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Bewarned that the mobile Firefox app is really not great.

• I am a chronic tab-user (I have more than a hundred open right now. Yes I'm using pretty much all of them.) and 70% of the time when hitting the tab button it doesn't actually scroll to the most recent tab. I have to tap it repeatedly to get to where I was.
• The tab list is horribly wasteful when it comes to space and I see no way to change it.
• Some sites also shit the bed completely when auto-filling from my password manager. Like full on freeze the browser or crash it entirely.
• When an app opens Firefox in an embedded browser to get you to log in, it will pretty much never direct you back to the app after putting your information in. You have to tap the three dots and open it in the actual app for even a chance that it will properly redirect you.
• For 2fa sometimes this doesn't even work. I have to scan my 2fa key then quickly open it in the actual app through the menu before it finishes loading, otherwise it doesn't redirect or gets stuck in a login loop. Fun.

The browser is fine overall, don't get me wrong, there's just some inconveniences that aren't getting fixed.

I use the following addons:

• Media Bias/Fact Check
• Shinigami Eyes
• Search by Image
• Purple Private Windows
• 10ten Japanese Reader (Rikaichamp)
• Read Aloud
• NoScript
• Decentraleyes
• DuckDuckGo Privacy Essentials
• Popup Blocker (strict)
• Redirector
• uBlock Origin
• User-Agent Switcher and Manager

LibreWolf is Firefox without Mozilla telemetry, and with privacy settings on by default. Consider switching.

Be aware that the more extensions you add, the easier it is for websites to fingerprint (identify) you.

This is a switch I made yesterday, but instead of Chrome to Firefox, I switched from Vivaldi (Chrome, but kinda like old Opera) to Floorp (japanese fork of Firefox with focus on privacy and sane defaults).

I got Sponsorblock for YouTube, uBlock Origin for ads and Gesturify for those awesome mouse gestures (my main reason for using an Opera-like).

Sometimes, I use Tampermonkey for misc Scripts on different Pages, so I installed that aswell. But for now, no scripts for Tampermonkey, as I primarily focus on setting it up to be more like Vivaldi.

Other addons are Ghostery for more privacy and Session Buddy to prevent oopsies when playing around with Tabs and windows.

Floorp even has dark mode for bright pages already included in the box.

Consent-o-matic

Ublock origin (activate cloud storage and sync rules between devices!)

Bitwarden

Onetab

Firefox translations

Dark reader

Privacy redirect

Is there a way to do credit card autocomplete on the iOS app? It’s the only reason I haven’t made the switch

The only extension I cannot live without other than an adblocker is Mouse Gestures.

Cookies: Cookie autodelete or Forget me not

Block site (so you're not sent where you don't want to go)

Wayback Machine (if you use it much)

Audio equalizer (to better understand mumbly / old Youtube audio)

Dark background and light text (so you don't go blind)

It's the an extension for Google Passwords? It's my password manager for all my devices.

I would love to switch to Firefox, but I don't want to open chrome every time I need a to retrieve/save a password.

Surprised noone mentioned NoScript yet. It requires a bit more user interaction. But if you are worried about privacy and maybe security, it is important to know who is running scripts on your machine.

Panorama Tabs! My favorite tab organizer. Also Dark Reader.

Foxy gestures is an enormous reason why I could never swap off Firefox in the first place

Does having a lot of extensions running slow performance?