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I'm not sure what extensions everyone was using that are missing from Fenix. uBlock Origin, Decentraleyes, and HTTPS Everywhere were the big ones for me, and th

I'm not sure what extensions everyone was using that are missing from Fenix. uBlock Origin, Decentraleyes, and HTTPS Everywhere were the big ones for me, and those three were all greenlit for Fenix (at least in Nightly). Are people still using greasemonkey scripts, or what?

AndrewDucker 6y ago
One to remove UTM tracking from all URLs. One to redirect amp to normal web pages. I'm not upgrading Firefox until the new one supports both of those.
ajot 6y ago
I do miss Redirector, Leechblock NG and Redirect AMP to HTML. I hope they are available soon.
mjevans 6y ago
Stylish and Ghostery are two of the other addons that I like, at least on desktop.
- AdmiralAsshat 6y ago
  Sure, and I have about a dozen that I use for Firefox on the desktop as well. But this change is for Firefox Android.
- godelski 6y ago
  Doesn't Ghostery have privacy issues?
  - nwah1 6y ago
    I know Stylish does and that is why many switched to Stylus
- aasasd 6y ago
  You might want to read about how ‘Stylish’ was stealing user's browsing history. (At least I hope it's ‘was’ and not ’still is’.) ‘Stylus’ is the popular open-source alternative.
p1itopre 6y ago
Its the concept of the long tail. I miss https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/single-file/ https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/single-file/ https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/chrome-ua-on-google-android/ https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/chrome-ua-on-... https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/top-and-bottom-scroll-buttons/ https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/top-and-botto... Without these three, its jarring to use Firefox for me. But there is no other user in the world with my browsing habits. After including the most used extensions, Mozilla is showing no interest in getting more extensions. It's quite frustrating.
kuschku 6y ago
I'm still using greasemonkey scripts to redirect any link that'd go to a paywalled newspaper to instead go to my own web-cache which has a crawler circumventing the paywalls and which serves the article without paywall, or ads, or any other undesired content (disclaimer: I have a paid subscription to the paper version of the newspaper, but the paywall is so broken it's simpler to just circumvent it than to actually log in for every single article) I built this in 2 hours, and obviously I never intended it for anyone else to be used, so it's just a tiny greasemonkey script, a golang webserver and a nodejs crawler running along nicely. No official addon or anything. Greasemonkey is super useful for this kind of personalized stuff.
pmontra 6y ago
List of my "other" extensions Fit to width, for text reflow. Bypass paywalls. Au-revoir-utm No coin Redirect amp to html. Disable webrtc.
rst 6y ago
For me, it's cookie auto-delete -- their default tracker suppression still white-lists more than I'd like. Very likely to block updates over this while I consider my next move. (My threat model is not your threat model...)
- unionpivo 6y ago
  This is now built in the browser, you can go into settings, delete browsing data on quit, and sellect cookies and other things. Unless you mean selectively delete?
  - rst 6y ago
    I have the plugin configured to drop cookies a few seconds after the tab that set them is closed, excepting a very short whitelist. "On quit" would sweep them up once every couple of weeks -- way too coarse. Not the same at all.
ifmpx 6y ago
umatrix and privacy pass are two really big ones.
phreack 6y ago
Any that consistently does text flow/rewrap would be imperative to me. It's one of those things that you can't go back to not having, after trying it.
yjftsjthsd-h 6y ago
I'm quite fond of umatrix.
ben-schaaf 6y ago
"Video Background Play Fix" and h264ify. I primarily watch YouTube on my phone and it's unusable without these extensions. I've had to downgrade after the automatic update.
- dleslie 6y ago
  NewPipe. I couldn't stand youtube without it.
  - ben-schaaf 6y ago
    I tried NewPipe. Sharing subscriptions and history between my desktop and mobile is a requirement it doesn't fulfil.
    - dleslie 6y ago
      I subscribe to things on Desktop and download the subscription file and import it into NewPipe. Not really a problem.
  - solstice 6y ago
    Seconded. Good UI, quick fixes whenever Google tweaks some things in the background. Also, the ability for background playback is key to listen to music. and the speed and pitch control sliders area lot of fun when listing to speeches (eg Mickey Mouse JFK).
  - sundarurfriend 6y ago
    I don't understand how people are able to use Newpipe regularly. I use it to download videos or listen to music in the background, but even there I encounter the 'Something went wrong' error page about 30% of the time (with the latest updated Newpipe every time). It used to be worse, being a 50-50 chance of getting the error page, but 30% is still too high for me to use it as my everyday Youtube client.
    - avhon1 6y ago
morsch 6y ago
I used an extension that adds a close tab button to the nav bar. I doubt it will ever make the greenlist.
derbOac 6y ago
Containers, especially temporary containers. For me they've become as essential and eye-opening as adblockers. I'm convinced if ff weren't screwing up on mobile containers would become as popular as adblockers as well. I still use ff on mobile but it's mostly because I don't know what would be better, not because I like it. There's a huge chasm between mobile and desktop.
aasasd 6y ago
‘Stylus’, to make HN's ‘collapse thread’ button tap-able. (HN made it a bit bigger recently, though still rather pathetic for my manly grownup thumb.)

AndrewDucker 6y ago

One to remove UTM tracking from all URLs. One to redirect amp to normal web pages. I'm not upgrading Firefox until the new one supports both of those.

ajot 6y ago

I do miss Redirector, Leechblock NG and Redirect AMP to HTML. I hope they are available soon.

mjevans 6y ago

Stylish and Ghostery are two of the other addons that I like, at least on desktop.

AdmiralAsshat 6y ago
Sure, and I have about a dozen that I use for Firefox on the desktop as well. But this change is for Firefox Android.
godelski 6y ago
Doesn't Ghostery have privacy issues?
- nwah1 6y ago
  I know Stylish does and that is why many switched to Stylus
aasasd 6y ago
You might want to read about how ‘Stylish’ was stealing user's browsing history. (At least I hope it's ‘was’ and not ’still is’.) ‘Stylus’ is the popular open-source alternative.

p1itopre 6y ago

Its the concept of the long tail. I miss https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/single-file/ https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/single-file/ https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/chrome-ua-on-google-android/ https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/chrome-ua-on-... https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/top-and-bottom-scroll-buttons/ https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/top-and-botto... Without these three, its jarring to use Firefox for me. But there is no other user in the world with my browsing habits. After including the most used extensions, Mozilla is showing no interest in getting more extensions. It's quite frustrating.

kuschku 6y ago

I'm still using greasemonkey scripts to redirect any link that'd go to a paywalled newspaper to instead go to my own web-cache which has a crawler circumventing the paywalls and which serves the article without paywall, or ads, or any other undesired content (disclaimer: I have a paid subscription to the paper version of the newspaper, but the paywall is so broken it's simpler to just circumvent it than to actually log in for every single article) I built this in 2 hours, and obviously I never intended it for anyone else to be used, so it's just a tiny greasemonkey script, a golang webserver and a nodejs crawler running along nicely. No official addon or anything. Greasemonkey is super useful for this kind of personalized stuff.

pmontra 6y ago

List of my "other" extensions Fit to width, for text reflow. Bypass paywalls. Au-revoir-utm No coin Redirect amp to html. Disable webrtc.

rst 6y ago

For me, it's cookie auto-delete -- their default tracker suppression still white-lists more than I'd like. Very likely to block updates over this while I consider my next move. (My threat model is not your threat model...)

unionpivo 6y ago
This is now built in the browser, you can go into settings, delete browsing data on quit, and sellect cookies and other things. Unless you mean selectively delete?
- rst 6y ago
  I have the plugin configured to drop cookies a few seconds after the tab that set them is closed, excepting a very short whitelist. "On quit" would sweep them up once every couple of weeks -- way too coarse. Not the same at all.

ifmpx 6y ago

umatrix and privacy pass are two really big ones.

phreack 6y ago

Any that consistently does text flow/rewrap would be imperative to me. It's one of those things that you can't go back to not having, after trying it.

yjftsjthsd-h 6y ago

I'm quite fond of umatrix.

ben-schaaf 6y ago

"Video Background Play Fix" and h264ify. I primarily watch YouTube on my phone and it's unusable without these extensions. I've had to downgrade after the automatic update.

dleslie 6y ago
NewPipe. I couldn't stand youtube without it.
- ben-schaaf 6y ago
  I tried NewPipe. Sharing subscriptions and history between my desktop and mobile is a requirement it doesn't fulfil.
  - dleslie 6y ago
    I subscribe to things on Desktop and download the subscription file and import it into NewPipe. Not really a problem.
- solstice 6y ago
  Seconded. Good UI, quick fixes whenever Google tweaks some things in the background. Also, the ability for background playback is key to listen to music. and the speed and pitch control sliders area lot of fun when listing to speeches (eg Mickey Mouse JFK).
- sundarurfriend 6y ago
  I don't understand how people are able to use Newpipe regularly. I use it to download videos or listen to music in the background, but even there I encounter the 'Something went wrong' error page about 30% of the time (with the latest updated Newpipe every time). It used to be worse, being a 50-50 chance of getting the error page, but 30% is still too high for me to use it as my everyday Youtube client.
  - avhon1 6y ago

morsch 6y ago

I used an extension that adds a close tab button to the nav bar. I doubt it will ever make the greenlist.

derbOac 6y ago

Containers, especially temporary containers. For me they've become as essential and eye-opening as adblockers. I'm convinced if ff weren't screwing up on mobile containers would become as popular as adblockers as well. I still use ff on mobile but it's mostly because I don't know what would be better, not because I like it. There's a huge chasm between mobile and desktop.

aasasd 6y ago

‘Stylus’, to make HN's ‘collapse thread’ button tap-able. (HN made it a bit bigger recently, though still rather pathetic for my manly grownup thumb.)