i use a few extensions to give me more control over websites: noscript is the most important one.
yes script is the sort of "better than nothing" more userfriendly, use it to speed up sites that dont need js extension. ive never used both at the same time, and i cant imagine they would work well together. noscript is a whitelist (relatively secure) and yesscript is a blacklist (every script runs by default.)
stylish was handy though not well supported, i looked for an alternative (it was recommended somewhere that someone was having trouble with stylish.)
mozilla has changed their extension architecture, so pale moon might not use the same extensions. esr might not support the latest versions. non-esr firefox is just an intolerable piece of garbage to use.
mozilla is closing the door on supporting users like those who like things like puppy-- it is a bloated dictatorial mess that shuts off your extensions on a whim and spends way too much time phoning home-- we used to call that "spyware," now its built in.
like facebook, the settings you have to mess with for relative "privacy" keep multiplying. the default is not privacy, so instead of opting in theres an opt-out process too complex for any average person to bother with.
if i leave firefox to run with default settings, it will at some point run an update and unload noscript, it has done this before. this is completely unacceptable behaviour for a browser, noscript is a security feature that it is automatically disabling.
you can only do so much with extensions, when the core (of firefox, not of corepup) is so problematic. i turn off as many settings that phone home as possible. its tedious, its stupid. mozilla has utterly betrayed their users. of course google is not better, i dont use google browsers.
https://addons.mozilla.org for all the extensions you could ever want, except if you want others. note that unless you run esr, mozilla only runs signed ones-- which means they control the extensions you can load. which means its not longer a truly open platform-- its increasingly like apples app store.
i stopped using pale moon over its extension policy, so they both have problems i consider serious which make extensions an incomplete solution. but far better than nothing, which is why im running noscript.
this is fresh, i havent had the chance to get bitter about it-- the sorry ethical standards of both mozilla and the lead pale moon developer this year have me completely disgusted. "traitors" is not too strong a word. "jerks" is pulling punches a little too much. they do not care about users, and they sell you out.
at some point there will be alternatives. at least for now, those of us who feel this way can shame them and offer the critique theyve earned. writing software you dont like and designing software to betray its users are quite different things.
ive put a lot of personal feelings in this post, but there is a technical side to it-- it tells you where to find extensions (youll find most of them that way) and it tells you what the limitations are.
since mozilla is following a pattern, a trend, this is about how their browser works now, and how it used to work, and how it will probably work as they continue to take large steps against users and small steps for everybody.
i hate to say that the number of people really working for user freedom is getting smaller. the people we used to rely on are all following the "we arent about choice at all" playbook.
everybody is more about "do it our way" these days-- debian, wordpress, mozilla, arch-- everyones turning on the user lately. zero concern about barry, and wanderer though. theyre old-fashioned. thats good.
a lot of us got into this software because it was about real choices, about putting the user in control of their computer, not the other way around. this is an ugly chapter in software history, where floss does a lot less of what its really designed to do. you can tell the people working on these things arent the people who designed them, and their motivations differ as well.