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I'm surprised no one here has mentioned OneTab https://www.one-tab.com/ With a click of a button, it throws all of your current tabs open into a single page (via hyperlinks), from which you have a lot of capability on what to do with them (open, open selected, bookmark, delete, etc)
Does it survive browser closing and reopening?
My 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 f…
Privacy Badger is unnecessary, it's a worse version of uBlock. Also HTTPS Everywhere can be replaced with the Force HTTPS option natively implemented in Firefox.
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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
* Buster Captcha Solver --Poetic justice in browser extension form! Uses Google's speech recognition software against Google's ReCaptcha to solve the captchas, This browser extension more than any other has probably saved me from going on a killing rampage against whoever invented ReCaptcha
https://github.com/dessant/buster
* Typio Form Recovery --Fantastic extension that allows you to recover the data you've just typed into a browser web form and which has been lost through browser crashing / page reloading / etc. Has saved me tearing what's left of my hair out on many occasions:
https://typiorecovery.github.io/
* Shift Click --As the name suggests. Shift+Click on any image on a webpage and it will open the image in a new tab. Great for quickly getting the full-size version of images on web pages and more useful than it sounds, as it saves opening the browsers dev tools pane and source code diving. I use it all the time on eBay to inspect full size images of items I'm looking at and which eBay will only display at a certain size:
* Country Flag & Whois --not exactly a necessity, but a fun extension anyway. Gives you a wee flag at the side of your address bar, showing you which country the server of the site you're visiting is hosted in. On a more practical note, you can click the flag to view the Whois info for that domain:
https://add0n.com/country-flags.html
* Asccidoctor.js Live Preview --A while back I started using AsciiDoc for all my text composing needs, after finding the limitations and ever-multiplying variants of MarkDown increasingly annoying. Unfortunately, while many text editors come with Markdown preview capabilities, I've yet to find one that can do AsciiDoc previews. So that's where this extension comes in. I open my AscciDoc files in my browser and this extension automatically generates a preview, which I can then 'print to PDF' to have a nicely formatted document created using AsciiDoc:
https://github.com/asciidoctor/asciidoctor-browser-extension
* Stylebot --Inject custom CSS into any webpage. I use it on a couple of sites to fix annoying browser rendering quirks or remove irritating content [with display:none;].
* FireNvim --a nice accompaniment to Vimium. This extension turns text entry windows in web forms into NeoVim edit bufffers, allowing you to edit text using an embedded NeoVim instance. I don't actually use this as much as I thought I might, as I nearly always forget I have it installed:
https://github.com/glacambre/firenvim
These last two aren't browser extensions as such. But I can't imagine using my browser without these. So I think they deserve an honourable mention:
* Pinboard bookmarklet --I use Pinboard to save all my bookmarks. So they're accessible across all my browsers and all my devices. I have the Pinboard bookmarklet on the browser address bar on my desktop machines [and use the 'Share' menu on Android] to quickly bookmark pages from wherever I'm browsing.
* Telegram --One step down from permanent bookmarking via Pinboard, I use Telegram as my messenger app and avail of this facility all the time on Android to quickly stash links I want to take a look at later on a 'proper' computer --either to view on a larger screen, or because [as with this post] I want to compose a reply, without wrestling with a crappy touchscreen keyboard. Telegram has a 'Saved Messages' chat. So, on an Android device, I hit the 'Share' icon beside the URL on a page I want to save for later and then in the Share window that pops up, I send the URL to Telegram 'Saved Messages' where I can grab it later, when I'm on a real computer.
For anyone using Yandex Mail; Yandex also have a Telegram Bot which provides a similar function but also emails you the link as well. I used to use this til I realised the emails where pretty superfluous and just started sending links to my Telegram 'Saved Messages' instead:
https://t.me/YandexMail360_bot
EDIT: A couple more I found in my browser's preferences but which I forgot about because you don't directly interact with them:
* Redirect AMP to HTML --as the name suggests, tells servers you want to be served up the HTML version of a page rather than the AMP version because... fuck Google, basically.
https://www.daniel.priv.no/web-extensions/amp2html.html
* Nimbus Screenshot --Comes in handy sometimes when you want to grab a screenshot of part of a webpage which is too big to fit in the browser window without scrolling. Nimbus Screenshot has various capturing modes including 'Select and Scroll' which allows you to do this.
https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/nimbus-screenshot-...
* Chrome Extension Source Viewer --Allows you to download Chrome extensions as CRX files from the Chrome Webstore. Thus allowing you to manually install them on browsers which refuse to install them directly. I've used this to successfully install a couple of Chrome extensions on Yandex Browser in Android, which the browser refused to install, telling me they were incompatible.
If you are not into whitelisting you'll hate uMatrix. But uMatrix is great.
https://github.com/uBlockOrigin/uMatrix-issues/issues/291#is...
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It's good, but unfortunately it can only prevent a URL being suspended for the current session, not whitelist it forever like The Marvellous Suspender (Chrome). This is really annoying when working through an infinite-scroll page like a YouTube channel, which loses its place when it gets suspended.
In case you didn't know, and for anyone else, Auto Tab Discard has a permanent whitelist. There's a menu option to add a domain to the whitelist, and you can also add regular expressions. It's also on the preferences page of course.
That's the problem though. I want to whitelist single URLs for particular YouTube channel video lists, not the whole of YouTube.
- News Feed Eradicator
Inspired from "Indistractible" by Nir Eyal, I found it very useful in removing unnecessary visual noise and distractions when I check my messages on Facebook.
I think OP is asking for privacy related extensions but here’s a fun one that I use: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/nicolas-cage/fjgbn... It replaces every instance of “god” on your current web page with “Nicolas Cage.” Gets me every time.