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Flagfox

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Flagfox is a Firefox extension that displays a flag depicting the location of the current website's server and provides a multitude of tools such as site safety checks, WhoIs, similar sites, and more.

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License model

  • FreeProprietary

Application type

Platforms

  • Mozilla Firefox
4 / 5 Avg rating (1)
40likes
2comments
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Features

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  1.  Location-based
  2.  Lookup IP Location
  3.  IP geolocation

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Flagfox information

  • Developed by

    Joseph Birr-Pixton, Richard van der Leeden, Dave Garrett
  • Licensing

    Proprietary and Free product.
  • Alternatives

    7 alternatives listed
  • Supported Languages

    • English

Our users have written 2 comments and reviews about Flagfox, and it has gotten 40 likes

Flagfox was added to AlternativeTo by Valentin on Sep 21, 2009 and this page was last updated Mar 9, 2025.

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Top Positive Comment
Natterjack565
Jan 1, 2018
0

Very useful addon with ADDITIONAL features for Firefox 57+

4 stars --- additional star if dev makes it fully open source (not Flagfox license).

Batavian
Sep 26, 2009
0

Handy little unobtrusive addon to Firefox. Helpful to prevent spoofing or phishing sites.

What is Flagfox?

Flagfox is an extension that displays a flag icon indicating the current webserver's physical location. Knowing where you're connected to adds an extra layer of awareness to your browsing and can be useful to indicate the native languages and legal jurisdictions that may apply. Additional information can be obtained via a multitude of external lookups and users can add their own custom actions. All actions can be added to the flag icon's context menu and set to icon click or keyboard shortcuts for quick access.

Clicking the flag icon loads our default action, Geotool, which gives a detailed map showing the city the server is in and other useful information such as its local time and ISP. Many other actions are available for a wide range of uses such as:

  • Site safety and malware checks
  • Finding similar sites and reviews
  • Automatic translation to your language
  • SEO and web development research
  • Diagnostics like pings and traceroutes
  • Whois and DNS information
  • Page code validation
  • Quick URL shortening
  • Copying a server's IP address or other info
  • or you can create your own custom actions!

Flagfox is simple, unobtrusive, and uses relatively little resources. In order to protect your privacy, country lookups are done locally rather than asking an external server about every page you browse to. It works by accessing an internal IP address location database, basically a rough map of the physical layout of the Internet, based on data provided by Maxmind. This gives a flag for the nationality of the actual location of the server you're connected to, rather than just the nationality of the domain name which may be different. Flagfox updates are provided on a monthly basis to keep this internal database accurate.