Essential Browser Plugins
Sometimes my add-ons in Firefox go absent without leave and the only way I’ve found to get them back is to uninstall and reinstall them. I was making a list of the ones I use a lot for my own records and wondered whether others would find this list useful. So I’m publishing it.
1Password extension (desktop app required)
You need a password manager. Really.
https://1password.com/browsers/
Bitly
Shorten, measure, and optimize your links.
https://bitly.com/pages/tools#extension
DuckDuckGo Privacy Essentials
Privacy, simplified.
Facebook Container
Facebook Container isolates your Facebook activity from the rest of your web activity in order to prevent Facebook from tracking you outside of the Facebook website via third party cookies.
https://github.com/mozilla/contain-facebook
HTTPS Everywhere
Encrypt the Web! Automatically use HTTPS security on sites that support it.
https://www.eff.org/https-everywhere
Neat URL
Remove garbage from URLs.
https://github.com/Smile4ever/Neat-URL
Privacy Badger
Privacy Badger automatically learns to block invisible trackers. It’s also really easy to block unwanted content!
https://www.eff.org/privacybadger
Running Challenges
Adds challenge progress information to your parkrun athlete results page. I’ve written before about how I use this to track my NENDY and since then I’ve helped to add the v-index.
https://running-challenges.co.uk/
uBlock Origin
An efficient blocker. Easy on CPU and memory.
https://github.com/gorhill/uBlock#ublock-origin
Video Speed Controller
Speed up, slow down, advance and rewind any HTML5 video with quick shortcuts.
https://github.com/codebicycle/videospeed
That’s it!
Which add-ons am I missing?