# Load Progress Bar

> Adds minimalistic load progress bar on each page

Canonical page: [https://chrome-stats.com/d/load-progress-bar](https://chrome-stats.com/d/load-progress-bar)

## Overview

- **ID:** `load-progress-bar`
- **Platform:** Firefox
- **Type:** Firefox add-on
- **Status:** Available
- **Publisher:** Luben Karavelov
- **Category:** appearance
- **Daily users:** 1,373
- **Weekly downloads:** 15
- **Rating:** 4.69 / 5 (90 ratings)
- **Version:** 0.25
- **Last updated:** 2024-09-01
- **First published:** 2017-08-28
- **Size:** 13 KB
- **Data as of:** 2026-09-08
- **Store listing:** [Firefox Add-ons Store](https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/addon/load-progress-bar/)
- **Website:** [https://github.com/luben/load-progress-bar/issues](https://github.com/luben/load-progress-bar/issues)

## Description

Load Progress Bar is a Chrome extension that adds a sleek and minimal progress indicator to every page while it loads. Inspired by Firefox for Android's native progress bar, this add-on provides a thin bar at the top or bottom of your browser window to visually display loading progress in real time.

You can easily customize the appearance of the bar to suit your preferences—adjust the color, thickness, opacity, and whether it appears at the top or bottom of the page. This lightweight extension enhances your browsing experience by providing clear and subtle feedback on page loading status without cluttering the interface.

## Rankings

- #2,773 — Overall
- #1 — progress
- #4 — program
- #7 — loading
- #25 — process
- #39 — press

## Permissions and access

### Permissions

- `storage`

### Content script matches

- `*`

## Safety

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

Users appreciate Load Progress Bar for restoring a clear and customizable page load progress indicator removed in recent Firefox versions. It addresses frustrations with Firefox's subtle or missing progress cues by providing a visible, adjustable progress bar. However, some users note it doesn't show feedback during initial remote server contact and is incompatible with certain pages or newer Firefox versions, indicating room for improvements and updates.

### Pros

- Provides a visible progress bar that replaces Firefox's removed traditional progress bar, enhancing feedback during page loads.
- Highly customizable with options to adjust thickness, color, and style to fit user preferences.
- Simple, convenient, and works well to indicate page loading status.
- Helps users who are frustrated with Firefox's UI changes and lack of clear load progress indicators.
- Improves user experience and usability by making page load status clear and noticeable.

### Cons

- Does not work on certain pages such as addons.mozilla.org due to design/security restrictions.
- Initial contact with the remote server has no visual feedback until the page starts loading, limiting early load status indication.
- Some users note it stopped working in newer Firefox versions (example: version 85.0) and request updates to maintain compatibility.

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