# Social Balance

> Turns browsing social media into a game with a health bar and a timer.

Canonical page: [https://chrome-stats.com/d/social-balance](https://chrome-stats.com/d/social-balance)

## Overview

- **ID:** `social-balance`
- **Platform:** Firefox
- **Type:** Firefox add-on
- **Status:** Available
- **Publisher:** Quiet Forge Software
- **Category:** appearance,social-communication,games-entertainment
- **Daily users:** 1
- **Version:** 1.4
- **Last updated:** 2026-05-11
- **First published:** 2026-04-13
- **Size:** 24 KB
- **Data as of:** 2026-09-11
- **Store listing:** [Firefox Add-ons Store](https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/addon/social-balance/)
- **Website:** [https://www.quietforgesoftware.com](https://www.quietforgesoftware.com/)

## Description

Introduction

There are valid reasons to want to use social media. But you can still lose time and focus while browsing it.  This add-on aims to help that by turning into a game where you must balance what you want to get done with a maximum time to do it.

Currently Supported Sites

<a href="https://prod.outgoing.prod.webservices.mozgcp.net/v1/bbbd0abd56d9c27b91509f0839c7f12e3dadb8352ac0ee3d9210043cba246fe1/http%3A//x.com" rel="nofollow">x.com</a>

Usage

When you first load this add-on, you can choose how long a session can be, how many actions you aim to take daily, and what actions count as activity.  Once done, navigate to the site and you will see your health bar.  Taking actions will earn you XP while the timer is active.  Once your timer runs out, a 20 minute cooldown will begin.

Scrolling or taking an action during this time will make you take damage.  Doing this 5 times in a day will disable your adventurer, reduce your level by 1, and lock you out for the rest of the day.

I hope this helps you control your time.  I aim to add support for more sites soon!

If this add-on helps you, I'd love to hear from you! @QuietFSoftware on X

## Rankings

- #112,214 — Overall
- #74 — social

## Permissions and access

### Permissions

- `storage`

### Host permissions

- `https://x.com/*`
- `https://*.reddit.com/*`
- `https://*.linkedin.com/*`

### Content script matches

- `*.x.com`
- `*.reddit.com`
- `*.linkedin.com`

## Safety

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

### Analysis details

- Request access to the following domains: x.com, reddit.com, linkedin.com
- 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/social-balance)