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BetterViewer
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BitWarden
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Bluesky Overhaul
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CanvasBlocker
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ClearURLs
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Control Panel for Twitter
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Dark Reader
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DeArrow
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Deviantart Anti Janky
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Disable WebRTC
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Don’t Accept image/webp
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Don’t Track me Google
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Enhancer for YouTube
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Fakespot Fake Amazon Reviews and eBay Sellers
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Flag Cookies
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Grammar Checker & Paraphraser - LanguageTool
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Honey
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HTTPS Everywhere
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I still don’t care about cookies
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Imagus
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Old Reddit Redirect
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Old Twitter Layout (2023)
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Panorama Tab Groups
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Reddit Enhancement Suite
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Return YouTube Dislike
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ReviewMeta.com Review Analyzer
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Save webP as PNG or JPEG
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Scroll To Top
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Skip Redirect
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Slickdeals: Automatic Coupons and Deals
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SponsorBlock for Youtube
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Steam URL Opener
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Stylus
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Terms of Service; Didn’t Read
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Thumbnail Rating Bar for YouTube
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To Google Translate
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uBlock Origin
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Unclutter - Modern Reader Mode
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Undo Close Tab
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Vencord Web
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View Image
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Violentmonkey
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Zoom Page WE
That’s a looooot of extensions. And some of them are features that are already in Firefox, like undo close tab and scroll to top.
I have the scroll to top extension because if you click it a second time, it takes you back to where you started, not the bottom of the page like Firefox
The last two addons, no not true
Ctrl shift tab will reopen a closed tab by default…
Nah thats useless. Undo close tab has a right click menu allowing you to open any closed tab. Funny is that Firefox mobile has this.
Pressing the “Home” key will take you to the top of a page (Function+Left on Mac I think), unless I’m misunderstanding what that extension does.
Goood god 😮
I think you may have an unhealthy relationship with Extensions. 🙃
Remember that everytime you install an additional extension you are effectively expanding your circle of trust, giving some company or developer privileged access to your browsing. The only extensions vetted for security by Mozilla are the ones with an ‘Recommended’ badge next to the name. Each additional extension increases the risks to your privacy, your security, and just generally increases the potential for issues.
At least some of the extensions on your list are violating your privacy/exist to harvest your personal data, profile you, or sell you things.
That doesn’t mean that you shouldn’t use extensions at all. But it does mean you should be thoughtful about what you install. Should do your due diligence, look into extensions before you install them, and understand the developers motivations for giving you something for free which costs them time and sometimes money (There are legit reasons but also common malicious reasons). And it means you should be cautious and reluctant to install too many new extensions.
If I were in your shoes with this many extensions, I wouldn’t be asking which individual extensions to get rid of, I’d start with a fresh Firefox profile, configure it roughly like this, get rid of all the extensions except uBlock Origin and Bitwarden and maybe violent monkey if that is something you rely on. And then slowly reads extensions as needed, one at a time, spending time to research it a bit before installing and researching if there is a better way to accomplish it.
With no other extensions Firefox + uBO can be really powerful and flexible, you’ve just got to spend some time learning how to use them. There are a few others on your list that I use also, but I’d say start with the basics and build from there. Also if you feel you need the shopping and deals extensions at least consider putting them in their own profile that you use only for shopping.
HTTPS Everywhere isn’t really necessary anymore, you can set that up in your settings now
ClearURLs can be replaced by a uBO filterlist
https://raw.githubusercontent.com/DandelionSprout/adfilt/master/ClearURLs%20for%20uBo/clear_urls_uboified.txt
To Google Translate & TWP - Translate Web Pages can be somewhat replaced by the builtin translation engine, whivh doesn’t support a lot of languages for now but it has the benefit of translating it all from your machine, which is better privacy-wise
Bypass Paywalls Clean © can be done through a uBO filterlist
https://gitlab.com/magnolia1234/bypass-paywalls-clean-filters/-/raw/main/bpc-paywall-filter.txt
I can’t wait til the built in translation engine can work with Chinese. I’m sure it’s a ways off, especially since the research and funding is being done with support from the EU, so there’s an interest to getting European languages done first. For now I’ll have to stick with Google on that front :/
https://github.com/arkenfox/user.js/wiki/4.1-Extensions recommends https://raw.githubusercontent.com/DandelionSprout/adfilt/master/LegitimateURLShortener.txt
I wonder what’s the difference with the first filterlist you’ve shared
I think the one I shared is a basically a copy of what CleanURLs does, which the one you’ve shared may be more complete and kept up to date.
Keep in mind having a ton of extensions can be a security issue. Not sure about the ones you have in particular, but some grammar and coupon ones can be sketch. AI extensions especially so.
Big problem is also that legit extension can get sold and the new owners add functions that monetize certain features or exfiltrate data. In the worst case even steal passwords (translation addons for example have a permission to record keystrokes). I’m keeping everything to a bare minimum.
Damn
Https everywhere is redundant now, ff has a built in function iirc, that’s why eff doesn’t update it anymore
- Violentmonkey: do you even have more userscripts?
- Best Google Translate one is “Translate webpages” its on Github
- stylus only if you use it
- unclutter not needed. Maybe “activate read mode” which forces the built in
- slickdeals: get rid of that IMMEDIATELY, the same for honey. Spyware.
- languagetool: only if you really need it
- reviewmeta.com also spyware. Use their website as this addon reads every page you visit
- fakespot maybe, check if the permissions are only for those sites
- disable webrtc: just use about:config but why? If you want privacy, get Librewolf and use a VPN and none of the services these addons here advertise
- darkreader: maybe use “dark background light text” as lighter alternative
- devianart bla, no idea, check permissions
In general, if you really need these things, maybe, but its a shitload. Never use addons from shady online services, they will scan every site you visit and “check for reviews” i.e. track you. Its not possible differently.
Waybackmachine is like that out of the box, you need to enable private mode.
Dark reader the only one on here I think worth keeping
disable webrtc: just use about:config but why? If you want privacy, get Librewolf and use a VPN and none of the services these addons here advertise
Because it’s useful to be able to toggle WebRTC on and off quickly.
For what? You need to opt in manually for websites to make the connection. Before allowing that, no connections will be made
holy shit thats a lot
I have 32 gb of ram, the amount of extensions running is a drop in the bucket
HTTPS everywhere has been phased out since Firefox already has an HTTPS-only mode in the settings.
Firefox also has the ability to reopen closed tabs even without having to enable browsing history so you don’t need the “Undo Close Tab” extension.
Ctrl shift T if I’m not mistaken
That’s a hell lot of extensions. What’s your memory and cpu usge ?
Not bad I guess. But if you don’t mind me asking, how much of that is Firefox using?
Looks low enough
that is relatively low assuming “private bytes” is virtual memory usage. Is that Firefox being idle? How many tabs do you usually keep for your everyday web browsing?
I have 2070s gpu, 3700x cpu, 32gb DDR4 3200 ram
You should be able to disable webrtc in about:config by changing media.peerconnection.enabled to False
Https only is deprecated and can be enabled directly in the browser
Every extension installed can view every page you go to and any information you enter, including passwords. You are potentially sharing a lot of private information with a lot of random developers/sketch people who hired developers.
You really need to consider the people behind the extensions and whether you trust them to not run off with all your bitcoins and blackmail you for the content of your saucy emails, and furry porn addiction.
Also may I ask what’s with the hatred on webp? Just curious
it’s good, but older software doesn’t support it
There was also a CVSS 10.0 vulnerability discovered in it about a month ago. There are still some aftershocks from that too
Good to see a fellow extension addict like myself! 😅
I think uBlock has a feature that’s similar ClearUrls that you can replace
Remove “old reddit redirect” and just seb in your account preferences that you want to opt out of the redesign (I think you have to set it in the new settings)
Except when reddit does an update and reset the setting.
LibRedirect is a great way to deal with this tho
I don’t think it has happened to me since the redesign first started.
I felt like it happened like every 2–3 months. I just gave up and started using the plugin.
Also, with plugin, I don’t need an account anymore. As I am using Lemmy, except when someone sends me reddit links.
Assumes they have an account and/or are logged in, though. I occasionally read some niche subreddits for news and use the old reddit redirect so I don’t have to have a reddit account