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HPR3862: Firefox Extensions

Hosted by Archer72 on 2023-05-23 00:00:00
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Firefox plugins

uBlock Origin

uBlock Origin ad blocker

Finally, an efficient blocker. Easy on CPU and memory.

I don't care about cookies

I don't care about cookies

Get rid of cookie warnings from almost all websites!

Bitwarden - Free Password Manager

Bitwarden

A secure and free password manager for all of your devices.

Dark Reader

Convert pages to Dark Mode

Dark mode for every website. Take care of your eyes, use dark theme for night
and daily browsing. This eye-care extension enables night mode creating dark
themes for websites on the fly. Dark Reader inverts bright colors making them
high contrast and easy to read at night.

You can adjust brightness, contrast, sepia filter, dark mode, font settings and
ignore-list.

Dark Reader doesn't show ads and doesn't send user's data anywhere. It is fully
open-source

Github page for Dark Reader

ChatGPTBox

ChatGPT Extension

Integrating ChatGPT into your browser

Custom Video Speed for YouTube

Extension to control Youtube speed

Change the current & default speed of YouTube™ videos by steps of 0.1 from 0.1
up to 8.0 using sliders, buttons, and/or the keyboard.

SponsorBlock for YouTube - Skip Sponsorships

Block sponsors for Youtube videos

Skip sponsorships, subscription begging and more on YouTube videos. Report
sponsor on videos you watch to save others' time. SponsorBlock lets you skip
over sponsors, intros, outros, subscription reminders, and other annoying parts
of YouTube videos. SponsorBlock is a crowdsourced browser extension that lets
anyone submit the start and end times of sponsored segments and other segments
of YouTube videos. Once one person submits this information, everyone else with
this extension will skip right over the sponsored segment.

You can also skip over non music sections of music videos.

Supports Invidious, old YouTube and mobile YouTube.

Tab Stash

Extension to stash tabs in a timestamped sidebar

A no-fuss way to save and restore batches of tabs as bookmarks.

Tridactyl

Extension to browse Firefox with vim keybindings

Vim, but in your browser. Replace Firefox's control mechanism with one modelled
on Vim. This addon is very usable, but is in an early stage of development. We
intend to implement the majority of Vimperator's features. Control your browser
with your keyboard only. Replace Firefox’s control mechanism with one modelled
on VIM. Most common tasks you want your browser to perform are bound to a
single key press.

Mobile Firefox Beta

Firefox Beta for Android

Firefox Extensions page

Mobile plugins

Bitwarden

Dark Reader

I don't care about cookies

SponsorBlock

uBlock Origin

Adjust Playback Speed (Youtube Playback Speed)

Firefox extension to change playback speed

Example of changing Youtube playback speed

Video Background Play Fix

Firefox extension to fix background playback on mobile

  • Works on Youtube and Invidious
    • https://invidious.nerdvpn.de
    • https://docs.invidious.io/instances

Mobile plugins screenshot

Example

Adding an extension to a collection

Adding an extension to a collection

Firefox extension to provide language translation

Example of adding an extension on mobile

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