spybot and firefox not playing well
After immunizing in spybot, firefox in the exceptions for installing addons has all these websites in the list that are blocked. I know that spybot adds those websites in so that firefox knows not to let any addons be added from those websites. However, when trying to install any new addons, I get the bar that says at the top of firefox-firefox prevented this site from installing addons, and you have to click the button to bring the exception box and add the website in. However, when clicking that button now, firefox freezes, and i get a stop script-continue script button. I click stop script and then the box comes up but it hangs again. In order to fix the issue i removed all the sites in the list that spybot put in there from the immunization. Then the issue still occurs with the script error, but it doesn't freeze firefox completely. I am wondering if this is an issue with spybot, or a issue with firefox? It also in immunizing firefox, causes all the websites i had put allow in there before, to not be in the list. For example, the one that is always in there addons.firefox.com or whatever, to add addons from the official firefox site, is not in the list. I have to add it manually. Which is odd, because when you install firefox, there addon website is already in the list as default. So, i am not sure if this is a firefox issue or a Spybot issue, however this occurs i have noticed after immunizing firefox. Any help or someone looking into this issue would be greatly appreciated. I have updated spybot to the recent definitions and updates. Don't hesitate to ask me any questions. Thanks again forums!
ya i guess ill try the firefox forums....
but this issue deals with spybot so i hope that a admin on here looks at it. thanks for the quick response :)
thanx and yes i do appreciate the features! :)
but i still do not understand why my firefox freezes and everything? suggestions? does firefox need to fix this issue or does spybot? i don't understand why firefox freezes as i have stated above. Also, how would i keep that huge list out of firefox for asking for add ons-meaning since firefox asks for sites anyways (to add add ons i mean), how do i keep it so that when i immunize firefox it doesn't put all those sites in the list and freeze it? but have it protect firefox with all the other ways? thanks. I want spybot to protect firefox, but not freeze it lol. any suggestions? or did i already miss the solution? I don't use SpywareBlaster, and i haven't checked to see if the cookies box freezes when i try to open it. So should I not let spybot block (immunize) add ons? would that fix my freezing box problem? Also, can you provide directions so that i can stop spybot from immunizing certain features like that?
thanks :)
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Originally Posted by
PepiMK
Well, immunizing Firefox was a much-wished-for feature. Some can't do very well with it, can't do without it ;-)
"Immunization" is kind of defined as supplying browsers with blocking information in a way that does not need the providing application to be running at the same time. And the hostperm file is only method this can be done with a pure Firefox installation.
So from a technical perspective, this is the only method we can use. Regarding "well thought out", I think Firefox could be improved for better handling if this block list - even if it has 45000 entries, that's not something that should be noticable. What I suspect is that Firefox uses a linear search algorithm to compare domains against this list. I think I've written elsewhere that a nice implementation of a trie algorithm, e.g. Aho-Corasick, would make this lookups unnoticable in terms of used time.
As to why the hosts file is not sufficient: user preferences and multiple layers of protection ;)
Some users don't like the hosts file because it may slow down the system even more, for example. Some malware removes entries from the hosts files, but does not remove entries from all layers of protection if there are multiple ones.