Massive List of Firefox Extensions You DON’T Want to Install

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I’ve had quite a number of posts on this site which talk about the many ways you can improve Firefox with some top notch extensions…

This however, is a list of extensions to AVOID.  Many of them have spyware or adware installed and are maliciously released to the community.  Take a quick look and make sure none of them are installed on your PC.

Having said that, Firefox is still FAR more secure than IE.  Washington Post recently reported that Internet Explorer was unsafe 284 days in 2006.  Not exactly a vote of confidence in Microsoft’s favor.

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    1. jr said,

      on March 6th, 2007 at 2:35 pm

      Darn, I’ve been using the Email Notifier without knowing that it was a spyware. Unfortunately there isn’t another addon that is similar to it, so I’m in a dilemma over whether to remove it or not, since it’s really useful.

    2. James Yeang said,

      on March 6th, 2007 at 7:03 pm

      I’d advise removing it. Not worth the potential identity theft. Try searching online for alternatives. This is one for gmail.

      https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/173/

    3. Foxtrotter said,

      on March 7th, 2007 at 1:15 am

      Most valuable information. Thanks.
      Fortunately, even though I have 60 running Firefox extensions, none was in the blacklist.
      Well, that does feel like a breeze of fresh air.

    4. James Yeang said,

      on March 9th, 2007 at 2:46 am

      No problem Foxtrotter - glad it helped

    5. papajoneh said,

      on May 5th, 2007 at 11:39 am

      geez… i have 18 extension and thanks to the list… none of them there. Pheewwws… nice to know that. Thanks again James.

    6. James Yeang said,

      on May 5th, 2007 at 2:22 pm

      Glad to be of help papajoneh!

    7. Maartje said,

      on May 17th, 2007 at 10:19 am

      Where is the list? I don’t see it.

    8. Nancy said,

      on May 19th, 2007 at 9:04 am

      Is stumble upon what you mean, you wrote stumble it. I love that extension. Is it really dangerous?

    9. James Yeang said,

      on May 20th, 2007 at 7:39 am

      Nancy: No it’s not - I think you’re referring to my feedflare where it’s there for people to stumbleupon this post. Apologies for any confusion :)

    10. Zia said,

      on July 11th, 2007 at 4:22 am

      Thanks…I now try to restrict the number of extensions.

    11. Cheri said,

      on August 26th, 2007 at 4:12 am

      Hello, Just StumbledUpon this site and was looking for the “Massive list of Firefox extensions you DON’T want to install.” I’ve looked and looked for the list, cannot find it. Is it still available? Thanks.

    12. James Yeang said,

      on August 26th, 2007 at 8:29 am

      Hi Cheri - yeah it is - click the link in the post below or visit this one…
      http://forums.mozillazine.org/viewtopic.php?t=500994

    13. Alfred Einstein said,

      on November 10th, 2007 at 11:16 pm

      I don’t use Firefox because:
      1. Add-ons are the primary point of entry for browser malware.
      2. Firefox needs add-ons to be fully functional.

      Despite all the fuss about IE, I still use it. (Actually, I use Avant, which is an improved GUI wrapped around the IE core.)

      For protection, I disable ActiveX. And I use Spyware Guard to catch any add-ons trying to attach themselves to IE. It has caught a few of those in the last couple of years.

    14. Andrew White said,

      on December 9th, 2007 at 8:40 pm

      I think most of the Firefox extensions available officially are safe Alfred and Firefox in general is much safer than IE. Both Spyware Guard and Spyware Blaster from Javacool are excellent additions to any security suite.

    15. ttt said,

      on March 22nd, 2008 at 4:00 pm

      I don’t see the list!

    16. James Yeang said,

      on March 23rd, 2008 at 2:13 pm

      ttt:look for the word AVOID in the post above. That link leads to the list!

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