Browser Security Matters
If you do not secure your Internet browser, it could lead to a number of problems with your computer system within the blink of an eye. Even worse than spyware, without the proper protection, you could end up leaking all sorts of personal information that others could use against you to steal your identity or harm and manipulate your computer system.

The threat of attack from malicious software on computer systems all around the globe are continuing to increase on a seemingly daily basis. The problem increases when users click mindlessly on links with which they are not familiar or visit websites that are disguised as popular places you may want to visit on the web. Because of this, more and more criminals are exploiting Internet browser vulnerabilities and compromising computer systems all over the world.

Firefox Offers Secure Browsing Solutions
The Mozilla Firefox Internet browser supports a number of features that can help you keep up your guard against those who may wish to harm your computer or worse. Firefox supports a number of security policies that are easy to configure. In addition, you can increase the security of your Mozilla Firefox browser with a number of add-ons that are available to provide you with the safest Internet browsing every time.

Safe Internet browsing is a major concern, especially with the number of people who are now logging on to the Internet to buy and sell items, take care of their banking needs, socialize with their friends and colleagues, promote their business and even earn a college degree. With all of that valuable information swimming around on your computer system, it is important to arm yourself with the right protection.

7 Firefox Addons for Secure Browsing
While Mozilla Firefox offers many add-ons and security features, there are few select choices you should know about.  Following are some of the best security add-ons for Mozilla Firefox that will help you make sure that your computer and all of your valuable information is kept:

1.Adblock Plus
This add-on is the most popular among Firefox users for blocking banners and ads, with almost 800,000 downloads every week.
2.BetterPrivacy
This one will protect your system against cookies that cannot be deleted, known as “super-cookies”.
3.NoScript
This add-on for Mozilla Firefox Internet browser is believed by many to be the best when it comes to keeping your computer safe from a number of different attacks.
4.WOT
WOT, or Web Of Trust, is a great add-on that will warn you anytime a website is out to rip you off, infect your computer or bombard you with spam.
5.Stealther
This is the best add-on for surfing on the Internet without leaving footprints of everywhere you have been by disabling browser history, cookies, disk catche, file history, forms info and more.
6.Roboform Toolbar
This one provides the user with a great way to manage and secure passwords.
7.KeyScrambler Personal
This add-on works to encrypt all of your keystrokes in order to keep your system safe from keyloggers.

Many people are coming to appreciate all that Firefox has to offer.  With these easy add-ons, you can be assured that your browsing is safe as well as productive.

Simply take a picture of yourself proudly sporting any Firefox apparel (t-shirt etc) or poster. Then snap a nice photo with a famous landmark, your favorite place, or anywhere you think will make for a great photo. You can use their celebration posters in the background.  Email photos to fxbillion@mozilla.com by July 31st. Ensure .jpg format and at least 1024×768 pixels size.

Last year Firefox crossed 500 million downloads and donated free rice, and before that they celebrated 50 million downloads with Firefox coins. I wonder what they will this time.

Twitter Search - is a FireFox extension that enables you to search content on Twitter web site. This extension even looks  into the tweets left by other Twitter users. You can find people on Twitter using this FireFox extension. A Twitter  search engine loads into the search engine list on the FireFox web browser.

Power Twitter – adds many features to your Twitter Web interface like you can narrow your search to a specific user on Twitter, Facebook updates, it allows URL expansion, you can do custom settings to Twitter, you can even upload photos, you can include other media sites like YouTube, Flickr, Google Maps and many more.

StockTwits – allows you to search and follow the stocks you like. It displays tweets related to that stocks you have selected from the Twitter Web site. This is really useful if you are doing online trading and want to know up to date information on the stocks you follow.

Twitter Fox – is the most loved FireFox extension for Twitter. This FireFox extension keeps you updated about your friends on Twitter. If your friends update their tweets, it immediately notifies you about that. Also, you can update your own tweets with the help of text input field present in Twitter Fox. This FireFox extension is known as TwitterNotifier earlier.

TwitterBar – allows you to post tweets from your browser address bar. You can enter up-to 140 characters. After installing this addon to FireFox, a small Twitter icon will appear to the right hand side of the address bar. You can type your tweet in the address bar and click on the Twitter icon to post your tweet. You can see how many characters are left by pointing the icon. Click on the Twitter icon to tweet  the URL of the website you are currently viewing.

Twitzer – allows you to post tweets more than 140 characters on to Twitter website. You can directly post your tweet to Twitter using this FireFox add-on. It also has an additional feature, which converts and resolves  TinyURL links so that you are sure that you click on the safe links and view the target website.

TwitBin – this is like a Twitter messenger. Using this FireFox extension, you can easily send and receive messages from your friends and Twitter via Twitter right from your browser. This is a very cool FireFox extension and every Twitter user must have this extension.

TwitKit – is Twitter sidebar for FireFox. It has 6- section interface. You can use tabs to separate content on the Twitter page. It enables you to view your timeline and Twitter public timeline. You can also view the latest tweets left by your friends and followers. You can view your friends list replies send to you and also view your account stats using TwitKit.

Song.ly – allows you to share music links with your friends. When you come across a music file link and want to share it with your friends, just right click on the link and select ‘Song.ly: Share this song’  from the context menu. Now your friends will get the link of the music file, which you have shared with them they can listen to the music right from the browser.

TwittyTunes – allows you to post the list of songs that you are currently playing to the Twitter website. You can also post the URL of the websites that you are viewing, videos that you are watching and many more. You can post URL or play-lists just in one click.