Hi there! I have the free edition of avast! (2014.9.0.2008) and also avast! online security (9.0.2006.53) for firefox (25.0.1). Now, I'm having some lag issues when searching through google. I thought to myself right away, wondering what could cause it and realised that I recently updated avast!. So I did a test and disabled the avast! online security add-on, restarted firefox, then searched through google. I found out the search results quickly appeared, with no lag/delay. This lag is so strong that, there's times where firefox will stop responding, also not only with google searching, but quite of few webpages appear slowly(freezing, more likely).
Don't think it might be my computer or my internet speed.. In the paragraph above, I stated that I saw a huge improvment between having it enabled then disabling it, went from slow to fast.
I re-enabled avast! online security for the sake of safety. But still annoyed with the slowness it causes.
Anybody else have the same problem? Is there a way to fix this? or is the cause just because it's in beta.
Side note: I also have IObit Advanced SystemCare, and IObit Advanced SystemCare Surfing Protection add-on for firefox. But I already disabled the surfing protection first and restarting firefox, before disabling avast! Online Security. IObit surfing protection is not causing any lag or problem to browsing. It's as soon as I disabled avast! Online Security and restarted firefox, the lag was gone. Though, I don't know if there's compatibility issues between the 2 programs, that I haven't noticed yet. I know Advanced SystemCare is also an Anti-virus(mainly an Anti-Malware) but then again it has some pretty neat features that I don't see in any other program.
Thanks in advanced!