Result – turned off web shield.Īnother change about 6 months (i think) ago totally screwed with my portable thunderbird’s TLS/SSL. For some reason, clients with installed Firefoxes had no issue. What we had in common is portable Firefoxes. Result – I always wait a month before updating.Ībout a year ago, another update absolutely munted (that’s slang for completely fucked and garbled) my web traffic and that of a couple of my clients. After three or 4 hours, I eventually found a “fix” – editing an ini file that disabled the new “engine/method” and renabled the old one.

Its been on my shit list for about the last 18 months.Ībout 18 months ago a product update with some major core changes ending up borking web traffic – there was bitchin’ galore in the forums and on f**kbook.

Furthermore, I used to have it automatically check and tell me about program updates – but now silenced that about a year ago. And it still left add-ons it deleted two days ago alone.The battle continues and I worry about when and what will turn up missing next.įor the record, I always do a custom install, and uncheck the bloated crap such as browser addons, grim fighter, software updater etc. I was thinking I could live with the new interface, then found today the few add-ons I installed yesterday were missing taking with it the status bar. I even installed a new add-on to bring back the only thing I really miss, the status bar. Things are moved around a little, but it isnâ€™t completely awful and I am getting sick of fighting with how Mozilla wants me to do things. Yesterday I grew frustrated and decided just to see if I could get use to the new interface and live without Classic Theme Restorer. The next day I found Classic Theme Restorer deleted again, but it for some reason it left the others I had reinstalled alone. I am reasonably sure the problem is caused by Avast being overprotective, because its name keeps coming up in the Avast and Firefox forums I have posted my problem in.įriday night I grew tired of waiting for a clear answer in the forums and started reinstalling many of my add-ons and things were pretty much back to normal because it seemed to have left my add-on preferences intact. Iâ€™m still fighting with Firefox and Avast over what add-ons I am allowed to have installed. Hello, I’m the guy who made the post on the Avast forum you link to in the first sentence.

Sick of avast blocking sites