# Port Authority

Firefox extension · by Hacks and Hops · Web Development

Topics: Antivirus

Port Authority has 28,898 daily users (+1.7% this week), rated 4.6 from 83 ratings, \#32 of 14,457 in Web Development.

## Figures

- Daily users: 28,898
- Rating: 4.6 · 83 ratings
- Weekly downloads: 1,400
- 1-day growth in daily users: +258 (+0.9%)
- 7-day growth in daily users: +472 (+1.7%) (+746 over 11.1 days)
- Rank: #445 of 625,902 by installs on Firefox
- Rank: #32 of 14,457 in Web Development

## Reviews

- Ratings by stars: 5★ 80% · 4★ 8% · 3★ 8% · 2★ 2% · 1★ 1% (83 ratings)
- Newest critical reviews (in every language):
  - 2★ 2026-02-01, Forrest Aldrich: The extension eats a lot of resources and slows down, or interferes with the browsing experience. Such that I had to disable it. Now, this may mean there should be refinements or other adjustments -- this is just my longer term experience, and I had to disable it. The extension does expose an area t…

## Description

Blocks malicious websites from port-scanning your computer/network and dynamically blocks all LexisNexis endpoints from running their invasive data collection scripts.

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Source: https://storetally.com/firefox/2693257/port-authority  
As of 2026-10-17, from the StoreTally census.