# content blocking

> Speed up the loading of pages by blocking content you need not.

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

## Overview

- **ID:** `content-blocking`
- **Platform:** Firefox
- **Type:** Firefox add-on
- **Status:** Available
- **Publisher:** Firefox user 12585817
- **Category:** privacy-security
- **Daily users:** 5
- **Weekly downloads:** 1
- **Rating:** 3.00 / 5 (2 ratings)
- **Version:** 0.2resigned1
- **Last updated:** 2024-04-25
- **First published:** 2016-10-10
- **Size:** 8.99 KB
- **Data as of:** 2026-09-07
- **Store listing:** [Firefox Add-ons Store](https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/addon/content-blocking/)

## Description

"Content blocking" is a Firefox add-on that allows you to speed up the loading of pages by blocking unnecessary content.

## Rankings

- #43,576 — Overall
- #140 — ad-blocking

## Permissions and access

### Permissions

- `webRequest`
- `webRequestBlocking`

## Safety

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

### Analysis details

- Allows the extension to observe and analyze traffic in flight for the selected hosts.
- 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/content-blocking)