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even though i am an exclusively firefox user both on desktop and mobile, i don't even know what kind of desktop version's extension that i would use on mobile. currently, i only use adblock and so far my experience is quite stellar.

though it should be noted that i use browser on phone just to consume text. no video, no audio, and even picture is rarely the focus.

so, what do i miss?

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https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/nitter-redire...

So I can read Twitter links without dealing with the login modals.

You don't need a special extension for this. Just go to your uBlock Origin filter lists settings and enable these:

* AdGuard - Annoyances

* uBlock filters – Annoyances

Also, for browsing Twitter anonymously, you could use nitter.net instead of the official Twitter site.

> Also, for browsing Twitter anonymously, you could use nitter.net instead of the official Twitter site.

That's precisely what that extension's doing -for- them when twitter links show up somewhere else.

SingleFile is the single most useful addon that I use (behind uBlock). It lets me download any website as HTML while keeping most of its layout/elements intact.

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

Really a great addon, I've been using it a couple of years already it on mobile using firefox nightly + personal addon collections.

Dark Reader, LocalCDN, Firefox Relay, Firefox Translations, LanguageTool among others I have installed on Iceraven, a Firefox for Android fork.

Dark Reader and Relay are both on Android. I'm not sold on LocalCDN being necessary or even helpful these days (but there was a time when it was. A bit like antiviruses other than Windows defender these days, or those registry cleaner tools).

The others are missing for sure, though.

LocalCDN is helpful because it makes Firefox use local copies of popular JS libraries instead of downloading them over and over again. This makes browsing faster.

consent-o-matic, tampermonkey

Tampermonkey is installable in (my, at least) Forefox Android.

> consent-o-matic

You don't need this. Just go to your uBlock Origin filter lists settings and enable these:

* AdGuard - Annoyances

* uBlock filters – Annoyances

Not the same - sites will then take your not opting out of "legitimate interest" as consent. Not valid under GDPR really, but I'm not interested in giving them any argument to stand on.

* The laws specify that it must be opt-in. If a site doesn't respect this, you can't expect it to respect any of your choices anyway.

* You can now also use uBlock Origin to set cookies and LocalStorage entries automatically. The annoyance lists already set opt-out cookies for sites like Google and Youtube

* Firefox has actually been isolating third-party cookies and other site data (e.g. LocalStorage) for over a year. It's pointless for you to ever be concerned about them.

Client side data is only part of the problem, and it's a common myopic argument to GDPR for opponents of GDPR to say people should just use their browser's cookie controls. Server side fingerprinting is as much as a problem, something the ad industry has adopted since Safari added ITP and are accelerating since Chrome has been making noises about following Safari and Firefox for a few years now. I suspect as soon as Google figures out how to do it without disrupting their own ad business it'll come into effect.

uBlock Origin blocks connections to trackers/marketing companies by default. If you don't even connect to them, they can't fingerprint or track you.

Thanks, I didn't know about consent-o-matic, will try it out. If it works that will be the best extension in a long time.

From the add-ons I use in my desktop which I cannot install in android firefox from addons.mozilla.org are:

1. OneTab 2. Unhook 3. Unclutter 4. Violentmonkey

Tampermonkey shows in Add-on manager list in android, but not in addons.mozilla.org!

that OneTab looks nice. will definitely help with my current usage pattern. thanks.

Behindtheoverlay is a little extension that should not be as usefull as it is. I ude it daily, both on mobile and desktop, and I do not use Firefox mobile for this exact same reason.

You don't need a special extension to get rid of annoying overlays. Just go to your uBlock Origin filter lists settings and enable these:

* AdGuard - Annoyances

* uBlock filters – Annoyances

uBlock Origin also has an "element zapper" feature that lets you temporarily remove overlays that aren't covered by the lists.

One single click, versus at least three. And I use the annoyances lists, but they never catch the overlays I encounter, it's just a niche personal taste kind of thing.

Well, the lists are edited manually by humans. You need to report the overlays you encounter for them to be hidden for everybody else.

The "I Don't Care About Cookies" extension.

I seriously can't live without it, anytime I'm trying to read a website and a fucking pop-up obscures the text I'm trying to read, I want to throw my device on the floor.

> so, what do i miss?

multi-containers.

How do you want to separate cookies/identities without that?

I don't. there's only a handful of sites that I regularly visit.

An extension to block video auto play perhaps.

I use the nightly firefox app so I can use the bypass paywalls extension. Looking forward to being able to use it on the stable app

How do you do that since the extension is not listed in the Mozilla repository and has to be installed via XPI?

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