Comments on: Firefox Add-On: Hire 7 Personal Bodyguards to Browse Internet Securely

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The Beginner’s Guide to The Geek Stuff – A Guided Tour — Tue, 29 Dec 2009 15:09:33 +0000

[...] Firefox Add-On: Hire 7 Personal Bodyguards to Browse Internet Securely [...]

By: zero

zero — Mon, 28 Dec 2009 21:37:14 +0000

I find BetterPrivacy and TACO (Targeted Advertising Cookie Opt-Out) fairly useful, as well.

By: Abhishek

Abhishek — Mon, 25 May 2009 11:42:19 +0000

The add-ons are really useful….especially the location bar and distrust one..I am already using them….Thanks for sharing the infos…

By: nikhil

nikhil — Mon, 23 Feb 2009 18:50:43 +0000

Cheers Mate Excellent Article
both this one and the new one.
Perhaps you could next write one in which you tell us about the best web development oriented extensions in firefox

By: 7 Powerful Firefox Bookmark Add-ons To Enhance Your Browsing Experience

7 Powerful Firefox Bookmark Add-ons To Enhance Your Browsing Experience — Mon, 23 Feb 2009 16:02:16 +0000

[...] for Firefox, which makes customizing the browser very easy. A while back we discussed about 7 Essential Firefox Security add-ons that will help you browse the internet securely. In this article, let us discuss about 7 [...]

By: a

Mon, 03 Nov 2008 02:45:33 +0000

Hey. I don’t know if you know about these extensions, but they are what I strongly recommend, they go hand in hand with Adblock and especially NoScript.

CSLite – Will block websites from storing cookies using a Blacklist/White list approach, which can be used to track your browsing habbits. Very similar to NoScript

Redirect Remover – Some website like to track where you are going by redirecting you, you may white list websites as needed.

Ref Control – Whether you know it or not websites know which website you came from by checking the referrer sent by Firefox, this extension will ensure some privacy, by Spoofing how referrers are sent, using a white list/black list approach.

FoxyProxy – If you need a little more privacy you can use a proxy, FoxyProxy comes with some unique features that ease the process of switching proxy settings.

By: Amanda Kerik

Amanda Kerik — Sat, 01 Nov 2008 18:52:58 +0000

I’ve found Adblock Plus to be helpful in security, as it not only stops the download of various ads, it stops gullible people (young and old alike) from being enticed / tricked into clicking on them.
It also cleans up the web a bit.
Adblock Plus: Element Hiding Helper cleans up the holes left by ads as well as helping you to block text ads.
The less the advertising companies know about me, the better.

By: gWallet

gWallet — Tue, 28 Oct 2008 08:26:44 +0000

Nice call here. I’ve been using NoScript for about 2 years now, and it’s never let me down. Similar to #7, but I’ve found keepass a bit easier to manage and use.

By: daskos99

daskos99 — Tue, 28 Oct 2008 03:20:45 +0000

Thank you for showing me KeyScrambler Personal. I run into keylogger problems commonly, and now I can worry a bit less with it (not to mention stop using the on-screen keyboard to type in passwords).

By: Ramesh

Ramesh — Mon, 27 Oct 2008 02:54:21 +0000

@123,

The 7th bodyguard is standing in the middle behind all 6 bodyguards.

You can’t see him, as he is “The Invisible Man”.