What are the "Must Have" extensions for Firefox

Well, I tried it and found that I had to allow JS in FF in order to load a pdf. That's not what I want.

 

I used Ghostery for at least a couple of years. Back then it was light, unobtrusive & did its job without bugging me. Now it seems way too complex & updates (& needs to tell me about it) every other day or so. One of the reasons I like *MSE so much is that it is simple & doesn't bug me. I use DNT+ now on Chrome instead of Ghostery. It does its job (stopping bugs) & doesn't bug me.


*In case this is moderated as being off-topic, I would like to point out that my comparison with MSE is an analogy.

 

tnx dave.

i tried Ghostery and thought it was pretty good.
there seems to be some overlap with NoScript though.

by overlap, i mean pretty much the same tracking companies appears in both apps for the same site, in general.

 

Yes, Ghostery is an excellent educational tool, but if you are pretty savvy with NoScript Ghostery is a bit redundant. I think Ghostery finds & blocks more trackers than DNT+, especially in Firefox. However, I have tried to keep my portable Firefox (primarily for our work laptops) as light & simple as possible. NoScript tends to complicate things for it, although I do use NS normally.

 

tnx for the input Dave!

 

I see but do you think it's a good alternative to avoid PDF exploits? As we know there are several exploit kits for Adobe PDF plugin ...

 

It's still under heavy development. And it is called pdf.js.

 

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

https://proxilla.org/instruction-manual/

 

After quite a while trying out alternatives to AdBlock Plus, I've returned to it.

 

Did you try AdBlock, and if so, how did it compare in your opinion?

 

Haven't tried that. What I was using for quite a while was SimpleBlock together with Privoxy. I also tried Karma Blocker but never got the hang of it.

 

Smart Referer: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/smart-referer/

 

Could you please explain what this does, in some detail.

I get the idea of what a Refer is and how it works (somewhat) but why would this be needed and how does it help protect your security and privacy.

 

Highlighted Text To File: Writes highlighted text to a file in the specified directory

 

Detail I cannot provide, but this is what I saw that attracted me:

http://www.makeuseof.com/dir/smart-referer-disable-referral-links-except-on-the-same-domain/
Neither can I say how effective it is. Perhaps others can test/try.

 

I haven't tried it but from its description it seems to be less flexible than RefControl which I've been using for years. Its usage is explained here. If you chose to block 3rd party requests only (as suggested on that site) you should get what SmartReferer does.

 

For the record, RefControl allows to block 3rd party requests only as well.

 

From the looks of it with RefControl you have to manually enter every site you want this to have a effect on. (Unless I am missing something here, just going by the screenshots).

I will just stick with Smart Referrer. I did the test as in a post above and it works. No need for me to choose which website for it to work for.

 

No, you completely misunderstood. Read this site carefully. You only have to add sites to the list for which you want the default policy NOT to be applied. These are normally sites that require 3rd party requests in order to work properly, so they have to be added to the list as exceptions. I believe that this can't be done with SmartReferer.

 

Anybody familiar with Firemin (memory usage management)?

 

Is anyone familar with a similar extension to Nimi Web Cleaner (Chrome extension that blocks ads and trackers based on regular expressions) for Firefox?

 

Why the insistence on regex? There's nothing special about regex, AFAICT. Regex can easily have unintended consequences and making successful exceptions to regex isn't the simplest thing. From what I saw of Nimi, one had to depend on the author's lists in any case.

 

Well, the main reason being that I actually like Nimi Web Cleanser. It may break something, but it does allow exclusions in a per-site basis, for the different shields. But, is there anything not breaking anything?

Anyway, was just wondering if there's anything similar for Firefox?

By the way, apparently Do Not Track Plus for Firefox, by Abine, also allows to add Internet Explorer TPLs, but only from one of Microsoft TPL URLs. I don't recall which one; but, you can't add TPLs from Fanboy's website, for instance.

 

Try looking at Karma Blocker

 

Have you tried it and are you using it? I did for a while and have a thread somewhere here. I found it quite difficult to understand.

SimpleBlock is easier but getting the exceptions right is tough.