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What is a plug in & add on? Are plug ins safe?

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MonoSkier200t
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I did something with a plug in on my laptop &since then I have a virus that keeps coming back. I like firefox very much, way more the. Google Chrome. I need more information as to giving more of my info to firefox so I dont get any viruses and I will then be all in for this site. Thank you- DW

I did something with a plug in on my laptop &since then I have a virus that keeps coming back. I like firefox very much, way more the. Google Chrome. I need more information as to giving more of my info to firefox so I dont get any viruses and I will then be all in for this site. Thank you- DW

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Ererer
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There is some information here that I think would be helpful to you: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/about