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Top 5 Privacy & Security Firefox Add-ons


One of the most concerned threat today being online and surfing is “Privacy & Security” of your personal information. But, if you are using Fire fox, you would be no more worrying about the Privacy & Security part of your online digital life as there are many fire fox add-ons available, which prevent linkage of your privacy and take care of your online security by adding extra features in the fire fox, while you are online. Previously, I have talked on the Must have Overall Best Fire Fox Add-ons , Saving Image Directly in to Folders and Video Add-ons to view in Full Screen.

Below is the Best “Privacy & Security FireFox Add-ons” which i personally use and recommend all my users to have in accordances to their preferences. The Following are the FireFox Add-0ns which works fine with the latest Firefox Version (3.0.7) and deals with Privacy, Security, Password protection, Cookies, and Form Filling.

List of Privacy & Security Add-0ns :

WOT (Web of Trust) Add-on:

It warns the user about the risky websites which includes the Malware delivering sites, Spam Sites and even the sites which scam visitors on the basis of the rating provided by the world wide users of WOT. It Shows the color Coded Icons on the every possible site on the Internet, where Green to Go, Yellow for Caution and Red to Stop. If you See the Question Mark, then the website does not have enough rating to discussed upon. One of my Favorite Add-ons.

WOT reputation ratings have four components: Trustworthiness, Vendor reliability, Privacy and Child safety.Ratings are shown on Google, Yahoo!, Gmail, Wikipedia, digg and other sites. WOT is a free Internet security addon for your browser. It will keep you safe from online scams, identity theft, spyware, spam, viruses and unreliable shopping sites. WOT warns you before you interact with a risky website. It’s easy and it’s free.

LastPass Password Manager Add-on:

It is a Free Online Password manager and Form Filler, for better and secure browsing. It allows you to import all the password saved in the fire fox and remove the same after importing it to the password manager. Lastpass is the last password you will ever need to remember. This is for the people like me, you have many accounts with different passwords and difficult to remember them all. With the help of Last pass Manager, you can fill forms, create strong passwords, Automatic Log into websites and Most importantly, it do not work, if you are not logged into Lastpass making is impossible for others to use your privacy.

If you are using other browers, Lastpass Password Manager can work for IE, Opera, Safari, Chrome via Bookmarklets, so that you can access the your passwords and forms from any browers from any where in a secure way. Your sensitive data is encrypted locally before upload so even LastPass cannot get access to it. One Time Passwords & Screen Keyboard help protect your master password. You can also have Mobile access.

Foxmarks Bookmark Manager Add-on:

It have previously in my best must have fire fox add-ons list, but can’t keep it out as it is one of the best bookmark manager available today online for synchronizing all the bookmark to the online account and getting access on the go to all the favorite sites even from the public computer in the secure way. Foxmarks requires the registration, to use and synchronize the bookmark. It is even available for IE and Safari lately.

AdBlock Plus Add-on :

One of the most annoying things on the Internet while suffering are the unwanted ads which up out and in from various sites, and take most of your bandwidth time and resources, making your main content to load slower. AdBlock Plus makes it possible to block all the unwanted and annoying advertisment which cannot be blocked by the brower Pop up blocker.

Redirect Remove Add-on :

One of the Most common scamming method used by most of the hackers and malware spreading site is the redirect link, which do not show you the URL you are going to visit and instead fool you with the redirect link. But, with the help of Redirect Remove Add-on, you can Remove Redirects links like http://redirectremover.mozdev.org/?www.mozilla.org from Links and Images and directly visit the Mozilaa.org sites or any other site which has been redirected.

Above are the Add-ons which I personally use on Firefox for better and safer digital online life preventing privacy and getting security with the help of this simple ans small so called Add-ons. If you are aware of the other privacy and security firefox add-ons which i am not currently using, please mention the same in your comments and tell us which are the Privacy and security Firefox add-on currently installed on your computer., Get More Tips and Tricks on Fire Fox like Huge list of FireFox Shortcuts.

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