Accelerating GitHub Access in China and a Beginner’s Guide to Using GitHub

Due to recent lawsuits against Firefox by major Chinese video platforms, users in mainland China cannot access the Firefox extension store, which blocks popular ad‑blocking extensions such as uBlock Origin and AdGuard.

The article recommends using the UU accelerator (https://uu.163.com), a legal tool from NetEase, which requires registration and real‑name verification; after searching for "学术" and clicking "启动", users can achieve fast GitHub downloads, e.g., 100 MB in under 10 seconds.

For users who prefer mirror downloads, several public GitHub acceleration sites are listed, and the URLs can be copied directly: https://github.do https://d.serctl.com https://gh.api.99988866.xyz https://toolwa.com/github http://blog.luckly-mjw.cn/tool-show/github-directory-downloader/index.html

A GreasyFork userscript called "Github 增强" ( https://greasyfork.org/zh-CN/scripts/412245 ) can invoke the above servers to provide one‑click downloading of GitHub files.

The guide then presents a beginner’s tutorial covering three high‑frequency GitHub actions—Releases (download), Issues (discussion), and Star (bookmark)—followed by other useful features such as Sponsor, Watch, Fork, Code/README, Pull requests, Actions, Projects, Security, Wiki, and Insights.

Finally, the article recommends two open‑source projects: the RunningCheese Firefox custom build (https://github.com/runningcheese/RunningCheese-Firefox) and the Awesome‑Extensions collection (https://github.com/runningcheese/Awesome-Extensions), both of which showcase extensive browser extension resources.