The strong point of the Firefox web browser is its wide range of extensions and add-ons for Firefox (compatible with Quantum and also recommended by Mozilla) that can be installed to increase the functionality of the web browser and customize it. As there are thousands of extensions and addons for Firefox, it also becomes difficult to find your way around and choose the best ones to install.
Regarding the security of the browser, to arm the navigation on Firefox against the risks of malware, viruses, intrusions and spies, there are some components to add to the browser and we can try to draw up a list of the best ones to surf the internet safely and maintaining privacy .
Privacy means both not leaving a history that another user can see on the same computer, and staying away from companies' attempts to capture information on user preferences and show targeted advertisements on banners.
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NOTE: From the settings there are some options for the Privacy and security of Firefox which however do not do much.
In Privacy you can choose not to save the browser history or to delete it when exiting while in Security you can enable automatic blocking of sites with threats.
The best extensions or add-ons to increase and customize the security of the Firefox browser are :
1) Privacy Badger is the best extension, created by EFF, to defend privacy from Firefox advertisements, so that all tracer scripts are suppressed.
Obviously, when necessary and when the site is not seen well, one must be forced to exclude Privacy Badger from that site.
2) Firefox Multi-Account Containers provides multi-account containers in Firefox to separate parts of online life into tabs.
Cookies are separated from the container, allowing you to use the web with multiple identities or accounts simultaneously.
This is a great extension for people on shared computers or who have multiple accounts for services like Google or Amazon.
3) Facebook Container allows you to control multiple web activities from Facebook by isolating the identity in a separate container.
This makes it more difficult for Facebook to track activity on other websites via third-party cookies.
4) LastPass Password Manager is the absolute best password manager that allows you to protect the passwords used for logins on websites behind a single master password.
In this way, whatever computer you use, you can access the websites without writing the passwords that remain stored online and protected.
5) HTTPS EveryWhere can be used to force the browser to connect to sites with HTTPS connection, if it exists for that site.
6) Smart HTTPS : when browsing a website whose address starts with https, you can be sure that anything you write remains protected and cannot be read from the outside or from the site itself.
Smart HTTPS automatically changes the HTTP protocol to secure HTTPS when it is available.
If it encounters an error while loading a site in HTTPS, it restores it to HTTP so as not to interrupt browsing.
7) Autodelete cookies controls cookies when you close a tab, eliminating all unused cookies.
8) Stealthy is a proxy to hide the real IP address and is used to visit websites that could be blocked locally, in Italy.
For a more effective and anonymous solution, you can also install the Tor Browser as a portable Firefox.
9) Decentraleyes accelerates the loading of websites, filtering the contents of the trackers.
10) Ghostery is used to prevent the collection of information to monitor visitors to a site.
11) Bloody Vikings quickly provides a temporary email address and opens the corresponding mailbox in a new tab.
12) DuckDuckGo Privacy Essentials provides tracker blocking, smarter encryption, DuckDuckGo private search and other essential privacy protection measures.
13) History Cleaner allows you to set the number of days to keep the history, before automatically deleting it.
14) Disconnect is one of the best addons of Firefox to make sure that the sites visited cannot track the presence of the user and his movements or clicks on the site.
15) Disconnect for Facebook prevents Facebook from tracking down the web pages visited by us with Firefox by blocking requests sent by websites that use the Like button and other Facebook plugins.
16) Web of Trust is an excellent extension because it is visual and intuitive for everyone.
It shows a rating or rating in the form of a symbol indicating whether a site is safe, doubtful or insecure and also whether it is suitable for children or not.
17) uMatrix is a dynamic firewall that allows you to activate various defenses whenever you want.
18) Link Cleaner allows you to easily remove the tracking parameters when copying and pasting links (when there are long links of illegible characters), offering clean and simple links to share.
19) Privacy Possum is a tool that confuses the data collected by third-party trackers, reducing and falsifying the data collected by monitoring companies and making them useless for them.
20) NoScript prevents websites from being able to run malware launched via automatic scripts on computers.
If a script is blocked, you cannot attack your computer and NoScript does exactly that.
However, since some normal websites and web applications use scripts for their operation, it is necessary to configure this extension by creating white lists with trusted sites.
Obviously, it will not be necessary to install all the add-ons on this list to protect the browser from malicious attacks, each will consider one more or less useful according to their needs or only if you visit specific sites.
Securing browsing with Firefox can cause a slowdown of the browser which, in processing requests and checking the security of each element, in some cases risks taking longer to load websites (see how to prevent Firefox from being slow)
I believe that some extensions can really be useful and indispensable when browsing the online bank site or on sites where you have to write your credit card number.
If you surf on "particular" sites it can be good to maintain privacy with the help of some of these addons.
In general, if you surf with prudence and experience, it will probably not be necessary to use too many security add-ons on Firefox while those who often fall into the sneaky traps of malicious sites, would do well to protect internet browsing.
