I really enjoy Firefox on Android as I can install a bunch of extensions and I find those extensions game changer, especially on the mobile.
One of my favorites are
- Libredirect - literally one of my favorite ones. Redirects popular sites to privacy focused frontends, like YouTube to Invidious, etc.
- uBlock Origin - I guess everyone knows this one
- Privacy Badger - blocks trackers
- Ghostery - blocks trackers, ads, scripts, etc.
What extensions do you guys use?
Since it’s not mentioned before, check out DeArrow. It makes YouTube bearable.
Bitwarden. Hands down the best decision I made in regards to web safety was switching to a proper password manager.
Close second is uBlock Origin.
Also make sure to use DecentralEyes for easy enhanced privacy.
I use NoScript, but that level of granular control isn’t everyone’s cup of tea
- LocalCDN
- HTTP Version Indicator
I have found localcdn to break some websites
Me too and I found remove/reinstall fixed the issue
I thought you could only select from a pre-defined list of addons in Firefox mobile?
I think developers can upload their own addons for Android now. Or at least I saw quite a wide range of addons available when I went looking for some.
Not anymore, if you use desktop website of addons.mozilla.org, you can install almost anything.
Indie wiki buddy. Fandom often times comes on top for most searches, but many games actually have their official wikis elsewhere. This extension hides fandom links for unofficial fandom wikis.
Fakespot for amazon/ebay reviews
Must haves IMHO:
uBlock Origin Consent-o-Matic
Making life easier:
SponsorBlock Enhancer for YouTube DarkReader Multi Account Containers
- uBlock
- Privacy Badger
- Language tools (spell checker)
- Mal-Sync (automatically updates Anime & Manga progress with MAL, AniList, Kitsu etc. Supports Netflix, Prime and some high seas website)
- Ublock
- Dark Reader
- Libredirect
- augmented steam
- proton pass
I often use:
Not on mobile, but desktop:
• Enhancer for YouTube, I like it for having the “expand” making the screen bigger also cinema mode, toggling end cards off, boost volume — you can also take screenshots.
• uBlock Origin, of course
• SponsorBlock, which is a big extension that will auto skip sponsor readouts, selfpromos, and a lot of things YouTubers often do (sponsors, self promos, interaction reminders like liking and subscribing, intermissions, intros, previews, jokes, etc - you can choose to skip them or highlight them in the videos) it’s backed by community response, anyone with the extension can set up something to skip and share with everyone. Highly recommend if you’re tired of people pausing the video to talk about raycons or manscaped lol
Didn’t see it mentioned — SingleFile is an awesome tool to save the whole page as a single compatible with everything HTML file with embedded css and images.
- Stylus - I use it to apply some css to make youtube thumbnails smaller because the new huge ones drive me insane
- Plasma Integration - Pretty self explanatory, just makes firefox better integrated with plasma
- SponsorBlock
- UltraWideo - useful for weird content with baked in letterboxing or pillaring
For me, it’s many of the ones people have already said, plus:
- StreetPass (seriously cool - collects the mastodon profile of any website you visit where someone has set up the special link to their profile)
- Video Speed Controller (gives you fine-grained control over video speed, e.g. watching video at 2.6x speed)
- Privacy redirect (automatically redirects to various services, e.g. from Twitter to Nitter - can select a random instance each time)
Privacy redirect is unmaintained, not updated for 3 years, switch to LibRedirect
Thank you for taking the time to write this, LibRedirect is so much better!
Does privacy redirect automatically know if the instance is healthy? Or does it sometimes redirect you to a invidious or nitter or libreddit instance that’s broken?
Because if this thing is health-aware, the. It would save me so much time.
Unfortunately, I think it just picks randomly. I have had times where it has redirected me to an instance that is down. That said, if you have an instance you know is stable, it does give you a drop-down to always redirect to a specific one.
Not on mobile but on desktop Firefox Multi-Account Containers paired with Temporary Containers is a funcking godsend. Especially so when I’m doing web dev work.
Other that that uBlock is pretty high on the list as usuall.Highlight or Hide Search Engine Results
i still use google, so being able to filter out the blogspam and fandom slop is a godsend for usability
