I haven't installed avast's browser cleanup tool, so it can't be responsible, I have disabled avast's plugin in both FF and chrome so it isn't the problem, And this issue hasn't occured in chrome at all, just FF. I also did something involing removing some certificates from "firefox sandwich button"->options->advanced->view certificates, I don't know if this helped or made things worse, I can't remember precisely what I did. I am now rather confused as to what settings my browser has for certificates, and think they are probably the wrong ones, although at present google is able to load.
DOES AVAST WORK WITH FIREFOX INCORRECT PLUS
Because I still had problems loading other https pages (for exmaple the links to google plus or gmail from the google home page). I turned the web and mail shields of avast back on and I got the same certificate problem again.Įventually I used the "I know the risks button" in firefox and created an exception, which I think might not have been the best way to solve this.
I tested by temporarily disbaling avast's web and mail shields and opening firefox again, that time it went to .uk without issues. This time when I opened avast to go to google I got a warning about a certificate on google's page being unrecognised (Unfortunately I can't remember the exact wording), But I was able to follow some of the options on the dialogue brought up by firefox and see a certificate related to avast was causing the issues. The I updated both of them to the latest state, restarted and logged back on. Immediately after the system imaging firefox worked fine, and immediately after avast's installation avast worked fine too.
I recently had to restore from a system image (full restore of C:\ drive where my program and system files are kept, no changes to D:\ so my personal files weren't reset, and probably some temp files and preferences weren't either) and after doing so, and then reinstalling avast onto this system image (the image was made at a time when I had a different antivirus) I encountered a problem with firefox which seems to be something to do with conflicts with it and avast.