I use some of those extensions also. I have Ghostery, uBlock Origin, Adblock Plus and NoScript. No script has saved me from myself multiple times. When I've accidentally clicked a dodgy link, the page usually comes up blank. There was no extension in Chrome that did the same, so I'm a lot more wary with Chrome. NoScript allows for parts of the page to show that don't have scripts. Chrome seems to show all or nothing. In Chrome, I tried uMatrix and got mostly nothing while ScriptBlock and ScriptSafe showed mostly everything. I also use the feature built in Firefox to delete history and cookies on every Firefox close. Chrome also doesn't have this feature. The best I can do to duplicate it is to go incognito in Chrome so that cookies and history aren't saved. That's very inconvenient for every visit.
Thank you for the questions and the recommendations. I'm a non-tech person. It sounds like you are a more tech type person. I realized that Ghostery and Adblock were redundant, but I figured that more protection couldn't be bad. Unfortunately, I think I was wrong on that. I had just installed uBlock a few days ago and wanted to try it out, so I left the others running. My Firefox froze up a couple times. I'm uninstalling Ghostery and Adblock (thanks!) and hoping that helps. I'm still pretty unfamiliar with uBlock. It says that it's filtering hundreds of items, but I can't tell what they are. Is there a place where I can see what it's blocking? I checked out the Click & Clean. Thanks for the recommendation. I'm not sure I like that it scans the computer for malware, so I have to take a better look at it. I like my extensions to protect me from things that are coming from outside. I'm not so happy that they try to look inside my computer. Perhaps that's not what it does, and it was just poor wording in the description. I looked at the Iridium browser. Is it German? Not to be region-centric, but that gives me pause, only because the laws here are different, so I don't know if that affects anything. Thanks again for the advice. I appreciate it.
Thanks! No worries. I did install it and trashed it after I read this comment. I've seen it recommended a lot on Reddit. I'll wait for your comments on it, or wait until I have more time to research it. I keep thinking that Chrome should have a simpler way to delete history on close than to add an extension. But that may be expecting too much from a company that scans your email and adds corresponding ads in them. (I hope they've stopped doing that by now.)