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avast broke firefox
« on: September 20, 2018, 12:52:30 AM »
Avast told me to uninstall an unsafe addon 'English language pack' and now firefox is all blank except this text '<window id="main-window"
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I uninstalled firefox and clean install but it is the same.
« Last Edit: September 20, 2018, 10:56:02 AM by Ivan313 »

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Re: avast broke firefox
« Reply #1 on: September 20, 2018, 05:58:09 AM »
I have the same issue. Avast just told me to uninstall unsafe addons and broke firefox

<window id="main-window"
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Re: avast broke firefox SOLVED
« Reply #2 on: September 20, 2018, 07:16:00 AM »
I think I have a solution. The problem is on the Firefox Profile, specific in addons.json and addonStartup.json.lz4 files. In order to fix your profile without loosing everything by creating a new one, I suggest you to create a new profile in another folder (press windows+R and write: firefox -p)
After that you need to go to the new firefox profile and copy both files and replace the old ones. At least it worked for me :)

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Re: avast broke firefox
« Reply #3 on: September 20, 2018, 10:39:47 AM »
FIXED: had to rename mozilla files to mozilla.old. copied them as a backup and reinstalled firefox.

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Re: avast fp broke firefox
« Reply #4 on: September 20, 2018, 10:54:07 AM »
Someone else had the same thing, i think it was a false positive and removing the language pack messed firefox up. (it had a 2 star rep) I know some addons can be intrusive but it would be nice if avast told you why it was bad.

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Re: avast broke firefox
« Reply #5 on: September 20, 2018, 10:54:43 AM »
W8.1 [x64] - Avast Free AV 23.3.8047.BC [UI.757] - Firefox ESR 102.9 [NS/uBO/PB] - Thunderbird 102.9.1
Avast-Tools: Secure Browser 109.0 - Cleanup 23.1 - SecureLine 5.18 - DriverUpdater 23.1 - CCleaner 6.01
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Re: avast broke firefox
« Reply #6 on: September 20, 2018, 10:57:40 AM »
Thank you i know alot of people have more stupid addons than language packs

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Re: avast broke firefox
« Reply #7 on: September 20, 2018, 10:59:51 AM »
You're welcome.
W8.1 [x64] - Avast Free AV 23.3.8047.BC [UI.757] - Firefox ESR 102.9 [NS/uBO/PB] - Thunderbird 102.9.1
Avast-Tools: Secure Browser 109.0 - Cleanup 23.1 - SecureLine 5.18 - DriverUpdater 23.1 - CCleaner 6.01
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Re: avast broke firefox
« Reply #8 on: September 20, 2018, 01:56:29 PM »
Note: It should be fixed now.
W8.1 [x64] - Avast Free AV 23.3.8047.BC [UI.757] - Firefox ESR 102.9 [NS/uBO/PB] - Thunderbird 102.9.1
Avast-Tools: Secure Browser 109.0 - Cleanup 23.1 - SecureLine 5.18 - DriverUpdater 23.1 - CCleaner 6.01
Avast Wissenswertes (Downloads, Anleitungen & Infos): https://forum.avast.com/index.php?topic=60523.0