Ecosia — The search engine that plants trees 🌱

This extension adds Ecosia.org as the default search engine to your browser — it’s completely free!

Ecosia – A Firefox Add-on That Plants Trees with Every Search

Ecosia is a Firefox add-on that redefines the daily use of search engines. Your searches become a powerful tool for climate change action as Ecosia uses 100% of its profits to plant trees around the world. With Ecosia, enjoy searching the web, and also contribute to the environmental cause by helping plant millions of trees worldwide, backing renewable energy, and ensuring privacy protection.

Add-on stats

Version: 5.0.2 (Last updated: 2024-11-21)
Creation date: 2010-12-07
Weekly download count: 668
Firefox on Android: No
Risk impact: Moderate risk impact
Risk likelihood:
Manifest version: 2
Overrides search engine: Yes
Permissions:
  • *://*.ecosia.org/*
  • storage
  • contextMenus
Size: 43.56K

Other platforms

Ecosia - The search engine that plants trees (v6.0.4)
4.71 (2,395) 1,000,000
Ecosia - Safe Internet Browser (v11.1.1)
4.26 (180,120) 19,910,178
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Add-on summary

Get Ecosia to plant trees and be climate active every day. Like other search engines, we make money through ads, but we use 100% of our profits for the planet. The Ecosia community has already planted 150 million trees in over 35 countries.

Plant trees with your searches and be climate active every day — Ecosia users are tackling climate change, protecting wildlife, and collaborating with local communities around the world, planting the right trees in the right places.

Protect your privacy — We don’t create a profile of you, never sell your data to advertisers, and your searches are always SSL-encrypted. We want trees, not your data.

Become climate positive — Not only do the trees we plant absorb CO2, we also have our own solar plants. They don't just produce enough renewable energy to power all your searches, but twice as much! This means more renewables (and fewer fossil fuels) in the electricity grid.

Radical transparency — Our monthly financial reports disclose all of our projects so you can see exactly what we spend money on. We’re a not-for-profit tech company that dedicates 100% of its profits to climate action.

Get Ecosia today and be climate active every day.


Website: https://ecosia.org

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User reviews

These summaries are automatically generated weekly using AI based on recent user reviews. Firefox Browser Add-ons does not verify user reviews, so some user reviews may be inaccurate, spammy, or outdated.
Pros
  • Great search engine for an important cause
  • Plants trees with proceeds from searches
  • Improving search results over time
Cons
  • Limited and unhelpful search results
  • Does not change the new tab page in Firefox
  • Issues with missing search result categories
Most mentioned
  • Inability to customize new tab and homepage
  • Search results not as effective as Google
  • Requests for improved search functionality
User reviews
by GuildMaster, 2024-12-22

by bluebird, 2024-12-18

Very bad. I use this on chrome and it changes the new tab and search engine but on Firefox, it changes only search engine but not the new tab. Why? Please explain. Is this a bug.
by Net_Hunter_90s, 2024-12-14
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Add-on safety

Risk impact

Ecosia — The search engine that plants trees 🌱 requires a few sensitive permissions. Exercise caution before installing.

Risk likelihood

Ecosia — The search engine that plants trees 🌱 has earned a fairly good reputation and likely can be trusted.

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