hey - trying to switch from Chrome to Firefox, what are your recommended extensions and/or quality of life addins, etc?
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kalkulat, Cookies: Cookie autodelete or Forget me not
Block site (so you’re not sent where you don’t want to go)
Wayback Machine (if you use it much)
Audio equalizer (to better understand mumbly / old Youtube audio)
Dark background and light text (so you don’t go blind)
miroslav, Firefox Multi-Account Containers
ad_on_is, this!
Sootie, It does have some rather specific use cases but if you need it it’s amazing. Way better than chrome profiles imo
pyrflie, Ublock Origin
NoScript
Dark Reader
Sponsorblock
Bitwarden
everything else is down to preference.
catsup, What’s the point if having NoScript AND uBlockOrigin? ubo does everything noscript does, but better
pyrflie, Whitelisting.
If you have anyone in your house or on your network that is, shall we say, less tech savvy then this effectively shuts them out of some sites.
And for yourself if you happen to make a miss click it shuts out most passive security risks.
The extension is as dumb or smart as you make it. For most of the users on my network it’s functionally retarded, but it works fairly well to prevent missclicks and curiosity fuckups for me as well.
SirToxicAvenger, dark reader looks very useful, thanks!!
mittyta, Double upvote for bitwarden, since OP is switched browser, they defenetly need move all their passwords. No need to use built in Firefox manager. Don’t forget to use password export from Chrome.
SirToxicAvenger, ah nice I was wondering how to do that. got a lot of passwords in chrome
Appoxo, Also browser password manager couldn’t be more unsafe…
moriquende, honestly it’s fine if you’re generating different passwords for every service and you’re just storing the less important ones there for convenience.
Appoxo, Way too easy to get malware and it scans your whole pc for easy to aquire passwords.
If it’s safely encrypted, go for it but I suspect it isnt.
glorious_albus, Used to use lastpass before they became paid. I haven’t even remembered that until I read your comment. Bitwarden is great.
5dashes, DeArrow for unsensationalizing YouTube titles and thumbnails
coffinwood, ublock origin with the annoyance list activated.
dark reader. It’s not perfect but I get most sites in a usable dark mode.
That’s mostly it.
Extrasvhx9he, Same, all you really need. Maybe also password manager extensions for the added phishing protection
coffinwood, Yeah, I didn’t include my Enpass extension, as it’s more like a plug-in.
I also excluded TamperMonkey because I solely use it to sell my Steam cards and become filthy rich. Already 34 cents into my first million.
And last but not least: an extension that auto-upvotes YT videos from my subscribed channels because I’m too lazy to do it manually and YT can’t be bothered to assign a key to it.
datavoid, In my testing, dark reader made sites load much slower. Anyone else notice this?
AphoticDev, Dark Reader is entirely client side, so it shouldn’t affect load times.
Zpiritual, Render times may increase significantly though depending on cpu((/gpu?).
AphoticDev, Yes, I suppose if their computer is a decade or two old, it might have an impact on their render times.
netburnr, Nope, still fast on my machines
sock, it can make my google drive stuff take a couple extra seconds to realize whats happening
Vengefu1Tuna, This is my experience as well. Noticable slowdown after installing it. But IMO, it’s still worth it.
TurnItOff_OnAgain, Sponsorblock for YouTube.
Javascript disabler to get around many paywalls.
IronKrill, In my experience enabling some of the annoyance lists broke several websites and it took a while to realise why. I do use the cookie consent list but no longer use any annoyance lists.
altima_neo, Ublock
Imagus mod
Return Youtube Dislike
SponsorBlock for Youtube
Video Download Helper
Zoom Page WE
SirToxicAvenger, added them all, thanks!!
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