# Improvements for Twitter

> Easy Twitter/X full quality image and video downloading with custom filenames, easy copying tweets with VXTwitter or FXTwitter links, sidebar and tweet button hiding, and other quality of life features!

Canonical page: [https://chrome-stats.com/d/improvements-for-twitter](https://chrome-stats.com/d/improvements-for-twitter)

## Overview

- **ID:** `improvements-for-twitter`
- **Platform:** Firefox
- **Type:** Firefox add-on
- **Status:** Available
- **Publisher:** usy
- **Category:** appearance
- **Daily users:** 945
- **Weekly downloads:** 24
- **Rating:** 4.95 / 5 (21 ratings)
- **Version:** 1.8.6
- **Last updated:** 2026-09-02
- **First published:** 2024-06-11
- **Size:** 138 KB
- **Data as of:** 2026-09-12
- **Store listing:** [Firefox Add-ons Store](https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/addon/improvements-for-twitter/)
- **Website:** [https://github.com/usyless/twitter-improvements/issues](https://github.com/usyless/twitter-improvements/issues)

## Description

Improvements for Twitter is a Chrome extension that enhances Twitter/X with practical quality-of-life features. Save full-quality images and videos with custom filenames, copy tweets via VXTwitter or FXTwitter, and hide or rearrange tweet UI elements. All features are configurable in the extension settings.

Additional perks include thumbnail previews, a history log to prevent duplicates, saving images through the right-click menu, replacing shortened URLs with originals, and toggles to tailor the interface to your workflow. Note that some functions may vary if the Twitter UI language isn't English.

## Rankings

- #3,417 — Overall
- #10 — improve
- #29 — twitter
- #45 — twitter data
- #46 — tweet
- #62 — retweet

## Permissions and access

### Permissions

- `contextMenus`
- `downloads`
- `clipboardWrite`
- `storage`
- `https://x.com/*`
- `https://video.twimg.com/*`
- `https://pbs.twimg.com/*`

### Content script matches

- `x.com`

## Safety

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

### Analysis details

- Injects scripts into web pages, which may alter or extract site contents, resulting in a substantial risk.
- This extension was recently updated in the past month. New updates may not be stable or safe.

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