# Fox 3D viewer

> View a wide range of 3D formats directly in your browser, like 3DM (Rhino 3D), 3DS, 3MF, DAE (COLLADA), DRC, FBX, GCODE, GLB, GLTF, KMZ, LWO, MD2, MPD, NRRD, OBJ (Wavefront), PDB, PLY, STL, USDZ, VOX, VTK, VTP, WRL, XYZ

Canonical page: [https://chrome-stats.com/d/fox-3d-viewer](https://chrome-stats.com/d/fox-3d-viewer)

## Overview

- **ID:** `fox-3d-viewer`
- **Platform:** Firefox
- **Type:** Firefox add-on
- **Status:** Available
- **Publisher:** Gerben
- **Category:** download-management,appearance
- **Daily users:** 91
- **Weekly downloads:** 17
- **Rating:** 5.00 / 5 (1 ratings)
- **Version:** 1.0.3
- **Last updated:** 2026-06-12
- **First published:** 2026-04-24
- **Size:** 19 MB
- **Data as of:** 2026-09-10
- **Store listing:** [Firefox Add-ons Store](https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/addon/fox-3d-viewer/)
- **Website:** [https://github.com/gversluis/firefox-fox-3d-viewer](https://github.com/gversluis/firefox-fox-3d-viewer)

## Description

<strong>🪲 Known bugs</strong>
<ul><li><strong>On Fennec (Firefox for Android) pages sometimes refreshes and the model is gone</strong>
  Workaround: Go to the previous page and reload the model</li><li><strong>Simplify setting often does not work properly (good news: you don't need it!)</strong>
  Simplify helper from Three.js seems a bit buggy: Small models tend to loose vertices, large models tend to simplify slowly and freeze the page</li></ul>
<strong>📌 Features</strong>
<ul><li>🛡️ Your data is yours — no ads, no external monitoring, no measurements</li><li>🔗 Automatic link detection — URLs ending with a 3D file extension automatically open in the viewer</li><li>🪤 In memory link detection — Blob: download links with a 3D file extension automatically open in the viewer</li><li>📂 Open local files — click on the toolbar button to view local files in the viewer</li><li>👁️ Rotate, zoom, and move — view as you like it by dragging the model and changing lights and camera</li><li>✨ Material presets — switch between Default, Color, Cartoon, Flat, Wireframe, and a selection of materials</li><li>🌅 Backgrounds — view your model against different backgrounds</li><li>🥪️ Isometric view — switch between perspective and isometric view</li><li>📷 PNG export — render and download a screenshot of the current view</li><li>🖨️ STL export — convert your model to STL to 3D print</li><li>🧊 GLB export — convert your model to GLB geometry which open in most 3D modeling tools</li><li>💾 Download original file — last but not least, download the original file</li><li>🤝 Open source AGPL license — you can modify the code for your fittings</li></ul>
<strong>🗃️ Supported Formats</strong>
<ul><li><code>3dm</code> - Rhino 3D model</li><li><code>3ds</code> - 3D Studio mesh</li><li><code>3mf</code> - 3D Manufacturing Format</li><li><code>amf</code> - Additive Manufacturing File</li><li><code>dae</code> - COLLADA digital asset</li><li><code>drc</code> - Google Draco compressed mesh</li><li><code>fbx</code> - Autodesk FBX interchange format</li><li><code>gcode</code> - 3D printer/CNC toolpath</li><li><code>glb</code> - GL Transmission Format</li><li><code>kmz</code> - Keyhole Markup Language (3D geodata)</li><li><code>lwo</code> - LightWave object</li><li><code>md2</code> - Quake II model</li><li><code>mdd</code> - Point cache animation data</li><li><code>mpd</code> - LDraw (LEGO model)</li><li><code>nrrd</code> - Nearly Raw Raster Data (often medical)</li><li><code>obj</code> - Wavefront OBJ model</li><li><code>pcd</code> - Point Cloud Data</li><li><code>pdb</code> - Protein Data Bank structure</li><li><code>ply</code> - Polygon file format</li><li><code>stl</code> - Stereolithography mesh</li><li><code>usdz</code> - Universal Scene Description</li><li><code>vox</code> - MagicaVoxel voxel model</li><li><code>vtk</code> - Visualization Toolkit dataset</li><li><code>vtp</code> - VTK polygonal data</li><li><code>wrl</code> - Virtual Reality Modeling Language world</li><li><code>xyz</code> - XYZ point cloud</li></ul>
<strong>👓 Permissions explained</strong>
<ul><li><strong>Fox 3D viewer requires access to all websites</strong>
  To detect requests to 3D files and to catch blobs (in memory files)
  You can disable this if you only want to upload local files*</li><li><strong>Fox 3D viewer requires access to the stub URL*</strong>
  If you disable access to all websites and want to view extensions which require a stub URL, then do not forget to grant access to the stub URL</li><li><strong>webNavigation/webRequest/webRequestBlocking</strong>
  Check the request URL and redirect to the viewer</li><li><strong>Access to tabs</strong>
  Open tabs
  Wait for tab to load before sending data</li><li><strong>Storage</strong>
  Load and save the extensions to be intercepted</li></ul>
* <code>Stub URL</code> is a website that is opened by the extension. All contents are replaced so the viewer can load. This allows the viewer to run in page context and run dynamic code which is required by some loaders.

## Rankings

- #12,240 — Overall
- #57 — viewer
- #103 — 3d wallpapers

## Permissions and access

### Permissions

- `webRequest`
- `webRequestBlocking`
- `tabs`
- `webNavigation`
- `storage`

### Content script matches

- `<all_urls>`

## Safety

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

### Analysis details

- Grants access to browser tabs, which can be used to track user browsing habits and history, presenting a privacy concern.
- This extension has low user count. Unpopular extensions may not be stable or safe.

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