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I can't live without this one: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/i-dont-care-a... Blocks the "consent to cookies" modal sites are required to have thanks to some terrible legislation.
Not needed if you use uBlock Origin
uBlock - ad blocking Bitwarden - password manager Sidebery - a bit nicer Tree Style Tabs Tridactyl - vim shortcuts Tab Session Manager - manage multiple sessions of windows and tabs. Back in university I used it to have many "sessions" attached to assignments I'd been doing. Currently I have "work", "leisure" and "hobby" sessions with a bunch of various project sessions hopefully I'm gonna pick up someday :)
I'm surprised none of the top comments mention adblock; most of the article websites I visit (accessed through HN) would not be navigable without an ad blocker.
Another unmentioned one that's handy for web development: Offline QR Code Generator (for Firefox; probably there is one for Chromium as well). It shows a popup with the QR code for current URL, which makes it easy to test the same page on a mobile device.
I think Chrome(probably Chromium as well) do that natively, i've seen a menu option to show a QR code for the current page.
Another unmentioned one that's handy for web development: Offline QR Code Generator (for Firefox; probably there is one for Chromium as well). It shows a popup with the QR code for current URL, which makes it easy to test the same page on a mobile device.
Really useful!
It is what Firefox Tab Group / Panorama should always had been. It makes tab groups backup periodically so you will not loose them. I used this once to move tabs to a different computer, but it's good to know it's there. It also integrates with Tab Containers if you want it.
- uBlock Origin for FF and Chrome. For Safari (on both macOS and iOS) I use wipr. - Dark Reader
I 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…
I still do but I absolutely agree with you. I'm still looking for a replacement though.
- uBlock Origin
- Cookie AutoDelete
- "I Don't Care About Cookies" (It auto-OKs cookie consent banners)
- Archive.org's Wayback Machine (A must have in this era of link rot)
Optional:
- Tablist (easily lets me copy out all the URLs of open tabs for 'later')
- User Agent Switcher (Needed less these days, but useful for exploring the DOM of mobile versions of sites)
Additionally, I have written a launcher for Chrome that creates shortcuts for Chrome with the --user-data-dir parameter[1] to enable me to have 100% isolated browser identities. I create and tear these down on regular basis. I started doing this, when I realised that multiple Incognito mode sessions running simultaneously actually share the same cookies and local storage.
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[1] https://chromium.googlesource.com/chromium/src/+/HEAD/docs/u...
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Nice extension. But I'd say that the legislation is alright, it's these sites that are terrible. They put these modals because they want to.
The legislation has the right heart, but its wording is problematic and leaves up too much on interpretation, so most sites who technically wouldn't need it just default to a cookie banner to be 'on the safe side'. Combine that with the zealots (I've had an user complain about the absence of a cookie banner on a site that clearly did not need one), them potentially becoming a lawsuit initiator, and you got the mess y…