I’d like to give Firefox another shot. I know a lot of you use it - what’s your “ideal configuration”? I’m mostly interested in solid page rendering, ad blocking, and tab management. Would you suggest “vanilla” Firefox from Mozilla, or one of the third-party browsers based on it? What about ad blockers, essential extensions, etc.? Any Firefox-exclusive extensions I should be looking into?
I specifically use Firefox for the extensions, so here’s my faves. Only the first two of these have unique elements on Firefox though:
- uBlock Origin for adblocking without the limitations on some other browsers.
- Tree Style Tab is so good that I’ve never been able to tolerate any other browser, even those with their own vertical tab extensions. I explain a little more about why I like it here.
- LeechBlock NG for scheduled work times to block addictive sites. I like LeechBlock better than some site blockers because of the cooldown time feature, where if you really do need to open Reddit (or whatever) for research while working, you just have to sit through the cooldown time, and then are allowed to browse it, open new unblocked tabs from that cooldown-time original tab, etc.
- I still don’t care about cookies for bypassing cookie consent popups.
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I switched fairly seamlessly from Arc to Zen, which is a Firefox-based open source alternative to Arc. Many in the Arc community seem to hate it based purely on it’s Firefox base, but I haven’t found that to cause any real issues at all in terms of rendering or performance. Perhaps Chromium scores higher in some benchmarks or something but in terms of real world, observable feel… I don’t notice any difference. Firefox extensions have been great and rock-solid too.
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I like your blog! Following it in Inoreader.
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I regularly try other browsers but always come back home to Firefox. Its quick. It is flexible. it works. There are very rare occasions when random pages don’t work on it for some reason (probably due to lazy development) and I have to go to Brave or Safari (like an animal, as David would say 
). Here are a few plugins I use. I am so used to Modern Wikipedia that I am stunned when I see a ‘normal’ version of it.
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Uso Firefox com algumas extensões básicas. Depois de fazer o youcine baixar fica tranquilo pra to the assistir direto.
I use Firefox with the Ghostery, uBlock Origin, and Privacy Badger extensions to kill ads and stop tracking. Also have FB Purity to provide similar functionality when using Farcebook.
The Zotero extension too but then I have an add-on to their main program to format citations into BibTeX format and shunt them straight into BibDesk.
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