Ask HN: Which Firefox add-ons are you using in 2025?

My masochist anti-tracking set up:<p>- uBlock Origin with &quot;Disable JavaScript&quot; checked in the settings. Only enable for specific sites.<p>- Temporary Containers with &quot;Automatic Mode&quot; checked in the settings. Also MMB and Ctrl + LMB always open links in new temporary container. This provides full session isolation for all tabs. There are permanent named containers for logged-in services like email that are only used for email. Outbound links from email for example open in a new temporary container.<p>All browsing by default happens in a clean isolated session with JS disabled unless explicitly allowed.<p>I also have Behind The Overlay Revival for when I&#x27;m too lazy to zap elements with uBO.

I&#x27;ll tell only about essential less-known ones:<p>- Group Speed Dial, to have a list of favorite websites in a new tab, #1 essential plugin in my opinion!<p>- Awesome RSS, to extract RSS links and put them into my reader (this is only extracting extension)<p>- Buster: captcha solver for humans, to skip ReCaptcha<p>- Dark Reader, to turn pages into white-on-black<p>- Drag-select Link Text, to select text on the page in a proper way, like the old Opera did<p>- Redirector, to automatically rewrite website domains, like reddit.com → old.reddit.com, and also to rewrite to Tor version of websites, because they are usually uncensored (like archive.is).

As a Firefox user since phoenix 0.6 who used to develop tens of extensions I can say that only uBlock Origin is a must have. Alternatively I am using Brave with absolutely no extensions (ad blocker at the core) except Metamask and sometimes Safari for multiple browser web testing. After twenty years in web dev I can fairly say browsing the web without seeing ads is an extraordinary experience thanks to the exceptional effort of Mozilla in the early days.

I use 1password for passwords, Dark Reader to make give all sites dark mode (including HN), Hide Google AI Overviews, and Kagi Search.<p>Also use SponsorBlock for YouTube to auto-skip over sponsored sections (not commercials, but in-video product placement and sponsorship messages) and uBlacklist to filter a bunch of things out of Google Search (like Medium, Quora, Twitter).

I have been using my own addon <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;addons.mozilla.org&#x2F;en-US&#x2F;firefox&#x2F;addon&#x2F;todos-new-tab&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;addons.mozilla.org&#x2F;en-US&#x2F;firefox&#x2F;addon&#x2F;todos-new-tab...</a><p>It&#x27;s fairly simple helps me see my goals everyday since I use firefox

<p><pre><code> 404 Bookmarks AdblockPlus ClearURLs Don&#x27;t fuck with paste Enhancer for YouTube HTTPS Everywhere NoScript Open in Reader View Privacy Badger Privacy Bossum Return YouTube Dislike uBlock Origin</code></pre>

uBlock Origin, Tab Stash, Bitwarden, Consent-O-Matic, Terms of Service;Didn&#x27;t Read, Dark Reader. I use Tab Stash instead of bookmarks to (try) keep track of interesting webpages, it&#x27;s not working well with the organization of pages. But I have a pretty good history since I started to use it, in 19th July 2023. I have been &quot;forced&quot; to use it, when firefox has started to use too much memory on my Macbook, so I have been forced to close down firefox to be able to keep using it.

NoScript<p>SponsorBlock<p>LibRedirect<p>Konkret Wallet (in case you do want a browser crypto wallet)<p>FoxyProxy (if you want more proxy&#x2F;VPN customization than Containers)

uBlock Origin obviously, and Cookie AutoDelete (in aggressive mode) to make my own privacy. That&#x27;s all.