Favorite browser extensions/plugins

[GekkoP]

Let's talk about our favorite browser extensions/plugins.

This is a browser-agnostic discussion, so please avoid pointless browser wars. Just talk about your extensions of choice and be happy to share them.

[machinebacon]

Oh that's nice!

So, I have the famous "ublock", then the eye-pleasing "Turn off the lights" and a VPN extension called "Breakwall" which I use in Chrome. In Fireweasel I don't use anything. It acts as my backup browser if I cannot open something in Chrome (which happens every now and then, especially with non-uniform Chinese webpages), so I keep it untouched. Well, not true: because I rarely open Fireweasel, I couldn't remember if I have addons installed. I don't. But now I am in the process of adding https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefo ... ck-origin/

To be honest, I keep extensions to a minimum. Some of them really eat CPU.

[GekkoP]

I mainly use latest Firefox. This is what I keep around:

Privacy and security
- Better Privacy
- HTTPS-Everywhere
- Privacy Badger

Web development
- Firebug (enabled only when needed)

Ad-block
- uBlock

Text editing
- It's All Text!

[machinebacon]

Oh right, should have mentioned I use Iceweasel from sid and Chrome from the unstable branch (except when it fucking breaks, I revert to stable)

And another thing, because you mention "It's all text", the image/active element heavy sites (like my favourite football magazine http://kicker.de or wikipedia) I only read in Links' text mode (or you can dump: http://linuxbbq.org > temptext && x-www-browser temptext) . But that was off topic :)

[Dr_Chroot]

Sort of bloated. but not too bad. Except for uBlock and Hola (which is a VPN), I don't usually add anything to Chrome. I just use that for backup in case things get gnarly with FF :) I use a ton of userstyles in both Greasemonkey and Stylish to improve the UI of several sites (YouTube, Reddit, 4chan, Startpage, and such) and then mainly some things make me less traceable by the botnet.

tin foil hat

- BetterPrivacy
- Privacy Badger
- HTTPS-Everywhere
- Blender

eye candy
- greasemonkey
- stylish
- Reddit Enhancement Suite

Flash 'n stuff
- Shumway (renderer for the SWF file format without native code assistance)

[doubledutch]

Vimperator (iceweasel) with tabs as the only browser UI. Love it.

[wuxmedia]

I guess on - Chrome stable (ubuntu 14.04):

Vimium, mostly for search - Go to bottom of page. not much more unfortunately
site geo locator, only used when this breaks;
simple website IP - just shows the ip of the site you are visiting, perfect app, does it's job (yes I need to know)
uBlock - of course.
Live http headers. - work related duh.
thin scroll bars. - yes even on 22" HD monitors.
Tineye reverse image search is a fun one, but generally disabled.
hangouts - I know I hate myself, and it doesn't work all that well with i3 but it is other wise good. (notifications OVER the i3lock! )

[ivanovnegro]

I also try to use the least extensions possible. Damn I already use too much. :) I use uBlock of course, Privacy Badger, on Firefox (for DEs) the native notifications GNotifier, LastPass, sometimes ForecastFox (yes I am crazy about weather).
Seems to be all.

[rhowaldt]

all i use is Ublock :)

[dkeg]

iceweasel -

• ublock
  pentadactyl
  pocket
  hide tabbar
  translate this

[bones]

Whether Firefox or Chromium:

uBlock
https-everywhere
Privacy Badger

Two outta three on Opera: https-everywhere and uBlock

[rhowaldt]

i used to really like Ghostery, too. https://chrome.google.com/webstore/deta ... niij?hl=en
it shows you which sites are tracking your shit using which systems/ads/etc.

[noo_b_nomnoms]

Besides this neat Roaster browser (which I haven't really touched, yet) the only browsers I have used previously are the Tor browser (reconfigured FF) and Opera. I only used private windows in Opera, and the Tor browser usually comes with NoScript and Https Everywhere already installed. I usually just leave them alone, and use Opera when I visit Flash-heavy or Java-required sites. I haven't tried to install either on this setup, yet, but will probably get to installing Tor soon. Oh, and I installed Iceweasel, but I haven't done anything with addons there, either.

[doubledutch]

For those using uBlock, check out the differences between it and (and then switch to) uBlock Origin

[ivanovnegro]

Can you elaborate? :) I have no intent to try uBlock. I like my origin.

[pidsley]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UBlock

uBlock Origin includes a growing list of features not available in uBlock, including a new mode to assist those with color vision deficiency, a new dynamic URL filtering feature, new logging functionality and interface enhancements including a DOM inspector, new privacy-oriented options to block link prefetching, hyperlink auditing, and IP address leaks via WebRTC. Site-specific switches to toggle the blocking of pop-ups, strict domain blocking, cosmetic filters and fonts were also added in recent releases of uBlock Origin.

[franksinistra]

in both my FF and Chromium (at work) i use:

uBlock origin
uMatrix / noScript (depends on the hardware)
React Dev Tool
Stylish (for making FF/IW less cluttered)
Firemacs (FF) or vimperator (depends on the mood)
cVim and emacs_chrome (for Chromium / Chrome)

[ivanovnegro]

Thank you Pidsley.