What are your favourite add-ons/extensions on Firefox?
Crul @ Crul @lemm.ee Posts 59Comments 249Joined 2 yr. ago
Crul @ Crul @lemm.ee
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I must admit that I've only used the multiple-param part in very few cases, but the main "bookmarklet keyword with param" is very useful, some examples I have:
- Custom searches: lemmy communities, lemmy content
- Get the link to a page with markdown format: title or custom texthttps//url...
- Post image or URL to a subreddit (I need to migrate this one for lemmy)
I think I don't undestand it properly.
What I meant is: if I have some tabs with one video URL in each of them, it seems trivial to just automate a "click download" for each one of them.
I mean plain MP4 normal URLs with no tricks, like imgur MP4 URLS:
Oh, I had forgotten, I'm going to add a warning to my comment thanks for noticing!
When I was aware of that, I expected it to break at some point. But I didn't find a proper replacement... and it still seems to be working fine.
One question... do you know if it works with videos?
I don't see anything on the addon page, but it seems weird because the use case is very similar.
I cannot answer that properly, I don't really understand them enough. I will add some copy-pasted answer on bottom. But, from a user perspective my experience is:
- uBlock origin: blocks a lot of (but not all) unwanted stuff without breaking (almost) anything. When some page does not work, tt's very uncommon that uBlock origin is the cause.
- uMatrix: blocks (almost) all unwanted stuff, but it breaks many pages by default. If a page does not work, the first thing I look at is uMatrix.
- NoScript (and similar): It's been some time since I used it (so those who are more familiar, please correct me if I'm wrong). What I remember is that it was even more strict than uMatrix. Something like uMatrix allows by default everything from the same domain as the URL but NoScript does not.
So I would recommend uBlock origin always and uMatrix only if you are ok with some micro-management page-by-page.
Here it's a copy-paste of the answer from the first link in the google search ublock umatrix differences:
Chris's Wiki :: blog/web/UBlockOriginAndUMatrix
While it's true that uMatrix and uBlock Origin have overlapping functionality (and are written by the same person), they have different purposes and focuses. uBlock Origin's focus is blocking ads and other undesired things as an out of the box experience with little configuration needed. uMatrix's focus is on exerting tight and highly specific control over what resources a page is allowed to load and use, including Javascript and cookies (and requires a lot of configuration).
Thanks!
Links for convenience:
I will definitivaly use the last 2 ones. I don't usually need to mass download images, but it's good to know the Bazzacuda one exists!
Behind The Overlay Revival
This looks very similar to Kill Sticky. If, by any chance, you have tried both, do you know what the differences are?
Thanks!
Usability
- Kill Sticky: Kill off the annoying floating things blocking the website you're trying to see.
- Tranquility Reader: Like native "reader view" but compatible with other addons and more options.
- Scroll Zoom: Zoom web pages with the left or right mouse button and the scroll wheel.
Image / Video
- Image Max URL: Finds larger/original versions of images (supporting 8800+ websites), including a powerful image popup feature
- Invert Image: The add-on inverts color of an image or color of any part of a page. Changes white color to black, for comfortable night time reading.
- Save webP as PNG or JPEG: Convert any image (WebP, AVIF, etc.) to PNG or JPEG (with choice of quality) for downloading.
- TinEye Reverse Image Search: Click on any image on the web to search for it on TinEye.
- Video Speed Controller: Speed up, slow down, advance and rewind any HTML5 video with quick shortcuts.
- Enhancer for YouTube™: Take control of YouTube and boost your user experience!
Tools
- EPUBReader: Read ePub files right in Firefox. No additional software needed!
- WebStickies: (Persistent) Sticky notes for the Internet
RSS
- RSSHub Radar: RSSHub Radar is a spin-off of RSSHub that helps you quickly discover and subscribe to RSS and RSSHub for your current site.
- RSSPreview: Preview RSS feeds in-browser
Customization
- Stylus: Redesign your favorite websites with Stylus, an actively developed and community driven userstyles manager.
- Tampermonkey: Tampermonkey is the world's most popular userscript manager.
Advanced
- Request Control: An extension for controlling requests. See also Redirector, not as powerful, but much more user friendly.
- Modify Header Value (HTTP Headers): Add, modify or remove a header for any request on desired domains. I use this one to force sites to load only the image when opening images in new tabs.
- Cookie AutoDelete: Control your cookies! This WebExtension is inspired by Self Destructing Cookies. When a tab closes, any cookies not being used are automatically deleted. Keep the ones you trust (forever/until restart) while deleting the rest. Containers Supported
- uBlock Origin: Finally, an efficient wide-spectrum content blocker. Easy on CPU and memory.
- uMatrix: EDIT-WARNING: as pointed by @sovietknuckles@hexbear.net, uMatrix it's not longer maintained since 2021 Point & click to forbid/allow any class of requests made by your browser. Use it to block scripts, iframes, ads, facebook, etc.
Credit Antоn Gudim
See also jinn / djinn (genie) - Wikipedia
Jinn (Arabic: جن, jinn) – also romanized as djinn or anglicized as genies – are invisible creatures in early religion in pre-Islamic Arabia and later in Islamic culture and beliefs. Like humans, they are accountable for their deeds, can be either believers (muslims) or unbelievers (kafir); depending on whether they accept God's guidance.
You can try with the non-short version, just replace youtubecom/shorts with youtubecom/watch?v=:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-mFznrJRNBw
I use this Request Control rule to redirect shorts to the generic player:
[
{
"uuid": "ef5425ff-3427-45aa-a6bd-2b48fc25690e",
"pattern": {
"scheme": "*",
"host": [ "www.youtube.com" ],
"path": [ "/shorts/*" ]
},
"types": [ "main_frame" ],
"action": "redirect",
"active": true,
"title": "%7Bc%7D%20YouTube%20-%20Redirect%20short%20to%20normal",
"redirectUrl": "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v={pathname:8}"
}
]
mlmym frontend shows it, although it shows different values depending on the instance:
CommaFeed, an open source reader:
https://github.com/Athou/commafeed
I use the public instance, which has a limit of 2000 feeds:
https://www.commafeed.com
RSS reader with direct subscriptions to RSS Feeds.
Podcast RSS Feed: What Is It, Why You Need It, How To Get It
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I would say Maxwell's Demon:
Maxwell's demon is a thought experiment that would hypothetically violate the second law of thermodynamics. It was proposed by the physicist James Clerk Maxwell in 1867. In his first letter, Maxwell referred to the entity as a "finite being" or a "being who can play a game of skill with the molecules". Lord Kelvin would later call it a "demon".
In the thought experiment, a demon controls a small massless door between two chambers of gas. As individual gas molecules (or atoms) approach the door, the demon quickly opens and closes the door to allow only fast-moving molecules to pass through in one direction, and only slow-moving molecules to pass through in the other. Because the kinetic temperature of a gas depends on the velocities of its constituent molecules, the demon's actions cause one chamber to warm up and the other to cool down. This would decrease the total entropy of the system, without applying any work, thereby violating the second law of thermodynamics.
Or maybe I need to subscribe to fewer news communities?
That's my take: curation. It only mitigates some of the issues and you still need to put some effort almost everyday, but it's the only way for me to make it beareable.
The first thing I did on Lemmy was to set the homepage to "Subscribed", and only went to "All" a few times to populate a small inital list of communities. From that point, you can organically discover the rest.
I also recommend an RSS reader, it's the best way to get control of "your homepage".
But I've never tried the other option you mention: more private circles (paid substacks, discords, ..), so I cannot compare.
I think there is some misunderstanding... there are a lot of ways of downloading a list of URLs. For videos I use yt-dlp.
I didn't know about IDM/IDX, I asume they are Internet Download Manager and Xtreme Download Manager, right? From what I see those are independent programs and not Firefox add-ons (correct me if I'm wrong).
What I find weird is that, what Bazzacuda can achieve if I have multiple tabs with
i.imgur.com/.../...jpgURLs does not work if I change thejpgextensions withmp4. But I'm probably missing something (or not explaining myself properly).Thanks!