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Curb
#1 Posted : 7/21/2015 3:47:34 PM

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Ive been using Waterfox for a while now (64-bit firefox distro) and straight out of the gate ill say its the fastest, least memory intensive (no memory crashes either) browser ive used, with the benefits of being firefox.

Ive been using a few addons through the years for protecting myself against un-necessary cookies (yeah you really need 46 cookies on 1 page), advertising and malicious activeX/Java/flash. i used to use ghostery and adblocker and they are quite good, but they do slow things down, kill revenue for ad-funded websites, and its not often you come across malicious popups so i have a question, what addons do you use and why?

ive got down to a few addons that ill always keep and these are: YoutubeCentre(makes youtube what you want it to be, get the developer version from github), Disconnect.me (only loads essential cookies on websites like session data and password/username info) and 'Ublock origin' or 'adblock plus' (ive switched to ublock since it apparently is less memory intensive, ill let you guys know how it goes)

for chrome users a good one i found is greasemonkey (it lets you install un-google-approved addons of which disconnect is one i think)

so if anyone has any ideas for making our browsing experience better, safer/securerer or faster id like to know about it. post your ideas below. id love to know anything i can do short of using the tor network to browse anonymously too.
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#2 Posted : 7/21/2015 3:59:05 PM

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greasemonkey is good i use to run firefox but crome for me works best Smile
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#3 Posted : 7/21/2015 5:29:08 PM

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Some of the useful plugins installed on my firefox:
Adblock plus
BetterPrivacy
Cookie Monster
Ghostery
Greasemonkey
IPFlood
NoScript
Flashblock
plus a bit of changes in about:config
Also I use Tor browser a lot.
 
fluidfocus
#4 Posted : 7/22/2015 4:07:08 AM

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For Chrome:

uBlock Origin - Ad blocker
* (or Adblock Plus which is supposedly slightly more comprehensive, but slower)

Cryptocat - Encrypted chat

Disconnect - Privacy, ad blocking

Ghostery - Privacy, ad blocking

Privacy Badger - Privacy, ad blocking

FlashBlock - Security, ad blocking

HTTPS Everywhere - Privacy, security




 
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#5 Posted : 7/24/2015 5:00:04 PM

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Chrome/Chromium > Firefox in terms of multi-processor utilization and startup speed.

Context Menu Search or Context Search for speedy searching.
Enigmail in Thunderbird for GPG mail encryption.
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Search the Nexus with disconnect.me (anonymous Google search) by adding "site:dmt-nexus.me" (w/o the ") to your search.
 
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#6 Posted : 7/26/2015 11:59:41 PM

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Thank you for this thread! I already use ad blocker and I just added Privacy Badger and HTTPS Everywhere! Props for safer surfing!

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