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Improve your search experience with Norton Safe Search
We are ending support for the Norton Safe Web app for Safari and the Norton Safe Web Safari extension, which are part of the same suite. After the update, the Safari extension will no longer show site ratings or block phishing and malicious websites. For more information, refer to the following article: FAQ: End of Support for Norton Safe Web App on Safari.
Norton Safe Search enhances your web search experience and provides the site safety status and Norton rating for each of the search results generated. It ranks the search results based upon the site safety status and Norton rating.
Norton Safe Search is supported in the following browsers:
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Mozilla Firefox (latest version and two previous versions)
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Google Chrome (latest version)
The Norton Safe Search feature is available only for some regions including Australia, Belgium, Brazil, Canada, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, Netherlands, Norway, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, the United States, and the United Kingdom.
The default home page and new tabs of your browser is changed as you have agreed to set the Norton Safe Search as your default home page. When you install Norton, you are prompted to add the Norton extensions to your web browser. In addition, you are prompted to set Norton Safe Search as the default home page of your browser.
As part of Google Chrome's new policy, the Norton Safe Web extension will not display safety ratings for malicious or phishing links. To keep your online web searches secure in Google Chrome, we recommend you to install the Norton Safe Search extension. To know more on how to install Norton Safe Search extensions, read Install Norton Safe Search extension on your browser.
Last modified: 09/01/2026
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