5 Best Firefox Add-ons for Better Privacy and Security

Posted on 15. Sep, 2009 by Prasanth Chandra in Browsers

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Mozilla Firefox has undoubtedly been one of the best browsers in the market. When it comes to speed, privacy and security, Mozilla Firefox has always been great. The best thing about this web browser is that it allows you to install additional add-ons according to your requirement.

You can easily find a number of add-ons which would enhance the performance of your Mozilla Firefox browser. Privacy and security has always been an issue when it comes to surfing the Internet. Although Mozilla Firefox has successfully helped us in this particular issue, there are times when we are still left unsatisfied by its performance.

And the best way to enhance the performance of Mozilla Firefox is to use add-ons. There are number of add-ons which will prove to be useful in tackling the problems related to privacy and security. Below are  a few of the best.

Firefox Add-ons

Better Privacy

When we use the Internet, we might come across some undeletable long term cookies which hamper the performance of your computer to a great extent. Such cookies help the other sources track you on the Internet, which could be very dangerous. Better Privacy allows you to know about such cookies, so you can block them and protect your personal information from being traced.

Clear Private Data

Every time you switch on your web browser to browse web sites, a number of cookies are saved into your system. There is a misconception that just by clearing the history we will be deleting all our previous data, but it is miserably wrong. We have to go into many folders and delete all the cookies stored, which is highly irritating.

Clear Private Data is the add-on which clears all the private data from your computer in order to increase the safety level. Private data is a very sensitive thing, and one must make sure that we do not expose it. Clear Private Data works exceptionally well and gives you a little bit of space to be careless as it can comprehensively protect your private data automatically, and this is the best part of this add-on.

Secure Login

Secure Login is a wonderful plugin which enables you to manage all your passwords. We generally find it irritating to enter the user ID and password every time we try to log on to our e-mail accounts on our personal computers. You can use this add-on to save your user ID and passwords, so that you can simply log on to your accounts by using simple shortcuts.

WOT

WOT is one of the best add-ons for Mozilla Firefox. It warns you about all the websites that might be a threat to your computer. WOT provides a front layer of protection to you system. WOT works as per the safety ratings given to over 21 million web sites, and its algorithm enables the add-on to keep updated with all the latest ratings. You can customize the WOT add-on with respect to your requirements. WOT is an exceptional tool to provide a safer browsing experience to your family.

Virus Threat Level

VTL is basically an indicator that indicates the threat level of a website. This add-on simply adds an indicator to the status bar of the browser. And when ever you open a site, it shows the content level of the dangerous programs like malware and viruses.

Conclusion

These were some of the best add-ons for Mozilla Firefox which will surely minimize your security and privacy constraints on internet.  Add these add-ons to your Firefox and make your Internet browsing safer.

By Prasanth Chandra from PCsPlace.com, Check out 25 Best and useful Firefox Add-ons you should install. Catch him on Twitter @pcsbox

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