SnakeMasteR Posted November 17, 2014 Share Posted November 17, 2014 Latest Avast reportedly deleting Firefox add-ons Several locations on the Internet, including the official Avast forum, Reddit and Firefox support site Mozilla Zine, are filling up with user reports that that latest version of Avast deletes Firefox add-ons automatically.Some users report that add-ons get deleted automatically on startup and without option to prevent this from happening in the first place.The issue does not seem to be linked to the program's Browser Cleanup tool directly even though it is designed to detect and remove lowly rated plugins and browser extensions that are installed in popular browsers such as Firefox or Internet Explorer.It is unclear right now what is causing the issue and why only some users of the browser who have Avast installed on their systems are affected by the automatic removal of Firefox add-ons on the system.Here are user comments about this taken from various sources:The add-ons are deleted automatically, not via browser cleanup tool and there are no reports of malware being detected. I witnessed it happen "live" as I was in my add-ons manger list, add-ons being removed automatically.I can confirm this too. Since the last program update Avast removes half of my firefox addons automatically on every system startupHuh. That happened to me earlier today too. The catalyst was updating FF from 33.1 to 33.1.1. When FF restarted itself after updating many of my addons were missing.The issues are confirmed by some users but not noticed by others. The only common denominator is that all affected users run the latest Avast on their PC and use Firefox stable.ProtectionSince it is unclear what is causing the issue exactly, it is recommended to backup your Firefox profile just in case. You can use a program like MozBackup for that which is provided as a portable version and installer.All you need to do is run the program, select the version of Firefox that you want to back up (it supports portable installations as well), select the Firefox profile to back up, and then what you want to save to the local system. Make sure that extensions are selected.Source Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Roy W Posted November 17, 2014 Share Posted November 17, 2014 Thus far I have not seen any changes and hope it stays that way.Have always been happy with Avast after using it for so long. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sirri Posted November 17, 2014 Share Posted November 17, 2014 un-necessary feature got consequences. Stay focus improve detection and prevention would be better. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
seruno1 Posted November 17, 2014 Share Posted November 17, 2014 .......................The issues are confirmed by some users but not noticed by others. The only common denominator is that all affected users run the latest Avast on their PC and use Firefox stable.ProtectionSince it is unclear what is causing the issue exactly, it is recommended to backup your Firefox profile just in case. You can use a program like MozBackup for that which is provided as a portable version and installer.Used MozBackup years ago, but the latest version does not save me the passwords... Now I use a .bat and backup everything...@echo offSET BackupFileName=%USERPROFILE%\Documents\Backup\FirefoxProfileMKDIR %BackupFileName%ROBOCOPY "%APPDATA%\Mozilla\Firefox\Profiles" %BackupFileName%\ /EPAUSERegards Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stylemessiah Posted November 18, 2014 Share Posted November 18, 2014 Well as a sane person i always untick all the extra components in the middle column when installing Avast, so no problems here :) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
STEEL Posted November 18, 2014 Share Posted November 18, 2014 :think: Strange; I don't have this Problem. Never had. All is working fine with AVAST :rolleyes: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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