For Firefox:
UBlock Origin, of course.
And that extension that turns all Reddit pages into old Reddit pages. (I hate the redesign with a passion.)
Reddit Enhancement Suite I believe is the one you are referencing.
No, this one is on life support and it’s the one which injects extra controls for image links, Twitter links and whatnot. The one you are thinking of is old Reddit redirect. And yeah, couldn’t use Reddit without it
On Android I’m using Old Reddit Redirect. (I imagine just changing the URL is simpler, besides I’m not there enough to desire tons of features… I don’t even have a Reddit acct. currently.)
On PC I just use old reddit boolmarks, and a bookmarklet that toggles to old Reddit :D
I use Tampermonkey with a rule that turns all reddit links to old.reddit. ubo for disabling js on reddit
Just curious but how does disabling javascript on Reddit change the experience? Iir, diaabling it can break certain websites.
It won’t allow reddit to have any tracking or analytics since no JS is able to run, it’s practically a static html site. As for your experience, it works pretty much the same without JS
Am I mistaken, or would it make Reddit load slightly faster and use less resources? I might just give it a go.
if you’re going for ultimate privacy… none, ironically.
I disagree on that one. Ad blocking and tracking blocking will be more private.
Ok fair enough
Metamask, excellent extension.
I try to use a minimum for performance reasons. My big three are uBlock Origin, Dark Reader and a password manager.
Ublock origin
I haven’t seen anyone mention these yet
LibRedirect - redirects common proprietary sites to a free and open source alternative Tampermonkey - allows you to find and install custom open source scripts that add functionality to websites
Check out ViolentMonkey, it’s an open source userscript manager
I think that’s basically the same thing as Tampermonkey. There’s also GreasyFork which hosts custom scripts.
These are a bit unique from the lists everyone else has, I think:
- Lemmy Keyboard Navigation (like the kbd shortcuts from RES)
- Google Popup Blocker (stop the annoying log in with Google popups everywhere on the web)
- OneTab (this one lets you collapse a whole window of tabs down into a list in the OneTab tab that you can later reexpand into a window again when you re-attack whatever subject all the tabs were about)
These are the more standard ones that everyone seems to run:
- UBlock Origin
- Reddit Enhancement Suite
- 2FAS Extension
- BitWarden
For Firefox: uBlock origin (of course)
Privacy Badger - controls which sites are allowed to use cookies
Mind the time - tracks time spent on various Web sites
Video DownloadHelper - detects media and allows you to download and transcode it.
Bitwarden - password manager
I was a mad Opera user about 25 years ago, it was the best browser by miles at the time. One feature it had was mouse gestures. Mouse gestures and uBlock origin are the only two extensions I can’t love without, but these lists never mention them so I feel like the only one who uses them.
It’s hard to explain how cool and quick it is to be able to control your browser with the mouse. Open/close tabs, navigate tabs, back/forward etc. It doesn’t sound useful, I’m usually a mad keyboard shortcut fiend. But with web browsing in particular, your hand is already on the mouse, scrolling.
The specific extension I use is Gesturefy, I encourage people to install it and give mouse gestures a go.
Vivaldi (chromium) fully supports gestures and happens to have the best tab management on the market. Highly recommended.
Gesturefy
just installed now, seem great so far. ty
Vimium C
Vimmium C denies the existence of Taiwan. Read the bottom of their github page.
Hmm interesting. Doesn’t have to be that one in particular there are many like it. I just like to have vim bindings for the web.
For sure. There is still the original vimmium and tridactyl.
Okay what does that have to do with the browser extension
My list of extensions
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Imagus - displays bigger image when hovered over (Imagus Mod recommended);
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Sponsor Block - Skips promotions on YT videos;
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TOS;DR - summarizes TOS and Privacy Policies;
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Cookie Autodelete - erases cookies when you close a tab, can make you log out regularly if you don’t put an website on a whitelist, though.
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Dark Reader - changes the page CSS and creates a dark mode version of any page, while it isn’t always 100% perfect, it has many useful configurations, like whitelisting websites OR words on them, changing to a light mode, but less bright version of it, setting up the time that it activates, and a few more.
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Open tabs next to current/Always Right - What the names says, 2 different extensions, but on Chrome I prefer to combine them.
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Wayback Machine - has an option to auto archive, can bring you to oldest or newest versions of websites and links.
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Search Image - gives you 6 or so options to search for an image online, kind of combines with Imagus.
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uBlock Origin - the best ad blocker so far, browsers with built in adblock use it.
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Privacy Badger - blocks hidden trackers once it sees then on 3 different websites
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WhatFont - displays the font name in a popup, this is more a personal thing, but I enjoy it.
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Anti fingerprinting extensions can possibly help.
This is a long list, but these are one of the extensions that I have and I most value, there are some otherb too, but those are more aesthetic than anything.
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Ublock Origin, NoScript, Chameleon, Libredirect, DarkReader, OneTab, Stack Overflow Prettifier, Classic Mode For Wikipedia, Vimium
Detrumpify
I want my RSS
Outside of what has already been mentioned, I still don’t care about cookies and cookie autodelete in tandem. The first accepts cookies. The second deletes them when you are done.
Or use Consent-o-matic to not accept cookies
Cookie autodelete is useless if you use Firefox on strict mode.
