# Return X/Twitter Link Previews

> Bring back X/Twitter link previews with headlines and descriptions

Canonical page: [https://chrome-stats.com/d/return-x-link-previews](https://chrome-stats.com/d/return-x-link-previews)

## Overview

- **ID:** `return-x-link-previews`
- **Platform:** Firefox
- **Type:** Firefox add-on
- **Status:** Available
- **Publisher:** stevenlafl
- **Category:** feeds-news-blogging,appearance
- **Daily users:** 30
- **Rating:** 4.50 / 5 (4 ratings)
- **Version:** 0.0.3
- **Last updated:** 2023-10-06
- **First published:** 2023-10-05
- **Size:** 182 KB
- **Data as of:** 2026-09-07
- **Store listing:** [Firefox Add-ons Store](https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/addon/return-x-link-previews/)
- **Website:** [https://github.com/stevenlafl/return-x-link-preview](https://github.com/stevenlafl/return-x-link-preview)

## Description

Adds the link previews with headline and description back to X posts. All requests are done with the Fetch API (to <a href="https://prod.outgoing.prod.webservices.mozgcp.net/v1/188484b19de4cdc52223697025c19972aea51e8f306496a87000b37d1b011522/http%3A//t.co" rel="nofollow">t.co</a> that twitter provides and follows the redirect to the final destination, scraping the opengraph data) and cached in local browser store.

Source code, including a Chrome version is here: <a href="https://prod.outgoing.prod.webservices.mozgcp.net/v1/c89fa57fa3510f29808238d9854153474e780d6503cca559c78464d4233704cd/https%3A//github.com/stevenlafl/return-x-link-preview" rel="nofollow">https://github.com/stevenlafl/return-x-link-preview</a>

## Rankings

- #20,357 — Overall
- #10 — return
- #51 — preview
- #99 — x
- #113 — scraping
- #130 — review

## Permissions and access

### Permissions

- `storage`
- `https://*/*`
- `http://*/*`

### Content script matches

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

## Safety

- **Risk impact:** High 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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Source: [Chrome-Stats](https://chrome-stats.com/d/return-x-link-previews)