What browser extensions do you use that you’d recommend to others?

Do you contribute to any FOSS browser extension projects?

Are there any non-FOSS extensions that you wish had a sufficient FOSS alternative?

  • alex [they/them]English
    21•1 year ago

    Firefox user here.

    • Bitwarden password manager
    • Bypass Paywalls Clean
    • Clear URLs remove URL trackers
    • Highlight or Hide Search Engine Results to hide some unwanted websites from search results
    • Open in VLC™ media player, useful for some weird streams
    • Push to Kindle sends any text article to PDF or to your ereader (not only Kindle)
    • Recipe Filter filters recipe pages on blogs and just gets the actual ingredients & instructions
    • Redirector for a few paywalls where I use a specific proxy
    • RSS Reader Extension (by Inoreader) - as I use Inoreader for following RSS feeds
    • Sci Hub Injector adds sci-hub links to many science publishing websites for easy access
    • Shinigami Eyes highlights trans-friendly and transphobic social media users or websites
    • uBlock Origin
    • ViolentMonkey for userscripts

    Extensions to be helpful to other people:

    • Picket Line Notifier tells you if the website you are visiting has workers on strike - useful especially for ecommerce & news publishers
    • Snowflake is not noticeable for me, but allows other people to use my network as a Tor node or something idk
    • Wayback Machine archives every page I visit on the Internet Archive.

    Fediverse extensions:

    • FediAct allows me to boost, reply to, follow, etc. on any Mastodon instance without having to open the right link in my own instance. I wish there was something like this for Lemmy and Peertube.
    • Fedishare allows for one-click sharing to several Fediverse platforms, including Lemmy and Mastodon
    • PeerTubeify tries to check if a YouTube video you’re watching is also on PeerTube

    Youtube extensions:

    • Auto HD / 4k / 8k pour YouTube™ - I use it for the environment, so default quality is 480px (because usually I watch the videos on a small side window so it doesn’t change the visible quality)
    • Clickbait Remover for YouTube - replaces thumbnails with a frame from the video and makes all titles normally named, no all caps
    • DF YouTube (Distraction Free) - removes the homepage & sidebar on videos to avoid rabbit holes
    • SponsorBlock auto-skips sponsored segments, intros, credit rolls, etc. on YouTube videos
    • @kevin@beehaw.orgEnglish
      2•1 year ago

      Is the link to Recipe Filter broken? I’m interested in that but it seems to just be a link to a reddit user.

      • alex [they/them]English
        3•1 year ago

        Yeah it’s what the creator put as the official website of the plugin for some reason. Check Recipe Filter on the Firefox plugin page, you should be able to find it; the icon is a green card/newspaper thingy.

    • katieEnglish
      2•1 year ago

      Thanks for making this list! I haven’t heard of a bunch of these and will check them out.