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[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Usability

  • Kill Sticky: Kill off the annoying floating things blocking the website you're trying to see.
  • Tranquility Reader: Like native "reader view" but compatible with other addons and more options.
  • Scroll Zoom: Zoom web pages with the left or right mouse button and the scroll wheel.

Image / Video

  • Image Max URL: Finds larger/original versions of images (supporting 8800+ websites), including a powerful image popup feature
  • Invert Image: The add-on inverts color of an image or color of any part of a page. Changes white color to black, for comfortable night time reading.
  • Save webP as PNG or JPEG: Convert any image (WebP, AVIF, etc.) to PNG or JPEG (with choice of quality) for downloading.
  • TinEye Reverse Image Search: Click on any image on the web to search for it on TinEye.
  • Video Speed Controller: Speed up, slow down, advance and rewind any HTML5 video with quick shortcuts.
  • Enhancer for YouTube™: Take control of YouTube and boost your user experience!

Tools

  • EPUBReader: Read ePub files right in Firefox. No additional software needed!
  • WebStickies: (Persistent) Sticky notes for the Internet

RSS

  • RSSHub Radar: RSSHub Radar is a spin-off of RSSHub that helps you quickly discover and subscribe to RSS and RSSHub for your current site.
  • RSSPreview: Preview RSS feeds in-browser

Customization

  • Stylus: Redesign your favorite websites with Stylus, an actively developed and community driven userstyles manager.
  • Tampermonkey: Tampermonkey is the world's most popular userscript manager.

Advanced

  • Request Control: An extension for controlling requests. See also Redirector, not as powerful, but much more user friendly.
  • Modify Header Value (HTTP Headers): Add, modify or remove a header for any request on desired domains. I use this one to force sites to load only the image when opening images in new tabs.
  • Cookie AutoDelete: Control your cookies! This WebExtension is inspired by Self Destructing Cookies. When a tab closes, any cookies not being used are automatically deleted. Keep the ones you trust (forever/until restart) while deleting the rest. Containers Supported
  • uBlock Origin: Finally, an efficient wide-spectrum content blocker. Easy on CPU and memory.
  • uMatrix: [EDIT-WARNING: as pointed by @[email protected], uMatrix it's not longer maintained since 2021] Point & click to forbid/allow any class of requests made by your browser. Use it to block scripts, iframes, ads, facebook, etc.
[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Use ViolentMonkey it's open source and actively developed for Firefox, while TamperMonkey is originally developed for chrome

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

clickbait remover for YouTube.. it replaces thumbnails with an actual frame from the video

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

I really like consent-o-matic on firefox. You can set your cookie level to (dis)allow, and it goes through them automatically when you land on a site.

There is "i dont care about cookies", but I do care, I dont want your cookies and I dont want to go through your dark patterns!

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

I've been using IPvFoo on all my PCs since I wrote it for Chrome 12 years ago. Recently I made it fully Firefox compatible. It's useful if you have IPv6 and want to see which websites are on board, though it's a bit depressing if your ISP only offers IPv4.

I've found it particularly interesting on Lemmy, because it connects to such a wide variety of independent servers:

[–] [email protected] -1 points 1 year ago

Aside from the popular ublock origin I'd get Sponsor Block. Too bad my mobile version doesn't support it.

[–] [email protected] -2 points 1 year ago

ublock origin