Hello.
Q: Will Avast Forum compatibility be ending shortly for Firefox entirely *(if so, why?) or only for its browser extensions?
A:
Firefox is my default browser and I haven’t got any Avast Add-ons installed. Where have you garnered this piece of information resulting in your question ?
I don’t believe the Avast Password
Not really sure what you mean by compatibility ?
e.g. are you talking about the Web Shield, which works as a man in the middle for your browser.
There aren’t many listed on Firefox’s Add-ons for Avast and some I think are already dead in the water.
Not that I think they bring much to the party. Firefox has its own password manager and the Web Shield covers two of those listed (I believe).
I am using FF and, after signing into the forum, there is a brief notation stating ‘Your Browser Will Soon Be Incompatible With The Community. To Continue Participating, Please Update Your Browser Here,’ with a blue link for ‘Here.’
I haven’t seen that mine you I don’t often log out.
That what the hell does it matter what browser is used, I suspect they are trying to push ASB, if they are bye bye.
I don’t like chrome or use any chromium base browser which includes ASB.
Yes, you would have to sign out and sign back in to replicate my issue.
Incidentally, are you suggesting that Avast is ’pushing’ its ‘Avast Secure Browser’ for usage with its Forum and, if that is its ‘end game’ (resulting in an end to FF compatibility with The Forum), you will close your Avast Forum account ‘and,’ further, stop using its Anti-Virus software?
Are you running a particularly old version of Firefox perhaps? Updating to the most recent version might fix things.
It’s pretty common for sites to state they only support the latest couple of versions of a browser. Regardless of whether there are actual incompatibilities with older versions, or whether there’ll be actual restrictions or not.
If you’re still on Windows 7, 8, or 8.1 then that could be the issue. On those OS’es you’ll be running an extended release version that’s getting really quite old now.
I regularly sign out and in on latest FF and do not see that message.
I do not have any Avast add-ons installed in FF.
top right of firefox click on 3 lines then help then about firefox.
which version do you have loaded?
In my Windows 7 Virtual Machine the latest version of Firefox is 115.27.0esr. ESR: Extended Support Release.
When I visit this forum with that browser I get the same message as the OP.
Your browser will soon be incompatible with this community. To keep participating here, please upgrade your browser or learn more.
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Just a suspicion.
However, if this were the case it could mean other browsers would be in the frame also. Which currently I haven’t seen anything in the forums related to your post.
Interesting
Given the last part of this notice - upgrade your browser or learn more is there any link in order to learn more ?
This is the link: Dropping iOS 15 & other old browsers in July 2025 - Announcements - Discourse Meta
The minimal Firefox version still supported is 128 from July 2024.
Following the next stable release in July 2025, Discourse will start using some modern browser features which are unavailable on iOS 15, and some other old browsers.
Discourse’s minimum supported iOS version will be updated from 15.7 to 16.7. After that, visitors using older versions of iOS will be shown a basic-html version of community content so they can continue to read conversations, but they will not be able to login to the site or post content.
Devices limited to iOS 15 are the iPhone 6s, iPhone SE (gen 1), iPhone 7, and iPad Mini 4. These were all released more than 9 years ago, and are no longer updated by Apple (see iosref.com). Unfortunately, it will not be possible to use a browser on those devices that can log into Discourse.
For more recent iOS devices, the OS should be updated to iOS 16.7 or higher.
This change will also affect older versions of other browsers. The minimum Firefox version with support for these features is v128 (July 2024), and the minimum Chrome(ium) version is v119 (Oct 2023). Users who are able to update to a newer version of these browsers can do so to avoid being impacted.
For users of Windows 7 and XP who are unable to update Chrome/Firefox, you may want to consider a third-party chromium fork such as Supermium or Thorium [1].
From today, we’ll be rolling out a warning banner for affected users, with a link to this topic.
On the technical side, the features we’ll be requiring including relative color syntax, subgrid, lookbehind regex and import maps, all of which will enable improved performance and user-experience for Discourse users.
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Thanks for the link and the clarification.
Firefox 128 is pretty old (current is 142.1 for 64bit) old versions of other browsers would get a similar notification, throwing them to this page.
Thx Everyone for the input.