Firefox 66 Disabled Avast Online Security, Privacy Badger

Avast Online Security (browser extension)
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Windows 7 64 bit. Firefox announces Add-ons disabled. Cannot “verify” them: Avast Online Security, Avast Price checker and Privacy Badger. When I try to download newest version of Online Security or Privacy Badger, I get an error message “Download failed. Check your connection”. Is this Firefox’s answer to the MitM critique or something else, a virus or tracker infiltrating Firefox? I did all the usual things: cleared cash, rebooted, even uninstalled and reinstalled Firefox. Now running boot scan on the PC. Making this report by mobile phone.

Any ideas? I don’t like running the browser without the security and privacy working.

Cross posting to Firefox forum.

Thanks,

–j

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This may help: (See Reply # 4817) https://forum.avast.com/index.php?topic=19387.msg1504387#msg1504387

If you require help on this topic please ask.

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Hi, it’s a known FF bug, see: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1548973

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Noted signing only disabled once per day at

Wait until it’s past midnight on 2019-05-04 UTC.

Had FF running at midnight UTC last night and, pow! all 7(!) of my add-ons were disabled at once. Luckily, was running FF in a sandbox, so restoring all 7 was as simple as closing and re-opening the browser.

Happened to me, know what you mean. (Thanks Asyn) Hope you got an answer at Firefox. :o

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More here: https://forum.avast.com/index.php?topic=227020.0