Technology

Tree Style Tabs for Firefox gets installed on every Desktop install I use.

It gets quite extensive for me by now

• uBlock Origin
• Consent-O-Matic
• Dark Reader
• Bitwarden
• Tab Session Manager

• SponsorBlock for Youtube
• Return Youtube Dislike
• Clickbait Remover for Youtube
• Auto HD / 4k / 8k for YouTube

• Alternate Player for Twitch.tv

• Augmented Steam
• Show Great on Deck on Steam
• alike03's Subscription Info on Steam

• Keepa - Amazon Price Tracker

And a few additional ones for selfhosted apps like FreshRSS Checker

For me it's definitely uBlock, tridactyl & tree style tabs

Something that I recently started to use is Raindrop.io. It's a cloud bookmark organizer and I find it really useful. And the extension is also really good with lots of features. I think it's odd that people don't know/talk about it!

Besides ad/tracking blockers, my #1 is a dimmer. Helps the eyes! lol. Especially at night.

LibRedirect: redirect Websites to alternative frontends like Nitter, invidious, rimgo etc. - couldn't live without it especially on mobile where using Twitter without the app is really obnoxious

CookieAutoDelete combined with 'I still don't care about cookies': delete cookies the moment you close the tab if not whitelisted, also remove cookie notices and accept all cookies.

Nano Gestures: mouse gestures for navigating websites

I don't think I can live without Sidebery anymore, it adds a sidebar for managing and easily grouping tabs. Although it's really made my habit of not closing them even worse...

One on Firefox that's super helpful for work is Simple Tab Groups. It lets me keep plenty of tabs open without it turning into a disorganized mess. Better than Chrome's built-in tab organization, imo.

Mandatory:

• Dark Reader for dark mode anywhere, and Invert Colors for the occasions when a site is not usable with Dark Reader.
• Ublock Origin of course, but I also still use uMatrix because even several years after it stopped being maintained, it's STILL unmatched by any other addon in the content-blocker category. The granularity of being able to specifically allow scripts or frames or images or cookies from specific third-party domains or subdomains either everywhere or only on certain first-party domains, with a very intuitive visual grid (matrix) and subdomain selection, is incredible. I still don't understand why it's deprecated.
• Tree Style Tab and the related Tab Unloader. I forget things exist if they aren't right in front of me, so if I have any intention of coming back to a site or a workflow, I need those tabs somewhere in front of me, tucked away in a tree waiting for me to get back to them. I regularly have between 100-200 tabs open. Being able to unload performance-heavy tabs without restarting the whole browser also helps a lot.
• Bitwarden because if you aren't using some kind of password manager, do you even care about security?
• Translate Web Pages because not everything I want to read is in English

Nice to haves:

• Tranquility Reader, because the browser's built-in Reader View often shits itself and doesn't work, particularly on social media text posts. This lets me select the page contents I want it to grab in case the automated picker fails. It's still a bit janky though; if anyone has a more polished alternative, I'd like to hear about it!
• Enhancer For YouTube, Sponsorblock, and Return YouTube Dislike
• stutter For when I feel like speed-reading
• Toolbox for Google Play Store

Unhook - Remove YouTube Recommended Videos - This one simplifies the YouTube experience and helps you to spend less time watching videos endlessly.

Ublock origin Adguard Aguard Extra Bitwarden Privacy badger Tampermonkey Dark reader Sponsorblock

Pushbullet - send stuff from my phone to my browser, or vice versa.

Camelizer - camelcamelcamel popup for Amazon browsing. CCC displays a price/time graph and lets you set alerts for when something is below a target price.

Youtube Playback Speed Control - I watch YT at 2x speed usually, sometimes 4x. This adds fine control and keyboard shortcuts for that.

Firefox: tridactyl, jumpcutter, sidebery (best tree tabs I can find), temporary containers, cookie remover

For Lemmy:

Stylus. And then find Lemmy scripts on UserStyles.world to install into Stylus and you can change the look and feel for Lemmy to make it more like Reddit, or whatever. I currently use a combination of 'Better Lemmy' and 'Old reddit-ish Lemmy'.

For general browsing:

uBlock Origin for ads

Privacy Badger for tracking

For YouTube:

Enhancer for YouTube

I don't use many extensions, but apart from the usual UBlock Origin I'll say something exotic: UltraWideo

Because sites like disney+ still don't know that 21:9 monitors exist so you have to force it to scale their 21:9 films to your monitor instead of giving you black bars on all sides

Consent-O-Matic, it declines all cookie banners for you (or accepts you can decide it in the settings)

Some of my favorite Firefox extensions:

uBlock Origin: The best ad blocker you can get.
Imagus: Enlarges images and displays linked images when you hover over them.
Multi-Account Containers: Allows you to create containers to completely isolate specific sites.
KeePassXC-Browser: Browser integration for KeePassXC password manager.
SponsorBlock: Skips sponsored video segments on youtube.
Hide Youtube-Shorts: Hides those annoying vertical videos on youtube.
Enhancer for Youtube: Lots of extra configuration options and controls for youtube.

library extension forever until the end of time

Anyone have some favorites related to Lemmy or Mastodon? I've seen a couple that claim to make following and subscribing easier on other instances but I'm not sure if they are trustworthy.

Facebook container is one i use that blocks facebook tracking with tracking pixels for example.

Feedbro for RSS and LibRedirect for popular service redirects to other frontends

Does anyone know of an extension that let's you view privated subs on Reddit? I'm tired of the not being able to access important info because of the blackouts. If anyone knows of an extension or a TamperMonkey script please let me know!

uBlock Origin
Read Aloud
FB Purity
Facebook Container
SAML-tracer (for work)

I physically can't use a browser without Vimium anymore.

I literally cannot browse the web anymore without HoverZoom+

can't live without:

• uBlock (goes without saying)
• Startpage Privacy (I've also used Privacy Badger, giving this one a try and it seems to work well)
• Vimium (browse using vim shortcuts)
• New Window Without Toolbar (does what it says; opens the current page in a new window without any toolbar at all, nice minimal look)
• New Tab Override (so new tabs land on my personal landing page, not the Firefox home or blank)

That's it really, my needs are simple.

Also, TIL about "I don't care about cookies" so I'm tempted to install that, but I do sort of care about cookies... but I also clear them relatively frequently, so it's probably fine.

These are my current favs for safari.