Social Fixer

Social Fixer for Facebook fixes annoyances, adds features, and enhances existing functionality to make FB more fun and efficient. Filter the news feed, hide sponsored posts and political posts, hide parts of the page you don't want to see, and more!

Social Fixer: Enhance Your Facebook Experience

"Social Fixer" is a Firefox add-on that revamps your Facebook experience by allowing you to filter posts in the news feed by various criteria, hide sponsored and political posts, customizes the interface through display tweaks, and adds multiple convenient features such as 'Stealth Mode', 'Comment Navigator' and 'Anonymize'. This add-on also offers the ability to hide certain page components and ensures you're always on the most recent feed.

Add-on stats

By: MattKruse
Rating: 4.44
(441)
Version: 31.1.0 (Last updated: 2023-09-13)
Creation date: 2009-11-30
Weekly download count: 152
Firefox on Android: No
Risk impact: Moderate risk impact
Risk likelihood:
Manifest version: 2
Permissions:
  • https://*.SocialFixer.com/*
  • https://matt-kruse.github.io/*
  • https://*.facebook.com/*
  • storage
  • unlimitedStorage
Size: 213.88K

Other platforms

Social Fixer for Facebook (v31.1.0)
4.29 (3,405) 100,000
Not available on Android
Social Fixer for Facebook (v31.1.0)
4.40 (28) 29,446
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Add-on summary

Social Fixer is filled with features to make your Facebook experience better.

  • Filter posts in the news feed by content, author, link url, and more
  • Built-in Filter Subscriptions let you just pick a filter and use it without knowing how it works
  • Pre-defined filters include hiding Sponsored Posts, Political posts, things your friends like, and much more.
  • Hide posts you've read and are done with, so they don't appear in the news feed anymore
  • Select from a list of Display Tweaks to customize the interface, or write your own with CSS
  • Force FB to stay on the Most Recent feed
  • Hide parts of the page you don't want to see, like panels in the left or right columns.
  • Comment Navigator lets you expand all comments and replies to a post, and highlight comments that are older than an age you specify
  • Tips point you to built-in Facebook settings and options and suggest values to make your experience better
  • Stealth Mode hides Like buttons, Comment areas, etc so you can browse Facebook without accidentally interacting with posts you don't intend to
  • Show full timestamps on posts, rather than relative times like "1 hr ago"
  • Anonymize for screenshots with one click - hide friend names, group names, profile pictures, etc. If you want to share a conversation or screenshot but not your privacy, anonymize first.
Filters and Tweaks are updated regularly and automatically available to you to use without any additional work. Features will be added continuously to make your Facebook experience as great as possible!

User reviews

These summaries are automatically generated weekly using AI based on recent user reviews. Firefox Browser Add-ons does not verify user reviews, so some user reviews may be inaccurate, spammy, or outdated.
Pros
  • Helps to hide unwanted posts and ads on Facebook
  • Makes Facebook more usable by enhancing user control over the feed
  • Easy setup process for blocking specific types of posts
  • Overall very effective for enhancing the Facebook experience
  • Keeps corporate content off the feed, catering to more personal usage
Cons
  • Some features do not work consistently, like hiding suggested posts
  • Occasional political bias in posts that are not filtered out
  • Configuration may be complex for non-technical users
  • Recent updates have caused some functionality to cease
  • Jumpiness in scrolling when posts are hidden
Most mentioned
  • Hiding suggested posts
  • Control over Facebook feed
  • Blocking unwanted ads and posts
  • Configuration complexity
  • Inconsistent performance of some features
User reviews
Maybe I just don't get it, but this doesn't seem to be able to modify ANY of the things I want to fix on facebook: Show ALL comments, every time. Always show most recent activity in groups. Hide certain groups from the news feed. Another thing which would bring me such joy, would be to always open a post in a new tab, not these annoying pop-up dialogue boxes.

by OldGoat, 2024-11-16

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Add-on safety

Risk impact

Social Fixer requires a few sensitive permissions. Exercise caution before installing.

Risk likelihood

Social Fixer has earned a fairly good reputation and likely can be trusted.

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