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?
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.
Must haves IMHO:
uBlock Origin Consent-o-Matic
Making life easier:
SponsorBlock Enhancer for YouTube DarkReader Multi Account Containers
(And OFC all the other great ones, Dark Reader, Chameleon, NoScript, AdBlocker Ultimate.)
Ublock Origin, NoScript, Chameleon, Libredirect, DarkReader, OneTab, Stack Overflow Prettifier, Classic Mode For Wikipedia, Vimium
Consent-o-matic !
For me, it’s many of the ones people have already said, plus:
- StreetPass (seriously cool - collects the mastodon profile of any website you visit where someone has set up the special link to their profile)
- Video Speed Controller (gives you fine-grained control over video speed, e.g. watching video at 2.6x speed)
- Privacy redirect (automatically redirects to various services, e.g. from Twitter to Nitter - can select a random instance each time)
Does privacy redirect automatically know if the instance is healthy? Or does it sometimes redirect you to a invidious or nitter or libreddit instance that’s broken?
Because if this thing is health-aware, the. It would save me so much time.
Unfortunately, I think it just picks randomly. I have had times where it has redirected me to an instance that is down. That said, if you have an instance you know is stable, it does give you a drop-down to always redirect to a specific one.
The usual +
- Stylus with a global dark user style
I think it’s more performant and lightweight than dark reader. So I get more screentime.
Chameleon. My user agent changes every 30 seconds. Makes attempts to track me basically useless.
Doesn’t that fuck up logins and stuff?
Nope. Why would it?
I would imagine many services would think you’re hijacking the session or something.
No, that would he a very dumb system. Because it would false positive every time someone changed their user agent, which is a common defense tactic in today’s threat landscape.
You don’t want to ban someone for protecting themselves. But in sure there are dumb execs who have thought this was a good idea until someone on the self team slapped them and said “no”
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
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.
Sorry to necro, but have you found/made a working Imagus sieve for Lemmy? I’ve been trying without luck for months.
Sorry I don’t have one but I’m guessing it wouldn’t be very simple as there are so many lemmy websites.
