Mozilla will end support for Firefox Private Network on June 20th, 2023. You'll no longer be able to subscribe to Firefox Private Network, or install, reinstall, or use the extension. As an alternative, learn more about creating a secure, private connection to the internet using Mozilla VPN.
Firefox Private Network requires the following permissions:
- BrowserSettings: to disable FTP when the proxy is on. Secure-Proxy is unable to send FTP traffic through the proxy, and, for security reasons, we have decided to disable this protocol.
- CaptivePortal: to control when the network has a captive portal
- Identity: this controls the user authentication flow that allows you to log in. It’s needed to obtain the tokens to be sent to the proxy server.
- Idle: secure-proxy does a few operations when the browser is in idle state.
- Proxy: The most important permission! This is needed to configure the proxy.
- Storage: the extension saves the current tokens and the user information in an internal storage.
- Tabs: this permission is needed in order to open new tabs (for the survey and for the onboarding page).
- webRequest & webRequestBlocking: this permission allows Firefox Private Network to check the status of the webRequest and detect when something goes wrong.
- <all_urls>: The proxy settings are set for each request.
- Privacy: This is required to support WebRTC
- Telemetry: this is requested to obtain telemetry data about the network state and the user interaction.
