Ask HN: Which Firefox add-ons are you using in 2025?
I've just got a new macbook air and I'm re-evaluating which Firefox add-ons to use.
So far I have:
Privacy badger Unhook Firefox Containers uBlock Origin
What are your most useful ones for 2025? Anything significant that I'm missing?
My masochist anti-tracking set up:
- uBlock Origin with "Disable JavaScript" checked in the settings. Only enable for specific sites.
- Temporary Containers with "Automatic Mode" checked in the settings. Also MMB and Ctrl + LMB always open links in new temporary container. This provides full session isolation for all tabs. There are permanent named containers for logged-in services like email that are only used for email. Outbound links from email for example open in a new temporary container.
All browsing by default happens in a clean isolated session with JS disabled unless explicitly allowed.
I also have Behind The Overlay Revival for when I'm too lazy to zap elements with uBO.
As a Firefox user since phoenix 0.6 who used to develop tens of extensions I can say that only uBlock Origin is a must have. Alternatively I am using Brave with absolutely no extensions (ad blocker at the core) except Metamask and sometimes Safari for multiple browser web testing. After twenty years in web dev I can fairly say browsing the web without seeing ads is an extraordinary experience thanks to the exceptional effort of Mozilla in the early days.
I use 1password for passwords, Dark Reader to make give all sites dark mode (including HN), Hide Google AI Overviews, and Kagi Search.
Also use SponsorBlock for YouTube to auto-skip over sponsored sections (not commercials, but in-video product placement and sponsorship messages) and uBlacklist to filter a bunch of things out of Google Search (like Medium, Quora, Twitter).
I'll tell only about essential less-known ones:
- Group Speed Dial, to have a list of favorite websites in a new tab, #1 essential plugin in my opinion!
- Awesome RSS, to extract RSS links and put them into my reader (this is only extracting extension)
- Buster: captcha solver for humans, to skip ReCaptcha
- Dark Reader, to turn pages into white-on-black
- Drag-select Link Text, to select text on the page in a proper way, like the old Opera did
- Redirector, to automatically rewrite website domains, like reddit.com → old.reddit.com, and also to rewrite to Tor version of websites, because they are usually uncensored (like archive.is).
I have been using my own addon https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/todos-new-tab...
It's fairly simple helps me see my goals everyday since I use firefox
It's a bit weird that the only add-on you use is your own one.
Most people use none so this case is quite common for extension developers.
uBlock Origin, Tab Stash, Bitwarden, Consent-O-Matic, Terms of Service;Didn't Read, Dark Reader. I use Tab Stash instead of bookmarks to (try) keep track of interesting webpages, it's not working well with the organization of pages. But I have a pretty good history since I started to use it, in 19th July 2023. I have been "forced" to use it, when firefox has started to use too much memory on my Macbook, so I have been forced to close down firefox to be able to keep using it.
NoScript
SponsorBlock
LibRedirect
Konkret Wallet (in case you do want a browser crypto wallet)
FoxyProxy (if you want more proxy/VPN customization than Containers)
uBlock Origin obviously, and Cookie AutoDelete (in aggressive mode) to make my own privacy. That's all.
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