# FireLoad

> FireLoad makes Firefox feel faster by preloading likely next pages before you click.

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

## Overview

- **ID:** `fireload`
- **Platform:** Firefox
- **Type:** Firefox add-on
- **Status:** Available
- **Publisher:** Sean
- **Category:** other
- **Version:** 0.1.6
- **Last updated:** 2026-06-07
- **First published:** 2026-06-03
- **Size:** 33 KB
- **Data as of:** 2026-09-09
- **Store listing:** [Firefox Add-ons Store](https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/addon/fireload/)

## Description

FireLoad is a speculative page-warming extension for Firefox. It watches for strong navigation signals such as hovering, focusing, middle-clicking, right-clicking, and opening links in new tabs or windows, then uses browser-native prefetching to warm likely next pages ahead of time.

Choose between three modes:

Efficiency keeps preloading conservative with tight resource limits.

Balanced uses a practical mix of hover, visible-link, and intent-based prediction.

Blazing Fast uses more aggressive preloading for the fastest perceived navigation.

FireLoad uses native browser hints such as DNS prefetch, preconnect, and document prefetch. It does not collect analytics, send telemetry, or transmit data to a FireLoad service. Settings are stored locally in Firefox.

To reduce unwanted requests, FireLoad skips sensitive URLs such as checkout, payment, logout, delete, token, session, and unsubscribe paths. It also respects Save-Data and slow-network signals by default.

REPO: <a href="https://prod.outgoing.prod.webservices.mozgcp.net/v1/6659ad26922390f0cd9276f6c4f1241cb92bcbf3a84624d7611fed9ead82bd5e/https%3A//github.com/Fatblabs/FireLoad" rel="nofollow">https://github.com/Fatblabs/FireLoad</a>

## Rankings

- #141,426 — Overall

## Permissions and access

### Permissions

- `storage`

### Host permissions

- `http://*/*`
- `https://*/*`

### Content script matches

- `*`

## Safety

- **Risk impact:** Moderate risk impact
- **Risk likelihood:** High 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/fireload)