A list of Firefox Browser Extensions I have installed - Part One
I realized while making this list that I may have an issue with add-on hoarding
LastPass
LastPass puts you in control of your online life – making it easy to keep your critical information safe and secure so you can access it whenever you want, wherever you are. Save all your passwords, addresses, credit cards and more in your secure vault and LastPass will automatically fill in your information when you need it.
Stop wasting time getting locked out of accounts or filling passwords and forms online – LastPass simplifies your daily online tasks while keeping you and your family secure.
All your data, where you need it:
- Store usernames and passwords and LastPass will log you in automatically
- Fill forms quickly by saving your addresses, credit card numbers and more
- Save passports, insurance cards and anything else you want to keep safe
- All your data is available on any device for free
- Anything you save on one device is instantly synced on all your other devices
Protect yourself from breaches:
- LastPass Security Dashboard provides and overview of your weak and reused passwords and how to improve them
- LastPass dark web monitoring alerts you if your information is at risk
- Generate secure passwords to replace weak ones
- Protect your LastPass account with multifactor authentication
Simplify your life:
- Never forget another password
- Passwords are auto-filled for you as you go to your sites - less typing!
- Securely share your passwords with friends and family
- Only worry about one master password
AdBlocker for YouTube
AdBlocker for YouTube™ removes all annoying ads from YouTube.
ClearURLs
This extension will automatically remove tracking elements from URLs to help protect your privacy when browsing through the Internet.
Many websites use tracking elements in the URL, e.g. https://example.com?utm_source=newsletter1&utm_medium=emailutm_campaign=sale to mark your online activity. All that tracking code is not necessary for a website to be displayed or work correctly and can therefore be removed—that is exactly what ClearURLs does.
Another common example are Amazon URLs. If you search for a product on Amazon you will see a very long URL, such as:
Most of the above URL is tracking code. Once ClearURLs has cleaned the address, it will look like this:
https://www.amazon.com/dp/exampleProduct
Why use this extension as opposed to similar ones? Most other “link cleaners” employ about a dozen rules when looking for tracking parameters to remove. ClearURLs utilizes over 250 rules, so its capabilities are more comprehensive. And ClearURLs is open source, so everyone can join in to the project and/or can check the source code to error or malicious code. All functions in a nutshell Removes tracking from URLs automatically in the background Blocks some common ad domains (optional) Has a built-in tool to clean up multiple URLs at once Supports redirection to the destination, without tracking services as middleman Adds an entry to the context menu so that links can be copied quickly and cleanly Blocks hyperlink auditing, also known as ping tracking Prevents ETag tracking Prevents tracking injection over history API Prevents Google from rewriting the search results (to include tracking elements) Prevents Yandex from rewriting the search results (to include tracking elements)
DarkReader
This eye-care extension enables night mode creating dark themes for websites on the fly. Dark Reader inverts bright colors making them high contrast and easy to read at night.
You can adjust brightness, contrast, sepia filter, dark mode, font settings and ignore-list.
Dark Reader doesn’t show ads and doesn’t send user’s data anywhere. It is fully open-source.
DuckDuckGo Privacy Essentials
Privacy, simplified.
Tired of being tracked online? We can help. At DuckDuckGo, we believe online privacy should be simple.
DuckDuckGo Privacy Essentials comes packed with best-in-class privacy essentials and makes browsing in Firefox even faster.
Escape Online Tracking — automatically block hidden third-party trackers we can find lurking on websites you visit, which stops the companies behind those trackers from collecting and selling your data. Search Privately — our private search engine comes built-in so you can search the Internet without being tracked. Enforce Encryption — force sites to use an encrypted (HTTPS) connection where available, protecting your data from prying eyes, like from unwanted snoopers and Internet service providers. Decode Privacy — each site you visit gets a Privacy Grade (A-F) so you can see how protected you are at a glance, and you can even dig into the details to see who we caught trying to track you.
FireFox Relay
We all make many online accounts, but most of them are linked to just one or two email addresses. This means if just one account is hacked, every account using the same email address is also at risk.
Firefox Relay helps you protect your real email address - the one most closely tied to your online identity. It lets you generate unique, random aliases you can use to sign up for accounts, apps, or newsletters, and forwards messages to your real address. If you find that an account is sending unwanted email or spam, you can block the alias and it will stop sending email to your inbox. Once you no longer want an account, you can delete the alias.
Tabliss
Transform your new tab page beautiful and yours. Tabliss offers hundreds of customisation options to create a new tab page that unique to you. Choose from many background providers, and be rewarded with stunning, new pictures every time you open a new tab. Add your favourite widgets from our large collection for an extra touch. Create your own new tab experience.
We care about your privacy and your experience. Tabliss is private, fast, and free. Completely free alternative to extensions like Momentum.
Features
- Hundreds of customisation options
- Millions of backgrounds
- Keeps you productive throughout the day
- Private, secure, and requires minimal permissions
- Fast and lightweight for instant loading
- Setting sync between your computers
- Sustain your momentum throughout the day
Backgrounds
- Plain colours and gradients
- Unsplash image library
- GIPHY gif library
- Your own images
Widgets
- Current time in analogue, digital, or literature
- Personal greetings
- Todo task reminders
- Search box with Google, Bing, DuckDuckGo and more
- Quick links/Speed dial for your favourite websites
- Weather forecasts and alerts
- Daily inspiring (or not, there’s categories) quotes
- Custom CSS for style tweaking
OneTab
Whenever you find yourself with too many tabs, click the OneTab icon to convert all of your tabs into a list. When you need to access the tabs again, you can either restore them individually or all at once.
When your tabs are in the OneTab list, you will save memory and CPU utilization because you will have reduced the number of tabs open in your browser.
Privacy assurance
Information about your tabs are never transmitted or disclosed to either the OneTab developers or any other party. The only exception to this is if you intentionally click on our ‘share as a web page’ feature that allows you to upload your list of tabs into a web page in order to share them with others. Tabs are never shared unless you specifically use the ‘share as a web page’ button. We use Google’s favicon generator to retrieve favicons for each domain in your list, but only the domain name is used and the full URL is never disclosed.
Additional Benefits
Depending on how many scripts are running inside your tabs, moving them to OneTab can also speed up your computer by reducing the CPU load. We have also had reports that this also contributes to your computer resuming from sleep more quickly.
FAQ: Why do I need OneTab, when I can just use my browser history? A: Your browser history contains every site you’ve ever visited. OneTab is typically used to store just the smaller selection of open tabs you are not finished with yet - such as when you are mid way through researching a topic.
FAQ: Why do I need OneTab, when I can just use the “bookmark all tabs” browser feature? A: OneTab is the quickest way, with only one click, to store all of your open tabs into a list. Once they are in your list, OneTab makes it much easier to scan over, delete, label and manage your list of saved tabs. There are also plenty of special options and features, such as the ability to exclude certain web sites, to remove duplicates, and to export/import tabs.
Bypass Paywalls Clean
Add-on allows you to read articles from websites that implement a paywall.
Not everyone is able to afford multiple subscriptions on many different news sites, especially when they just want to read a single article (from Twitter) without being enrolled in a montly/yearly membership.
Notice: if you use this add-on regularly on the same website, please consider paying a subscription for it. Don’t forget that free press can’t be sustainable without funding.
Forget Me Not
Forget Cookies & Other Data
This web-extension deletes data websites store in the browser in the following situations:
When all instances of a website have been left: Cookies Local-Storage (Firefox 58+ only) History & Downloads This can be delayed in seconds Different cleanup types can be applied (see the help page within the add-on for a more detailed description) Never: No cleaning. On Startup: Clean only on browser start. On Leave: Clean on domain leave and on browser start. Instantly: Prevent data from being set, if possible. Otherwise behave like On Leave. When the browser starts: Cookies (optionally only when not whitelisted) Local Storage (optionally only when not whitelisted on Firefox 58+) History Downloads Form Data Passwords Indexed DB Plugin Data Service Workers Server Bound Certificates Cache Delete third-party cookies on creation When a cookie is set without belonging to a domain that is open in a tab, it is considered a third-party cookie. This can be delayed in seconds Rules still apply Manually clean the above
HTTPS Everywhere
Many sites on the web offer some limited support for encryption over HTTPS, but make it difficult to use. For instance, they may default to unencrypted HTTP, or fill encrypted pages with links that go back to the unencrypted site.
The HTTPS Everywhere extension fixes these problems by rewriting all requests to these sites to HTTPS.
Multi-Account Containers
The Firefox Multi-Account Containers extension lets you carve out a separate box for each of your online lives – no more opening a different browser just to check your work email! Here is a quick video showing you how it works.
Under the hood, it separates website storage into tab-specific Containers. Cookies downloaded by one Container are not available to other Containers. With the Firefox Multi-Account Containers extension, you can…
Sign in to two different accounts on the same site (for example, you could sign in to work email and home email in two different Container tabs. Keep different kinds of browsing far away from each other (for example, you might use one Container tab for managing your Checking Account and a different Container tab for searching for new songs by your favorite band) Avoid leaving social-network footprints all over the web (for example, you could use a Container tab for signing in to a social network, and use a different tab for visiting online news sites, keeping your social identity separate from tracking scripts on news sites)
After installing the Firefox Multi-Account Containers extension, click the Containers icon to edit your Containers. Change their colors, names, and icons. Long-click the new tab button to open a new Container tab.
Privacy in Firefox Multi-Account Containers
The Firefox Multi-Account Containers extension does not send any information to Mozilla.
How does this compare to the Facebook Container extension? Facebook Container specifically isolates Facebook and works automatically. The Firefox Multi-Account Containers is a more general extension that allows you to create containers and determine which sites open in each container. This extension can be customized to suit your needs for multiple sites and multiple logins, but takes more time to set up than Facebook Container.
You can use Multi-Account Containers to create a container for Facebook and assign facebook.com to it. Multi-Account Containers will then make sure to only open facebook.com in the Facebook Container. However, unlike Facebook Container, Multi-Account Containers doesn’t prevent you from opening non-Facebook sites in your Facebook Container. So users of Multi-Account Containers need to take a bit extra care to make sure they leave the Facebook Container when navigating to other sites. In addition, Facebook Container assigns some Facebook-owned sites like Instagram and Messenger to the Facebook Container. With Multi-Account Containers, you will have to assign these in addition to facebook.com.
Facebook Container also deletes Facebook cookies from your other containers on install and when you restart the browser, to clean up any potential Facebook trackers. Multi-Account Containers does not do that for you.
Can I use both Multi-Account Containers and Facebook Container? Yes, but you need to be a little careful. Don’t use Multi-Account Container to assign facebook.com to a Container, and then try installing Facebook Container. If you a Multi-Account Containers user and want to use both addons, unassign facebook.com, messenger.com, and instagram.com first, then install Facebook Container.
Decentralytes
Websites have increasingly begun to rely much more on large third-parties for content delivery. Canceling requests for ads or trackers is usually without issue, however blocking actual content, not unexpectedly, breaks pages. The aim of this add-on is to cut out the middleman by providing lightning speed delivery of local (bundled) files to improve online privacy.
• Protects privacy by evading large delivery networks that claim to offer free services. • Complements regular blockers such as uBlock Origin (recommended), Adblock Plus, et al. • Works directly out of the box; absolutely no prior configuration required.
Note: Decentraleyes is no silver bullet, but it does prevent a lot of websites from making you send these kinds of requests. Ultimately, you can make Decentraleyes block requests for any missing CDN resources, too.
Download All Images
Download all images from any web page you’re on with this highly customizable extension.
Extension Preview: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YaT5sWRV6JQ
Features:
- Detects all images loaded on the current web page (even if they’re nested iframes)
- Filters images by file size, dimension, URL, or type (JPEG, PNG, BMP, or GIF)
- Finds images in links, background scripts, and CSS files
- Displays images in a gallery view before downloading
How-to video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UZl4hAHziu0
DownThemAll
DownThemAll will help you select, queue, sort and run your downloads faster. It comes with advanced ways to select what links to download, and will remember your previous decisions so that you can queue more downloads with just OneClick!
Advanced users will also like using renaming masks, which let you automatically assign names (and even sub-folders within your downloads folder), fast-filtering or even custom, re-usable filters.
DownThemAll is open-source and free. We spend a lot of time making it, and keep spending a lot of time improving it, and even fixing some problems in Firefox itself so DownThemAll! can work even better. We will never add adware, spyware, user tracking or other nasty stuff. Therefore we rely on your donations exclusively to fund the development.
We are looking for people willing to help translate DownThemAll! to more languages. For a small guide on how to do that, please see our preliminary translation guide. You will get our gratitude, and the gratitude of all the users whose live you improved by bringing DownThemAll! to their language.
Enhancer for YouTube
Highly customizable and easy-to-use extension that allows you to:
✔ Control volume level and playback speed with the mouse wheel
✔ Remove ads from videos (automatically or on-demand)
✔ Whitelist channels to not automatically remove their ads
✔ Remove annotations (automatically or on-demand)
✔ Automatically play videos in 4K, HD, or any other preferred format
✔ Loop videos (in part or in whole)
✔ Use custom themes
✔ Use a larger video player
✔ Pin the video player
✔ Execute your own actions using JavaScript
✔ And more…
Enhancer for YouTube™ respects your privacy: https://www.mrfdev.com/privacy
YouTube is a trademark of Google Inc. Use of this trademark is subject to Google Permissions
To be continued…