore them later, or in a different browser, or send the collection to someone else https://histre.com/blog/save-restore-tabs/

- Highlights in any website that persists even when the website changes https://histre.com/features/highlights/

- Shareable notes, tags, and bookmarks

- Share your Hacker News upvotes with your friends https://histre.com/blog/share-hackernews-upvotes/

- Optional tree-style web history

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Re:Ask HN: Excluding privacy ones, which Firefox plugins do ... by zzo38computer on Friday July 31, 2020 @01:17AM (#24005899)

I use: user JS, user CSS, request/response rewriter, request blocker, URL rewriter, toolbar fixer, status bar fixer, gopher, cookie editor, relative location bar, script disabling, HSTS disabling, and adding a "view source" option into the download menu.

(But I think, an entirely new web browser should be made up instead, in order to be improved in many ways. For example, one thing I want is a ARIA view, but there is also a lot more, that requires changing things that isn't easily or efficiently or even possibly done by the use of extensions. Other thing would be to allow all pictures (mostly animated pictures) to be treated as videos, so that it can be paused, rewound, fast-forward, etc.)

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Re:Ask HN: Excluding privacy ones, which Firefox plugins do ... by occams on Saturday August 01, 2020 @02:46PM (#24022884)

Mostly I use two that I build for myself to solve my own problems.

calm closes all inactive tabs: https://addons.mozilla.org/de/firefox/addon/calmdown/

notetab opens a tab to take notes: https://addons.mozilla.org/de/firefox/addon/notetab/

Maybe someone else will find them useful.

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Re:Ask HN: Excluding privacy ones, which Firefox plugins do ... by bjourne on Thursday July 30, 2020 @06:07AM (#23996391)

Stylish. I'm restyling sites with poor typography like Hacker News to make them more readable on my HiDPI laptop. I also use Vimium and ad blockers.

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Re:Ask HN: Excluding privacy ones, which Firefox plugins do ... by boring_twenties on Saturday August 01, 2020 @04:16PM (#24023549)

Even after this? https://appuals.com/firefox-chrome-both-pull-stylish-extensi...

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Re:Ask HN: Excluding privacy ones, which Firefox plugins do ... by bjourne on Saturday August 01, 2020 @09:44PM (#24025599)

Luckily for me I was mistaken. :) It's Stylus I'm using not Stylish.

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Re:Ask HN: Excluding privacy ones, which Firefox plugins do ... by boring_twenties on Saturday August 01, 2020 @10:58PM (#24025965)

Whew :)

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Re:Ask HN: Excluding privacy ones, which Firefox plugins do ... by sp332 on Wednesday July 29, 2020 @12:28PM (#23988588)

I've installed extensions to un-shorten Twitter links and make Google search results link to pages directly, but they break on a regular basis.

For tabs I use Tree Style Tabs, and a little UI tweak I like is Reload in Address Bar. I also removed all of the space around the address bar because it gives me more space to work with when editing URLs.

I use Pinboard, and the Pinboard+ extension is very unobtrusive. In fact I usually forget to use it :(

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Re:Ask HN: Excluding privacy ones, which Firefox plugins do ... by jeremiahlee on Wednesday July 29, 2020 @12:44PM (#23988787)

YouTube Video Downloader to… download videos from YouTube. I mostly used this for conference talks I wanted to queue up and watch while flying, but not traveling so much these days.

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/youtube-downl...

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Re:Ask HN: Excluding privacy ones, which Firefox plugins do ... by lavignegagnon on Wednesday July 29, 2020 @01:31PM (#23989396)

Tampermonkey: modify your favorite sites with JS and CSS

Remove YouTube Recommended Videos, Comments: prevents me from falling down the rabbit hole.

Disable Facebook News Feed: I haven't seen my FB feed since Feb 2019. Love it! I can still lookup friends to see what they are up to, but I don't let an algorithm tell me what is important.

(These are all Firefox extension names, I'm sure their equivalent exists for Chrome).

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Re:Ask HN: Excluding privacy ones, which Firefox plugins do ... by sourabh86 on Wednesday July 29, 2020 @11:27PM (#23994284)

BetterLoopy to autorepeat music videos - https://github.com/piyushsoni/BetterLoopyForYouTube

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Re:Ask HN: Excluding privacy ones, which Firefox plugins do ... by erazemkokot on Wednesday July 29, 2020 @07:10PM (#23992571)

Dark Reader and Vimium-FF.

Surprisingly Dark Reader is a lot more advanced than most other dark mode extensions, but its privacy policy looks much better privacy-wise.

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Re:Ask HN: Excluding privacy ones, which Firefox plugins do ... by sumguysr on Wednesday July 29, 2020 @12:53PM (#23988887)

Tree style tabs lets me manage hundreds of open tabs. Auto Tab Discard stops them from crashing my system.

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Re:Ask HN: Excluding privacy ones, which Firefox plugins do ... by rotterdamdev on Wednesday July 29, 2020 @08:18PM (#23993011)

Dark Reader, I don't care about cookies, cookie autodestroyer, noJS.

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Re:Ask HN: Excluding privacy ones, which Firefox plugins do ... by bzb3 on Wednesday July 29, 2020 @08:35PM (#23993116)

Imagus for zooming into pictures

Buster to bypass Google captchas

They both work fine on Chrome also

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Re:Ask HN: Excluding privacy ones, which Firefox plugins do ... by potta_coffee on Wednesday July 29, 2020 @01:28PM (#23989353)

1password is my big one.

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Re:Ask HN: Excluding privacy ones, which Firefox plugins do ... by ArtWomb on Wednesday July 29, 2020 @01:10PM (#23989112)

Down Them All. Even used in LAN for batch transfers ;)

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Re:Ask HN: Excluding privacy ones, which Firefox plugins do ... by onyva on Wednesday July 29, 2020 @12:58PM (#23988959)

invidio.us redirect from YouTube

Zotero connector

Bulk downloader

Emacs capture

...

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