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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.
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.
Adblock (with "acceptable ad" turned OFF)
Centre Image
Cisco WebEx (for work)
Disable HTML5 Autoplay
Enhancer for YouTube
Google Calendar
Image Backtrace!
IMG Rotate (why isn't this included by default with so many galleries of sideways iPhone images?)
IPvFoo (I'm on a test group for IPv6 at work)
Linkclump
Mailto: (again, why isn't this default in chrome, you'd think many of their users would want to open mailto: links with gmail?)
Open Frame
QR-Code Tag Extension (because someone depreciated chrome-to-phone)
Right-Click Enabler (Browsers should never allow websites to block right clicks, it's MY browser, not yours!)
Save to Google Drive (Another one google should have included by default)
Text URL Linker (because browsers are too stupid to figure out that text formatted as http://www.somedomainname.com/ are actually URLs even if someone forgot to wrap them in A tags)
View Background Image
View Image
Yet another flags (It's nice to see at a glance where the website is likely actually hosted)
And with all that loaded, and an aggressive ad-filtering DNS server, the web is almost tolerable.
There are no legitimate reasons for cross-site requests and you should never use a referrer for anything, even access control.