# Toggle Resist Fingerprinting

> Adds a button to the tab bar to toggle the "resist fingerprinting" setting.

Canonical page: [https://chrome-stats.com/d/toggle-resist-fingerprinting](https://chrome-stats.com/d/toggle-resist-fingerprinting)

## Overview

- **ID:** `toggle-resist-fingerprinting`
- **Platform:** Firefox
- **Type:** Firefox add-on
- **Status:** Available
- **Publisher:** Aaron Papp
- **Category:** privacy-security
- **Daily users:** 371
- **Weekly downloads:** 7
- **Rating:** 4.53 / 5 (17 ratings)
- **Version:** 1.2
- **Last updated:** 2020-05-05
- **First published:** 2019-03-09
- **Size:** 20 KB
- **Data as of:** 2026-09-08
- **Store listing:** [Firefox Add-ons Store](https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/addon/toggle-resist-fingerprinting/)
- **Website:** [https://github.com/Aaron-P/ToggleResistFingerprinting/issues](https://github.com/Aaron-P/ToggleResistFingerprinting/issues)

## Description

The "Toggle Resist Fingerprinting" Chrome extension adds a convenient button to your browser's tab bar that allows you to quickly enable or disable the "resist fingerprinting" setting. This setting helps protect your privacy by preventing websites from uniquely identifying your browser through fingerprinting techniques, which are often used for tracking purposes. 

Note that enabling resist fingerprinting may impact website functionality or cause some sites to break. The extension places its icon by default in the tab bar, and if you use other extensions that modify the tab bar, you may need to temporarily revert to the default tab bar to access the toggle. 

This extension leverages a simple UI element to give users quick control over an important privacy feature, empowering greater control over online fingerprinting and tracking without complicated configuration.

## Rankings

- #5,950 — Overall
- #15 — toggle
- #81 — listing
- #97 — print
- #97 — resize
- #110 — result

## Permissions and access

### Permissions

- `storage`
- `privacy`

## Safety

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

### Analysis details

- Can change privacy settings, which if misused, may compromise user privacy.
- 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/toggle-resist-fingerprinting)