#firefox addons

Do you hate when online forms require the deadname you'd rather not type out and see? Do you wish you could type your true name and have it ✨magically✨ change to your deadname upon hitting enter to submit the form? Do you use Firefox?

Then I have the add-on for you!

It's called TransForm and I made it because I took psychic damage typing out my deadname on MyChart this morning! Once installed, you set your trigger character, enter your true name and the name you want it to change to when you submit the form. For instance, when I type "~Haley", it automagically changes to ███████ when I hit enter, so I don't have to type it or see it!* (*depending on how fast the page changes after the form is submitted)

The download link is here, and it's properly-signed!

what addons do you use for firefox? i've just downloaded it to switch from chrome (derogatory)

somecunttookmyurl  answered:

firefox (affectionate)

UBlock Origin obviously. out-the-box works just fine but has a bunch of extra privacy/tracking/spam filters you can enable

Decentraleyes protects you against tracking through “free” curated content delivery and works alongside UBlock (or any of the other common adblocking addons)

I Don’t Care About Cookies good for EU users where GDPR made it so every site ever in the universe asks you to accept cookies and privacy terms seventeen times a day. will just auto-accept for you. never see an annoying popup again! but only use in conjunction with…

Cookie Auto Delete does what it says on the tin. will automatically flush cookies, cache, and data when you close a tab. those cookies you just auto accepted? they’re gone now. whitelist any sites you wanna stay logged in on and let the rest fucking perish

Don’t Track Me Google removes that annoying link conversion when you copy google results. you know when it changes from “site.com” to “encrypted.google.com/randomnonsensefor200charactersblahblahblah”? yeah. this stops that happening. fuck off, google.

Don’t Accept image/webp blocks sites from using the most useless file extension known to mankind so you can save as .jpg or .gif as god intended. fuck webp. seriously. what even is that.

Bypass Paywalls Clean exactly what you think it is

HTTPS Everywhere automatically adds ecrypted security to any site that supports https (you can do this manually by adding the s yourself to any url but… who can be fuckin bothere amirite? this does it for you)

New XKit …duh

Google Search Filter allows you to remove domains from your searches forever. pinterest? gone. weheartit? nuked. also works on duckduckgo. never type “-pinterest” into a search again.

For all yall who want to help archive sites AND find new sites that are hard to get google to spit up, u can install the wayback machine addon, set it so it auto-archives, and then use search.marginalia.nu to find a bunch of cool and/or obscure webpages that likely haven't been archived.

I've seen tumblr posts about those two services separately, but them combined has some really cool potential.

The search engine specifically finds text-heavy sites that are disregarded by modern search engine optimization/SEOs. there's lots of cool static html sites that probably haven't been seen by anybody for a while out there, and this is a great way to find several of them while also finding answers to your questions/curiosities that aren't written by a shitty AI.

I'm currently using it to archive sites as I'm searching for fun stuff. anything from space to dinosaurs to that very specific plant species that normal search doesn't help you with. It's not perfect, but it's fantastic nonetheless, even if just for a "second opinion" sorta deal.

Also, I don't think i need to sing the praise of web archiving to yall on tumblr, but it's a great thing to help do because websites don't last forever, links break, and some of the best stuff out there could be erased without anyone knowing.

examples: