What browser extensions do you use that you’d recommend to others?

Do you contribute to any FOSS browser extension projects?

Are there any non-FOSS extensions that you wish had a sufficient FOSS alternative?

  • alex [they/them]@beehaw.org
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    1 year ago

    Firefox user here.

    • Bitwarden password manager
    • Bypass Paywalls Clean
    • Clear URLs remove URL trackers
    • Highlight or Hide Search Engine Results to hide some unwanted websites from search results
    • Open in VLC™ media player, useful for some weird streams
    • Push to Kindle sends any text article to PDF or to your ereader (not only Kindle)
    • Recipe Filter filters recipe pages on blogs and just gets the actual ingredients & instructions
    • Redirector for a few paywalls where I use a specific proxy
    • RSS Reader Extension (by Inoreader) - as I use Inoreader for following RSS feeds
    • Sci Hub Injector adds sci-hub links to many science publishing websites for easy access
    • Shinigami Eyes highlights trans-friendly and transphobic social media users or websites
    • uBlock Origin
    • ViolentMonkey for userscripts

    Extensions to be helpful to other people:

    • Picket Line Notifier tells you if the website you are visiting has workers on strike - useful especially for ecommerce & news publishers
    • Snowflake is not noticeable for me, but allows other people to use my network as a Tor node or something idk
    • Wayback Machine archives every page I visit on the Internet Archive.

    Fediverse extensions:

    • FediAct allows me to boost, reply to, follow, etc. on any Mastodon instance without having to open the right link in my own instance. I wish there was something like this for Lemmy and Peertube.
    • Fedishare allows for one-click sharing to several Fediverse platforms, including Lemmy and Mastodon
    • PeerTubeify tries to check if a YouTube video you’re watching is also on PeerTube

    Youtube extensions:

    • Auto HD / 4k / 8k pour YouTube™ - I use it for the environment, so default quality is 480px (because usually I watch the videos on a small side window so it doesn’t change the visible quality)
    • Clickbait Remover for YouTube - replaces thumbnails with a frame from the video and makes all titles normally named, no all caps
    • DF YouTube (Distraction Free) - removes the homepage & sidebar on videos to avoid rabbit holes
    • SponsorBlock auto-skips sponsored segments, intros, credit rolls, etc. on YouTube videos
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    1 year ago

    uBO, of course. note: you guys don’t need ClearURLs with this list added.
    LibRedirect for automatically opening Youtube, Twitter, TikTok etc. links in their privacy-focused front-ends. I just make sure to disable all the instances by esmailelbob since he’s a little homophobic shithead
    Buster for automatic captcha solving
    Consent-O-Matic automatically clicks through cookies banner to deny all the cookies that aren’t necessary, which I like better than just hiding the cookie banner
    Redirect AMP to HTML because fuck AMP and fuck Google

  • lalay721@feddit.it
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    I use the following ones (on Firefox), except for uBO the others are just for conveniency:

    • Bitwarden
    • Gesturefy (for some time from early 2021 to late 2022 I used to use Vivaldi as my primary browser and now if I’m using a mouse, not having gestures in a browser feels odd…)
    • LibRedirect
    • Plasma Integration
    • uBlock Origin (middle mode and with some additional lists)
    • User-Agent Switcher and Manager (if I find a site that says it doesn’t work with Firefox).
  • DarkKronicle@beehaw.org
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    1 year ago

    One that I love is jumpcutter. Speeds up silences and makes watching long lectures way nice.

    If I get back to my PC I’ll send a few more extensions I use.

  • ArgentCorvid [Iowa]@midwest.social
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    1 year ago

    One I haven’t seen mentioned yet is DownThemAll.

    DownThemAll lets you download all the links or images on a website and much more: you can refine your downloads by fully customizable filters to get only what you really want.

    Comes in really handy sometimes. (For Firefox / Chrome / Edge)

    Another is uBlacklist, which allows you to blacklist domains from Google / Bing / DDG search results (like say, pinterest.*), also for Firefox / Chrome / Edge.

  • ericjmorey@beehaw.orgOP
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    Firefox:

    • uBlock Origin (uBO) - The internet is basically unusable without this. {GPLv3}
    • Dark Reader - I like using dark themes and I hate when I get blasted with a light theme when I visit a site. This keeps that to a minimum. {MIT}
    • Firefox Multi-Account Containers - It’s nice to keep things separated. {Mozilla Public License Version 2.0}
    • Consent-O-Matic - Automatically marks my saved cookie preferences on consent pop ups. This is a great tool to help counter to the dark patterns related to GDPR, but it isn’t perfect. {MIT}
    • NoScript - I don’t like giving blanket permission to run JavaScript in my browser. This let’s me choose. {GPLv3}
    • Wayback Machine by Internet Archive - Archives the sites I visit automatically and provides a one click option to visit an archived version of a URL that returns 404. Proprietary I don’t know of any alternatives
    • Tampermonkey - There are a few very useful scripts that I run periodically. Tampermonkey keeps them organized and easy to run. Proprietary I don’t know of any alternatives
    • Reddit Enhancement Suite - I got a lot of value from this extension over the years, but I don’t know how much value it has going forward for me {GPLv3}