Mozilla removed today 23 Firefox add-ons that snooped on users and sent data to remote servers, a Mozilla engineer has told Bleeping Computer today. The list of blocked add-ons includes "Web Security, ...

The Web of Trust (WOT) service add-on aims to make browsing safer by monitoring the sites that users visit and warning when they run into a variety of danger such as scams, malware, and rogue web ...

You can easily block a website on Firefox — but you'll need to download the Block Site extension first.

Mozilla today said it wouldn’t — or couldn’t — pull a “kill switch” to disable the Firesheep add-on that lets anyone steal log-on and account access information to Facebook, Twitter and other major ...

LastPass works with Firefox through a toolbar add-on that can be downloaded through the "Tools" menu or by typing "about: addons" into the URL bar.

Over the past two weeks, Mozilla's add-on review team has banned 197 Firefox add-ons that were caught executing malicious code, stealing user data, or using obfuscation to hide their source code. The ...

Mozilla had a little something in mind for its users: an add-on called Looking Glass that remotely installs itself on Firefox and reads, "MY REALITY IS JUST DIFFERENT THAN YOURS." That marketing stunt ...

An expired certificate on the Mozilla Add-ons infrastructure is disabling Firefox add-ons for millions of users, and is also preventing users from re-activating or (re-)installing extensions. The ...

Mozilla has now unblocked a Microsoft add-on thought to pose a danger due to a software vulnerability, but a second add-on remains blocked, the organization said on Sunday. Microsoft has confirmed ...

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Mozilla Firefox users were surprised to see a mysterious add-on suddenly appear on their browsers, raising fears that it was the work of hackers. The add-on was later discovered to really be related ...