Ublock Origin is an obvious one, but I also can’t stand not having Foxy Gestures anymore. It adds customizable mouse gestures, so you can set it up to have easy swipes to go back a page, reload a page, close a tab, etc, and it feels wonderful and smooth to use compared to just using the traditional buttons to do everything. Honestly it’s kinda wild to me that this isn’t more popular now that people are so used to phone gestures. It’s good for the same reasons!

  • cwagner@discuss.tchncs.de
    6·
    2 years ago
    • Blocking: uBlock Origin and uMatrix (unmaintained, but works. Vastly superior to the mobile-friendly uBo interface)
    • Facebook Containers & Multi-Account Containers
    • Clickbait Remover for YT: You know those dumb faces? This randomized the thumbnail and normalizes titles.
    • LanguageTool: Grammarly, but multi-language, self-hostable and less shady
    • KeepassXC: Links to my password manager
    • better-history-ng: Makes Firefox history actually useful by using a calendar view. Disclaimer: I maintain that, but I only fixed the old non-ng version with minor changes, as it was unmaintained.
    • ollien@beehaw.org
      2·
      2 years ago

      LanguageTool is super cool because you can run it locally! I love it because of that, alone.

    • squid010@beehaw.org
      2·
      2 years ago

      LanguageTool

      I’ll have to look into that. I’ve always liked the idea of Grammarly, but it seemed like I was basically downloading a keylogger, which seemed… unwise, lol.

      • cwagner@discuss.tchncs.de
        2·
        2 years ago

        It’s nice, it has a free version that you can use hosted, or self-host. You can’t host the premium version yourself, though.

    • confusedwiseman@beehaw.orgEnglish
      1·
      2 years ago

      Can y’all point me in the right direction on why grammarly is shady? Maybe that premium account was a bad idea, but I’ve loved it for the last few years to help me be a better writer.