I use a fairly standard suite of addons for Firefox, mainly for privacy and tab management:
NoScript, uBlock Origin, Multi-Account Containers, Skip Redirect, Neat URL, Tabhunter, MoveTab, Foxy Gestures, Stylus
Ask HN: What browser extensions are a must-have in 2021?
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Re: Ask HN: What browser extensions are a must-have in 2021?
#92I stopped using NoScript because the micromanagement of domain names simply took too much time. I rely on Pi-hole to fill that gap somewhat. To answer your question (Firefox on desktop and mobile): - uBlock Origin - Privacy Badger - HTTPS Everywhere - Enhancer for YouTube - Multi-account Containers - Owl
Also on Firefox. It appears that I'm not as privacy/security conscious as are most in this thread, but I heartily second HTTPS Everywhere. However, the single Firefox extension that's indispensable to me is Tree Style Tabs. See: https://github.com/piroor/treestyletab . Is it possible (for a Web page hoarder like me) to organize and access 500+ tabs across seven Firefox windows? You betcha it is, with Tree Style Tabs.
> to organize and access 500+ tabs across seven Firefox windows
What motherboard did you get to have one terabyte of RAM? :D
Re: Ask HN: What browser extensions are a must-have in 2021?
#93Edgar Dijkstra's 1988 Paper "On the Cruelty of Really Teaching Computer Science"
It's just a paper, but still I'd recommend it, because it was highly influential. It was indeed so influential that it has its own Wikipedia page: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/On_the_Cruelty_of_Really_Teach...
In the paper he argues that
- the computer industy has been progressing with exponential growth 1948-1988,
- will continue to do so for decades (he was right in that)
- this rate of progress is unprecedented, and the human brain is unfit to deal with such growth, thus
- the only way to deal with such enormous mount of power is: Mathematics, because proofs are rigorous. (I'm simplifying a bit here.)
Re: Ask HN: What browser extensions are a must-have in 2021?
#94I stopped trying to whitelist sites. Now I just use cookie autodelete and container tabs. Full list: - Joplin web clipper - BitWarden - Firefox containers - Containerise (choose tab container based on domain name or url regex) - Cookie autodelete (in case I ever accidentally log into something in the wrong container, this cleans it up) I also modify the search bar so it only suggests locations from my bookmarks, and…
> Honestly, who uses bookmarks any more? They just turn into a bloated to-do list, hundreds of links you'll forget about until one day you try them and the domain no longer exists Use a service like pinboard and they instead turn into a searchable archive of things you like, archived so that they don't disappear/change. Sorta like a curated personal search engine.
I've always thought it a shame how primitive the history and bookmarks are in Firefox. They don't seem to have evolved at all in 20 years apart from the ability to sync them across devices.
Re: Ask HN: What browser extensions are a must-have in 2021?
#95* ublock origin - doesn't need introduction
* forget me not - cleans cookies
* stylus - some sites are too bright
* clearURLs - remove tracking from urls
* I don't care about cookies - also gets rid a lot of popup annoyances
* skip redirect - avoid going through 3rd party to get to a link
* redirector - redirect sites to nitter, teddit, bibliogram, etc
I also use firefox containers.
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#96* SponsorBlock for YouTube - Skip Sponsorships
Re: Ask HN: What browser extensions are a must-have in 2021?
#97Every time I setup a new computer/OS I always put Ublock and adblock plus (yes I use both)
Also have my own extensions, in particular one that dumps all the active tab titles with urls for future lookup and a YT one that hides the homepage crap so I don't get distracted whenever I go on there to do something.
Re: Ask HN: What browser extensions are a must-have in 2021?
#98Earlier quoted context omitted.
> Honestly, who uses bookmarks any more? They just turn into a bloated to-do list, hundreds of links you'll forget about until one day you try them and the domain no longer exists Use a service like pinboard and they instead turn into a searchable archive of things you like, archived so that they don't disappear/change. Sorta like a curated personal search engine.
I've always thought it a shame how primitive the history and bookmarks are in Firefox. They don't seem to have evolved at all in 20 years apart from the ability to sync them across devices.
> I've always thought it a shame how primitive the history and bookmarks are in Firefox.
While I agree with you, since you added "in Firefox", actually Firefox lets me do more with my bookmarks than Chrome.
Re: Ask HN: What browser extensions are a must-have in 2021?
#99I stopped trying to whitelist sites. Now I just use cookie autodelete and container tabs. Full list: - Joplin web clipper - BitWarden - Firefox containers - Containerise (choose tab container based on domain name or url regex) - Cookie autodelete (in case I ever accidentally log into something in the wrong container, this cleans it up) I also modify the search bar so it only suggests locations from my bookmarks, and…
Containerise is a must when using containers in FF, it's just so much more ergonomic to use. This should eventually be included within FF.
Re: Ask HN: What browser extensions are a must-have in 2021?
#100My list:
The essential one: Ublock Origin of course; surfing the web without it is next to impossible today.
-A bit less essential but very helpful:
HTTPS Everywhere: forces the browser to connect to secure pages anyway.
Privacy Badger: by the EFF. Blocks trackers.
uMatrix: NoScript on steroids. Allows to turn off parts of the web page with deep granularity (filter by domain and type of data). Needs "training", not for new users, don't install on granma's PC.
Duck Duck Go Privacy Essentials: Blocks trackers and other things.
-Then among the useful albeit not essential:
DownThemAll: to quickly download files (docs, images, pdfs etc) from sites.
FeedBro: Feed reader. Featureful RSS, Atom, RDF Reader.
Nitter Redirect: Redirects automatically Twitter links to Nitter, a Twitter front end that respects the users privacy.
Redirect AMP to HTML: Redirects Google AMP pages to their original ones.
Bypass Paywalls: to bypass many news sites paywalls.
StartPage.com: Redirects searches to StartPage.com, which essentially is to Google what DuckDuckGo is to Bing.
Livemarks: Restores RSS live bookmark support on Firefox after it was removed from Mozilla.
Search By Image: a reverse image search addon which supports various search engines.