IDND

Name: IDND
Rating: 4.5 (6 reviews)
Author: Aaron Irvine

IDND pops up a warning message whenever the domain of the site you are visiting contains a suspicious mix of characters from different language scripts.

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IDN's are great for linguistic diversity but can be used for phishing or spoofing, so with IDND, suspicious IDN's cause an alert box to appear, warning you to take care. (This is in no way sufficient protection against all kinds of spoofing, but does add to your browser's defences.)

In addition, you can right click the URL address in the Firefox navigation bar and select IDN to get more information on the domain name (whether/where the domain contains international characters).

Finally, some users may wish to right click the navigation bar itself, choose "customise..." and then drag the IDND icon to beside the URL address. This icon changes green/blue/red depending on the nature of the domain name, it tells you whether you are visiting a Traditional Domain Name (green TDN) or an International Domain Name (UN-blue IDN) or an IDN suspicious domain (red).

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Version:

2.2resigned1 Last updated: 2024-04-25

Version code:

5725951

Creation date:

2005-04-25

Risk:

Permissions:

<all_urls>
webRequest
webRequestBlocking
notifications
contextMenus
tabs

Size:

21.26KB

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Full description:

Source:

Firefox Browser Add-ons

Updated:

a day ago

Ranking

# 15,684 ▼ 391

Other rankings

#218 in domain keyword 18 ▼ 3

User reviews

I love the idea, but the icon is not changing color on Firefox 66.0.3 and I can't find a place where to file a bug report.

by Il*****, 2019-04-26

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IDND requires some sensitive permissions that could impact your browser and data security. Exercise caution before installing.

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