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> without them stock FF is quite shite and unusable

Pardon ?

Actually FF is better that Chrome!

Without extensions all web browsers are quite equally unusable. Long gone are the days of Opera presto when browsers shipped fully featured.

IMO Firefox is much better without extensions than most browsers with extensions. Chrome (chromium) being the one exception I know of.

Then I find Firefox better than Chrome when both run with or without extensions.