I really enjoy Firefox on Android as I can install a bunch of extensions and I find those extensions game changer, especially on the mobile.
One of my favorites are
- Libredirect - literally one of my favorite ones. Redirects popular sites to privacy focused frontends, like YouTube to Invidious, etc.
- uBlock Origin - I guess everyone knows this one
- Privacy Badger - blocks trackers
- Ghostery - blocks trackers, ads, scripts, etc.
What extensions do you guys use?
Haven’t seen anyone mention Decentraleyes yet. Serves CDN assets locally to avoid CDNs as a vector for tracking or fingerprinting.
Not trying to hijack this post but does anyone know of an add-on that syncs your bookmarks toolbar? Its the only thing holding me back from being fully on librewolf.
I use Floccus.
Librewolf has Mozilla sync, otherwise you could try using a third party syncing tool to sync your librewolf profile directory?
I’d second Mozilla sync, especially as you can self-host the server.
I do that and it works really well, but you still need to use Mozilla’s servers for authentification. But it’s been a while so maybe there’s a way to host that too now.
Thanks, this will probably be the way I go.
More info for those curious:
https://librewolf.net/docs/faq/#can-i-use-firefox-sync-with-librewolf-is-it-safe-to-do-so
I thought you could only select from a pre-defined list of addons in Firefox mobile?
Not anymore, if you use desktop website of addons.mozilla.org, you can install almost anything.
enhanced-h264ify prevents my PC from cooking itself when playing YT.
Since it’s not mentioned before, check out DeArrow. It makes YouTube bearable.
- LocalCDN
- HTTP Version Indicator
I have found localcdn to break some websites
Me too and I found remove/reinstall fixed the issue
•uBlock Origin - I guess everyone knows this one •Privacy Badger - blocks trackers •Ghostery - blocks trackers, ads, scripts, etc.
You don’t need all of that as once. Privacy Badger and Ghostery are redundant with uBlock Origin and Total Cookie Protection. Source: https://github.com/arkenfox/user.js/wiki/4.1-Extensions#-dont-bother.
Also, Ghostery is kinda shady in terms of opt-out tracking and showing ads to its own users. I don’t know if they still do it, but my trust is already shattered and I see no reason to keep using Ghostery.
It makes, say, Amazon links not a three-page bookwork
Use uBlock Origin’s wiki / rules for this instead. Reduces an add-on and achieves the same/better results!
How does it work? I added the Adguard filter Not doesn’t seem to work like cleanurls
Example searching something on Amazon
Cleanurls
https://www.amazon.com/PlayStation-PS5-Console-Ragnarök-Bundle-5/dp/B0BHC395WW
Ublock
Should be detailed here: https://github.com/gorhill/uBlock/wiki/Static-filter-syntax#removeparam
Just gonna keep cleanurls, it’s better and not so complicated
Some of my picks to add to all other comments
- Gesturefy: Mouse gesture addon. It can also run custom javascript. For example I have a script that makes copying text, links, buttons easier.
- Imagus mod: Hover zoom addon with up-to-date sieves that actually work. The sieve team is quite good.
- BetterViewer: Image viewer although some buttons don’t work on firefox.
- Fastforward: circumvents annoying link shorteners
- Distill: Monitor webpage or feed for changes
I also have many ***monkey and stylus scripts.
Bitwarden. Hands down the best decision I made in regards to web safety was switching to a proper password manager.
Close second is uBlock Origin.
Also make sure to use DecentralEyes for easy enhanced privacy.
I use NoScript, but that level of granular control isn’t everyone’s cup of tea
Sieberry, it’s what Mozilla is unable to do, nice looking and working vertical tabs.
Simple Translate is nice too just mark a text and instant translation.
I still don’t care about cookies, yeah just leave me alone.
Scroll everywhere, right Click to scroll any page. Should be vanilla feature.
Keepa, for amazon price history of any product.
My favourites are:
- ProtonPass
- DarkReader
- uBlock Origin
- Privacy Badger
- Multi-account containers
- Joplin (to save pages to my local Joplin notes)
Didn’t see it mentioned — SingleFile is an awesome tool to save the whole page as a single compatible with everything HTML file with embedded css and images.
Dark Reader is sort of annoying to set up, but I like it. It would be better if you could choose to share your location with it rather than inputting your lat/long manually. (It’s possible that’s a limitation of extensions though.)
I use the DDG extension too but it’s caused problems by blocking a webpage on localhost for some reason. Not sure what it does that uBO and Privacy Badger cannot.
I haven’t used https://adnauseam.io/ but I like the idea of it. I stick with uBO and use AdGuard’s public DNS in my router (too lazy to set up pihole).
Must haves IMHO:
uBlock Origin Consent-o-Matic
Making life easier:
SponsorBlock Enhancer for YouTube DarkReader Multi Account Containers
