avast free web shield is blocking google!

Sometime on Firefox when you search from the toolbar - google wont work
seems like the culprit is the Avast web shield
once you turn it off, everything works!

anyone else observed the same behavior?

I am currently on:

Firefox 129.0.2 (64-bit)
Avast Free 24.8.6127 (24.8.9372.862)
Windows 10 22H2

But the exact same problem still persists…

As an additional potential issue, it is possible that the problem also affects account.proton.me and causes video playback to freeze on x.com

https://forum.avast.com/index.php?topic=328185.msg1721934

today eBay stopped working, but turning the web shield doesn’t help
see screen shot:

https://ibb.co/3FrGWrZ

https://ibb.co/3FrGWrZ

There is a related topic here - https://forum.avast.com/index.php?topic=328185.0

Though it isn’t impacting everyone, which is frustrating and difficult to pin down.

Read the posts from @Ferrara

https://forum.avast.com/index.php?topic=328185.msg1721360#msg1721360