# Blur: hide selected text and media

> Blur any highlighted text or media on a page.

Canonical page: [https://chrome-stats.com/d/blur-content](https://chrome-stats.com/d/blur-content)

## Overview

- **ID:** `blur-content`
- **Platform:** Firefox
- **Type:** Firefox add-on
- **Status:** Available
- **Publisher:** Aleksandr Hovhannisyan
- **Category:** appearance
- **Daily users:** 30
- **Weekly downloads:** 3
- **Version:** 1.0.3
- **Last updated:** 2024-10-07
- **First published:** 2024-10-06
- **Size:** 25 KB
- **Data as of:** 2026-09-08
- **Store listing:** [Firefox Add-ons Store](https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/addon/blur-content/)
- **Website:** [https://github.com/AleksandrHovhannisyan/blur](https://github.com/AleksandrHovhannisyan/blur)

## Description

Highlight text and media and blur them via your browser's right-click menu; control the blur intensity via the extension's popup.

(Limitations) This extension can't blur:

<ul><li>SVG icons</li><li>Background images</li><li>Text inputs</li><li>Anything that can't be highlighted/selected with your mouse cursor</li></ul>

## Rankings

- #20,444 — Overall
- #88 — media
- #185 — selection
- #213 — cursors
- #218 — cursor

## Permissions and access

### Permissions

- `contextMenus`
- `scripting`
- `activeTab`
- `storage`

## Safety

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

### Analysis details

- 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/blur-content)