This is a switch I made yesterday, but instead of Chrome to Firefox, I switched from Vivaldi (Chrome, but kinda like old Opera) to Floorp (japanese fork of Firefox with focus on privacy and sane defaults).
I got Sponsorblock for YouTube, uBlock Origin for ads and Gesturify for those awesome mouse gestures (my main reason for using an Opera-like).
Sometimes, I use Tampermonkey for misc Scripts on different Pages, so I installed that aswell. But for now, no scripts for Tampermonkey, as I primarily focus on setting it up to be more like Vivaldi.
Other addons are Ghostery for more privacy and Session Buddy to prevent oopsies when playing around with Tabs and windows.
Floorp even has dark mode for bright pages already included in the box.
Just curious: why do you use adnauseam instead of ublock origin for ad block on the rest of your profiles? I haven’t heard of it before, and was curious what futures made it stand out.
Surprised noone mentioned NoScript yet. It requires a bit more user interaction. But if you are worried about privacy and maybe security, it is important to know who is running scripts on your machine.
NoScript is magic. I got it on whitelist so websites by default don’t get to use scripts. Turning uBlock Origin and NoScript off is an entirely different internet.
When I looked into it, it appeared uBlock origin already does what no script does when you turn on advanced mode and block 3rd party urls. (medium mode) Probably need to block first party to get quite there but that’s usually overkill.
Now sticking with medium mode, most sites need a bit of fixing like no script did, but it’s all done in uBlock.
SimpleTabGroups - organize your tabs
uBlock Origin - adblocker
Prvacy Badger - block trackers
I still don’t care about cookies - remove cookie prompts
Stylus - lets you create your own css based on url
Canvss Blocker - prevents finger printing but can break websites.
I still don’t care about cookies is a must have, it is so nice to never have to click those prompts again.
A password manager is also nice. I recommend keepassxc and it’s addon
Privacy Badger is kinda useless since ublock origin already blocks trackers. Same with canvas blocker if privacy.resistFingerprinting is enabled in about:config
It lets you join tabs into a group, where you can add tabs to the group, remove tabs, and expand and collapse groups all in the regular tab bar without any other menus.
I prefer Sidebery to Tree Style Tab. I’ve used both quite a bit, but I really like Sidebery’s snapshot option to save and reload snapshots of your session, either manually or on a schedule.
You can also self host a “bitwarden” server that works with the official App if you wan to use the bitwarden pro features for free. It’s called vaultwarden
I run this. Can attest to its brilliance. Just want to point out though that its 2FA codes built in is inherently insecure. 2FA is meant as having multiple points of verification for enhanced security. By adding them all to Bitwarden you are again putting them all into a single point of verification / all eggs in 1 basket.
I think the arkenfox project website has some good info on this. For a good privacy baseline, you basically only need to enable strict mode and download the ublock origin extension, then change some settings for the extension (e.g. add filter lists).
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