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And some more tips: - Translate web pages locally, without sending any data to remote servers: https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/addon/firefox-translations/ h

• ohgodplsno 4y ago
  In addition: - SponsorBlock - Automatically tag and skip portions of youtube videos, such as sponsors, intros, recaps, and others. - https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/sponsorblock/ https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/sponsorblock/ - Firefox Relay - Automatically create up to 5 (for free, more if paying for it) email addresses that redirect to your actual address, to avoid giving your private address to everyone. - https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/private-relay/ https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/private-relay...
  • Vinnl 4y ago
    Ha, thanks for sharing Firefox Relay - I actually work on that, so I was a bit hesitant about sharing it. I'll add that "paying for it" is €1 a month for unlimited email addresses.
    • 3np 4y ago
      Not a paying customer but if there was a way to sign up and pay anonymously (crypto and/or cash via mail), I'd be banging on the door even at a significant markup.
      • xp84 4y ago
        Is something like privacy dot com (virtual card numbers) not anonymous enough? I kinda don’t wanna know what you’re doing with these email addresses
        • lostoldsession 4y ago
          There are a lot of people who just want privacy wherever they can get it. It's not necessarily something nefarious, but the result of the question "Does this person need to know who I am? No. Therefore there is nothing to gain and only something to lose by telling them."
          • zedadex 4y ago
            For me it's more like "Do I want to waste time dredging this info back up in case they ever get breached", to which the answer is almost always "No".
  • rrishi 4y ago
    Those are some really interesting extensions you've suggested. I'll be sure to keep Relay in the back of my mind, I haven't had need of it yet. Though I do have requirement for SponsorBlock avid watcher of YT that I am, I am a little hesitant to add SponsorBlock as I am not quite sure how it would work flawlessly without some really complicated algorithms potentially involving ML work. I am curious to know if in your experience it has ever erred and automatically skipped portions it wasn't supposed to ? Or any other type of errors ?
    • godshatter 4y ago
      It's crowdsourced. The downside to that is that less popular videos may not have the sponsor information skipped, although you do have the ability to post start and end timestamps for videos that don't have it in place yet.
    • setuids 4y ago
      From my understanding SponsorBlock doesn't use any ML stuff, but is simply a database that allows other users to submit what they think is a sponsor (or other annoyance). I've found it to sometimes not get all sponsors (especially for more niche videos), and the self-promotion sections are usually too agressive (but they can be disabled). I'd say give it a go honestly
    • ohgodplsno 4y ago
      Yeah, the word "automatically" does a lot of heavy lifting there. But like others said, it's crowsourced. You watch a video, tag it, done. There's some anti abuse tools, like tags done by new users being served not all the time and tested by other users before it's trusted. I have never seen bad section tagging over the past two years.
• speed_spread 4y ago
  > Translate web pages locally This is a good start for a but what I'm looking for is Local Full Text Search of every page in my history. It shouldn't be hard to automatically maintain a text index of the pages I've browsed so that I can search them by keyword without bookmarking everything. Maybe it's just me but chronological history is useless beyond a few days.
  • bmn__ 4y ago
    https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/addon/falcon_extension/ https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/addon/falcon_extension/ Why don't you just search the add-ons? This would have taken less time than to formulate your post.
    • speed_spread 4y ago
      I did, and never found this. Thanks. You could have just pasted the URL. When someone here asks a well-formulated question I assume they've done their research first.
• vanilla_nut 4y ago
  This is one of those moments where I realize other folks on HN have almost exactly the same Firefox setup as me. Nice list of add-on recommendations! I would add in a couple more, for anyone tempted to switch away from Chrome or Safari: - Redirector: https://www.einaregilsson.com/redirector/ https://www.einaregilsson.com/redirector/ Very helpful for redirecting "new" reddit to old.reddit.com, AMP links to normal links, Twitter to Nitter, etc. - RES (Reddit Enhancement Suite): https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/reddit-enhancement-suite/ https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/reddit-enhanc... Provides built-in image preview and lots of other subtle goodies for old.reddit.com. I have a very hard time browsing reddit without it! - Sponsorblock for Youtube: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/sponsorblock/ https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/sponsorblock/ If you watch any amount of YouTube on channels with lots of sponsors, this is a great way to keep your sanity. Works just like sponsor skipping in the Overcast podcast client.
  • savingsPossible 4y ago
    Would you share your redirector redirections list? (Sorry for the lazyness :P)
    • bmn__ 4y ago
      Use libredirect instead, it comes with a prodigious amount of configured redirections. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34641069 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34641069
  • rofrol 4y ago
    nice, also these - https://gitlab.com/magnolia1234/bypass-paywalls-firefox-clean https://gitlab.com/magnolia1234/bypass-paywalls-firefox-clea... - https://addons.mozilla.org/pl/android/addon/onetab/ https://addons.mozilla.org/pl/android/addon/onetab/ - stylish - kill sticky
• DangitBobby 4y ago
  I love tree style tabs and I really want to encourage people to set it up and really customize their user stylesheet to make the best use of it. I have removed all traces of the original tab bar at the top and the three primary window buttons (close, restore, minimize) giving me back lots of that precious vertical space. Their GitHub has a ton of CSS snippets to help you with customization. I'd also be happy to share my user CSS file.
  • bundie 4y ago
    Please do.
  • sanjayen 4y ago
    @DangitBobby please share your user CSS file
• wintermutestwin 4y ago
  >- Vertical/tree-style tabs: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-GB/firefox/addon/sidebery/ https://addons.mozilla.org/en-GB/firefox/addon/sidebery/ This is the biggest reason why Chrome sucks - they have no workable version of vertical tabs. Reasons why horizontal tabs are clearly inferior: 1. Screens (generally) have way more horizontal space than vertical and you read webpages vertically. I already have an OS top bar and a browser top bar taking some of this valuable vertical space. 2. Most webpages have predefined right and left margins, so vertical tabs don't take away from the visible space of the page. 3. The size of the tab header is critical for being able to read the name of the tab. I have my vertical tabs set to 30 characters. If I had horizontal tabs with 30 characters, I could fit maybe 6 tabs on the screen at once. 4. Ease of having many more concurrently open tabs. I easily have 38 tabs open and visible without scrolling. 8 of those are pinned tabs which take up the space of one tab. I use 6 different windows (which are category titled using the Titler extension). That is 228 tabs open at once and very easily accessible and readable. (of course I use Total Suspender to keep them from taking too many resources) All this said, Firefox still sucks because vertical should be the default or at least a simple toggle. As it is, you have to trust some extension and then you have to jump through obnoxious hoops just to get the damn horizontal tabs turned off. And yes, there are some other browsers that have vertical tabs built in, but I am not touching Edge or Opera as they are from dubious companies. I also think that Brave is working on it, but they seem dubious as well. Now to my complaints about Sidebery (which is superior to Tree Style Tabs). Sidebery has tree style as well, but I turn it off as it undermines the value of #3 above. It has panels, which are goofy and, while you don't have to use them, you still lose a tab worth of space for it. You also lose an even larger tab space to the Sidebery title (which is a menu and an X that aren't necessary. Sidebery doesn't work well with the Titler extension - when you want to move a tab to another window, it doesn't show you the title.
  • odinho 4y ago
    I used to work on the Opera browser. I quit when it got sold to China. Also wanted to do that, since most people as well as main Oslo HQ was fired from Poland a year earlier. Opera was very much a not-dubious company. But that is what it has turned in to. -- I use Firefox as my main work-browser, and have for a long time, and the last few years I've used Vivaldi as my main personal browser. I find it easier to just have separate browsers rather than do anything more advanced for context. :)
• SanchoPanda 4y ago
  Feed-preview is so helpful, thank you!
• culi 4y ago
  feed preview seemed to break my browser since I have a ton of tabs open all the time. Not sure why the extension causes this, but just a head's up Firefox has a really great json viewer that I prefer even over my IDE, but it's one weakness is it's lack of XML support which Chrome does have :/
• abareplace 4y ago
  Consent-o-matic does not work on most websites; you still have to click the consent banners manually. Try https://www.i-dont-care-about-cookies.eu/ https://www.i-dont-care-about-cookies.eu/