Ask Slashdot: Best Browser Extensions -- 2016 Edition

Reader LichtSpektren writes: Almost eleven years ago, Slashdot featured an Ask titled "Favorite Firefox Extensions?". I thought it might be worthwhile to ask the question again (Editor's note: we couldn't agree more!), but expand the query to all web browsers now that there's more choices available.

Right now my main browser is Firefox, which I use with uBlock Origin, Disconnect, HTTPS Everywhere, Privacy Badger, NoScript, Self-Destructing Cookies, Decentraleyes, Privacy Settings, and Clean Links. (N.B. the first four of these are also available in Chromium-based browsers.) I use Chrome as a secondary browser, with the first four of the aforementioned extensions, plus also Clear Cache and occasionally Flashcontrol.

This one has nothing to do with security or privacy, but Reedy on Chromium is a really nice tool for speed reading.

What do you use?Let's get this going.

Comments

Adblock Plus, Ghostery

[Anonymous Coward]

I never setup a computer without both

Re:Adblock Plus, Ghostery

[Anonymous Coward]

That's super old.
Mozilla fixed the bug that caused that problem nearly a year ago.
Now they are roughly equal.

Re:TrackMeNot

[Thelasko]

Everyone should be installing TrackMeNot to pollute the search engine result tracking pool: TrackMeNot https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/trackmenot/ By issuing randomized queries to common search-engines, TrackMeNot obfuscates your search profile(s) and registers your discontent with surreptitious tracking.

I'm concerned this plugin might trigger Google's bot detection algorithm. Furthermore, wouldn't it be simpler to use DuckDuckGo?