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What Browser & Browser Extensions do you use?

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  • davidedavide Member
    edited October 2025

    @Cybr said:
    I migrated my main browser from Chrome to Brave before Google dropped Manifest V2 support to sabotage adblocking extensions.

    By the time Brave decides to drop support for MV2 (if they ever do), I'll migrate to a new non-chromium browser. Ladybird looks promising as a new ground-up browser, but still too early in development.

    Extensions:

    • uBlock Origin (brave's adblocker is good, but uBlock is even better)
    • Bitwarden (using my self-hosted Vaultwarden server)
    • Global Speed - global hotkeys that override video speed to above 2x on all sites
    • Volume Booster - only activate it when content has very low volume level
    • YouTube Auto HD - forces min quality so it doesn't randomly change to below 1080p
    • SponsorBlock for YouTube - quick skip parts of videos with sponsor reads
    • Return YouTube Dislikes

    How do you manage on the phone? I think most people don't have any extensions on the mobile because Chrome for Android with 70% market share doesn't support them.

    On Android I'm using Firefox with Video Background Play Fix which allows to play videos with the screen off. It's good for playing ASMR from night to morning while I try to fall asleep without draining the phone battery as much. However sometimes this addon fails to keep the audio playing when the screen is off because Android spontaneously kills or suspends foreground apps, including Firefox, when the screen is off. So there isn't a perfect solution for ASMR addicts like me.

  • OhJohnOhJohn Member
    edited October 2025

    Lynx.

    And just a bit of history: 20 years ago search engine spiders did not render js or css, so for the best onpage seo optimization you were actually using lynx daily to get a feeling on how a bot would "see" a page.

    Thanked by 2tentor davide
  • owrbitowrbit Member, Patron Provider

    Vivaldi, comet, sidekick(now closed but still using it)

    Extensions:
    ProtonPass
    Ubersuggest
    Locker
    AdGuard
    IDM

  • CybrCybr Member

    @davide said:

    @Cybr said:
    I migrated my main browser from Chrome to Brave before Google dropped Manifest V2 support to sabotage adblocking extensions.

    By the time Brave decides to drop support for MV2 (if they ever do), I'll migrate to a new non-chromium browser. Ladybird looks promising as a new ground-up browser, but still too early in development.

    Extensions:

    • uBlock Origin (brave's adblocker is good, but uBlock is even better)
    • Bitwarden (using my self-hosted Vaultwarden server)
    • Global Speed - global hotkeys that override video speed to above 2x on all sites
    • Volume Booster - only activate it when content has very low volume level
    • YouTube Auto HD - forces min quality so it doesn't randomly change to below 1080p
    • SponsorBlock for YouTube - quick skip parts of videos with sponsor reads
    • Return YouTube Dislikes

    How do you manage on the phone? I think most people don't have any extensions on the mobile because Chrome for Android with 70% market share doesn't support them.

    On Android I'm using Firefox with Video Background Play Fix which allows to play videos with the screen off. It's good for playing ASMR from night to morning while I try to fall asleep without draining the phone battery as much. However sometimes this addon fails to keep the audio playing when the screen is off because Android spontaneously kills or suspends foreground apps, including Firefox, when the screen is off. So there isn't a perfect solution for ASMR addicts like me.

    You can patch the YouTube app with ReVanced to block ads and support background playback on mobile.

    Thanked by 1davide
  • laustkelaustke Member

    On Android I use Kiwi Browser with Bypass Paywalls Clean and uBlock Origin because it's Chromium-based and can use desktop Chrome extensions

  • DataRecoveryDataRecovery Member

    @davide said:
    what browser you have settled on and what extensions you use for productivity.

    Firefox portable.

    Extensions:

    If you're looking for something less common, check these:

    @davide said: How do you manage on the phone? I think most people don't have any extensions on the mobile

    Install IceRaven.
    It supports all the desktop Firefox extensions.

  • CybrCybr Member

    Since YouTube recently decided to make it's user experience worse yet again by filling your feeds with members-only videos that you cannot watch, I've had to add yet another extension to my browser:

    Hide YouTube Members-Only

  • davidedavide Member
    edited October 2025

    @Cybr said:
    Since YouTube recently decided to make it's user experience worse yet again by filling your feeds with members-only videos that you cannot watch, I've had to add yet another extension to my browser:

    Hide YouTube Members-Only

    For videos I use Bing Videos for its better organized SERP without those "people also searched for", "for you", or the shorts on Youtube.

    The list of related videos next to a video also happens to be related, unlike on Youtube which lists random "related" suggestions.

    For "politically incorrect" videos, Rumble.com has more footage that the main alternatives. During the Iran war you could find naked and uncensored phone footage of all the crap that wouldn't surface on Youtube.

  • ailiceailice Member

    Aleardy intact with qutebrowser for web surfing. Otherwise just using firefox for development.

  • zedzed Member

    @NeedDeal said:
    You can block ads in your router manually
    Why use an extensions which steals all your browser history?

    lol

  • tunatechtunatech Member

    I've been using Brave for a while now, and so far it seems to be working fine.

  • RubbenRubben Member

    all of them

    Thanked by 1davide
  • gbzret4dgbzret4d Member

    @davide said:

    @jack2px said:

    @davide said:

    @jack2px said:
    I used Firefox for more than 18 years, and a month ago I decided to try the Brave browser and it’s been incredible.
    Firefox used a lot of CPU and memory, but now with Brave it’s very lightweight; I don’t need more than two extensions.

    How do tabs and history look like on Brave? Never tried it myself because it's not in the Debian repositories and I'm scared of running any external software :s

    Brave’s history is very well organized, and its tab management is much better than in Firefox.

    I'm gonna try Brave on my ASMR phone, which runs Firefox right now for all my late night ASMR needs... What I don't understand about Firefox (mobile) is how history works... or rather doesn't work: when I press the "back" button it often goes back in history by 2 or 3 pages instead of 1. No clue, I suppose it's a "feature" not a bug, to help you jump back quickly to what Mozilla deems your intended target page.

    im using iceraven on android. Its a firefox fork

  • gbzret4dgbzret4d Member
    edited October 2025

    @fluffernutter said:
    zen browser with:

    uBlock Origin

    Dark Reader - most websites still don't have good dark modes

    SponsorBlock - skips sponsors and bullshit within youtube videos

    DeArrow - gets rid of clickbait slop thumbnails and titles

    Tampermonkey - needed so I can block dustinc on LET

    Unhook - removes youtube recommendations and shorts to avoid time wasting

    uBlock is the most important addon.

    DeArrow looks cool, ill try it.

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