Browser Extensions I Consider Essential

For this post, I am assuming that you use Firefox. I would strongly recommend you do use Firefox; its mobile port supports browser extensions - so you can use the same configuration across platforms, it isn't owned by Google, and because Firefox is considered the best platform for the first extension in my list:

1. uBlock Origin by Raymond Hill. Gets rid of any content you don't want to see on web pages, mostly advertising (which I abhor). The FBI recommends you use an adblocking tool (source). Make it this one.

2. User-Agent Switcher by ntninja. Most of the time, if a website doesn't support Linux or Chrome, you can change your User-Agent to pretend you're on a supported platform. This isn't always going to work, but most websites just check the User-Agent string, so spoofing it will bypass these checks.

3. Indie Wiki Buddy by Kevin Payravi. Stops you ending up on those absolutely terrible Fandom wikis and redirects you to independent wikis that are usually more accurate and without adverts and tripe.

4. Violentmonkey or similar. Inject your own scripts into websites and defeat right click hijacking or other strange behaviours.

5. OneTab, for those of you who start a project and end up with 50 tabs about that one thing, and don't want to lose them all. Send them all into OneTab so they aren't cluttering up your browser, but easy to come back to.

6. Redirector by Einar Egilsson. I personally use this to redirect reddit.com to old.reddit.com, but you could use this to send links through a proxy automatically, for example.