Ensuring browsing safety is one of the major concerns of equally users and browser developers these days. And it’s understandable because let’s face it – a lot of people practically live online. We buy and sell stuff online, we do online banking, we socialize online, and we even get online degrees. With all that going on it’s a must to protect yourself. Firefox is a very good browser from security point of view because of it’s useful extensions. Here’s a list of top 5 Firefox security add-ons:

1. NoScript

In my opinion, NoScript is one of the best security add-ons out there. It lets you specify which websites are allowed to run active content, like Javascript, Java code and other executable codes, thus protecting you from cross-site scripting attacks (XSS) and Clickjacking attacks. There was an Adblock Plus issue, but the developers fixed it and apologized.

2. Adblock Plus

Adblock Plus is the most popular Firefox security add-on with more than 730 thousand weekly downloads. What it does is very simple and very useful – it blocks ads and banners.  All you need to do is right-click on a banner and choose “Adblock” from the context menu – the banner won’t be downloaded again. You can also replace parts of the banner address with star symbols and block similar banners.

3. WOT

WOT (Web of Trust) warns about sites that try to scam you, infect your computer with malware, or deliver spam. WOT’s colour-coded icons show you ratings for 21 million websites – safe green, suspicious yellow, and dangerous red. WOT reputation rating combines four components: trustworthiness, vendor reliability, privacy, and child safety.

4. BetterPrivacy

BetterPrivacy protects against undeletable long-term cookies, a new generation of so-called ‘Super-Cookies’, that have invaded the Internet.  It also blocks long-term tracking from Google, YouTube, Ebay, and other sites.

5. Stealther

If you want to surf the Web without leaving a single trace on your computer, then Stealther is the add-on for you. With it you can temporarily disable browsing history (in the address bar as well), cookies, downloaded files history, disk cache, saved forms info, sending of ReferrerHeader, and recently closed tabs list. All those don’t get wiped for good, so you can get them back whenever you need them in one simple click.