Security and privacy are just some of the major concerns nowadays while selecting a net browser to use. So much so all the big players in the browser wars are providing or developing a personal perusing mode.
Firefox with the myraid of add-ons that it must offer is not very far from action. These are some of the top Firefox security and privacy addons that you must install for safer perusing.
Stealther
Stealther – Stealther provides you with what can be called a private browsing mode. It allows you to browse the web without leaving any trace. The addon disables browsing history, cookies, cache, recent tabs and sending of referrer header for as long as you want. It’s lot like the incognito mode in Google chrome. Distrust is another similar addon that allows you to achieve the similar results.
Close ‘n’ Forget
While Stealther and Distrust need you to turn on personal skimming explicitly, what if you should happen to stumble on a site that you wished you would have known to turn on the non-public perusing mode for? Close ‘n’ Forget comes to your rescue. Just hit the special close button after you are finished and that site will be removed from history and cookies cleared as if you hadn’t paid a visit to the site.
WOT
Everyone knows about the threats which surfers suffer like viruses, spywares, adware, malignant spam, phishing etc, but here Web of Trust comes to rescue. WOT warns you about dodgy sites that attempt to con surfers before they enter in them employing a safety rating of twenty-one million sites, WOT mixes proof picked up from numerous sources. Not only does it help surfers but also sets a protection level for kids by obstructing incongruous content.
NoScript
A must have have security addon for your browser. NoScript gives you the power to stipulate the sites you trust and only those sites will be permitted to run active content like Javascript, Java code and other executable code. The addon so protects you from cross-site scripting attacks and clickjacking attacks.
Panic
Panic permits you to immediately close all of the open tabs and replace it with another tab of your choosing. So the next time while you are on facebook and your head honcho drops to test in just hit Alt + and you’d be brought to predefined page in almost no time.
hideBad
HideBad Hides bad things! Saves all of the tabs, closes them and opens your house page. Lets you clear history, cookies, cache and passwords at your will and then revive them later.
TabRenamizer / Page Title Eraser
TabRenamizer and Page Title Eraser – Do your tabs give you away? Why not change their names with TabRenamizer or take away the names all along with Page Title Eraser? Both these addons let you play with the tab titles so you can change them according to your will.
Gish It / tEMPORARYiNBOX / spamavert
Gish It!, TemporaryInbox, spamavert – These addons enable you to guard your inboxes from Spam by getting throwaway emails to be used with web forms while registering for sites you aren’t sure about.