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Ask HN: Excluding privacy ones, which Firefox plugins do you use regularly?
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?
- jeremiahlee 6y agoTab 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/ 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.
- sp332 6y agoI'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 :(
- jeremiahlee 6y agoCoil 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://coil.com/ https://webmonetization.org/ https://webmonetization.org/
- mike-cardwell 6y agoI 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
- sethammons 6y agoHow else could it work? Maybe build that.
- mike-cardwell 6y ago"Can't be more than just sticking a meta tag in your html with a bitcoin address in it or whatever right?"
- jeremiahlee 6y agoYouTube 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-download-hd-download/ https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/youtube-downl...
- sumguysr 6y agoTree style tabs lets me manage hundreds of open tabs. Auto Tab Discard stops them from crashing my system.
- onyva 6y agoinvidio.us redirect from YouTube Zotero connector Bulk downloader Emacs capture ...
- ArtWomb 6y agoDown Them All. Even used in LAN for batch transfers ;)
- potta_coffee 6y ago1password is my big one.
- lavignegagnon 6y agoTampermonkey: 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).
- Fiveplus 6y agoI 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/ 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/ 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-containers/ 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-search-fixer/ 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-archive/?src=featured https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/view-page-arc...
- erazemkokot 6y agoDark 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.
- rotterdamdev 6y agoDark Reader, I don't care about cookies, cookie autodestroyer, noJS.
- bzb3 6y agoImagus for zooming into pictures Buster to bypass Google captchas They both work fine on Chrome also
- sourabh86 6y agoBetterLoopy to autorepeat music videos - https://github.com/piyushsoni/BetterLoopyForYouTube https://github.com/piyushsoni/BetterLoopyForYouTube
- bjourne 6y agoStylish. 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.
- boring_twenties 6y agoEven after this? https://appuals.com/firefox-chrome-both-pull-stylish-extension-over-privacy-concerns/ https://appuals.com/firefox-chrome-both-pull-stylish-extensi...
- bjourne 6y agoLuckily for me I was mistaken. :) It's Stylus I'm using not Stylish.
- boring_twenties 6y agoWhew :)
- zzo38computer 6y agoI 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.)
- occams 6y agoMostly 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/ https://addons.mozilla.org/de/firefox/addon/calmdown/ notetab opens a tab to take notes: https://addons.mozilla.org/de/firefox/addon/notetab/ https://addons.mozilla.org/de/firefox/addon/notetab/ Maybe someone else will find them useful.
- kirubakaran 6y agoMy https://histre.com/ 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/ https://histre.com/blog/save-restore-tabs/ - Highlights in any website that persists even when the website changes https://histre.com/features/highlights/ 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/ https://histre.com/blog/share-hackernews-upvotes/ - Optional tree-style web history