WebRep addon incompatable with firefox 5

Avast Free Antivirus / Premium Security
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Upon starting firefox this evening to perform my daily tasks, i saw that firefox 5 was officially released and available. So i updated, and started it up. I immediately noticed that the addon was disabled and not compatible with the new version of firefox. I really dont know what to do as of yet. But here are my options:

  1. Downgrade back to firefox 4.0 (most likely my choice, but not preferred)
  2. Use Internet Explorer :cry:
  3. Download WebOfTrust and hope it works with 5.0 until Avast! updates WebRep
  4. Live on

=P

Is there anything that can be done as of this point?

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Of course, upgrade to the new beta which is very stable and your problems will be solved :slight_smile: http://forum.avast.com/index.php?topic=80315.msg658226#msg658226

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Thank you craig. Iā€™m often a skeptic when it comes to beta versions of products i use most frequently (The type with the mindset ā€œIf it isnā€™t broken, donā€™t fix itā€). Updating as always was painless, and provided the fix i was looking for.
Many thanks,
Mr.GeekyGuide

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Your welcome

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i know. it sucks but its ok because firefox has its own plugin that is similar. im using it now and seems to be doing alright

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Its a minor issue that is and has been easyly fixed.
Without reference to what plugin your talking about it makes your post rather pointless.

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after updating to firefox 5 i went to see what plugins firefox had to replace the avast webrep, or to see if there were any new fixes to enable webrep again and i found one called weboftrust and installed it. im using it now.

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My understanding is that Firefox is going to release a new version every 6 or 12 weeks, so FF6 should be out and about around August/September - if my understanding is correct. Is Alwil gonna be able to keep up with that? FF5 is officially out now six days ago, and Webrep is still out of date.

Iā€™m not thinking of rolling back FF. Iā€™m thinking of disabling Webrep, if I canā€™t make use of it anymore. As a matter of fact. I think I will.

Actually, I canā€™t find the setting for Webrepā€¦ How do I disable it?

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Open avast > Additional protection > WebRep.

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That was fast! Thank you, Tech.

I hope that Alwil will be able to come up with a new strategy for updating itā€™s plugins/extensions. I liked Webrep. Iā€™ll miss it (until itā€™s updated). Itā€™s not just Mozilla. In fact, Mozilla is following Chromium/Google Chrome on its speed of version upgrades. I can understand Alwilā€™s careful approach to updating itā€™s core AV program, but it seems that when it comes to browser extensions and plugins, the game has changed.

At least, thatā€™s how it seems to meā€¦

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Be used to avast forum speed :slight_smile:

Wellā€¦ tons of developers are complaining with Mozilla about that. I have three disabled addons, they took one week to be updatedā€¦ You can: 1) wait to update Firefox; 2) wait to update/enable your addons back. Iā€™ve took the first way some times in the past.
Both are free, the browser and the addons, we can complain but we canā€™t do much moreā€¦

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One solution is to have both WOT and WebRep installed. They work together with no issues.
So, while we wait for WebRep to be compatible thereā€™s WOT (wich in fact is more complete).

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I had the same problem with Webrep and Firefox 5, so I installed the ā€˜add-on compatibility reporterā€™ for Firefox and Webrep now works, it also helps for other add-ons that donā€™t work.

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/add-on-compatibility-reporter/

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Thanks for the tip, I had two add-ons that didnā€™t work with FF5 but now they do:-)

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I just installed WebRep today. Uninstalled it after 10 minutes. I had problems with Facebook functions after installation which disappeared after I removed WebRep. Browser: Google Chrome.

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Which problems? WebRep shouldnā€™t interfereā€¦