Keeping yourself safe while browsing the internet is extremely important as with increasing number of phishing or other types of attacks, internet has become unsafe for average users. Here are 5 Firefox extensions that’ll help you keep safe while browsing the web.

1. No Script

NoScript is one of the best security add-on you can get in a Firefox browser. NoScript is the winner of “PC World 2006 World Class Award”. It blocks all the javascripts,java , flash, silverlight and other executable content  by default. You can enable the scripts for the sites you trust. You can also temporarily allow scripts for a site while randomly surfing or you can permanently allow the scripts for the sites you visit quite often.

2.Web of  Trust

WOT or Web of trust protects your computer against the online threats as your front-line layer of protection when browsing or searching in an unfamiliar territory. When you surf to a site, Web of Trust displays a colored icon giving you its rating. WOT reputation ratings has four components : Trustworthiness, Vendor reliability, Privacy and Child Safety. If you are about to enter a risky website, WOT will warn you and save your computer before you interact with a harmful site

3. Location Bar

Location bar highlights the domain of the opened URL just like Internet Explorer 7+ so that you know what domain you currently on, this helps prevent spoofing or phishing attacks. Another useful feature of it is that it converts parts of the URL followed by / into hyperlinks, just hold down Ctrl or Alt key and hover over the URL segments as shown in picture above.

4 .Better Privacy

This add-on will remove the long term tracking cookies used by many websites like Google, YouTube, eBay etc  and keeps your privacy by not letting those websites track your long term usage history.

5. FoxyProxy

With FoxyProxy you can use multiple proxy servers simultaneously without having to manually change the connection settings in Firefox options panel. Just define the rules as to which proxy to use for particular URL and it’ll automatically switch the proxy servers for you keeping your browsing safe and private.