How can you take care of your online privacy and security just by using the Firefox browser. Firefox provide many features and Add-ons that take care of your privacy and security.

1. Privacy and Security

2. Privacy and Security
• Security and Privacy is an important part of
our online lives
• So we should know how to handle it and keep
the web healthy

3. Do you know you are been tracked
online

4. Shine a Light on Who’s Watching You
Watching You

5. Lightbeam
•Lightbeam is a Firefox add-on
•It uses interactive visualizations to show you the first
and third party sites you interact with on the Web
•Reveals parts that are not transparent to the average
user

6. Visited Sites Third Party Sites

7. How do I open the Lightbeam?
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8. Permissions Manager
• Using which you can give certain websites the
ability to store passwords, set cookies and
more
• The Permissions Manager now collects various
website permissions all in one place

9. How do I open the Permissions
Manager?

10. About:permissions

11. How do I manage permissions for a
single website?

12. How do I manage the default
permissions for all websites?

13. Private Browsing
• Private Browsing allows you to browse the
Internet without saving any information
• Information about which sites and pages
you’ve visited
• Many a times you need the browser not to
store the information (history)

14. What does Private Browsing not
save?
• Visited pages
• Form and Search Bar entries
• Passwords
• Download List entries
• Cookies
• Cached Web Content
• Offline Web Content

15. How do I open a new Private
Window?
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17. HTTP vs HTTPS
Hyper Text Transfer Protocol
(HTTP)
Hyper Text Transfer Protocol
Secure (HTTPS)

18. Why do we need extra “S”?
• That extra "S" in the URL means your
connection is secure
• It is much harder for anyone else to see what
you're doing
• it's primarily used by sites that handle money

20. Secure Sockets Layer (SSL)
• Secure Socket Layer Encryption is a technology
that protects Web sites
• Each SSL Certificate contains unique,
authenticated information about the owner

21. What are Internet Cookies?
• A cookie is a type of message that is given to a
browser by a Web server
• A cookie is information stored on your computer
by a website you visit
• Cookies store your settings for a website, such as
preferred language or location
• This allows the site to present you with
information you needs

22. Can Cookies be malicious?
• Cookies that watch your online activity are
called malicious or tracking cookies
• These types of cookies can be used to store
and track your activity online
• Many antivirus today will flag suspicious
cookies when scanning your system for viruses

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