What is a Mozilla Firefox Addon or Extension? Mozilla Firefox addons or extensions are programs that can be installed into Firefox in order to change the browser's functionality. This includes adding ...

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Adding a VPN extension to Firefox will turn your browser into an IP-shifting tool that also lets you surf the internet more ...

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 ...

Firefox 3 was released just this June, and many Firefox fans believe the new version is clearly the best browser you can get. You can make it even better with free ...

Video Control is a Firefox addon that will display advertisements in search result pages and web sites that you visit. When installed, Video Control injects a javascript script into web sites that you ...

Last year Mozilla launched MemShrink, an aggressive campaign to trim Firefox’s memory footprint. Since then not only has the browser's overall memory use dropped considerably, but the effort has been ...

Mozilla yesterday detailed plans to require Firefox add-ons to be digitally signed, a move meant to bear down on rogue and malicious extensions, and one that resembled Google’s decision years ago to ...

Firefox is popular in part because it allows anyone to extend the browser with all sorts of additional functionality through its add-on framework. Add-ons can turn Firefox into a BitTorrent client, an ...

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 ...

As we reported yesterday, Google had to address an issue with Chrome and tainted browser extensions “Add to Feedly” and “Tweet This Page” that began to spit out unwanted ads, prompting a backlash from ...

Firefox Chief Technology Officer Eric Rescorla has written a detailed blog post explaining exactly how the browser's add-ons came to break all at once last week, how it was fixed, and how the company ...