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<blockquote data-quote="ForgottenSeer 72227" data-source="post: 853171"><p>I am of the KISS philosophy.</p><p></p><p>Personally a good Adblocker such as UBlock Origion, or Adguard is really all one needs IMHO. Both of these blockers do more than just block ad's, as they cover some of the tracking/privacy aspect as well. Firefox is very privacy focused, so they have quite a few features built into the browser all ready, making many of the privacy focused extensions redundant.</p><p></p><p>Depending on your surfing habits and which AV you use, some may also recommend something like Malwarebytes browser protection, Bitdefender Trafficlight, Emsisoft Browser protection, etc.. to help with malware/phishing sites, but most browsers today are pretty good at that by default, so you can add one if you prefer, but I wouldn't go adding all of them thinking that you will be more secure adding them all vs having 1 of them. Depending on which security program you have, the malware/phishing aspect may already be covered, so those extensions would be redundant IMHO.</p><p></p><p>Some extensions may help with other aspects other than security, but those are really personal preference. Like with anything only try to keep the extensions that you actually use and find useful. Like with actual programs the more extensions you have, the more chances of something breaking, slowing things down, increasing your memory usage and there's always the potential of creating security holes.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="ForgottenSeer 72227, post: 853171"] I am of the KISS philosophy. Personally a good Adblocker such as UBlock Origion, or Adguard is really all one needs IMHO. Both of these blockers do more than just block ad's, as they cover some of the tracking/privacy aspect as well. Firefox is very privacy focused, so they have quite a few features built into the browser all ready, making many of the privacy focused extensions redundant. Depending on your surfing habits and which AV you use, some may also recommend something like Malwarebytes browser protection, Bitdefender Trafficlight, Emsisoft Browser protection, etc.. to help with malware/phishing sites, but most browsers today are pretty good at that by default, so you can add one if you prefer, but I wouldn't go adding all of them thinking that you will be more secure adding them all vs having 1 of them. Depending on which security program you have, the malware/phishing aspect may already be covered, so those extensions would be redundant IMHO. Some extensions may help with other aspects other than security, but those are really personal preference. Like with anything only try to keep the extensions that you actually use and find useful. Like with actual programs the more extensions you have, the more chances of something breaking, slowing things down, increasing your memory usage and there's always the potential of creating security holes. [/QUOTE]
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