Emojery vs Social Fixer for Facebook

Social Fixer is the classic Facebook toolkit. Its "Stealth Mode" hides Like buttons and comment areas. Emojery goes the other direction and brings emoji reactions everywhere on the web, with verified accounts and active maintenance.

TL;DR

Social Fixer is a respected long-running project (open source under MPL 1.1 on Firefox Add-ons), but the public store cards show its last release dates as September 2023 on Chrome and Firefox. On a site that rearranges itself as often as Facebook does, a gap that long between public releases is a real risk.

Emojery ships from a public GitHub repo with continuous releases. It also doesn't try to hide reactions. Its whole point is to give you more.

At a glance

	Emojery	Social Fixer for Facebook
Primary job	Turn Likes, Stars and upvotes into the full emoji set	Modify the Facebook UI — hide noise, threaded comments, Stealth Mode
Sites covered	14 and growing — Facebook, Instagram, Reddit, GitHub, GitLab, YouTube, X, Threads, Amazon, Rotten Tomatoes, TMDB, IMDb, Metacritic, and OpenCritic	Facebook only
License	GPL-3	MPL 1.1 (per the Firefox Add-ons card)
Last public release	Continuous	2023-09-09 on Chrome Web Store; 2023-09-08 on Firefox Add-ons
Number of reactions added	Full emoji palette	0 — the relevant feature hides Like buttons
How "you" are identified	Provider sign-in → one-way identifier, one account per provider account	N/A — Social Fixer doesn't aggregate reactions
Permissions	The 14 supported hosts, plus our API and our own site; `storage`, `unlimitedStorage`, `alarms`, `activeTab`, `scripting` (breakdown)	Access to `socialfixer.com`, `facebook.com`, and `matt-kruse.github.io`
Public store reach	In public beta, with a small user base. Why install one anyway	~40,000 Chrome users, ~9,679 Firefox users (store cards)

Where the difference actually bites

Active maintenance matters more than ever on Facebook

Facebook's UI changes frequently, and extensions that intercept it break quickly when they aren't maintained. Social Fixer's last public release on both Chrome and Firefox is dated September 2023. The author may still work on it privately, but the build you install today is the one the stores reviewed in 2023.

Emojery is built around a deliberately small surface: one bundled DOM adapter per supported site, active maintenance, and normal extension releases when a site redesign needs a fix.

Your reactions exist outside Facebook too

Social Fixer's permissions cover only facebook.com (plus 2 helper domains). If you want richer reactions on a GitHub repo or an Amazon product page, Social Fixer can't do that, and extending it would mean rewriting it as a different product.

Emojery was multi-platform from day one. Adding the next site (Hacker News, Stack Overflow, an internal company portal) means shipping a small reviewed adapter instead of forking the product.

"Hide" and "add" are different products

Social Fixer's Stealth Mode is for users who want to read Facebook without the social pressure of like counts. That's a great use case, and we don't try to replace it.

Emojery is for the opposite person: someone who finds "one Like button" insufficient and wants to leave a more specific reaction (😂, 💀, 🔥, 🤔, 👀) where the platform doesn't offer one.

One real person = one real vote

Social Fixer doesn't have a server-side counter model, so the question of "how do you prevent the same person from voting twice?" doesn't apply to it. But it's the central question for any extension whose counts are aggregated. Most community-counter extensions (RYD, several YouTube-counter clones) sidestep it by giving each install a random ID. Emojery doesn't. It asks for one provider sign-in, so a reaction count is a count of provider-backed accounts rather than of browser installs.

Which one should you pick?

Pick Social Fixer if your priority is cleaning up Facebook itself (filtering, threading, Stealth Mode) and you're comfortable with a long-standing project whose last public store release is dated September 2023.

Pick Emojery if you want a fresh, actively maintained extension that adds expressive reactions across multiple sites and treats community counts as a verified-accounts problem rather than an honor-system one. For the Facebook specifics, see emoji reactions on Facebook.

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Sources

Social Fixer Chrome Web Store — CWS listing: v31.1.0, last update September 2023, ~40K users.
Social Fixer Firefox Add-ons — AMO listing: last update 2023-09-08, MPL 1.1, ~9,679 users.
Emojery claims about its own architecture are verifiable in github.com/khasky/emojery.
We're not affiliated with Social Fixer. It's a respected, long-standing project that solves a real problem; we just solve a different one.