Twitter notifier for Firefox
Twitter. Some love it, some can't see a reason to use it at all. Although I belong to the second group I know a lot of users who use Twitter regularly and this group of users may find the following Firefox add-on useful enough to give it a try. TwitterFox, formerly known as Twitter Notifier is a Firefox add-on that adds an icon to the Firefox statusbar.
This icon informs you whenever one of your Twitter buddies leaves a new message on Twitter. The message pops up as a small balloon next to the status bar icon and you can see the name of the person who wrote the message and the message of course.
A click on the friend's icon opens his page in a new tab, a click on the reply icon makes it possible to reply to the message immediately.
A left-click on the status bar icons opens the latest 20 messages. Twitterfox has several other functions that are nice to have: you can reply to friends immediately, filter names, add more than one account, encode tiny url links, hotkeys and more.
Before you can use the add-on you need to add the username and password of at least one Twitter account. The time between checks for new messages and the popup interval can be specified as well.
Update: Please note that TwitterFox is not available anymore. You can use an alternative such as Twitter App for the browser which brings a similar feature set to Firefox.
One advantage here is that you can sign in to Twitter using the official website. The login state is recognized by Twitter App so that you see the latest information displayed in the sidebar right away.
Here you find all main features, including your home stream, options to connect and discover, create a new message, or change account related preferences.
The only add-on specific feature is to move the sidebar from the left side to the right.
Another good example of why “Mobile like” Interfaces don’t look or function good on Desktops. I thought everyone knew that since Win8.
Neither of these work for the majority of Twitter users, and if you’ve been reading Reddit, then you should know this by now. The opt-out url hasn’t worked in over a month, and the switch to legacy option is rarely seen by most users.
I actually thought this post has something new to offer, but it turns out it’s old Reddit workarounds that no longer work.
Try using the ‘User-Agent Switcher’ add-on (the one by Alexander Schlarb) on Firefox. It can change the user-agent specifically for a particular domain (here, of course, is Twitter). It will affect the copy and paste functions (they simply just turn to be not working after the user-agent is altered), but you can still use the ‘Copy Plain Text’ add-on to copy and paste.
P.S.: Don’t open twitter too quick after every launch of the browser, or the ugly new layout version of Twitter would still jump out, and you’ll constantly get a ‘data corruption’ error throughout the whole session if you close this tab and reopen the twitter website. So, just wait a second or two (to wait until all the add-ons are loaded) would be fine.
Logged in today and ” hey presto” there was a horrid new UI… hate it actually..Unfortunately for me I don’t have the option which says, “Switch to legacy Twitter”….Also when I try to use https://twitter.com/i/optout URL it gives me “Sorry, that page doesn’t exist!”… So it seems I’m stuck with this horrid UI….!!
Still not work for me. For me, the only way to opt out is to use a user-agent switching tool to fake a IE user-agent for it.
The best fix for this is to stop using twitter, it’s crap anyway.
so is Facebook, but heaps still use it, an so is instagram, still heaps use it.
i couldnt care a less about it TBH, i dont even have the new UI yet so i dont care.
I do not have the “Switch To Legacy Twitter”. The opt-out link just takes me to that horrid look of my twitter feed. Now what?
Do you use any extensions or scripts that change the Twitter interface? What happens when you clear the browser cache?
Hello Martin,
Thank you for your response. To clarify, my primary browser is Waterfox 56.2.11, and I do not use specialized extensions or scripts to change the Twitter interface. I logged out and logged back in several times, double-checked my Twitter settings, and there was no change in the interface.
However, I switched to Internet Explorer to view Twitter, just to see what would happen, and on my computer it looked just like the ‘legacy interface’ that everyone is so interested in reverting to. There was also a nag screen at the top about switching to Microsoft Edge, which I ignored.
So I can say, in my case, there seems to be a bug when viewing Twitter in a Firefox clone, but not in Internet Explorer. Suggestions?
Debby
As far as I can tell, both are gone. The menu option doesn’t exist, and the URL does not work.
I already tried all that, months ago. I don’t have the “Legacy” option and when I click the twitter.com/i/optout link, it just comes back to my twitter page and doesn’t do nothing.
Wait so what does it do?
5 Steps For Old Twitter
1. Click More (On the bottom left panel)
2. Setting and Privacy
3. About Twitter
4) Directory (Opens in New Tab)
5) Click on Home button
Old Twitter restored (Don’t hit refresh)
Thanks! It works!
This has failed to work on windows 10.
worked like a champ! thanx
owh wow, it works.
I was panic for a few second lol.
I am not happy with the new interface. We should do a poll! :D
Hello Kunal, I have used your 5 Steps throughout the day, but If I leave to check my notifications and try to come back too the old page, I will be taken back to the “new twitter page”. ~ I am on a Chromebook and would there be another work-around or maybe an Extension that I could place on the laptop??
~BW~
:) Thank you so much. This makes me happy!
It doesn’t work any more…. twitter new design is a shit
Yay brilliant. Thank you Kunai
OH thank you so much. I was about to delete my account, this new version is so horrible.
It worked but when I close Twitter and go back into Twitter, I have to go thru all steps each time I enter twitter….
Thank you Kunal!
This will probably not work for long, but for now it’s beautiful.
And as soon as it’s not working any longer I will quit Twitter. Actually I never should have opened an account there.
We need decentralized structures for our online communication!
P.S. Anyone on Mastodon?
Nobody’s gonna be there, while this is going on: https://postimg.cc/Hrfjcb0n
(Probably a million Twitter b0ts trying to bring it down, meh.)
These solutions have been disabled by Twitter.