Category Archives: Firefox add-ons

Firefox add-ons to hide your IP address

Stay Away From Firefox If You Like Cocoon [Update from Cocoon Support]

By salman | Published: August 20, 2011

This is a quick update for the Firefox users who love to use Cocoon in order to hide their originating IP address. Mozilla recently launched version six of their Firefox web browser with all the hoopla attached around it. Well, I am not against Mozilla and neither am I asking people to stay away from [...]

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Tips for Leaving No Trace When Using Someone Else’s Computer

By Heryzo | Published: August 11, 2011
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Sometimes, you may have to use someone else’s computer for browsing the internet. How do you insure that you won’t be leaving your traces when you are leaving this computer? If you are a Firefox user, most of the time, you would be using Firefox, enter your credentials for checking your e-mails, hanging out on [...]

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Understanding The Most Secure Firefox Add-on – Cocoon

By salman | Published: July 19, 2011

Basically, Cocoon helps you surf the entire Internet via a proxy. This helps the user to use the Internet without revealing their IP address to the World Wide Web. This can be confirmed by validating your own IP addresses with cocoon enabled and when it is not enabled. They will be different! How does Cocoon [...]

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FoxyProxy Matching URL Patterns For Watching UK Online TV

By HideIP Admin | Published: March 22, 2010
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FoxyProxy is an excellent Firefox add-on that completely replaces Firefox’s limited proxying capabilities and automatically switches an Internet connection across one or more proxy servers. One of the best features of FoxyProxy is that it allows you to set up pre-defined “rules”. Thus, FoxyProxy can automatically switch between one or more proxy servers depending on which website [...]

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Firefox 3.6 Add-on for Chrome-Like Incognito Window

By HideIP Admin | Published: January 24, 2010

Firefox 3.6 was released a few days ago and there are already add-ons dedicated to the new version. One of them upgrades Private Browsing feature to be more like the Chrome’s Incognito Window. The Private Browsing Window add-on starts a new instance of Firefox alongside your existing session, with a new profile in which Private Browsing is enabled. [...]

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Where To Find Working Proxies To Use With FoxyProxy And SwitchProxy?

By HideIP Admin | Published: October 13, 2009

FoxyProxy and SwitchProxy are two great Firefox add-ons that can be used to hide your IP address. The downsize of these solutions is that they depend on proxies that you need to find yourself. Actually, both add-ons function as easy to use proxy changers and they do not provide any proxies. The problem: where to [...]

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11 Best TOR-Based Tools For Hiding Your IP Address

By HideIP Admin | Published: September 28, 2009

Tor (The Onion Router) is one of the most popular hide IP tool used on the internet due to its simplicity and efficiency. To be more precise, we have to say that Tor is not actually a tool, is more a network of computers that working together achieve anonymity for its users. [Tor Project] How Tor Works [...]

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Hide Your Surfing Trails With Private Browsing Firefox Addon

By HideIP Admin | Published: September 20, 2009

As you probably know, Internet browsing leaves a lot of traces in your computer.  This info can be used to know many things about you can sometimes lead to the cases of identity theft. When you are concerned about your privacy, it is important to be careful about what traces are left in the PC after you leave the [...]

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Interview: Listen To Eric Jung, The Man Behind FoxyProxy

By HideIP Admin | Published: August 31, 2009

FoxyProxy is a well-know Firefox add-on that completely replaces Firefox’s limited proxying capabilities and automatically switches an Internet connection across one or more proxy servers. Guys from FLOSS Weekly, Randal Schwartz and Leo Laporte, have interviewed Eric Jung, the creator of FoxyProxy. You can listen Eric beautifully explaining what a proxy is, talking about censorship, [...]

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Ghostery Shows Who is Tracking You While Browsing

By HideIP Admin | Published: August 24, 2009

Ghostery is a Firefox add-on that watches the web sites that are tracking you. Also it alerts you when you visit a web site that has web bugs on it. Web bugs are hidden scripts that track your behavior and are used by the sites you visit to understand their own audience. The extension embeds itself into your [...]

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