I trust most of you have heard about firefox by now even if you aren’t using it yet. However, what a lot of firefox users are unaware of is the extra functionality that it has above and beyond IE by use of addon ‘extensions‘.

Like most software these days there are support forums and firefox is no different there. Whilst doing one of my irregular wanders through the firefox support forum I came across this thread which talks about the dangerous extensions one should be aware of as containing spyware or at the very least track users without having pre-advised them of this.

As with most things you get a choice and here it’s to install or not. The list of 93 known bad extensions is something I plan to keep an eye on - for my part I only use 10 or so extensions with only 3 or 4 of those on a daily basis and thankfully none of mine are in the list!

Tags: firefox, addons, extensions, danger, ie