# Bright Data Proxy Extension

> Extension that changes location for manual data collection

Canonical page: [https://chrome-stats.com/d/brightdata](https://chrome-stats.com/d/brightdata)

## Overview

- **ID:** `brightdata`
- **Platform:** Firefox
- **Type:** Firefox add-on
- **Status:** Available
- **Publisher:** Bright Data
- **Category:** privacy-security
- **Daily users:** 438
- **Weekly downloads:** 71
- **Rating:** 5.00 / 5 (1 ratings)
- **Version:** 1.663.341
- **Last updated:** 2026-08-31
- **First published:** 2020-11-26
- **Size:** 4.41 MB
- **Data as of:** 2026-09-13
- **Store listing:** [Firefox Add-ons Store](https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/addon/brightdata/)
- **Website:** [https://www.brightdata.com](https://www.brightdata.com/)
- **Privacy policy:** [https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/addon/brightdata/privacy/](https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/addon/brightdata/privacy/)

## Description

The Bright Data Proxy Extension integrates seamlessly with your Firefox browser to enable anonymous browsing through millions of residential, static, mobile, and data center IPs worldwide. Designed for professionals and enterprises, this extension routes your web requests through Bright Data's powerful P2P network of real residential IPs, making it nearly impossible to be blocked or cloaked.

With features such as multi-country browsing, random IP rotation, user agent adjustment, and configurable session lengths, the extension offers high customization to suit your data collection needs. Ideal for Fortune 500 companies and businesses requiring reliable web data extraction, it provides near-perfect success rates while maintaining discretion and speed. A Bright Data account is required to use the extension, linking users to comprehensive proxy services and support.

## Rankings

- #5,516 — Overall
- #12 — data
- #27 — x data
- #64 — proxy
- #80 — wifi proxy
- #98 — extension

## Permissions and access

### Permissions

- `<all_urls>`
- `proxy`
- `webRequest`
- `webRequestBlocking`
- `webNavigation`
- `tabs`
- `storage`
- `privacy`
- `cookies`
- `browsingData`

### Content script matches

- `brightdata.com`
- `www.bright.cn`
- `lum-bext.com`

## Safety

- **Risk impact:** Very high risk impact
- **Risk likelihood:** Very high risk likelihood

### Analysis details

- Allows access to all websites, posing a significant security risk as it can monitor and modify data from any visited site.
- This extension has similar fingerprint to known malware: njdmhalmhcdbfoopkncegoamnbngkapf. Match ratio: 0.8617021276595744.

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Source: [Chrome-Stats](https://chrome-stats.com/d/brightdata)