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One on Firefox that's super helpful for work is Simple Tab Groups. It lets me keep plenty of tabs open without it turning into a disorganized mess. Better than Chrome's built-in tab organization, imo.
Besides ad/tracking blockers, my #1 is a dimmer. Helps the eyes! lol. Especially at night.
Facebook container is one i use that blocks facebook tracking with tracking pixels for example.
- uBlock Origin
- Sidebery
LibRedirect: redirect Website links to alternative frontends like Nitter, invidious, rimgo etc. - couldn't live without it especially on mobile where using Twitter without the app is really obnoxious
CookieAutoDelete combined with 'I still don't care about cookies': delete cookies the moment you close the tab if not whitelisted, also remove cookie notices and accept all cookies.
Nano Gestures: mouse gestures for navigating websites
Unhook - Remove YouTube Recommended Videos - This one simplifies the YouTube experience and helps you to spend less time watching videos endlessly.
if you replace the "youtube.com" with "piped.video" in the URL, you get all the videos with no ads, no tracking, and no distractions.
I don't think I can live without Sidebery anymore, it adds a sidebar for managing and easily grouping tabs. Although it's really made my habit of not closing them even worse...
For me it's definitely uBlock, tridactyl & tree style tabs
Something that I recently started to use is Raindrop.io. It's a cloud bookmark organizer and I find it really useful. And the extension is also really good with lots of features. I think it's odd that people don't know/talk about it!
What sort of benefits do you feel raindrop has over the native chrome bookmarks manager?
Based on a quick look, the biggest features it has that browser bookmark managers generally don't have is the ability to search within saved webpages and documents without opening them. Plus, you can share bookmark collections with other people. Sounds a bit like a modern rendition of del.icio.us
These are my current favs for safari.
Consent-O-Matic, it declines all cookie banners for you (or accepts you can decide it in the settings)
Ublock origin Adguard Aguard Extra Bitwarden Privacy badger Tampermonkey Dark reader Sponsorblock
library extension forever until the end of time
Firefox (I am not going to repeat the obvious ones that have been mentioned numerous times):
- IPvFoo: Display IP address information for website
- tabdetach: I always juggle around my windows. Being able to detach, attach and merge tabs without using the mouse is really useful.
- Cookie AutoDelete: Removes cookies unless whitelisted
Curious, what are you looking for in the ip info of a site?
I don’t actually care about the IP address, I am just curious if a website is accessed via IPv4 or IPv6.
Anyone have some favorites related to Lemmy or Mastodon? I've seen a couple that claim to make following and subscribing easier on other instances but I'm not sure if they are trustworthy.
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.
I literally cannot browse the web anymore without HoverZoom+
For Lemmy:
Stylus. And then find Lemmy scripts on UserStyles.world to install into Stylus and you can change the look and feel for Lemmy to make it more like Reddit, or whatever. I currently use a combination of 'Better Lemmy' and 'Old reddit-ish Lemmy'.
For general browsing:
uBlock Origin for ads
Privacy Badger for tracking
For YouTube:
Enhancer for YouTube
I physically can't use a browser without Vimium anymore.
The shortcut alone makes Vimium a must, it makes switching between tabs so much easier. The only drawbacks of the extension I've found are having to adjust settings for the odd websites that have shortcuts and certain elements not working well with Vimium "clicks" (like the Lemmy sort order dropdown list!).
- PrivacyBadger
- Consentomatic
- Bitwarden
- something for mouse gestures
- Sponsorblock
- YouTube enhancement suite (not sure about the name)