Firefox Addons for 2022

Firefox Addons - 2022 Edition

My list of must-have Firefox addons - 2022 edition

Updated: 2022-10-09

Privacy and Security

Firstly - you should have Firefox’s Enhanced Tracking Protection enabled.

• Don’t Track Me Google
• LocalCDN
• UTM Tracking Token Stripper
  • Note: You can accomplish some of what this does by setting up the removeparam uBlock origin rules I’ve listed below.
• Multi-Account Containers
  • Useful for setting sites such as Amazon, eBay, Twitter, LinkedIn, Banking etc… each to always open in their own isolated container.
• The official addon for whatever Password Manager you use.
• Firefox Translations

uBlock Origin

Probably the single most important addon.

• uBlock Origin

1. Enable and update all built-int filter lists except for ‘Regions’ and ‘Languages’.
2. Under ‘Trusted Sites’ add your local IP range (e.g. 192.168.0.0/24) and local hostnames if you run any local web servers (e.g. https://my-home-server.local
3. Enable ‘Cloud Storage’ (if you use Firefox sync) and upload your config tabs.

Quality of Life Improvements

• Bypass Paywalls Clean
• SponsorBlock - Skip Sponsorships on YouTube
• FastForward
• Copy PlainText
• Awesome RSS
• Night Mode - Hacker News
• Upvote Anywhere
• Refined Github

For AWS Users

• Console Recorder for AWS
• Former2 Helper

Other Configuration

• Settings -> Privacy & Security -> Strict Tracking Protection (more information here)

about:config

• mousewheel.with_meta.action: 0 - Disable scroll zooming
• extensions.pocket.enabled: false- Disable Pocket
• dom.event.clipboardevents.enabled: false - Don’t allow websites to prevent copy and paste, stop webpage knowing which part of the page had been selected.

uBlock Origin Rules

Add the following to “My Filters”

• The content of ublacklist github translation
• The content of ublacklist stackoverflow translation

# Remove tracking tokens
*$removeparam=utm_source
*$removeparam=fbclid
*$removeparam=gclid
*$removeparam=utm_source
*$removeparam=utm_medium
*$removeparam=utm_term
*$removeparam=utm_campaign
*$removeparam=utm_content
*$removeparam=utm_cid
*$removeparam=utm_reader
*$removeparam=utm_referrer
*$removeparam=utm_name
*$removeparam=utm_social
*$removeparam=utm_social
*$removeparam=igshid
*$removeparam=ICID
*$removeparam=rb_clickid

! block pinterest rubbish on google
google.*##.g:has(a[href*=".pinterest.*"])
google.*##a[href*=".pinterest."]:upward(1)

! Block pinterest rubbish on ddg
duckduckgo.*##.results > div:has(a[href*=".pinterest.com"])

A note on 1Password

1Password

While I don’t have an issue with their browser extension by itself - I can no longer recommend the desktop / ‘application’ version 1Password as of version 8.

Since raising more capital 1Password has been chasing quick development of new features and have stopped native application development.

1Password 8 is unfortunately an Electron (Chrome) web-frame application. This has a lot of negative implications for security, performance and in itself is a statement of the direction that 1Password is taking moving forward.

So - what are the alternatives?

For a desktop and mobile application Strongbox is by far the leading contender.

They are actively working on an official Firefox addon which in beta which is currently in beta - so watch this space!

In the mean time as Strongbox uses the standard KeyPassX format you can use the KeePassXC-Browser addon to access your Strongbox database within Firefox.