Category Archives: Firefox add-ons

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. You [...]
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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 find [...]
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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 A user [...]
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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 system, [...]
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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 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 status [...]
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Add Ixquick To Your Firefox Search Box

By HideIP Admin | Published: August 23, 2009
Ixquick, a Dutch search engine, is the only search engine that does not record your IP address. While search engines such as Google  and Yahoo keep user data for nine months, respective three months, Ixquick operates without the data altogether. So, if you are comitted to your privacy you have to have Ixquick right at [...]
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FoxyProxy 2.13 – New release of the advanced proxy management Firefox add-on

By HideIP Admin | Published: July 28, 2009
During last weeks, Eric Jung – the creator of FoxyProxy, has worked hard to improve the add-on and fix bugs. Release 2.13 is now available for download! FoxyProxy is an excellent Firefox add-on that completely replaces Firefox’s limited proxying capabilities. It provides a lot of features and it’s considered to be more complete than the well-known SwitchProxy [...]
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See your external IP address while browsing with ‘What’s my IP Address’ Firefox add-on

By HideIP Admin | Published: June 8, 2009
‘What’s my IP address’ is a new Firefox add-on provided by MyIPTest.com that displays your external IP address. If you are using a proxy or an hide ip tool the add-on will show IP address of the proxy, the one that is seen by the sites you visit. The add-on is very useful as it shows your external IP [...]
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FoxyProxy – A Firefox proxy add-on with a twist

By HideIP Admin | Published: April 30, 2009
This is a guest post by Scott Mulligan. If you want to guest post on this blog, don’t hesitate to contact me. There are many great proxy related add-ons for Firefox but most of them are fairly similar. I would like to introduce FoxyProxy which is a little bit different from the rest of the competition. [...]
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