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I have done all that now, and still get the same problem.
After I uninstalled avast and rebooted (several times, just for fun) Firefox would no longer work. I could double click the icon, but nothing would pop up, and process explorer (www.sysinternals.com) didn’t show any process running. I reinstalled firefox, and it is working now.
After I reinstalled avast, and rebooted. it did not have the icon in the system tray. I tried to turn on the resident protection in the main avast interface, but it was extremely slow, and rest itself after I set it to high.
I rebooted, and the icon appeared in the system tray. A popup appeared that said the virus database had been updated. A short while after that, a popup said that avast needed to reboot the computer.
I rebooted, and the same thing happened.