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Complete, authoritative list of Firefox extensions officially recommended by Mozilla. https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/search/?promoted=recommended&typ

by gurjeet 2mo ago

Complete, authoritative list of Firefox extensions officially recommended by Mozilla. https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/search/?promoted=recommended&type=extension https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/search/?promoted=re... Some quite informative discussion on Firefox subreddit when I discovered and posted the above list there a few months ago. https://www.reddit.com/r/firefox/comments/1pyvx2v/complete_authoritative_list_of_firefox_extensions/ https://www.reddit.com/r/firefox/comments/1pyvx2v/complete_a... The Recommended Extensions program description: https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/recommended-extensions-program https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/recommended-extensions-...

benatkin 2mo ago
I seem to remember TamperMonkey being on there but not ViolentMonkey, which I didn't agree with. However, I see neither of them on there. Both are available but not recommended. I wonder what is going on with that.
- culi 2mo ago
  Probably just resources. Mozilla has to vet each update to give them the "recommended" badge and so they probably focus on the most popular extensions
  - benatkin 2mo ago
    They should have vetted ViolentMonkey instead of TamperMonkey the last time around.
    - embedding-shape 2mo ago
      > Tampermonkey - Rating 4.7 (5,306 reviews) - 760,294 Users > Violentmonkey - Rating 4.7 (793 reviews) - 164,622 Users On Google Web Store, it's 11,000,000 users VS 900,000 users. Their popularity seems different by a magnitude, hardly surprising Firefox/Mozilla would chose to focus on one above the other.
      - culi 2mo ago
        I see GP's point tho. The original Greacemonkey was open-sourced. Tampermonkey was the successor and is proprietary. Violentmonkey came to fix that. I wouldn't be surprised if Mozilla rejected TM because of not being OS and rejected VM because of lack of popularity
        embedding-shape 2mo ago
        I get what you mean, and it'd be cool if "Recommended" was only for FOSS, but I don't think that ever been the case? Probably lots of the "Recommended" extensions are proprietary, from https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/search/?promoted=recommended&type=extension https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/search/?promoted=re... you don't get far before hitting one, the 3rd extension already is proprietary out of those, surely more.
        krick 2mo ago
        I still just use Greasemonkey. What is even the point of both successors on Firefox?
- VCFundedGenYer 2mo ago
  FireMonkey is the one to use. Not verified, but that doesn't matter.
- eek2121 2mo ago
  I suspect they no longer recommend either because either can download/execute scripts that Mozilla can't review, and the recommended extensions are reviewed, so they don't want to give users the wrong impression. I could be wrong, however.
  - DANmode 2mo ago
    I suspect it’s because it’s a pain to review that type of codebase, and they update it decently often.
inigyou 2mo ago
Thanks. Just installed Consent-O-Matic. I avoided it earlier because I assumed it consented, but by default it does not consent.
- pipes 2mo ago
  Hrm... Maybe I should be using this instead of I don't care about cookies then, since that isn't recommended
- PunchyHamster 2mo ago
  I've had few sites that froze when using it coz it clicked something wrong ;/
- jstrebel 2mo ago
  Consent-O-Matic is a bit of an edge case because their last update was more than a year ago and their Github repo looks pretty dead. This makes me not really trust it anymore.
quotemstr 2mo ago
Interesting they'd recommend Decentraleyes: its default configuration disabled all HTTP link prefetching, which hurts performance in a way not apparent from the extension description.
- much-to-learn 2mo ago
  You should have prefetching off by default tbh
  - quotemstr 2mo ago
    Why?
- kqp 2mo ago
  Decentraleyes has worse issues than that, it’s been mostly abandoned for 7 years and never covered much [1]. LocalCDN is better, but coverage is still insufficient, it still has no chance of actually preventing a CDN connection more than once in a blue moon. Modern privacy folks don’t recommend tools like this because they don’t really work and they do make your network and timing signature much more unique and fingerprintable. [1]: https://git.synz.io/Synzvato/decentraleyes/-/tree/master/resources?ref_type=heads https://git.synz.io/Synzvato/decentraleyes/-/tree/master/res...

by gurjeet 2mo ago

benatkin 2mo ago

I seem to remember TamperMonkey being on there but not ViolentMonkey, which I didn't agree with. However, I see neither of them on there. Both are available but not recommended. I wonder what is going on with that.

culi 2mo ago
Probably just resources. Mozilla has to vet each update to give them the "recommended" badge and so they probably focus on the most popular extensions
- benatkin 2mo ago
  They should have vetted ViolentMonkey instead of TamperMonkey the last time around.
  - embedding-shape 2mo ago
    > Tampermonkey - Rating 4.7 (5,306 reviews) - 760,294 Users > Violentmonkey - Rating 4.7 (793 reviews) - 164,622 Users On Google Web Store, it's 11,000,000 users VS 900,000 users. Their popularity seems different by a magnitude, hardly surprising Firefox/Mozilla would chose to focus on one above the other.
    - culi 2mo ago
      I see GP's point tho. The original Greacemonkey was open-sourced. Tampermonkey was the successor and is proprietary. Violentmonkey came to fix that. I wouldn't be surprised if Mozilla rejected TM because of not being OS and rejected VM because of lack of popularity
      - embedding-shape 2mo ago
        I get what you mean, and it'd be cool if "Recommended" was only for FOSS, but I don't think that ever been the case? Probably lots of the "Recommended" extensions are proprietary, from https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/search/?promoted=recommended&type=extension https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/search/?promoted=re... you don't get far before hitting one, the 3rd extension already is proprietary out of those, surely more.
      - krick 2mo ago
        I still just use Greasemonkey. What is even the point of both successors on Firefox?
VCFundedGenYer 2mo ago
FireMonkey is the one to use. Not verified, but that doesn't matter.
eek2121 2mo ago
I suspect they no longer recommend either because either can download/execute scripts that Mozilla can't review, and the recommended extensions are reviewed, so they don't want to give users the wrong impression. I could be wrong, however.
- DANmode 2mo ago
  I suspect it’s because it’s a pain to review that type of codebase, and they update it decently often.

inigyou 2mo ago

Thanks. Just installed Consent-O-Matic. I avoided it earlier because I assumed it consented, but by default it does not consent.

pipes 2mo ago
Hrm... Maybe I should be using this instead of I don't care about cookies then, since that isn't recommended
PunchyHamster 2mo ago
I've had few sites that froze when using it coz it clicked something wrong ;/
jstrebel 2mo ago
Consent-O-Matic is a bit of an edge case because their last update was more than a year ago and their Github repo looks pretty dead. This makes me not really trust it anymore.

quotemstr 2mo ago

Interesting they'd recommend Decentraleyes: its default configuration disabled all HTTP link prefetching, which hurts performance in a way not apparent from the extension description.

much-to-learn 2mo ago
You should have prefetching off by default tbh
- quotemstr 2mo ago
  Why?
kqp 2mo ago
Decentraleyes has worse issues than that, it’s been mostly abandoned for 7 years and never covered much [1]. LocalCDN is better, but coverage is still insufficient, it still has no chance of actually preventing a CDN connection more than once in a blue moon. Modern privacy folks don’t recommend tools like this because they don’t really work and they do make your network and timing signature much more unique and fingerprintable. [1]: https://git.synz.io/Synzvato/decentraleyes/-/tree/master/resources?ref_type=heads https://git.synz.io/Synzvato/decentraleyes/-/tree/master/res...