# Lightweight X (formerly Twitter)

> Lightweight of X (formerly Twitter) which is very heavy in Firefox.

Canonical page: [https://chrome-stats.com/d/lightweight-x-formerly-twitter](https://chrome-stats.com/d/lightweight-x-formerly-twitter)

## Overview

- **ID:** `lightweight-x-formerly-twitter`
- **Platform:** Firefox
- **Type:** Firefox add-on
- **Status:** Available
- **Publisher:** menkuri
- **Category:** feeds-news-blogging,social-communication
- **Daily users:** 1,132
- **Weekly downloads:** 24
- **Rating:** 4.67 / 5 (9 ratings)
- **Version:** 1.0.0
- **Last updated:** 2023-12-15
- **First published:** 2023-12-14
- **Size:** 9.19 KB
- **Data as of:** 2026-09-10
- **Store listing:** [Firefox Add-ons Store](https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/addon/lightweight-x-formerly-twitter/)

## Description

The Lightweight X extension improves your browsing experience on X (formerly Twitter) by disabling the heavy backdrop-filter effect that can slow down performance in Firefox. This tweak slightly changes the visual display but substantially reduces resource usage, making X much lighter and faster on both PC and Android devices. Experience smoother scrolling and quicker load times without compromising essential functionality. Download links are available for Firefox on both platforms.

## Rankings

- #3,082 — Overall
- #166 — Feeds, News & Blogging
- #9 — x
- #33 — twitter
- #42 — delight
- #62 — flight

## Permissions and access

### Content script matches

- `*.twitter.com`
- `*.x.com`

## Safety

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

### Analysis details

- Injects scripts into web pages, which may alter or extract site contents, resulting in a substantial risk.
- This extension has low user count. Unpopular extensions may not be stable or safe.

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