# Graze for Mastodon

> Graze is 1-click follow, favorite, boost, bookmark, reply for Mastodon, no matter what instance you call home.

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

## Overview

- **ID:** `graze`
- **Platform:** Firefox
- **Type:** Firefox add-on
- **Status:** Available
- **Publisher:** Jared Zimmerman
- **Category:** feeds-news-blogging,social-communication
- **Daily users:** 146
- **Rating:** 3.23 / 5 (22 ratings)
- **Version:** 1.5.1
- **Last updated:** 2025-02-27
- **First published:** 2022-12-25
- **Size:** 868 KB
- **Data as of:** 2026-09-08
- **Store listing:** [Firefox Add-ons Store](https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/addon/graze/)
- **Website:** [https://faqabout.me/iam/graze](https://faqabout.me/iam/graze)
- **Privacy policy:** [https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/addon/graze/privacy/](https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/addon/graze/privacy/)

## Description

**Graze for Mastodon** is a versatile Chrome extension designed to enhance your Mastodon experience by enabling quick, one-click actions such as follow, favorite, boost, bookmark, and reply regardless of your Mastodon instance. It is fully customizable, allowing users to tailor visual themes, rearrange account orders, and adjust notification settings to suit their preferences.

Key features include an updated visual design, expanded link previews, image captions displayed below images, a "Follows You" indicator on remote profiles, and improved toolbar navigation showing home and incompatible instances. The extension also offers direct access to separate notifications and messages and fixes common redirect issues for smooth browsing. While it supports Mastodon web version 4.1.2 and above, some icon states may reset after page reloads. Graze for Mastodon helps streamline your social media workflow with intuitive and personalized functionality.

## Rankings

- #9,594 — Overall
- #35 — todo
- #177 — reply
- #182 — boost
- #195 — home
- #213 — tiktok

## Permissions and access

### Permissions

- `storage`
- `tabs`
- `alarms`
- `contextMenus`
- `commands`
- `<all_urls>`

### Content script matches

- `<all_urls>`

## Safety

- **Risk impact:** High risk impact
- **Risk likelihood:** Low 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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## Review summary

### Pros

- Reduces some of Mastodon's friction points
- Can be 100% reliable for basic use

### Cons

- Not compatible with Hometown fork
- Pop-ups stack up and need to be closed manually, disrupting browsing experience
- Requests data for all websites upon install instead of allowing instance whitelisting
- No easily accessible way to report issues or bugs
- Adds-on breaks functionality on other sites like Bandcamp
- Authorization step is broken with nowhere to input the given code

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Source: [Chrome-Stats](https://chrome-stats.com/d/graze)