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Here's how to add Trusted Sites in Google Chrome, Microsoft Edge, Mozilla Firefox.

The Trusted Sites zone in web browsers like Internet Explorer, Edge, and Chrome allows you to mark specific sites as trusted and change security settings for those sites. Here is an overview of how the Trusted Sites zone works:

- Sites added to the Trusted Sites zone bypass certain security restrictions. This can make using trusted sites more convenient by allowing features like active content to run without prompting.

- When a site is added to the Trusted Sites zone, the browser will not enforce some security measures like SmartScreen filtering or Enhanced Protected Mode on those sites.

- Users can add sites manually to the Trusted Sites zone or configure the zone to automatically trust sites in certain domains like "*.mycompany.com".

- The browser will automatically detect secure HTTPS connections, but insecure HTTP sites can also be marked as trusted. This reduces security for those HTTP sites.

- Browsers have higher security defaults for Internet zones, so marking a site as trusted lowers security but increases functionality for trusted sites.

- Files and content downloaded from Trusted Sites may bypass some security checks and prompt less often compared to other zones.

- Users should only add sites they fully trust and control to the Trusted Sites zone. Adding third-party sites with less security can increase risks from malicious content.

In summary, the Trusted Sites zone allows selectively reducing security restrictions for sites a user trusts and controls, but this can also introduce risks if used improperly. Browsers warn against adding untrusted third-party sites there.