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Im sorry that the source I can refer to for further reading is in German.

(And certainly not based on an anonymous rating mechanism of AVAST which does not even pretend to have identified a technical risk and just argues 'do what everybody else is doing!') Not beeing a developer and using Firefox as my browser I won't mess around with system functionality. Different from user add ons, to adapt Firefox to your user needs, these system add ons are not managed with the Add On Manager. Right-click on + Add to Firefox button and select Save Link As option. Mozzilla announced in July 2015 to detach part of Firefox's core functionality into so called system add ons in order to go faster. Open official Firefox add-ons website () and go to the desired add-on/extension page which you want to install.

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Mozilla has pulled Avasts Online Security and SafePrice extensions for Firefox, plus their AVG-branded. If you want to, feel free to read more about our Web Compatibility efforts in our wiki! Browser security extensions arent automatically safer - they might even make things worse. We use this system extension to ship such fixes whenever needed. Sometimes, we release a change inside Firefox that may break specific websites and we need to do something about this. The WebCompat team at Mozilla ensures that the web works in Firefox, basically. The description already says 'Urgent post-release fixes for web compatibility' and that's pretty accurate. Ensure Extensions is selected in the left panel, then click More options (three dots) Remove. Open Mozilla Firefox and click Menu Add-ons. Some system extensions may actually have dependencies into others, and stuff could break horribly if one or more of those are missing, so please don't remove them.Īs for the addon itself, let me explain what we plan to do. The Avast AntiTrack browser extension is now removed from Google Chrome. I highly doubt Avast is even able to disable/remove system extensions, but even if it is, you absolutely should not do it. However, I can assure you we don't do anything evil! :) I'd really love to know how their 'proprietary analytics' looks like and why we get rated that bad. The version of our Webcompat addon that is currently included in Firefox does absolutely nothing: it's just a placeholder for us to replace once we have built what we are building. I am highly confused that Avast claims our system addon is evil. We mainly do this to be able to ship updates faster, but it's also nice that we have some features totally separated, which makes the development process easier for us!

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It is true that we're now releasing some features internally as something we call 'System Extension', which technically is the same as an addon you could install on, with the difference that these come pre-installed with Firefox and there is no way to disable them.

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Full disclosure: I am a Mozilla employee and in fact one of the developers working on the add-on in question!

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