# GNU Social Tools

> What is GNU Social Tools? What can it do? It can share web page links, text from a web page to a new post of your GNU Social instance.

Canonical page: [https://chrome-stats.com/d/gnu-social-tools](https://chrome-stats.com/d/gnu-social-tools)

## Overview

- **ID:** `gnu-social-tools`
- **Platform:** Firefox
- **Type:** Firefox add-on
- **Status:** Available
- **Publisher:** Genius Musing
- **Category:** social-communication
- **Daily users:** 1
- **Weekly downloads:** 1
- **Version:** 0.0.4resigned1
- **Last updated:** 2024-04-25
- **First published:** 2018-06-26
- **Size:** 123 KB
- **Data as of:** 2026-09-08
- **Store listing:** [Firefox Add-ons Store](https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/addon/gnu-social-tools/)

## Description

GNU Social Tools is a Firefox add-on that allows you to easily share web page links and text to your GNU Social instance. With this add-on, you can quickly promote content from your browser and even automate the tagging process. Simply set the base URL for your GNU Social Instance in the options, and start sharing with a right-click or by selecting text on a webpage. Enhance your GNU Social experience with GNU Social Tools.

## Rankings

- #124,685 — Overall
- #74 — social

## Permissions and access

### Permissions

- `<all_urls>`
- `tabs`
- `storage`
- `contextMenus`
- `webNavigation`
- `activeTab`
- `clipboardWrite`

## Safety

- **Risk impact:** High 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/gnu-social-tools)