# URL Phishing Shield

> An anti-phishing Firefox plugin that prevents users from typing URLs directly into the address bar and instead searches for them on a search engine, providing an additional layer of securSearch directly typed URLs with DuckDuckGo to prevent phishing.

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

## Overview

- **ID:** `urlphisingshield`
- **Platform:** Firefox
- **Type:** Firefox add-on
- **Status:** Available
- **Publisher:** Krotonic
- **Category:** privacy-security,search-tools
- **Daily users:** 1
- **Version:** 1.2
- **Last updated:** 2023-04-12
- **First published:** 2023-04-06
- **Size:** 380 KB
- **Data as of:** 2026-09-08
- **Store listing:** [Firefox Add-ons Store](https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/addon/urlphisingshield/)
- **Website:** [https://github.com/krotonic/url-phishing-shield](https://github.com/krotonic/url-phishing-shield)

## Description

URL Phishing Shield is an anti-phishing Firefox plugin that enhances security by redirecting directly typed URLs in the address bar to DuckDuckGo search engine, preventing potential phishing attacks that exploit typos.

## Rankings

- #111,995 — Overall

## Permissions and access

### Permissions

- `webRequest`
- `webRequestBlocking`
- `<all_urls>`
- `search`

## Safety

- **Risk impact:** Moderate 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/urlphisingshield)