Morrie Wyatt via luv-beginners wrote:
It may also be worth installing the "noscript" addon into Firefox. It makes websites a bit more fiddly to work with, but can keep a lot of the bad stuff at arms length.
I recommend *all* of these: $ aptitude search '?installed ?name(webext)' i webext-https-everywhere - Extension to force the use of HTTPS on many sites i webext-noscript - permissions manager for Firefox i webext-privacy-badger - Privacy Badger automatically learns to block invisible trackers i webext-ublock-origin - general-purpose lightweight ads, malware, trackers blocker (Web Extens i webext-umatrix - browser plugin to block requests and reduce data leakage I also agree with Colin Fee's post that the problem is not "I got hacked", it's "I'm trying to run Firefox on a 15-year-old computer". All mainstream browsers are shit and won't work properly on systems with (for example) <4GB RAM. Sorry, that's just how the world is. You can build a brand-new system from $300[*], and cheaper second-hand. If that's still too much, try https://www.computerbank.org.au/ [*] For example, A$210 GIGABYTEGB-BLCE-4105R (case, mainboard, cpu, psu) A$50 8GB DDR4 2400MHz SO-DIMM (RAM) A$33 128GB WDS120G2G0B (disk) If your computer monitor is 15 years old, it might only have DVI (no HDMI or DP), so let's throw in an adapter for A$3. A$296 TOTAL