Hello, I'm an avid tester of Firefox and run only trunk-builds. Trunk builds are 'bleeding edge' stuff, but I enjoy testing.
I've run into what might be an issue that I'm trying to sort out. The trunk builds have a nightly update feature that allows you get a new build each day. It seems that for me at least, it no longer works, but hangs and restarts the Firefox application without applying the update. I have tried new profiles, etc and some regression testing. I have found that builds from 7/5/2008 work ok, but builds after that no longer update, but fail into an endless loop. I do have a bug on file with Mozilla, but so far no one else seems to be having any issues.
I installed the Avast Pro (Trial) on 7/3/2008 and then two days later start having issues. Coincidence maybe? I have tried turning off 'all shields' but that made no difference.
My security setup and system info:
Avast Pro - all default settings
Windows Defender - up to date (and has been also disabled in trying to find the problem, was not the cause)
Vista HP (Home Prem) + SP1 Firewall enabled - no other Firewalls
1.4 ghz AMD Thunderbird Althon CPU
1 gig RAM (old stuff - pc133)
Nividia 7300GT 512meg
I don't really want to remove Avast for a test, as I've done that before when playing with different AV's and found that once I remove the trial you can't go back to the full Pro trial.
Anyone else here a Firefox tester and use Avast Pro ??