What addons/scripts,etc do you consider necessary for firefox?

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Ublock origin, consent o matic

I would flip origin for Adnausem. It is built on top of unlock origin and it will click on the ads behind the scene and messes your digital footprint.

Tried consent-o-matic yesterday, it saved me a bunch of clicks and F12s to hide remove cookies popups that always covers my screen.. thanks!

uBlock Origin and I don't care about cookies. They're essential for me.

Just so you know IDCAC was bought by Avast, which is being bought by Norton/Symantec. There's "I still don't care about cookies" or the built in uBlock cookie banner options as a replacement.

  • uBlock origin - block ad
  • Dark reader - add dark mode to every website
  • Tridactyl - keyboard navigation
  • Bitwarden - password manager
  • YouTube enhancer - add improvement to YT
  • SponsorBlock - block sponsor segment in YT video
  • Base16 theme - have gruvboxdark theme

You nearly tricked me to install a vim plugin. I'd never be able to exit my browser again! /s

Apart from what others mentioned I'd suggest installing DeArrow, from the maker of SponsorBlock. It gets rid of clickbait titles and thumbnails on YouTube.

DeArrow

OMG This makes Youtube useable!!! Honestly, it just relieved so much anxiety for me.

Ublock origin (Adblocker)

Sponsor Block(YouTube sponspor skip)

Clickbait remove (remove those awful thumbnails)

Bitwarden Password Manager

Clearurls (clean trackers in url)

Bonus

Decenteraleyes

What about ghostery? I just started using it and I really like it, but, I just started using it :-)

I have heard that Ghostery was sponsored by the ad industry to collect data. Been a while though.

Try ublock matrix for an alternative.

The only add-on that I consider necessary is uBO (with advanced settings).

All others are very good to have installed, in fact I use many of them, but I can live on just fine without them.

Ublock origin is a requirement for all browsers, not just firefox. So definitely that one.

I keep coming back to Firefox cuz no other browser has as good of a dark mode addon as "dark background and light text"

Outside of already mentioned:

  • Throttle Tabs – hides and closes tabs beyond a limit
  • LibRedirect – redirects to alternative frontends of sites (for example youtube)
  • Firefox Translations – offline translations
  • Web Archives

NoScript, uBlock Origin and Dark mode. (But I prefer the experimental darkmode setting in Vivaldi) Those are essential to me.

Panorama view is close to essential, I wish I found a tab stack alternative that works with it. (Haven't looked yet, Vivaldi is my current main browser, until Fifefox can get tames in the same way)

I use Privacy Badger to just help block trackers and stuff, I think Firefox has this built in though now

uMatrix
Firefox Multi Account Containers
Video Speed Controller
Cookie AutoDelete

uMatrix is unfortunately discontinued. It's successor is uBlock origin. I learned that some month ago and switched fully to UBO.

There is an good article in the Github documentation from UBO, that can activate similar features like uMatrix.

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