# Social Fixer

> Social Fixer for Facebook fixes annoyances, adds features, and enhances existing functionality to make FB more fun and efficient. Filter the news feed, hide sponsored posts and political posts, hide parts of the page you don't want to see, and more!

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

## Overview

- **ID:** `socialfixer`
- **Platform:** Firefox
- **Type:** Firefox add-on
- **Status:** Available
- **Publisher:** MattKruse
- **Category:** feeds-news-blogging,social-communication
- **Daily users:** 8,919
- **Weekly downloads:** 45
- **Rating:** 4.40 / 5 (449 ratings)
- **Version:** 31.1.0
- **Last updated:** 2023-09-13
- **First published:** 2009-11-30
- **Size:** 209 KB
- **Data as of:** 2026-09-10
- **Store listing:** [Firefox Add-ons Store](https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/addon/socialfixer/)
- **Website:** [http://SocialFixer.com/support/](http://socialfixer.com/support/)
- **Privacy policy:** [https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/addon/socialfixer/privacy/](https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/addon/socialfixer/privacy/)

## Description

Social Fixer is a powerful Chrome extension designed to enhance your Facebook experience by tackling common annoyances and adding valuable features. It allows you to filter your news feed based on content, author, or URLs, with pre-defined filters to hide sponsored, political, or other unwanted posts. You can customize Facebook's interface by hiding specific page sections, forcing the 'Most Recent' feed, and tweaking displays using built-in options or custom CSS.

Additional features include a Comment Navigator to expand and highlight older comments, a Stealth Mode to avoid accidental interactions, and an anonymize tool for safer screenshots by hiding sensitive information. Social Fixer updates filters and tweaks regularly, ensuring your Facebook experience stays efficient, fun, and tailored to your preferences.

## Rankings

- #825 — Overall
- #41 — Feeds, News & Blogging
- #81 — Social & Communication
- #1 — social
- #3 — bug fixes
- #43 — exist

## Permissions and access

### Permissions

- `https://*.SocialFixer.com/*`
- `https://matt-kruse.github.io/*`
- `https://*.facebook.com/*`
- `storage`
- `unlimitedStorage`

### Content script matches

- `*.facebook.com`

## Safety

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

### Analysis details

- Request access to the following domains: socialfixer.com, github.io, facebook.com
- This extension has low user count. Unpopular extensions may not be stable or safe.

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## Review summary

Social Fixer is widely praised for effective filtering (including word-based post filtering) and reducing Facebook annoyances. It is also seen as adaptable to changes and is described as a must-have. However, reviewers raise reliability concerns due to lack of maintenance and reports of it not working after Facebook updates. Other common issues include manual steps for some features, partial ad blocking, language/political filtering limitations, and UI glitches like jumpy scrolling and pop-up dialogs.

### Pros

- Powerful word-based post filtering and the ability to follow family posts again.
- Solves a lot of Facebook annoyances and improves the overall experience.
- Adapts quickly to Facebook changes and keeps functioning as the site evolves.
- Highly praised and often described as a must-have extension.

### Cons

- Maintenance and reliability concerns: not updated since 2023 and some users report it stops working by 2024.
- Some features require manual steps (e.g., using the comment explorer per post) instead of automatic expansion.
- Ad blocking is not reliable; it loads but doesn't block ads.
- Language and political filtering are inconsistent (e.g., Turkish language limitations and left-leaning posts slipping through; accusations of bias).
- UI/UX quirks and performance issues, such as scrolling jumps when posts are hidden and pop-up dialogs.

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Source: [Chrome-Stats](https://chrome-stats.com/d/socialfixer)