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A recent article by Laura Milligan, called "50 Firefox add-ons to achieve private and secure web surfing" provides a comprehensive list of add-ons for Firefox to achieve degreees of security and privacy whilst surfing the web:

"Firefox is generally considered a secure web browser, but if you're interested in keeping your activity on certain websites private or giving yourself extra protection against phishing, hackers and viruses, you may want to consider beefing up your Firefox's security in general. Thankfully, there are lots of options available that make achieving privacy and security online as easy as downloading a simple add-on or application that was designed just for Firefox users."

This article classifies these 50 add-ons (and provides links for each of them) in the following categories: Secrecy and Encryption; add-ons that beef-up security; cookies; testing your system; passwords; protect your privacy online.

Have you had any direct experience using these add-ons?  Are they up to their promises?

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Posted 08-03-2008 1:17 AM by marcocasassamont
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shawn wrote re: Firefox and 50 add-ons for Private and Secure Web Surfing
on 08-05-2008 3:21 PM

it's good

marcocasassamont wrote re: Firefox and 50 add-ons for Private and Secure Web Surfing
on 08-06-2008 12:46 PM

What is good?

Did you try any of the listed add-ons for Firefox? Do you have any recommendation to provide to this community on most privacy-effective add-ons?

Marco

bschafer wrote re: Firefox and 50 add-ons for Private and Secure Web Surfing
on 08-06-2008 12:55 PM

haven't read the article, but have used FF for years, and it's an excellent browser.  if you care about security, the 3 most useful (to me, anyway) add-ons are:

  NoScript

  Adblock-Plus

  CookieSafe

recommend you download and play - you'll learn more by doing this than any review could possibly provide.

and for the myriad IE-only web sites at HP, IEview is pretty indispensable as well.

marcocasassamont wrote re: Firefox and 50 add-ons for Private and Secure Web Surfing
on 08-06-2008 1:38 PM

Thanks! Good points. Marco

Anonymous-HPBLOGCS wrote re: Firefox and 50 add-ons for Private and Secure Web Surfing
on 08-06-2008 2:17 PM

one additional point i neglected ... if you go to the aforementioned article and click on each listed add-on, you'll be taken to a Mozilla page describing the add-on ... and each one usually has a set of commentary associated with it.  comments tend to be quite insightful.

best of luck,   -b

marcocasassamont wrote re: Firefox and 50 add-ons for Private and Secure Web Surfing
on 08-06-2008 2:43 PM

Indeed. This is a good way to get more information about these addons.

In addition to this, I thought that the audience of this blog might also be interested in "first-hands" views of any of these add-ons (by other readers of this blog) - in particular in understanding if any of them have been really effective in handling some of common (web-based) security and privacy issues.

All these comments are anyway already going in that direction. Thanks. Marco

Michel wrote re: Firefox and 50 add-ons for Private and Secure Web Surfing
on 09-27-2008 2:11 PM

Good list these are M using and hopefully they performing well and I  <a href="tutorial-net.blogspot.com/.../"> here is some add-ons </a> have missed by Marco  may it would be useful thanks

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