Sidebery addon setup inside Floorp browser

I use the Sidebery addon with the Floorp browser as my primary means of browsing. You can accomplish the same thing in Firefox with my ffProfile setup script🦊.

New profile for Sidebery in Firefox

To create a profile for Sidebery, similar to that of Floorp, in Firefox:

Visit 👉 this repository 👈
Download ffNewProfile.sh ⚡
and then run it. 🚀

Firefox new profile install script

The script will turn a vanilla Firefox profile into one that resembles my Floorp setup.

Below is a demonstration of the ffNewProfile.sh script and the changes to the new Firefox profile:

Intoduction to Sidebery vertical tabs

But no matter what browser you use, Sidebery will bring with it vertical tab browsing, and some extra features that need customization.

See the demonstration below for use of vertical tabs:

Sidebery CSS changes

Found under Sidebery settings > Styles editor you can modify some of the visual elements to Sidebery.

Here are the color styles I use for my Sidebery:

  
#root.root {--toolbar-bg: #161923 ;}
#root.root {--frame-bg: #1A1B26 ;}

Using Sidebery tabs as bookmarks

Sidebery can go from tabs --> bookmarks --> tabs.

You can use your bookmark sync to sync Sidebery tabs between devices as well.

View the demonstration below to see how to use Sidebery tabs as bookmarks - and then back again:

Setting up Sidebery Snapshots

Sidebery also lets you save your current tabs to disk in JSON and MD format, at a specific time interval or with manual creation.

These files can then be synced between devices for a self-hosted cloud history/tab sync between devices.

File and folders location

To setup Sidebery’s Snapshots:

Open the Sidebery Settings page.
Scroll to the Snapshots section.
Under, Auto export (on every snapshot) select on.
Find the text box in the area labeled Path with file name.
Edit the text box for the Path with file name to match the Example naming below.

Example naming

To provide uniqueness to each browser being synced:

Include the hostname of the client machine along with the profile name.

You will need to edit the text box using the method for syncing above.
Sidebery wants to use the ~/Downloads folder for it’s use. Stick with this default folder.
Be sure to add a sub-folder inside the default Sidebery folder representing your hostname.
When ready, edit Path with filename using the examples below:

~/Downloads/Sidebery/BuddyPC.default/buddypc.default--%Y.%M.%D-%h.%m

~/Downloads/Sidebery/Thunktop.default-release/thunktop.default-release--%Y.%M.%D-%h.%m

Include the hostname of the client machine along with the profile name (seconds were excluded from the filename).

Saving increments

How big did you want your directory for each browser to get before you started to rotate out the files?

How many files until syncthing starts to get clogged up by this share, or the inodes fill up on the NAS?

8 days of storage
@
10 min intervals =
1152 files per browser

Setting auto-snapshots saving interval and limit

In the settings, under Snapshots, find Auto-snapshot interval.
This will determine how often a file is generated with all the tabs in the browser.
Set the Auto-snapshots interval to 10 minutes.
Down, at the end, set the Snapshot limit to days.
And set the Snapshots limit to 8 days.
This will determine how many snapshots are kept around before they are removed and replaced by newer snapshots.

Syncthing sync snapshots

Once the snapshots are saved to a location on disk, they can be synced across devices.

Syncing my tabs allows me to take a look back at what I was doing and import that to another browser or profile in a different workstation.

Syncthing Diagram

      S y n c t h i n g         
    ┌────────┐  ┌───────────┐   
    │ Floorp │  │           │   
    │ +addon │  │  N A S    │   
    │Sidebery│  │ (remote)  │   
    │   on   │  └───────────┘   
    │   PC   │     ▲            
    └────────┴─────┘            

Syncthing keeps all of the tabs for each workstation and browser profile the same across all my devices.

Save tabs, multiple ways

If you require a 64-bit version of all 9’s, 99.9999999999999999 (that’s 10 billion years)…

Tab Session Manager Addon

You can also use Tab Session Manager to backup your browsing history and tab sessions in the Downloads folder as well.
And you can have these sync to your VPS, NAS, FTP, as well.

Firefox Sync

But if you want to use Firefox’s native syncing, you can do that too and host your own sync server.
- Self-hosting is not a requirement. Mozilla’s own syncing service is free. But It is NOT recommended to use if you have if you have more than 30-100 containers. Mozilla enforces limits on the amount of data each extension is allowed to store in the sync area.
If you’re using Firefox’s Sync Client you can also use the ffsclient commandline-utility to list/view/edit/delete entries in a firefox-sync account.
- ffsclient can be used to access bookmarks, passwords, forms, tabs, history or custom data.

Vertical Tabs from scratch

If you want the slow-motion self-bake version of vertical tabs, check out Sidetabs by Jeb Nicholson.

Otherwise, you can continue to the Floorp customization below to enable vertical tabs:

Floorp vertical tabs custom changes

The following images demonstrate some of the customizations done to the default Floorp install.

(click thumbnails below for full, larger image)

Floorp General Settings - 1/2

Floorp General Settings - 2/2

Floorp Design Settings - 1/2

Floorp Design Settings - 2/2

uBlock Origin addon

uBlock Origin is an open-source, cross-platform browser extension for content filtering — primarily aimed at neutralizing privacy invasion in an efficient, user-friendly method.

uBlock Origin requires lists to operate.

uBlock Origin lists

There are different types of filter lists that people use across the internet.

The lists I use are specific for Ublock Origin.

uBlock Origin with Betterfox’s Recommended Filter lists

There is no better guide than yokoffing’s Betterfox wiki for filterlists.

Yokoffing’s Guidelines

1) Prevent overblocking by applying the law of diminishing returns (always blocking more ≠ better blocking experience).

2) Aim for efficiency without sacrificing quality (use sane, quality resources).

3) Implement the minimum number of useful lists (avoid redundancy and bloat when possible).

Subscribe uBlock Origin to Yokoffing’s lists (use the ‘subscribe’ link for each list)

My personal block lists

My block lists imported into uBlock Origin are below - but

Be sure you have read and understand yokoffing’s Betterfox wiki for filterlists first!

https://cdn.statically.io/gh/dhowe/AdNauseam/master/filters/adnauseam.txt
https://easylist.to/easylist/easyprivacy.txt
https://secure.fanboy.co.nz/fanboy-annoyance.txt
https://easylist.to/easylist/easylist.txt
https://secure.fanboy.co.nz/fanboy-cookiemonster.txt
https://easylist.to/easylist/fanboy-social.txt
https://filters.adtidy.org/extension/ublock/filters/3.txt
https://filters.adtidy.org/extension/ublock/filters/17.txt
https://malware-filter.gitlab.io/malware-filter/urlhaus-filter.txt
https://raw.githubusercontent.com/yourduskquibbles/webannoyances/master/ultralist.txt
https://raw.githubusercontent.com/StevenBlack/hosts/master/hosts
https://big.oisd.nl/
https://winhelp2002.mvps.org/hosts.txt
https://raw.githubusercontent.com/crazy-max/WindowsSpyBlocker/master/data/hosts/spy.txt
https://pgl.yoyo.org/adservers/serverlist.php?hostformat=hosts&showintro=0&mimetype=plaintext
https://adaway.org/hosts.txt
https://raw.githubusercontent.com/DandelionSprout/adfilt/master/AnnoyancesList

Import all of the mentioned uBlock Origin lists

For quick import, you can use my entire uBlock Origin config - it has been exported and uploaded for your convenience.

Download my entire uBlock Origin config 👍

Multi-Account-Containers addon

What are Containers and how can they help?

Containers are a tab/process isolation mechanism in order to separate each new tab/window from each other. This means each Tab gets it’s own resources.

The real power is when you use Multi-Account-Containers for websites you frequent and Temporary Containers for everything else.

Temporary Containers addon

Unlimited Containers are now at our disposal with Temporary Containers.

Settings for Temporary Containers

To make the Temporary Containers addon more useful, try and change the defaults to the following:

In the General section:

Automatic Mode: On
Notifications when Temporary Containers are deleted: Off
Container Number: Reuse available numbers
Delete no longer needed Temporary Containers: After the last tab in it closes

Under the Isolation tab, find Global:

All settings on this page should be set to: “Different from Tab Domain & Subdomains”

In the Isolation section, look for Per Domain:

Always open in new Temporary Container: Disabled
All other settings on this page should be set to “Use Global”

Import the above mentioned Temporary Containers config

For quick import, you can use my Temporary Containers config - it has been exported and uploaded for your convenience.

Download the Temporary Containers config 👍

For more information about Multi-Account-Containers and Temporary Containers visit the Firefox Container Guide.

Auto Tab Discard: Options

In the Auto Tab Discard plugin, I find these options to work the best for me:

Discard inactive tabs after 137 minutes (zero to disable) when the number of inactive tabs exceeds 8
checkbox Change favicon of discarded tabs
checkbox Do not discard a tab if it can display desktop notifications
Tabs with the following hostnames or regular expression rules are not being discarded:
- pastebin.com, galeapps.gale.com, gale.udemy.com, dash.cloudflare.com, one.dash.cloudflare.com, mattermost.sofree.us, jsfiddle.net, my.nocix.net
checkbox Store YouTube’s timestamp before discarding
uncheck Open FAQs page on updates

Import the Auto Tab Discard config from above

For quick import, you can use the Auto Tab Discard config below - it has been exported and uploaded for your convenience.

Download the Auto Tab Discard config 👍

CanvasBlocker: Settings

CanvasBlocker is a great plugin, but it can quickly ruin your browsing experience. I would recomend avoiding Stealth settings or Maximum protection.

To run the auto-configure wizard:
- Settings > Presets > Open
If you run the Wizard, choose:
- Convenient settings and reCAPTCHA exception
Adding, Stealth settings or Maximum protection will slow down the browser.
- Choose the presets based on your needs.

Import the CanvasBlocker config from above

For quick import, you can use the CanvasBlocker config below - it has been exported and uploaded for your convenience.

Download this CanvasBlocker config 👍

Firefox Addons I Keep Installed

AdNauseam
Blocks ads & obfuscates browsing data by “clicking” blocked and hidden ads, polluting your data profile and injecting noise into the economic system that drives online surveillance (comes packaged with uBlock Origin).
Dark Reader
Creating dark themes for websites on the fly.
Sidebery
Vertical tabs tree and bookmarks in sidebar.
Auto Tab Discard
Automatically discard inactive tabs to free up resources
Temporary Containers
Open tabs, websites, and links in automatically managed disposable containers which isolate the data websites store.
Facebook Container
Isolating your Facebook identity into a separate browser profile.
Firefox Multi-Account Containers
Carve out a separate box for each of your online lives.
Containers Helper
Provides container searching, deleting, modifying, duplicating, and URLs used – on a per-container or bulk basis.
FastForward
Use FastForward to skip annoying URL “shorteners”.
floccus
Sync your bookmarks across browsers via Nextcloud, WebDAV or Google Drive.
I still don’t care about cookies
Get rid of cookie warnings from almost all websites!
nightTab
New tab page accented with a chosen colour.
OneTab
Convert tabs to a list and reduce browser memory.
CanvasBlocker
Alters some JS APIs to prevent fingerprinting.
Private Bookmarks
Enables a password-protected bookmark folder.
Redirector
Automatically redirects to user-defined urls on certain pages
refined-h264ify
Improves YouTube playback performance by using your desired codecs.
Request Control
An extension for controlling requests.
TTSFox
Text to Speech on Firefox. It use OS build-in TTS engines, you can use it even when offline.
Ecosia
Adds Ecosia.org as the default search engine to your browser.
DuckDuckGo Lite Search
Adds DuckDuckGo Lite as a search engine for a more lean web-search experience.

Firefox Addons Disabled, but installed

JShelter
JShelter controls the APIs provided by the browser.
uBO-Scope
A tool to measure your 3rd-party exposure score for web sites you visit.

Script to install vertical tabs, Betterfox, and addons in Firefox

The script below will turn a vanilla Firefox profile into one that resembles my Floorp setup.

All the plugins mentioned above will be installed along with the user.js and userChrome.css changes.

You will still need to configure uBlock Origin and all Multi-Account and Temporary Containers, as mentioned above.

Firefox new profile creation script

You can find the Firefox New Profile Creation Script in 👉 this repository. 👈

You will need to download the script and then run it. 🚀

Other Firefox Addons Organized by Category:

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AD BLOCKER

AdNauseam

Blocks ads & obfuscates browsing data by “clicking” blocked and hidden ads, polluting your data profile and injecting noise into the economic system that drives online surveillance.

I don’t care about cookies

Get rid of cookie warnings from almost all websites!

Universal Bypass

Automatically skips annoying link shorteners.

Skip Redirect

Go to the final url from the intermediary url.

uBlock Origin

An efficient wide-spectrum content blocker (comes packaged with AdNauseam).

Privacy Badger

Automatically learns to block invisible trackers.

Privacy Possum

Reducing and falsifying the data gathered by tracking companies.

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CLEAN TEXT

Copy PlainText

Copy Plain Text without any formatting.

Pure URL

Removes all garbage from URLs.

Neat URL

Remove garbage from URLs.

ClearURLS

Removes tracking elements from URLs.

Cookie-Editor

Create, edit and delete a cookie for the current tab

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ISOLATION

Google Container

Isolating your Google identity into a separate browser profile.

Facebook Container

Isolating your Facebook identity into a separate browser profile.

Firefox Multi-Account Containers

Carve out a separate box for each of your online lives.

Containerise

Simple and easy way to add rules for a domain or subdomain in a dedicated container.

Containers Helper

Power user container searching, deleting, modifying, duplicating, on a per-container or bulk basis.

First Party Isolation

FPI works by separating cookies on a per-domain basis.

FoxyProxy Standard

Advanced proxy management tool that completely replaces Firefox’s limited proxying capabilities.

Proxy SwitchyOmega

Manage and switch between multiple proxies quickly & easily.

Profile Switcher for Firefox

Create, manage and switch between browser profiles seamlessly.

NOTE: !!! As of writing, Profile Switcher is broken but fixes are posted in Github.

Also, Profile Switcher needs additional software to function. After installation, it will prompt you based on your OS and Firefox install path.

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PRIVACY

Bypass Paywalls

Bypass paywalls for selected sites.

CSS Exfil Protection

Guard your browser against CSS Exfil attacks.

LocalCDN

Emulates Content Delivery Networks.

Don’t track me Google

Removes Google’s link-conversion/tracking feature.

Searchonymous2

Search anonymously on Google while staying logged in.

Font Fingerprint Defender

Reports a random fake value for fonts installed.

WebGL Fingerprint Defender

Defending against WebGL fingerprinting by reporting a fake value.

Trocker

An email Tracker Blocker.

Private Bookmarks

Enables a password-protected bookmark folder.

Smart HTTPS

Changes HTTP protocol to HTTPS, and if loading encounters error, reverts it back to HTTP.

History AutoDelete

Control your history! Auto delete history by date, use, and domain.

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BETTERMENT

Custom Search Engine

Define custom search engines and use it from address bar of the browser.

HackBar V2

Press F12 to open hackbar. Ctrl + Enter to execute.

Joplin Web Clipper

Capture and save web pages and screenshots from your browser to Joplin.

Reddit Enhancement Suite

Suite of tools to enhance your Reddit browsing experience.

Social Fixer

Fixes Facebook annoyances.

Refined GitHub

Simplifies the GitHub interface and adds many useful features.

Mailvelope

Adds missing encryption and decryption features to the user interface of common webmail providers.

PX: Viewport Dimensions

Displays the viewport dimensions when a browser window is resized.

PiHole Browser Extension

Browser extension to quickly control your PiHole.

DownThemAll!

Select, queue, sort, rename and run your downloads faster.

Bookmark search plus 2

Search for both bookmarks and folders, displaying the exact location in the bookmark tree.

Checkmarks

Importing a new profile? Checkmarks sorts, formats, and loads bookmarks favicons.

External Application Button

A highly customizable external application button and context-menu items

Also, External Application Button needs additional software to function. After installation, it will prompt you based on your OS, and you will need to extract the files to an install path then run the install file.

This will install NodeJS, and on Windows, change some registry entries. ../node/x64/node install.js

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SESSION

Tab Session Manager

Auto-save sessions at any cost.

Auto Tab Discard

Automatically reduces the memory load of open—but inactive—tabs.

OneTab

Convert tabs to a list and reduce browser memory.

Copy/Paste and Save tabs list

Copy every tab opened, save, and paste a list of urls to open in new tabs (alternative to OneTab).

Sidebery

Vertical tabs tree and bookmarks in sidebar.

Wallabagger

Add pages to wallabag, a self-hosted web archive you can read later.

Readeck

Save the readable content of web pages. See it as a bookmark manager and a read later tool.

Shiori

Hosted bookmark manager intended as a simple clone of Pocket.

Bookmark search plus 2

Know what folder that bookmark is in. Search for both bookmarks and folder and find the exact location.

Save my tabs!

Save only current open tabs as bookmarks in a folder at a designated interval.

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STREAM/VIDEO

BlockTube

YouTube Video blocker.

Improve YouTube!

Adds stuff to YouTube.

SponsorBlock

Skip over sponsors, intros, outros, subscription reminders.

h264ify

Makes YouTube stream H.264 videos instead of VP8/VP9 videos.

Alternate Player for Twitch.tv

Alternate player of live broadcasts for Twitch.tv website.

BetterTTV

Enhances Twitch with new features, emotes, and more.

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BEAUTIFICATION

Dark Reader

Creating dark themes for websites on the fly.

nightTab

New tab page accented with a chosen colour.

Adaptive Tab Bar Color

Changes the color of Firefox tab bar to match the website theme.

Matte Black (Purple)

A modern dark / Matte Black theme with a purple accent color.

Black & Purple mood

Simple Black and Purple theme, dark and moody just the way I like it.

Additional Web Browsers and Addons:

Basilisk

Install

You have to download a zip from their website and then extract it to where you’d like the application ‘installed’ to.

Addons for Basilisk

Photonic

Port of the Firefox (Quantum) default theme, “Photon”, to Pale Moon.

Decentraleyes

Localizes large third parties used for content delivery.

I don’t care about cookies

Removes annoying cookie warnings.

Pure URL

Automatically strips garbage URL tracking parameters.

Swarth

Modifies web pages to use a dark color scheme.

uBlock Origin (Legacy)

Efficient ad blocker add-on.

ηMatrix

ηMatrix will break the majority of the websites you visit.

Chromium

Install De-Googled Chromium

Please review and follow any install instructions here: https://github.com/ungoogled-software/ungoogled-chromium

Addons for Chromium

New Tab Draft

Simply turn your New Tab page into a clean space to take notes.

PixelBlock

PixelBlock is a Gmail extension that blocks people from tracking when you open their emails.

The Marvellous Suspender

Prevent the RAM consumption of unused pages.

Tabs Outliner

Fusion of tabs manager with a tree like personal information organizer.

EditThisCookie

You can add, delete, edit, search, protect and block cookies!

streamkeys

Global hotkeys for online music players including support for media keys.

Width and Height Display

Displays the inner width and innner height of the screen.

Undo Closed Tabs Button

Easily undo closed tabs via your browser’s toolbar popup!

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Browser addons, Sidebery, and Floorp settings

Sidebery addon setup inside Floorp browser

New profile for Sidebery in Firefox

Firefox new profile install script

Intoduction to Sidebery vertical tabs

Sidebery CSS changes

Using Sidebery tabs as bookmarks

Setting up Sidebery Snapshots

File and folders location

Example naming

Saving increments

Setting auto-snapshots saving interval and limit

Syncthing sync snapshots

Syncthing Diagram

Save tabs, multiple ways

Tab Session Manager Addon

Firefox Sync

Vertical Tabs from scratch

Floorp vertical tabs custom changes

uBlock Origin addon

uBlock Origin lists

uBlock Origin with Betterfox’s Recommended Filter lists

Yokoffing’s Guidelines

My personal block lists

Import all of the mentioned uBlock Origin lists

Multi-Account-Containers addon

Temporary Containers addon

Settings for Temporary Containers

Import the above mentioned Temporary Containers config

Auto Tab Discard: Options

Import the Auto Tab Discard config from above

CanvasBlocker: Settings

Import the CanvasBlocker config from above

Firefox Addons I Keep Installed

Firefox Addons Disabled, but installed

Script to install vertical tabs, Betterfox, and addons in Firefox

Firefox new profile creation script

Other Firefox Addons Organized by Category:

AD BLOCKER

CLEAN TEXT

ISOLATION

PRIVACY

BETTERMENT

SESSION

STREAM/VIDEO

BEAUTIFICATION

Additional Web Browsers and Addons:

Basilisk

Install

Addons for Basilisk

Chromium

Install De-Googled Chromium

Addons for Chromium

Having trouble?

Further Reading

Web Browser Privacy Presentation

Create local cache of Fedora mirrors, update systems over LAN

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