I am in a bit of a pickle. I’m a developer, and I also use some crypto social media, and I also like downloading media sometimes, I do a lot of stuff. I modify CSS, I script & hack the web, yadda yadda. Basically what this means is I ended up with like 50 addons I juggle-enable-disable all the time. This is extremely frustrating without some kind of grouping them, or at the very least searching only among my installed addons to enable/disable.
Do you guys have any idea if a tool or method exists to solve this problem?
@kill How about creating a second Firefox profile dedicated to development? I did that for a different reason, to create a PDF viewer using Firefox. It has the right settings and addons only active when viewing a PDF. This idea could be used to have a dedicated development environment which does not interfere with your personal data and configuration. And you can back them up and restore individually.
Yeah, this is pretty much how family members have set up their “shopping” profiles with the coupon extensions, etc.
To add on to this, I find using the profile switcher addon makes this process a lot more painless and similar to chrome’s. The main downside of the addon is that it doesn’t work until you actually launch the browser, so no launching from desktop/taskbar with this.
The native process is clunky imo. To launch a specific profile from desktop you need a shortcut that points to a batch file that runs a command like “firefox.exe -P profilename”
Ctrl + F on that page
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@igorlogius too much stuff, and it also interferes with what i’m developing. My addons will force: dark mode, select anything, allow right click, allow scroll anywhere, click through overlays to examine images, etc. My addons are basically completely destroying websites to enable me to browse easier, but it’s not an accurate representation when I’m trying to make a website. I’ve often thought my site looks one way when it’s actually my addons modifying it, then I open it on chrome or some sandbox and it’s a mess of mismatched colors and misunderstandings. Additionally, I have at least 4 addons that inject classnames into what i’m coding (bitwarden, hive keychain, metamask, near meteor), so html is basically unreadable for chatgpt when i feed it html to examine. I also have a bunch of useless crap that injects user agents or disables certain kinds of overlays that would block navigation.
overall it’s just a ton of crap that i use for everyday browsing, but is completely counterproductive when coding.
as others have said, this is a job for profiles.
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You can now search for addons since the last 2 firefox versions thanks to a single contributor.
Before that you had to open a new tab -> ctrl+f -> ctrl+shift+a(I also have many enabled & disabled addons)