5 September 2026
Let me get you up to speed: Elon Musk took over Twitter and renamed it X and X became a shitty place and Nitter was an alternative X frontend that let you see X content without going to x.com and XCancel was one of the Nitter instances and as they got more popular they got cease-and-desist’d. This is why we can’t have nice things.
But sometimes people still post X content. Maybe you want to see Gruber roast Google Design. Maybe you want to see posts by Federico Viticci who recently returned to X. So I made Litterbox, a Safari extension that opens x.com links in a popup. The idea is you open it, take a look, gag a little, then close the lid.
Notice the little ⊙ after the link. That’s Litterbox saying it can handle this one. Because sometimes people just link to their own profile page and you can’t embed profile pages. (I tried to decorate the link with stink lines, but some sites’ CSP blocks external images. *shakes fist*)
Litterbox doesn’t send your cookies when you open those popups, because of course. It uses the same API X uses for its website embeds. I don’t think they’ll kill the website embed feature. But if they do, it will be very funny.
