Mozilla Halts Rollout of Firefox 65 on Windows Platform After Antivirus Issue (zdnet.com)

Mozilla has halted the rollout of v65 update to Firefox browser on Windows platform after learning about an issue with certain antivirus products. Users of Firefox 65, an update which was released last week, reported seeing "Your connection is not secure" error warnings when visiting popular sites. From a report: The issue mostly affected Firefox 65 users running AVG or Avast antivirus. The message appeared when users visited an HTTPS website and stated the 'Certificate is not trusted because the issuer is unknown' and that 'The server might not be sending the inappropriate intermediate certificates'.

The problem, reported on Mozilla's bug report page and first spotted by Techdows, is due to the HTTPS-filtering feature in Avast and AVG antivirus. Avast owns AVG. The bug prevented users from visiting any HTTPS site with Firefox 65. To limit the impact on users, Mozilla decided to temporarily halt all automatic updates on Windows. In the meantime, Avast, which owns AVG, released a new virus engine update that completely disabled Firefox HTTPS filtering in Avast and AVG products. HTTPS filtering remains enabled on other browsers.

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Avats fault of doing MITM

[aepervius]

Basically avast and co are doing a MITM attack to scan the content of https traffic :
https://blog.avast.com/2015/05/25/explaining-avasts-https-scanning-feature/
Why anybody would think that allowing an AV provider to scan all their traffic including bank traffic by extension, is more "secure" - is beyond me.

Bugs?

[sjbe]

There are bugs that haven't been fixed for decades and they regularly WONTFIX many bugs.

A lot of things that people think are bugs are really just design decisions they don't prefer. While Firefox is certainly not perfect I don't see any of the other browsers being meaningfully better about dealing with their faults.

It's time Mozilla stops drinking the Chrome-aid and listen to it's users for once.

Has it occurred to you that maybe they are? Believe it or not, people have different opinions about what they want out of Firefox. Just because they don't agree with some vocal users doesn't mean they aren't listening to the others as well. If you don't like their choices you have other browsers that you can use and that's totally fine.

Until Mozilla does, use Waterfox or Pale Moon.

Yeah they don't really solve any problems for me and they create some new ones. If they work for you that's great.