Local Filesystem Links by austrALIENsun, AWolf

4.1 Stars out of 5

Review by Firefox user 14001264

by Firefox user 14001264, 7 years ago

I love this add-on! The extension made it possible to switch to Firefox without paying the price to not open local links anymore. The bigger problem is that our anti-virus software, called Sophos, has a really big problem with the programm, that has to be installed and it automatically deactivates it so the whole add-on doesn't work anymore. If there's any possibility for you to solve this i would be so thankful, but i know it's not your add-on what makes it difficult it's our anti-virus software, so yeah...

Developer response

posted 7 years ago

Thanks for the review. We are aware that some virus scanners have problems with the new addon architecture. I assume you already tried to add the addon in the list of exceptions? There should be a white list or something in your virus scanner.

A former Mozilla engineer suggested to disable virus scanners completely to increase browser security:
https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/former-mozilla-engineer-disable-your-antivirus-software-except-microsofts/ (2017)