I have just updated Firefox on my desktop. In order to operate it had to disable avast, my open source excellent anti virus software - a surprise that Firefox is compatible! Is there an avast! update that is compatible? Or a fix from Firefox coming?
I prefer using Firefox over other browsers however I will have to switch if there isn't a fix. I am surprised since it is an excellent open source anti virus software.
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Don't disable your antivirus software!
Can you explain the problem in more detail? These two issues come to mind:
(1) Avast protects against program changes. When Firefox changed, Avast blocked it, and you do not have an obvious way to approve the change.
(2) One or more Avast browser add-ons has not yet been marked as compatible with Firefox 5, so those add-ons were disabled. However, this has no effect on your protection outside of Firefox.
Right. I know that the software still works outside of FF. However when I opened Firefox today it came with a strong rec to download the latest version which I did and when it could not find anything to make avast! compatible with FF it automatically disabled Avast in FF. So should I just go to using Chrome since I will not be changing my antivirus software.
If you are referring to the avast! WebRep add-on, avast is beta testing an update that should re-enable it. See: webrep and firefox 5 on the avast! forums. After your next avast! update, can you check whether the add-on in Firefox was updated?
Thanks! Will do and get back to you as soon as I do that.
You can look at the new pre-release version of Avast.