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I'm not sure what extensions everyone was using that are missing from Fenix. uBlock Origin, Decentraleyes, and HTTPS Everywhere were the big ones for me, and those three were all greenlit for Fenix (at least in Nightly). Are people still using greasemonkey scripts, or what?

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Its the concept of the long tail. I miss

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/single-file/

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/chrome-ua-on-...

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/top-and-botto...

Without these three, its jarring to use Firefox for me. But there is no other user in the world with my browsing habits. After including the most used extensions, Mozilla is showing no interest in getting more extensions. It's quite frustrating.

"Video Background Play Fix" and h264ify. I primarily watch YouTube on my phone and it's unusable without these extensions. I've had to downgrade after the automatic update.

NewPipe. I couldn't stand youtube without it.

Seconded. Good UI, quick fixes whenever Google tweaks some things in the background. Also, the ability for background playback is key to listen to music. and the speed and pitch control sliders area lot of fun when listing to speeches (eg Mickey Mouse JFK).

I don't understand how people are able to use Newpipe regularly. I use it to download videos or listen to music in the background, but even there I encounter the 'Something went wrong' error page about 30% of the time (with the latest updated Newpipe every time). It used to be worse, being a 50-50 chance of getting the error page, but 30% is still too high for me to use it as my everyday Youtube client.

For me, NewPipe got a lot better when I added it's repository to f-droid, rather than using the version in the official f-droid repository.

https://archive.newpipe.net/fdroid/repo?fingerprint=E2402C78...

I tried NewPipe. Sharing subscriptions and history between my desktop and mobile is a requirement it doesn't fulfil.

I subscribe to things on Desktop and download the subscription file and import it into NewPipe. Not really a problem.

One to remove UTM tracking from all URLs. One to redirect amp to normal web pages. I'm not upgrading Firefox until the new one supports both of those.

I'm still using greasemonkey scripts to redirect any link that'd go to a paywalled newspaper to instead go to my own web-cache which has a crawler circumventing the paywalls and which serves the article without paywall, or ads, or any other undesired content (disclaimer: I have a paid subscription to the paper version of the newspaper, but the paywall is so broken it's simpler to just circumvent it than to actually log in for every single article)

I built this in 2 hours, and obviously I never intended it for anyone else to be used, so it's just a tiny greasemonkey script, a golang webserver and a nodejs crawler running along nicely. No official addon or anything.

Greasemonkey is super useful for this kind of personalized stuff.

For me, it's cookie auto-delete -- their default tracker suppression still white-lists more than I'd like. Very likely to block updates over this while I consider my next move. (My threat model is not your threat model...)

This is now built in the browser, you can go into settings, delete browsing data on quit, and sellect cookies and other things.

Unless you mean selectively delete?

I have the plugin configured to drop cookies a few seconds after the tab that set them is closed, excepting a very short whitelist. "On quit" would sweep them up once every couple of weeks -- way too coarse. Not the same at all.

Any that consistently does text flow/rewrap would be imperative to me. It's one of those things that you can't go back to not having, after trying it.

Containers, especially temporary containers. For me they've become as essential and eye-opening as adblockers.

I'm convinced if ff weren't screwing up on mobile containers would become as popular as adblockers as well.

I still use ff on mobile but it's mostly because I don't know what would be better, not because I like it. There's a huge chasm between mobile and desktop.

I used an extension that adds a close tab button to the nav bar. I doubt it will ever make the greenlist.

‘Stylus’, to make HN's ‘collapse thread’ button tap-able. (HN made it a bit bigger recently, though still rather pathetic for my manly grownup thumb.)

I do miss Redirector, Leechblock NG and Redirect AMP to HTML. I hope they are available soon.

I'm quite fond of umatrix.

umatrix and privacy pass are two really big ones.

Stylish and Ghostery are two of the other addons that I like, at least on desktop.

Sure, and I have about a dozen that I use for Firefox on the desktop as well. But this change is for Firefox Android.

Doesn't Ghostery have privacy issues?

I know Stylish does and that is why many switched to Stylus

You might want to read about how ‘Stylish’ was stealing user's browsing history. (At least I hope it's ‘was’ and not ’still is’.)

‘Stylus’ is the popular open-source alternative.

List of my "other" extensions

Fit to width, for text reflow.

Bypass paywalls.

Au-revoir-utm

No coin

Redirect amp to html.

Disable webrtc.

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