Extensions are a great way to customize your browser but you want to be careful when adding new ones due to the potential privacy and security risks they can pose.

Browser extensions are small programs that get installed (as the name suggests) into your browser and allow for the extension of capabilities and/or features of your browser.

More and more attacks are occurring via browser extensions or user-profile installations of tools. Learn more about these attacks from Specops Software and what you can do to protect yourself.

Google is working on a new feature that allows you to disable or enable Chrome extensions based on site-by-site basis.

Firefox extension Leak Monitor keeps an eye out for memory leaks in Firefox, alerting you each time an extension has sprung a leak. Although Leak Monitor is geared toward developers, it's not too ...