# Better UIs

> Redirects sites with awful and/or slow UIs (like medium.com) to sites with fast, lightweight UIs (like scribe.rip).

Canonical page: [https://chrome-stats.com/d/better-uis](https://chrome-stats.com/d/better-uis)

## Overview

- **ID:** `better-uis`
- **Platform:** Firefox
- **Type:** Firefox add-on
- **Status:** Available
- **Publisher:** jrc03c
- **Category:** feeds-news-blogging,social-communication
- **Version:** 0.2
- **Last updated:** 2022-07-08
- **First published:** 2022-07-07
- **Size:** 168 KB
- **Data as of:** 2026-09-09
- **Store listing:** [Firefox Add-ons Store](https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/addon/better-uis/)

## Description

"Better UIs" is a Firefox add-on that automatically redirects websites with slow and annoying UIs to faster and more user-friendly alternatives like scribe.rip.

## Rankings

- #147,113 — Overall

## Permissions and access

### Permissions

- `webRequest`
- `webRequestBlocking`
- `<all_urls>`
- `storage`

## Safety

- **Risk impact:** Moderate risk impact
- **Risk likelihood:** Moderate risk likelihood

### Analysis details

- Allows access to all websites, posing a significant security risk as it can monitor and modify data from any visited site.
- This extension has low user count. Unpopular extensions may not be stable or safe.

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Source: [Chrome-Stats](https://chrome-stats.com/d/better-uis)