Everyone is going to talk about UBlock origin (a must) but I have a different take on what makes firefox great:
A thing you can do on firefox with some tweaks is no-search browsing (tm).
1. Remove search suggestions in (about:preferences#search)
2. Use the [History AutoDelete](https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/history-autod...) addon to remove your searches from your History since they would clutter the result and it's unlikely you care about them
3. Go to (about:config) and set `browser.urlbar.resultMenu.keyboardAccessible` to `false` so you can tab through the results with just one tab press
Now when you Ctrl + L into the current tab, you will get results from your history, bookmarks and even open tabs. And the results are only a few Tab presses away, no need to move your hands off the keyboard. You can browse without the useless round trip to a search engine.
If you don't like the results and want to launch a search anyways, well just press Enter instead and it will launch a search with the default search engine.
Searchless browsing right there for you.
P.S : Cool trick is to type % + space in the awesome bar to move around opened tabs, awesome You can also specifically look into bookmarks with * and history with ^
P.P.S : Ctrl + L, Ctrl + T, Ctrl + W and Ctrl + Alt + T are your best friends.
Firefox is amazing, you just have to tweak it a tiny bit
Now you can also learn more about custom search engines :
A thing you can do on firefox with some tweaks is no-search browsing (tm).
1. Remove search suggestions in (about:preferences#search) 2. Use the [History AutoDelete](https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/history-autod...) addon to remove your searches from your History since they would clutter the result and it's unlikely you care about them 3. Go to (about:config) and set `browser.urlbar.resultMenu.keyboardAccessible` to `false` so you can tab through the results with just one tab press
Now when you Ctrl + L into the current tab, you will get results from your history, bookmarks and even open tabs. And the results are only a few Tab presses away, no need to move your hands off the keyboard. You can browse without the useless round trip to a search engine.
If you don't like the results and want to launch a search anyways, well just press Enter instead and it will launch a search with the default search engine.
Searchless browsing right there for you.
P.S : Cool trick is to type % + space in the awesome bar to move around opened tabs, awesome You can also specifically look into bookmarks with * and history with ^
P.P.S : Ctrl + L, Ctrl + T, Ctrl + W and Ctrl + Alt + T are your best friends.
Firefox is amazing, you just have to tweak it a tiny bit
Now you can also learn more about custom search engines :
https://askubuntu.com/a/1534489
They let you do things like "maps New York" directly from the navigation bar and get the result directly in Google maps