Firefox Will Alert You If You Open A Website That’s Been Breached

The notification tool can be used by signing up with email ID, which Mozilla claims is not stored anywhere.

It’s time to focus on making internet usage safer.

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Firefox from Mozilla is known to be the web browser that does everything Google’s Chrome doesn't. The organisation has claimed it has no interest in getting access to user data or browsing through their search history for the sake of monetising its business.

These traits have endeared Firefox to various users and now it is adding another useful feature that could work as a treat for people, who’re rather paranoid about their data getting leaked on the internet.

In the coming weeks, Firefox users will get a new built-in tool called Firefox Monitor Notifications, that will alert them if the website they have opened has been compromised in the past year or so.

This tool has been christened by Firefox along with renowned security expert Troy Hunt, who owns the Have I Been Pwned hack detection platform. The Firefox Monitor Notification is coming to Firefox Quantum users for now but regular Firefox users can expect this tool to reach them in the coming weeks.

We are adding a notification to our Firefox Quantum browser that alerts desktop users when they visit a site that has had a recently reported data breach. 

<a href="https://blog.mozilla.org/press-uk/2018/11/15/firefox-monitor-launches-in-26-languages-and-adds-new-desktop-browser-feature/">Firefox Blog</a>

Put your email ID to see if it was part of any data breach in recent years. (Photo: Firefox Monitor)

We’re bringing this functionality to Firefox users in recognition of the growing interest in these types of privacy- and security-centric features. This new functionality will gradually roll out to Firefox users over the coming weeks.

<a href="https://blog.mozilla.org/press-uk/2018/11/15/firefox-monitor-launches-in-26-languages-and-adds-new-desktop-browser-feature/">Firefox Blog</a>

This is how the Monitor tool will notify about a breached website.(Photo: Firefox Blog)

So, next time you’re using the Firefox Quantum browser and end up opening up a website that was breached in the past 12 months, you will be notified about this. You can sign up with an email ID to get notifications on such incidents.

Firefox has been a silver lining among web browsers, keeping users privacy as its primary objective. Firefox had created a web browser extension called Facebook Container, which can be downloaded to Firefox (install it just in case you haven’t). Now, the real question is – what can this extension do for the safety of your data?

This extension isolates your Facebook identity into a separate container that makes it harder for Facebook to track your visits to other websites with third-party cookies.