Linked by Thom Holwerda on Fri 28th Aug 2009 12:42 UTC
Another instalment of Ask OSNews. A reader sent us in a question about browser security and privacy. "Could you please advise me and your readers on what you consider to be the safest web browser? I am considering the term 'safe' from both a privacy and security stand point."
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2005-07-08
Yes, one of the aces that Firefox has in its hand compared to others is the huge amount of available add-ons and extensions, many of which are security and privacy related. (Well, of course, you should first decide whether some add-on itself is secure or not.)
Besides of those already mentioned above, there's also, for example:
- WOT (Web of trust) to warn you about malicious websites: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/3456 )
- NoScript to block all scripts,
- Ghostery to see how websites may be tracking you
- RequestPolicy to control which cross-site requests are allowed
- Perspectives to prevent "man-in-the-middle" attacks when using SSH and HTTPS: http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~perspectives/ ,
and many others listed here: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/browse/type:1/cat:12