Norton Safe Search Enhanced

Norton Safe Search Enhanced

Search safely online by enabling Norton Safe Search Enhanced as your default search provider for maximum protection on Chrome.

What is Norton Safe Search Enhanced?
"Norton Safe Search Enhanced" is a Chrome extension which modifies your default search provider, home page, and new tab settings to enhance your protection. It safeguards you from potential online threats such as phishing sites, malware distribution sites, and risky sites encountered during online searches, shopping, or browsing. It provides safety ratings, blocks harmful sites, and indicates safe shopping sites for enhanced protection.
Stats
Users: 200,000+
Rating: 3.38 (84)
Version: 3.20.0.21 (Last updated: 2023-06-16)
Creation date: 2020-06-27
Risk impact: Very high risk impact
Risk likelihood: Low risk likelihood
Manifest version: 3
Overrides new tab: Yes
Overrides search engine: Yes
Permissions:
  • tabs
  • background
  • webNavigation
  • storage
  • scripting
  • alarms
  • webRequest
  • declarativeNetRequest
  • downloads
  • notifications
Host permissions:
  • <all_urls>
Size: 6.16M
Stats date:

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Summary
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Norton Safe Search Enhanced updates your Chrome's default search provider, home page, and new tab page settings for complete protection.

Help protect yourself from phishing sites, malware distribution sites, and other potentially risky sites while you search, shop, or browse online.

Norton Safe Search Enhanced provides you added peace of mind from online threats by:

1.Providing you with safety ratings on search results 2.Blocking malicious sites which may be used for phishing or malware distribution 3. Letting you know which shopping sites are safe


This extension uses permissions that produce the following Chrome messages to perform necessary functions within the extension.

“Read and change all your data on the websites you visit”

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User reviews
User reviews summary
These summaries are automatically generated weekly using AI based on recent user reviews. Chrome Web Store does not verify user reviews, so some user reviews may be inaccurate, spammy, or outdated.
Pros
  • Protects from dangerous websites
  • Additional security layer
  • Native compatibility with Google Chrome extensions on browsers like Opéra GX
Cons
  • Forces Norton safe search as the default search engine
  • Too many ads and pop-ups
  • Slows down search and browsing speed
  • Causes bugs (e.g., inactive extension, blank pages)
  • Difficult to uninstall or revert changes
Most mentioned
  • Forces change of search engine and home page without user consent
  • Causes slow browsing and unwanted new tab behavior
  • Exhibits bugs and inactivity issues
  • Difficulties in uninstalling
  • False positives in safe search
Recent reviews
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Forced changes new tabs, can't change it back otherwise. Idiotic, I need a plugin, not a nanny. Go away.
by Sam Sam, 2023-07-03

Vraiment super mais en ce momentplusieurs fois il y a eu des bugs. L'extension se met à un moment ou un autre totalement inactif lorsque je clique sur le "?", la page qui s'ouvre est toutes blanches, rien ne s'affiche. Et pire à chaque fois que j'essaye de réinstaller l'extension pour corriger le problème il se remet à être inactif.
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Safety
Risk impact

Norton Safe Search Enhanced is very risky to use and it requires a lot of sensitive permissions. Avoid installing this extension unless you absolutely trust this publisher.

Risk likelihood

Norton Safe Search Enhanced has earned a fairly good reputation and likely can be trusted.

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