# Browser Guard

> Protect browsers from accessing untrusted websites. A browser extension for the paranoid.

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

## Overview

- **ID:** `browser-guard`
- **Platform:** Firefox
- **Type:** Firefox add-on
- **Status:** Available
- **Publisher:** PhishAnatomy
- **Category:** privacy-security
- **Daily users:** 8
- **Weekly downloads:** 1
- **Rating:** 5.00 / 5 (1 ratings)
- **Version:** 0.0.3
- **Last updated:** 2022-01-22
- **First published:** 2021-08-06
- **Size:** 229 KB
- **Data as of:** 2026-09-06
- **Store listing:** [Firefox Add-ons Store](https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/addon/browser-guard/)
- **Website:** [https://github.com/phishanatomy/Browser-Guard](https://github.com/phishanatomy/Browser-Guard)
- **Privacy policy:** [https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/addon/browser-guard/privacy/](https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/addon/browser-guard/privacy/)

## Description

Browser Guard is a Firefox add-on that intercepts all top-level navigation requests, blocks the ones that are not trusted, and provides the option to temporarily or permanently trust the domain.

## Rankings

- #36,495 — Overall
- #173 — destination
- #205 — browser
- #228 — browser tab

## Permissions and access

### Permissions

- `tabs`
- `webRequest`
- `webRequestBlocking`
- `storage`
- `<all_urls>`

## Safety

- **Risk impact:** High risk impact
- **Risk likelihood:** Low risk likelihood

### Analysis details

- Grants access to browser tabs, which can be used to track user browsing habits and history, presenting a privacy concern.
- This extension has low user count. Unpopular extensions may not be stable or safe.

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