Ask HN: Excluding privacy ones, which Firefox plugins do you use regularly?

#1

Post by prower » Wed, Jul 29, 2020, 4:05 PM UTC

Excluding Ublock Origin, Facebook Container, Privacy badger and the other privacy-focused addons, what other addons you use most often? Personally I couldn't work without Panorama View (to create tab groups on the fly, which will get deleted as soon as I close the window), and for home I live on the shoulders of Speed Dial and Keepa Price Tracker for Amazon items.

What other nice ones do you use?

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#2

Post by jeremiahlee » Wed, Jul 29, 2020, 4:27 PM UTC

Tab Tosser automatically closes tabs I have ignored for too long to free myself of digital clutter (with some safety features).

https://www.jeremiahlee.com/tab-tosser/

Admittedly, I made it, but other people seem to enjoy it and Apple thought it was such a great idea that it later built the functionality into Safari.

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#3

Post by sp332 » Wed, Jul 29, 2020, 4:28 PM UTC

I've installed extensions to un-shorten Twitter links and make Google search results link to pages directly, but they break on a regular basis.

For tabs I use Tree Style Tabs, and a little UI tweak I like is Reload in Address Bar. I also removed all of the space around the address bar because it gives me more space to work with when editing URLs.

I use Pinboard, and the Pinboard+ extension is very unobtrusive. In fact I usually forget to use it :(

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#4

Post by jeremiahlee » Wed, Jul 29, 2020, 4:40 PM UTC

Coil is a Web monetization provider that streams micropayments to sites with a monetization HTML tag. For $5/month, I support the sites I actually spend time with and then don't feel bad about blocking ads.

https://coil.com/ https://webmonetization.org/

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#5

Post by jeremiahlee » Wed, Jul 29, 2020, 4:44 PM UTC

YouTube Video Downloader to… download videos from YouTube. I mostly used this for conference talks I wanted to queue up and watch while flying, but not traveling so much these days.

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/youtube-downl...

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#6

Post by sumguysr » Wed, Jul 29, 2020, 4:53 PM UTC

Tree style tabs lets me manage hundreds of open tabs. Auto Tab Discard stops them from crashing my system.

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#7

Post by onyva » Wed, Jul 29, 2020, 4:58 PM UTC

invidio.us redirect from YouTube

Zotero connector

Bulk downloader

Emacs capture

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#8

Post by ArtWomb » Wed, Jul 29, 2020, 5:10 PM UTC

Down Them All. Even used in LAN for batch transfers ;)

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#9

Post by potta_coffee » Wed, Jul 29, 2020, 5:28 PM UTC

1password is my big one.

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#10

Post by lavignegagnon » Wed, Jul 29, 2020, 5:31 PM UTC

Tampermonkey: modify your favorite sites with JS and CSS

Remove YouTube Recommended Videos, Comments: prevents me from falling down the rabbit hole.

Disable Facebook News Feed: I haven't seen my FB feed since Feb 2019. Love it! I can still lookup friends to see what they are up to, but I don't let an algorithm tell me what is important.

(These are all Firefox extension names, I'm sure their equivalent exists for Chrome).