Social plugins
Next, we are going to see different extensions for Firefox for lovers of social networks.
Mark Zuckerberg’s platform is possibly the most popular social network and one of the pioneers. If you use it regularly in Firefox, these add-ons will be very useful for you.
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When we log in to Facebook and keep it active, it involves some security issues, as the social network can track our browsing activity beyond the platform. this plugin prevent Facebook from tracking our movements since it isolates all our activity. Through its installation, it eliminates cookies and logs out of Facebook every time we finish. We can download it for free.
Messenger for Facebook
This plugin allows us use Messenger directly in our browser to chat with our friends, by inserting a sidebar on the right side of the Firefox interface. Simply log in to Facebook to start using this extension. This sidebar will always remain open and from it we will be able to see if our friends are online and easily chat with them without leaving the web interface. We can download Messenger for Facebook from the Firefox Store.
social fixer
By using this plugin we can filter news sources by content, author and link URL by using keywords that we can order so that we don’t miss anything important. We can also hide posts that we have already read, adjust the size of the content, add new themes and customize the interface by using the dark mode. There will be the possibility of hiding the parts of the page that we do not want to see, such as the columns that appear both on the left and on the right, allowing us to focus our attention on the content. We can download Social Fixer for free from this link.
For users of this social network service, these plugins for Firefox may be of great interest and utility.
Twitter as Sidebar
This extension helps all frequent Twitter users to miss a single update, mention or like from our favorite Twitterers. Through this plugin we can keep all updates tidy of Twitter in a single column, all well ordered. If we are interested in Twitter as Sidebar we can download it from Firefox Add-ons.
SimplifiedTwitter
This plugin helps us avoid distractions when we use this social network. The Twitter interface has many elements that can be annoying. That is why its main objective is to eliminate all the distractions of the new design, while improving our experience on the platform by making its design more minimalist. For this, the extension remove components like the trends column, main menu and other elements that we use, so that we can focus on the tweets, which is the most important thing. Download Simplified Twitter for free.
Share on Twitter
The blue bird platform has all kinds of content so, to share it with others, this plugin will be very useful. Share on Twitter allows us share web pages, links and selected text, directly from the context menu and its button hosted on the toolbar. To do this, simply right-click anywhere on a page or link and choose the Share on Twitter option, or select the text you want to share and right-click. In addition, we can make use of the «Alt + t» key combination to share the contents of the platform, all in the most comfortable way. Download Share on Twitter for free.
Another social network belonging to Facebook and that also enjoys great popularity. If we are regular users, we may be interested in these extensions.
Instagram Downloader (Photo/ Video /Story/ Bulk)
This plugin allows us download videos, stories and images from Instagram. It is open source so it does not collect user data, being possible to see its source code on its GitHub page. Downloading the videos is quite simple, because once installed, it will add a download icon to our videos and images when we move between them. Just click on this button to download it to our device. Download Instagram Downloader from the Firefox website.
Instagram video download
This add-on for Firefox will help us to Download videos within the Instagram social network. It is available for free and requires permission to access the download history and access the tabs of our browser. By using it, we can download any video with one click quite simply. It will only be necessary to click on the three points located at the bottom of the video publication. Then we select “Go to publication” and click on the plugin icon in our browser to save it to our computer. What it does not allow is downloading videos embedded in stories. We can get Instagram video download from Firefox Store.
Instagram Photos Plus
This plugin allows us see our photos in full resolution so that we can download it on our PC in its original quality, so we can get it without compression or size reduction. Its use is quite simple as we can imagine, since it will only be necessary to click on the desired image. This will open a new tab from where we can see it at full resolution and download it. It also punctures with the images and videos of the stories. Install Instagram Photo Plus from this link to Mozilla Add-ons.
TikTok
One of the most recent social networks that has gained tremendous popularity in recent years. If we are regular users of this platform, these add-ons can be very useful.
Web for TikTok
This extension for Firefox allows us to access our TikTok account as if we were using our mobile phonel. We can chat with our friends, send videos, share emojis and take screenshots of the window or browse in incognito mode. All this with a low consumption of both CPU, RAM and bandwidth. In addition, this add-on is certified as 100% free of malware by Softpedia Labs, so that we can install it with complete peace of mind. If we want to start using it, we can download Web Tik Tok from the Firefox Store.
TikTok Player
We are talking about a plugin for TikTok that will take care of add video playback controls that will be very useful for the videos hosted on your website. Adding a player below the videos will allow us to pause and play, see the current time and duration of the video. We can also use a seek bar to check how far the video has advanced and jump from one specific time to another. Other options that it incorporates are muting or activating the silence, setting a volume, and saving our volume settings between the videos and seeing them in full screen. Download TikTok Player from this link to the Mozilla Addon Store.
TikTok Container
It is an add-on that we can install in Firefox to be able to prevent TikTok from tracking our activity on other websites, thus protecting our privacy. In this way, it isolates our activity on TikTok to prevent us from being tracked outside our ecosystem through the use of third-party cookies. In this way, the extension keeps the platform in a separate container to prevent it from maintaining its activity on other websites. When installed, every time we visit the social network, it will open in its own container, separate from other sites we are visiting, keeping our privacy safe. Download TikTok Container from the Mozilla Add-on Store.
Extensions for chats and messaging
If we like to chat from our computer, these add-ons for Firefox will be very useful in our day-to-day lives.
Emoji Keyboard – Emojis For Firefox
This extension for Firefox will allow us insert emojis in a fun and fast way in our messages with extensive search functionality. To do this, we just have to click on the extension icon to make an emoji keyboard appear. If we hover over any of the emojis we can see its meaning and if we click on it it will be copied to the clipboard and inserted into an input element. In this plugin it is not necessary to manually copy and paste the emoji, because just by clicking on the selected one it is pasted inside the active input. Install Emoji Keyboard from this link to the Firefox store.
HyperChat
If we use the youtube chat to talk to other users of the platform during the broadcast of a live video, we will surely have verified that it is quite slow and consumes a lot of system resources. To solve it, we can use this plugin as an alternative that will help us to obtain a much more fluid experience. It has performance improvements over the built-in YouTube chat and reduces CPU, RAM, and power consumption. We can download HyperChat free for Firefox.
Chat and meet for Hangouts
This plugin allows us to access from the same interface to the applications of Hangouts Chat and Hangouts Meet and have all its features. The entire process is carried out from all Hangouts platforms, so it will not be necessary to register on other platforms or access other third-party applications with our credentials. It has a real-time notification service and can be used for both commercial and personal purposes. It is not necessary to have Gmail open and it offers low consumption of both CPU, RAM and bandwidth. We can download it from this link to the Firefox Add-ons.
Multiple Messenger Chat
This plugin will allow us combine and group all the chats of our favorite social networks in a single application, so we can send messages to all our friends in a more comfortable way. From this extension we can quickly and easily switch between all the chats from the Firefox website, being able to enable those that we want to have active and deactivate those that we do not use. We will also be able to review all notifications, news, posts and messages in real time. In addition, notifications are shown in a hidden way by clicking on the application icon located on the taskbar. Download it for free from the Firefox Store.
D chat
We are talking about an extension that provides us a decentralized and serverless chats, open source, useful and lightweight. It has features like search or list of channels, private messages and account import and export. It does not require registration to use it, it allows offline messaging and the uploading of images, video and audio. In addition, for greater security it has end-to-end encryption. Download D-Chat for Firefox from its plugin store.
