I'm having a problem with firefox

Anak said:

I don't know what to tell you, times change, Firefox has changed since you've been using ASC surfing protection since it first came out, both of them have changed.

If you do not want to at the very least try disabling surf protection to test if its the problem, well, then, I'm done helping you.

So I went into ASC setting and disabled surfing protection and FF is still crashing. Could avast free 2015 have something to do with this? FF never crashed when I had AVG free 2014.

Update: I guess the HTTPS scanning that was part of avast 2015 was causing the problem.

Thank you for doing the ASC test.

Update: I guess the HTTPS scanning that was part of avast 2015 was causing the problem.

Does this mean that you reverted back to avast 2014, and FF isn't crashing now or were you able to turn the avast scanner off and FF isn't crashing?


Just as having two real-time anti-virus programs running isn't good, it isn't good to have two scanners checking web sites at the same time, there's bound to be conflicts somewhere along the line.

There have been some problems with avast, see: A good read for Avast users...

I'm glad to see that you took it upon yourself to do some research.

are you saying that malwarebytes is a anti virus program?

No.

Malwarebytes' Anti-Malware (MBAM) is an application for computers running under the Microsoft Windows operating system that finds and removes malware.[4]

Source: Malwarebytes' Anti-Malware - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

However, MBAM is NOT an AV and is not a substitute for one. So, even MBAM PRO/Premium needs a robust, updated AV as a first line of defense. If there was a period of time when the computer ONLY ran MBAM, without an AV, then, yes, it would have been extremely vulnerable to malware during that time.

Source: https://forums.malwarebytes.org/inde...r/#entry810251

Maybe my statement seemed too broad; Having two anti-virus programs like avast, and, kaspersky, avira, mcafee, AVG, etc. is what I meant.