Hi Avast,
Since a month or so, the addons of Mozilla Firefox cannot be updated anymore. On my Mac, updates are prevented by the https-scanning option in Avast Webshield, which is enabled by default (I believe).
STR:
- Make sure http-scanning is enabled in Avast Webshield settings
- Start Mozilla Firefox
- Install an outdated addon, e.g. "HTTPS Everywhere 5.2.5" (
https://addons.mozilla.org/nl/firefox/addon/https-everywhere/versions/?page=1#version-5.2.5)
- Restart Firefox
- Go to the Addon-page (Cmd+Shift+A) and manually check for addon updates
- Result: no updates can be found, although a newer version of the addon is available...
- Then quit Firefox
- Disable https-scanning in Avast Webshield settings
- Start Firefox again
- Go to the Addon-page (Cmd+Shift+A) and check for addon updates
- An update is found and installed correctly
The same problem occurs with other addons like Adblock Plus, Flagfox, DownloadThemAll, etc.
Maybe this problem is the result of changes within Avast for Mac and/or due to the upgrade from OS X 10.11 to macOS 10.12?
Until a month ago or so, updates for Firefox addons were installed without a problem on the same system.
Tested with
Avast for Mac 11.18 on macOS 10.12.1 with Mozilla Firefox 49.0.2.
UA:
Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10.12; rv:49.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/49.0)Could you please look into this issue and fix it?
Thanks