Why Avast Online Security plug-in is disabled by default in firefox?

I just saw to-day while checking my plug-ins inside firefox 40, that Avast Online Security plug-in was diabled and I had to set it to enable manually. Why firefox would not trust this plug-in and aks users to be cauteous?

I re-enabled the plug-in of course, but still I never saw this before and it is a bit weird to me.

polonus

See: https://forum.avast.com/index.php?topic=174974.0

Hi Asyn,

Have read that thread you linked to, well hope it survives version 41 and I hope Avast has it signed by then.

polonus

Yep Pol, let’s hope so, else there’s FF ESR (if needed).

Guess I’ll stay away from Firefox for a while.

http://www.screencast-o-matic.com/screenshots/u/Lh/1439412624015-52903.png

Hi bob3160,

Might be worse on version 41 of that browser, those add-ons might be gone when not qualifying for mozilla’s - i.e. being signed.
I see restrictions, restrictions everywhere. With individuality lost a lot goes out of the window and end-users won’t even be alerted to what is going on around them - you belong to a group of users, you cannot be an individual or the 1% outside the 99% majority and users are trainecd to think so and react accordingly. Give it a thorough thought and you see I am 100% right in this respect - individuality is going “down the drain”.

polonus