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Daniel ( hai@lemmy.ml )  to Asklemmy@lemmy.mlEnglish · 3 years ago

What are some must-have browser settings and add-ons?

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What are some must-have browser settings and add-ons?

Daniel ( hai@lemmy.ml )  to Asklemmy@lemmy.mlEnglish · 3 years ago
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  • miss_brainfart ( miss_brainfart@lemmy.ml ) 
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    uBlock Origin

    Everything else is personal preference. Though my honorary mention goes to Libredirect

    • etchinghillside ( etchinghillside@reddthat.com ) 
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      Just recently added Libredirect.

      Dumb question - if you have multiple instances listed for a specific service - how do you select between the two?

      I might expect that when I right click on a link to open in a new tab I would see which instance to specify.

      • miss_brainfart ( miss_brainfart@lemmy.ml ) 
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        I don’t see any way to choose which instance to load. I expected it to at least choose the one with the best ping automatically, but it’s either random or just goes back and forth

        • etchinghillside ( etchinghillside@reddthat.com ) 
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          Noted - thanks.

  • Fleppensteyn ( Fleppensteijn@feddit.nl ) 
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    browser.tabs.insertAfterCurrent - stop tabs from opening in weird places

    media.videocontrols.picture-in-picture - stop those annoying pip videos

    Nuke Anything - useful for getting rid of elements that are in the way

    Multi-Account Containers

    Decentraleyes

  • Weirdbeardgame ( Weirdbeardgame@lemmy.ml ) 
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    Enhancer for youtube, tons of good features. Theming, better player controls. Better ad protection, and ability to default set a video quality

  • Daniel ( hai@lemmy.ml ) OP
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    I’ll go first, I’m on Firefox btw:

    dom.webnotifications.enabled (in about:config): If you disable it it will get rid of those annoying notification pop-ups.

    • Rascabin ( Rascabin@lemmy.ml ) 
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      Does that include the “log in with your Google account” on certain sites?

      • jlow (he/him) ( jlow@beehaw.org ) 
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        If you use Ublock (which you should) you can get rid of them with this:

        https://stackoverflow.com/questions/69004177/blocking-sign-in-with-google-iframes-using-ublock-origin

        • Rascabin ( Rascabin@lemmy.ml ) 
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          You’re a gentle man/woman and a scholar. Thank you

      • Kissaki ( Kissaki@feddit.de ) 
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        No

        Those are on the website, not web notifications

        • Rascabin ( Rascabin@lemmy.ml ) 
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          Ah, ok thanks

  • 👍Maximum Derek👍 ( Bishma@discuss.tchncs.de ) 
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    There’s a couple I use a lot at work that haven’t been mentioned yet:

    Simple Tab Groups is basically multiple workspaces for Firefox. So I can have all my tabs for one project all grouped together.

    Firefox Multi-Account Containers lets you create sandboxed sessions. If you ever need to be logged in to the same site for both Prod and Dev at the same time this makes it easy. Also if you’re trying to diagnose session issues it’s nice to be able to keep things separate. This is add-on that kept me using Firefox even back when it performed worse than Chrome and Google wasn’t as openly evil.

  • johnthedoe ( johnthedoe@lemmy.ml ) 
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    One that hasn’t been mentioned is I don’t care about cookies. Or something to that name. With it on your never see cookie setting notifications. I’m not super sure if it rejects them all or accepts them all. But it’s nice to not worry about it

  • Call me Lenny/Leni ( shinigamiookamiryuu@lemm.ee ) Banned
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    The Hypothesis toolbar. It adds a comment section to any webpage simply by existing. All those times someone blocked you or COPPA removed YouTube comments is no longer an issue.

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