# Security Tweaks

> Improve your security and browse safer with seven tweaks.

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

## Overview

- **ID:** `security-tweaks`
- **Platform:** Firefox
- **Type:** Firefox add-on
- **Status:** Available
- **Publisher:** Benthum
- **Category:** privacy-security,appearance,tabs
- **Daily users:** 15
- **Weekly downloads:** 2
- **Rating:** 5.00 / 5 (2 ratings)
- **Version:** 0.1.8
- **Last updated:** 2026-05-16
- **First published:** 2018-10-16
- **Size:** 5.40 MB
- **Data as of:** 2026-09-09
- **Store listing:** [Firefox Add-ons Store](https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/addon/security-tweaks/)
- **Website:** [https://mybrowseraddon.com/security-tweaks.html](https://mybrowseraddon.com/security-tweaks.html)

## Description

Security Tweaks is a Firefox add-on that helps improve your security while browsing by offering seven different techniques, including blocking ads, JavaScript, cookies, inline-scripts, Flash contents, window.eval(), and common malware domains.

## Rankings

- #27,567 — Overall
- #29 — security
- #69 — secure
- #197 — malware

## Permissions and access

### Permissions

- `storage`
- `privacy`
- `notifications`
- `declarativeNetRequest`

### Host permissions

- `*://*/*`

### Content script matches

- `*`

## Safety

- **Risk impact:** High risk impact
- **Risk likelihood:** Moderate 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 low user count. Unpopular extensions may not be stable or safe.

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