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<big><big><big>2023</big></big></big> ''Firefox updates by the politically bias and incompetent Mozilla development team have caused some of these extensions to no longer function. In other cases, the extension developers have altered the extension in undesirable ways. Extensions in some cases are abandoned. Maintenance of this list for contemporary compatibility and desirability is not possible with our limited resources. Skip ahead to our most recommended extensions for 2023.''[[Image:35star.png]][[Image:00star.png]] Enables users to easily detect and control tags, web bugs, pixels, and beacons that have the potential to collect data on their browsing habits. Ghostery blocks HTTP requests according to their source address in two ways: Cookie Blocking and Cookie Protection. Ghostery for Firefox uses a separate engine from its "control" engine to scan the DOM of the webpages users visit and report the contents in a purple overlay inside the page DOM. Being tracking online by companies like Google and Facebook is a serious problem today. You have a right to privacy and your personal activity is being exploited in ways many can't fully appreciate. Security and privacy extensions along with other precautions such as the use of [[Private Search Engines]] will help you to be more anonymous, preserving your privacy as much as possible without completely unplugging yourself from the Internet. issue: Ghostery incompatible with Verizon Wireless web site www.verizonwireless.com online bill pay. Certain javascript buttons like the Pay Now or Next are disabled by Ghostery, making it impossible to pay a phone bill online. resolution: add verizonwireless.com to the Ghostery whitelist. Still, the inconvenience and troubleshooting time results in loss of 1/2 star rating for Ghostery.* Usefulness: Recommended (for security)THEY SOLD OUT. LATEST RELEASE IS SPYWARE.* Category: Security * Side Effects: causes problems with some online bill pay services* Compatibility: ''(testing)''''Palemoon Support: YES - verified''=== 2023 Top Recommended ===Consider these the "must have" or Top Recommended Firefox Extensions for 2023.VLT: ''Mozilla Firefox 115.3.1esr (64-bit)''A picture's worth a thousand words...[[Image:Firefox2023recext.jpg]]Firefox added support for webp images, which the devs should make a toggle if the user wishes to have this support enabled or not. Don't Accept image/webp is somewhat like that, except it works only about half the time or maybe slightly more. The rest of the time the extension WebP / Avif image converter can help you avoid downloading webp. The existence of webp is rather pointless, it is simply less efficient and unnecessary. Using these plugins will save you from having to drop to a CLI and use curl.Hide Doodles is a preference. Many people are not interested in Google's secular progressive politics and would rather not see their stupid Doodles as the thing is used more as a political agenda platform than an event recognition gimmick in recent years. The Old Reddit Redirect is useful for people that are not regular Reddit users as much as just referencing information from posts on Reddit. If you are not a Reddit member and find yourself viewing Reddit pages as the result of a web search looking for information, the old Reddit format is more efficient to quickly search and locate information.''2023 Update: Of this list we recommend only NoScript. The developers of Ghostery have become to aggressive in upselling and the interface has become a disaster. ''