# Smart Media Blocker

> One click to block images or other media in websites, and customize blocking policy for different websites.

Canonical page: [https://chrome-stats.com/d/smart-media-blocker](https://chrome-stats.com/d/smart-media-blocker)

## Overview

- **ID:** `smart-media-blocker`
- **Platform:** Firefox
- **Type:** Firefox add-on
- **Status:** Available
- **Publisher:** Xinhang Xu
- **Category:** appearance,photos-music-videos
- **Daily users:** 1
- **Weekly downloads:** 2
- **Version:** 1.1
- **Last updated:** 2023-10-29
- **First published:** 2023-10-28
- **Size:** 211 KB
- **Data as of:** 2026-09-08
- **Store listing:** [Firefox Add-ons Store](https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/addon/smart-media-blocker/)

## Description

Smart Media Blocker provides an one-click way to block images or other media in websites. Just click Smart Media Blocker button on toolbar to block (or unblock) website media and enjoy noiseless, fast-loading and bandwidth-saving surfing.

Besides, it's allowed to customize media blocking policy for different websites and different media type. For example, you may want to block only videos but not those in YouTube. Smart Media Blocker can be configured to meet what you need, by right-clicking the extension button.

Want to temporarily load media without changing policies ? You can simply right click those images, videos or other media and select "Reload".

## Rankings

- #110,618 — Overall
- #241 — smart

## Permissions and access

### Permissions

- `webRequest`
- `webRequestBlocking`
- `<all_urls>`
- `storage`
- `menus`
- `contextMenus`
- `tabs`

## Safety

- **Risk impact:** High risk impact
- **Risk likelihood:** Moderate 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/smart-media-blocker)