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

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

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Post by Fiveplus »

I keep changing my addon list bar the privacy focused ones depending on the support an addon gets. These days I'm mostly using these:

1. Simplify Gmail: Brings the look of the good 'ol Inbox on desktop - https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/simplifygmail...

2. Behave: Addon that recognizes DNS Rebinding attacks to Private IPs - https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/behave/

3. Firefox's Multi Account containers: Lifeline of someone with multiple accounts that need switching. Also the superset of the facebook container - https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/multi-account...

4. YouTube's search fixer: a HN user shared this sometime ago and it's been really handy so far. Removes suggested results and overhauls some UI elements to look cleaner on desktop - https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/youtube-suite...

5. Web Archives: presents cached versions of web pages on more than 10 search engines- https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/view-page-arc...

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

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Post by mike-cardwell »

jeremiahlee wrote: post #4

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/

I have a few websites. I figured I'd go set this up. Can't be more than just sticking a meta tag in your html with a bitcoin address in it or whatever right?

No, you need to sign up with coil.com first, and then you need to sign up with some wallet provider as well and hook them up together or something.

Pass

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

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Post by zzo38computer »

I use: user JS, user CSS, request/response rewriter, request blocker, URL rewriter, toolbar fixer, status bar fixer, gopher, cookie editor, relative location bar, script disabling, HSTS disabling, and adding a "view source" option into the download menu.

(But I think, an entirely new web browser should be made up instead, in order to be improved in many ways. For example, one thing I want is a ARIA view, but there is also a lot more, that requires changing things that isn't easily or efficiently or even possibly done by the use of extensions. Other thing would be to allow all pictures (mostly animated pictures) to be treated as videos, so that it can be paused, rewound, fast-forward, etc.)

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

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Post by occams »

Mostly I use two that I build for myself to solve my own problems.

calm closes all inactive tabs: https://addons.mozilla.org/de/firefox/addon/calmdown/

notetab opens a tab to take notes: https://addons.mozilla.org/de/firefox/addon/notetab/

Maybe someone else will find them useful.

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

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Post by boring_twenties »

bjourne wrote: post #17

Stylish. I'm restyling sites with poor typography like Hacker News to make them more readable on my HiDPI laptop. I also use Vimium and ad blockers.

Even after this? https://appuals.com/firefox-chrome-both-pull-stylish-extensi...
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