Which add ons do you recommend?
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Which add ons do you recommend for Abrowser in 2025?
depends on what country you live in
The web browser is not an isolated program for your own personal enjoyment, instead, it's a tiny pebble within the greater context of the system of networks you call "the internet"
How the browser behaves, how you experience the internet, is dependent upon that context.
So, where are you from and which add-ons do you recommend to the Abrowser in your country?
I recommend to people now, not to use *abrowser* it's evil...
it's only purpose now, is to meet the demands of contemporary web services, to *fit in* with the crowd
it would be better to completely separate it, from your own dedicated operating system, and to avoid using it completely.
we need new paradigms for using the internet really, web browsers like abrowser are a complete virtual domain, a complete operating system in themselves, isolated from the rest of the host, so malicious activity always has a simple/clean environment to operate within, and doesn't suffer any obstacles to itself barring a tremendous effort with like attempting to manage a variety of addons...It's a complete waste of time, because you're still going to be using the same system in various capacities that is ultimately designed to serve the broader system of networks. and not your own individual freedom.
NoScript if you have a problem with javascript but there's still a bunch of places you'd rather visit despite the fact, other than nothing that isn't already well known such as Ublock Origin.
If you do really hate javascript (everyone should in an ideal world) you can set the flag javascript.enabled to false in the about:config settings page.
Add-ons to enhance privacy? There are add-ons for different purposes.
Privacy Badger and ublock origin are good ones for privacy for current firefox based web browsers such as Icecat, Abrowser and also Librewolf or Mullvad. Although not sure how free the last two are in terms of settings built in.
Also, AdNauseam and JShelter
IF you get the 3rd one i listed, don't get any others.
If you get the 4th or the 1st or 2nd you can get all but the 3rd however.
Reason being, Adnauseum doesn't do its job right with those other addons in place.
Mullvad browser appears to be completely libre. I think Magic Banana and I gave it a look over a few months ago and couldn't find any licensing issues at all. One nice thing about it is that Mullvad has one of those portable tar packages that will run on just about any GNU/Linux distro - doesn't have to be a Debian-based distro. So if you are using a distro where it's hard to get Abrowser or IceCat installed, might want to give Mullvad a shot. But it also has a deb package repo, so you can add that repo to a Debian-based distro and keep it updated with your regular apt upgrades.
at the moment, I use 4 really useful extensions, and I can safely recommend them to you.
1. uBlock Origin - well, this is kind of a standard, so that advertising does not get in your eyes.
2. SimpleTranslate - a fast, convenient and comfortable translator of text into other languages, you can choose a translation tool like Google Translate, and DeepL.
3. h264ify - an extremely useful thing if you are using an old laptop, whose processor and video chip processes video only in the h264 codec, since I use a thinkpad x230, this will be an extremely useful extension.
4. ViolentMonkey - a useful addition, thanks to which you can easily and simply install additional scripts in your browser, but be careful with this.
and I agree with the people above, the selection of extensions depends on what country you live in, in my country, extensions with blocking tracking and tracing are in great demand (you can find them on the Internet and on YouTube). I hope my small selection of extensions will be useful to you.
*translated through google translate
2. SimpleTranslate - a fast, convenient and comfortable translator of text into other languages, you can choose a translation tool like Google Translate, and DeepL.
That is SaaSS. https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/who-does-that-server-really-serve even gives that use case as an example:
Concretely, it means that someone sets up a network server that does certain computing activities—for instance, modifying a photo, translating text into another language, etc.—then invites users to let that server do their own computing for them. As a user of the server, you would send your data to the server, which does that computing activity on the data thus provided, then sends the results back to you or else acts directly on your behalf.
based on your opinion, do you mean that it is better to deploy your own translator server at home and use it?
In the final paragraph of that page:
"In the meantime, if a company invites you to use its server to do your own computing tasks, don't yield; don't use SaaSS. Don't buy or install “thin clients,” which are simply computers so weak they make you do the real work on a server, unless you're going to use them with your server. Use a real computer and keep your data there. Do your own computing with your own copy of a free program, for your freedom's sake."
Or maybe read human translated articles in your own language like this article has been done in other languages.
I also have a thinkpad x230 and I don't need h264ify even when I use librewolf on my gnuinos installation.
Do you have the regular bios? Curious, but also wondering, if you can tell me what specifically you use h264ify for.
Oh and I recommend using libretranslate instead if you can:
https://github.com/LibreTranslate/LibreTranslate
Some people run instances of this as well btw like here:
I use h264ify, on the advice of a very good friend. Initially, he told me that thanks to this extension, which has an open source code, the load on the processor when watching videos through this extension will be significantly lower, since old processors on ivybridge architectures cannot easily play videos in h265, which is usually used in youtube, that's why using this extension I clearly see that the load on my processor has significantly decreased along with the temperatures when watching videos, for the sake of purity of the experiment, you can always install it and test it properly.
no, i don't use a standard proprietary bios. i use a hacked bios skulls/coreboot (https://github.com/merge/skulls), which is installed on the device by hacking the upper 4 megabyte chip via the 1vyrain utility. i just don't have a programmer with me at the moment, that's why i'm making do with this modification for now.
https://docs.libretranslate.com/guides/installation/ explains how it can be installed, in particular using Docker, to run locally.
Thanks, I'm already in the process of mastering it.