Ublock Origin is an obvious one, but I also can’t stand not having Foxy Gestures anymore. It adds customizable mouse gestures, so you can set it up to have easy swipes to go back a page, reload a page, close a tab, etc, and it feels wonderful and smooth to use compared to just using the traditional buttons to do everything. Honestly it’s kinda wild to me that this isn’t more popular now that people are so used to phone gestures. It’s good for the same reasons!

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    @VulcanSphere

    Count this as my vote as well. Take every other extension away (uBlock Origin excluded obv) but I simply can’t endure the eye-searing pain of the internet without Dark Reader.

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      The browsers have their own dark mode, in chrome://flags or edge://flags, but in my experience they don’t work as consistently, overall.

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        Yeah, you’re right. They try but it’s not the same.

        Before Dark Reader I used to make custom dark theme CSS for all the sites that I frequented heavily and spent so much time tweaking things so it came out “mostly right”.

        Dark Reader isn’t perfect all the time but the peace of mind it grants me is immeasurable:)

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          Wait, what? You can force any website to comply with your own CSS? How (apart from manual Inspector edits every time)?

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            Yeah, there are extensions that enable injecting custom CSS. I’m using Stylus in Chrome (switched to that from Stylish about two years ago) and essentially you need to override the native CSS with lots of !important style declarations. Basically like Inspect Element but will load every time once the relevant website(s) is done loading.

            If the HTML classes and ids are straightforwards that’s fairly easy, like old.reddit for instance. But every time they change the classes you need to go in a manually tweak it. And once a site starts obfuscating their code it’s not worth the effort anymore.
            But it’s possible and for a while I honed my meager CSS skills by doing my own bespoke stylesheets. :)