Firefox Multi-Account Containers has to be one of my favorite extensions. Mixing work accounts and personal accounts in the same browser session but in different tabs has made my workflow much more efficient. You can force bind sites to a container so that you don't accidentally use your personal account for anything workplace related.

Definetely libredirect. It redirects YouTube, Twitter, TikTok... requests to privacy friendly frontends.

Dark Reader, because dark mode rocks.

I shared one on reddit that replaces pictures of spiders with kittens and it was met with a pretty shocking amount of hatred and vitriol brought my way, so nervous to share it here. But still I thought it was nice.

uBlock Origin
PrivacyBadger
Return YouTube Dislike
SponsorBlock
Translate (Firefox doesnt have website translation as a native feature)

Other than the good ole ad blocker, sponsorblock is a godsend

I run Firefox

• AdNauseam (One step further than uBlock Origin, it actively clicks everything that missed my DNS blocks)
• Bitwarden
• Decentraleyes
• Enhance-O-Tron for Plex (For some reason some videos in my library have black bars hard coded into them. I could probably re-encode them to get rid of the bars, but this add-on just hides the bars at a button click. It's only a problem for monitors wider than 16:9)
• Enhancer for Youtube (TM) (Automatically expand the canvas out to the full screen and a bunch of other stuff.)
• Facebook Container (I don't use facebook, but the containers are nice to keep shit separated)
• Keepa - Amazon Price Tracker
• NoScript
• Redirect AMP to HTML
• ShareX ( I have workflows that automatically store stuff into my nextcloud and setup share links)
• SponsorBlock for Youtube - Skip Sponsorships
• Stylus

I had stuff for Reddit... but since I've moved off the platform, that's been nixed. And for those of you using the cookie accepting apps... Why not just block the element with uBlock?

• uBlock Origin
• Dark Reader
• Bypass Paywalls
• Decentraleyes
• Enhancer for YouTube
• Return YouTube Dislike

I use Decentraleyes and Privacy Badger on top of uBlock

Other than Ublock Origin and Bitwarden, these are some of my favourites :

Temporary Containers is a new favourite of mine. It works just like container tabs, but the difference is that it deletes the history of that tab once it's closed, similar to Incognito/Private instance.

Reddit Comments for Youtube - If a youtube video has been linked to reddit, then it basically gives a small box which lists all the subs the video has been linked to and shows you the comments. If you're logged into reddit, then it will allow you to comment as well.

Keepa for Amazon. Let's you track price history for any product, so you can see if a sale is actually a real sale or not.

Tab Session Manager - Basically lets you save tab sessions.

Enhancer for Youtube and Pockettube Subscription Manager - Gives various youtube enhancements.

Stylus - To style websites. I mainly use it to fix the youtube thumbnail and font size.

• Consent-O-Matic - Automatic handling of GDPR consent forms
• DuckDuckGo Privacy Essentials - I mostly use this for the email protection
• ScrollAnywhere - Drag scrollbar with middlemouse button anywhere on the page.

So, let's try to compile a list.

• "uBlock" does not need any kind of introduction. Most of the people who answered the thread use it anyway. But it is my favourite!
• "Language tool" to help me spell things properly, lol
• "I don't care about cookies" to get rid of annoying GDPR-compliance banners
• "FoxyProxy" to easily switch between proxies
• "Vimium C" to navigate the web using vi-like shortcuts
• "SponsorBlock". I don't use YouTube as much nowadays but when I do, this add-on helps me skip in-video advertisements and irrelevant moments
• "Search by image"
• "Rikaichamp" is a great add-on for anyone who often needs to look up Japanese words
• "Runet Censorship Bypass" because censorship circumvention is not a crime in my country. Yet.

Honestly, I thought it will be shorter. It makes me appreciate the authors of all these add-ons even more. If it weren't for their efforts, web browsing would be a much less enjoyable experience.

from https://beehaw.org/comment/80030:

uBO, of course. note: you guys don't need ClearURLs with this list added.
LibRedirect for automatically opening Youtube, Twitter, TikTok etc. links in their privacy-focused front-ends. I just make sure to disable all the instances by esmailelbob since he's a little homophobic shithead
Buster for automatic captcha solving
Consent-O-Matic automatically clicks through cookies banner to deny all the cookies that aren't necessary, which I like better than just hiding the cookie banner
Redirect AMP to HTML because fuck AMP and fuck Google

Dark Reader is amazing. Not just a great idea, but incredible execution.

Question: Does anyone know what security and privacy extensions are considered redundant in light of recent Firefox improvements in the past few years?

For example, I saw several people recommend Privacy Badger for example. I thought I heard somewhere that was considered not needed now. I do not know for sure so am frankly confused by this and some of the other extensions which I too use to use.

For me I have kind of stopped using most security/privacy extensions except uBlockOrigin and then just configuring Firefox rather tightly. Not sure if this is best approach or not. On one hand every extension increases the attack surface and the uniqueness of the browser so there is a point about less is better, on the other hand some may be useful too.

Thoughts? Thanks.

• JShelter actively fights fingerprinting.
• NoScript blocks by domain by default.
• uBlock Origin with cookie list to block ads, trackers, and hide cookie banners.
• DarkReader to help the eyes.
• Stylus to fix any CSS not fixed by the rest.

Tree Style Tabs for Firefox gets installed on every Desktop install I use.

• LibRedirect Alternative open source frontends, very useful to survive on sites like Youtube, Twitter, Imgur etc.

• Voat - Reddit Comments on YouTube & Web Pages Not so useful any more, but you can read what Reddit communities have to say about websites

• Snowflake Fight cencorship

I'm using FF and I only have one extension, it's ublock origin

SingleFile ! Best method of keeping pages for offline use !

• ublock origin
• privacy badger
• decentraleyes
• clear URLs
• facebook container
• https everywhere
• firefox multi-account containers
• dictionary anywhere

Cookieautodelete is sooo underrated.

I wish you’d recommended that commenters keep to “one extension per top-level comment,” making it easier to upvote the best ones 😅

Anyway, my “one pick” is definitely Tridactyl — a thorough, absurdly powerful poweruser-mode for FireFox based in Vi-like modal interaction.

https://github.com/tridactyl/tridactyl

1. Consentomatic
2. Sponsor Block
3. uBlock
4. Mastodon Simplified Federation

I don't think I can live without Sidebery anymore, it adds a sidebar for managing and easily grouping tabs. Although it's really made my habit of not closing them even worse...

Mine's Redirector. I use it to force redirection of some URLs, for example:

• Redirecting an amp URL to a non-amp
• Redirecting the URL of a small-scaled image to the URL of the original size
• Redirecting a mobile site to its desktop equvalent (e.g. Wikipedia)
• When I was using Reddit, I also used this extension to force all links to go to old.reddit.com

ublock origin, sponsorblock, return youtube dislike, clearurls and dark reader

It gets quite extensive for me by now

• uBlock Origin
• Consent-O-Matic
• Dark Reader
• Bitwarden
• Tab Session Manager

• SponsorBlock for Youtube
• Return Youtube Dislike
• Clickbait Remover for Youtube
• Auto HD / 4k / 8k for YouTube

• Alternate Player for Twitch.tv

• Augmented Steam
• Show Great on Deck on Steam
• alike03's Subscription Info on Steam

• Keepa - Amazon Price Tracker

And a few additional ones for selfhosted apps like FreshRSS Checker

• bitwarden
• simplelogin
• proton vpn

I just use these three.

Mandatory:

• Dark Reader for dark mode anywhere, and Invert Colors for the occasions when a site is not usable with Dark Reader.
• Ublock Origin of course, but I also still use uMatrix because even several years after it stopped being maintained, it's STILL unmatched by any other addon in the content-blocker category. The granularity of being able to specifically allow scripts or frames or images or cookies from specific third-party domains or subdomains either everywhere or only on certain first-party domains, with a very intuitive visual grid (matrix) and subdomain selection, is incredible. I still don't understand why it's deprecated.
• Tree Style Tab and the related Tab Unloader. I forget things exist if they aren't right in front of me, so if I have any intention of coming back to a site or a workflow, I need those tabs somewhere in front of me, tucked away in a tree waiting for me to get back to them. I regularly have between 100-200 tabs open. Being able to unload performance-heavy tabs without restarting the whole browser also helps a lot.
• Bitwarden because if you aren't using some kind of password manager, do you even care about security?
• Translate Web Pages because not everything I want to read is in English

Nice to haves:

• Tranquility Reader, because the browser's built-in Reader View often shits itself and doesn't work, particularly on social media text posts. This lets me select the page contents I want it to grab in case the automated picker fails. It's still a bit janky though; if anyone has a more polished alternative, I'd like to hear about it!
• Enhancer For YouTube, Sponsorblock, and Return YouTube Dislike
• stutter For when I feel like speed-reading
• Toolbox for Google Play Store

LibRedirect: redirect Website links to alternative frontends like Nitter, invidious, rimgo etc. - couldn't live without it especially on mobile where using Twitter without the app is really obnoxious

CookieAutoDelete combined with 'I still don't care about cookies': delete cookies the moment you close the tab if not whitelisted, also remove cookie notices and accept all cookies.

Nano Gestures: mouse gestures for navigating websites

Firefox (I am not going to repeat the obvious ones that have been mentioned numerous times):

• IPvFoo: Display IP address information for website
• tabdetach: I always juggle around my windows. Being able to detach, attach and merge tabs without using the mouse is really useful.
• Cookie AutoDelete: Removes cookies unless whitelisted