How to make Firefox the most secure browser
Browsers Technologies / / December 19, 2019
In this review we have collected for you the top 10 extensions that will be able to do the work in Firefox safer. Especially recommended reading for all those that are related to their activities with any confidential, financial, service information, which is absolutely inadmissible leakage.
Recently there was a clearly perceptible trend to transition back to Chrome users Firefox. This is due to excessive appetite Chrome to system resources and the rejection of certain features Google policy, which seems to have seriously intended to make it a complete operating system. Well, Firefox - it's not a bad choice. Especially if you pump over his safety with the help of extensions of this review.
HTTPS Everywhere
What is HTTPS? This is the safest for today to surf the Web protocol that encrypts all data sent between the server and the browser, using SSL / TLS algorithms. Thus, even if someone intercepts them, you will not be able to read them and use. Expansion of HTTPS Everywhere forces your browser to use this protocol consistently. Currently, the expansion of working successfully with almost all popular resources, so we highly recommend it for installation.
Developer: developer
Price: Free
Ghostery
This extension is so popular, and his work is so effective that in place of Firefox developer, I would have already included it functions in the standard browser features. Ghostery detects and blocks all extraneous elements on the page, such as buttons and widgets, social networks, counters, scripts and more. In addition to ensuring your privacy and privacy, this leads to a noticeable to the naked eye PageSpeed. An absolute must-have for every lisovoda.
Developer: developer
Price: Free
Disconnect
Disconnect, as Ghostery, allows you to remove the pages for you tracking Web trackers and prevent them from collecting information about your preferences. The developers have included in the expansion base data on more than 2000 track items lock which allows to increase the speed of opening sites by 27%.
Developer: developer
Price: Free
NoScript
This addon allows you to stop the Active Scripting on various websites as long as you do not specifically allow them. In some cases, it may be uncomfortable, but in the long run greatly increases the safety of surfing. It is possible to add a trusted domain to the whitelist.
Developer: developer
Price: Free
Blur
Previously known as DoNotTrackMe, this extension is one of the best to protect your data. It not only allows websites to collect information about you, but also can protect your sensitive information such as passwords, accounts or payment data.
Developer: developer
Price: Free
KeeFox
Most modern browsers have a built-in password management solutions, but they rarely work as well as customized solutions. So be sure to pay attention to this expansion, which will add in Firefox integration with one of the most powerful managers KeePass password. Start using it if you have not done so already.
Developer: developer
Price: Free
BetterPrivacy
Despite the fact that this extension for quite a long time, has not been updated, it still ranks among the most necessary. All due to the fact that BetterPrivacy able to cope with the special cookies are still called Local Shared Objects, LSO. They are used by many companies, including Google, YouTube, Ebay, to track the movement of users on a network. Now you can choose to selectively or completely get rid of these spies.
Self-Destructing Cookies
Several years ago, the Internet and the computer press raged real hysteria about the dangers of cookies (cookies). If you too think that they are a threat to your safety, do not miss the expansion Self-Destructing Cookies. As the name implies, it provides self-destruct cookies as soon as you give them to leave the page. For trusted sites has a whitelist.
Bloody Vikings!
Ignore the name of this bloodthirsty expansion, it has nothing to do with the games. With it, you can not use your e-mail address when registering on the site and apply for this one of the many services that offer disposable emails. You need only right-click on the field to enter the email address and choose a service from the context menu, on which a temporary mailbox will be automatically created. After that, it will open in a new tab, and you'll get a confirmation email, and then forget about it forever.
Developer: developer
Price: Free
Clean Links
It is an indispensable extension that must be present in the arsenal of each user's Firefox. It is able to recognize sponsorship, partnership, and all sorts of other "curves" link and turn them into normal. In other words, if you offer to click on a link like http://www.foobar.com/goto=https://www.yoursite.com, thanks to the expansion of Clean Links it becomes a https://www.yoursite.com/.
And what extensions you use for security and privacy work online? Or do not bother with similar problems?