Norton 360 toolbar not compatiable with firefox 3.5

champinder · ‎03-08-2009

Firefox , just today rolled a major update for its open source web browser. The norton toolbar and norton ips is not compatiable with firefox lastest version 3.5. Any one has a clue when it might be compatiable with it

Siro · ‎06-14-2009

There is no fix available till now lets hope they release one for in the not so distant future and since the final version is out I expect them to speed up things or either give an appropriate time frame for one to be released if it ever is.

dbrisendine · ‎10-06-2008

Information has been posted by Symantec on this (LINKED here). When there is more information later today, updates will be posted in both places. Thanks.

pehhawaiiisland · ‎06-30-2009

Hello Forum,

I just joined the forum, so hello everyone. This morning I downloaded the new Firefox version 3.5 and like others I see the Norton toolbar is missing. I have a nagging question that maybe someone can answer.Since the Norton Anti-Phishing toolbar is missing am I still getting anti-phishing protection as I was in Firefox version 3..0.11? Is the Firewall still OK? I see that Norton has still kept the Firefox Privacy Cleanup and it still indicates that anti-phishing is checked and on. Could anyone answer these questions for me? I'm running Windows Vista Sp2 64 with the Firefox 3.5 browser.

Thanks,

peh

TomiRed · ‎06-19-2008

I think the answer is no, as antiphishing was mediated through the toolbar.

The only workaround now is - use Internet Explorer.

Windows 7 Ultimate x64 SP1 -- NIS 2012>2013

pehhawaiiisland · ‎06-30-2009

Well my firewall just blocked an intrusion attempt so the Firewall sure works! I agree with the anti phishing, I have the Firefox anti forgery on now

Tony_Weiss · ‎04-07-2008

Additionally, Carter_Briggs has posted an update to the Norton 360 board about Firefox 3.5 compatibility:

http://community.norton.com/norton/board/message?board.id=Norton_360&thread.id=15326

Stay tuned for further updates!

Tony Weiss
Norton Forums Global Community Manager
Symantec Corporation

reactivate · ‎05-24-2009

So it is going to take while mid August to resolve an issue with firefox 3.5. That is ridiculous, but anyway I have been having problems with security with the previous version of firefox for some weeks now, I knew there was something wrong with my computer going crazy. I have just switched to explorer 8 after the last few days having problems connecting to webpages, there were numerous oddities in security history. I think Symantec seriously need to get there act together. Also I noticed this morning on visiting this community board that a lot of people were venting their spleens as regards the firefox 3.5/norton issues, but it appears a lot of the posts have dissapeared. Why is this? Can you explain. There should be one open thread regarding this issue but it appears they have all been locked.

geneintexas · ‎01-15-2009

I went ahead and installed Firefox 3.5 the first day it was available, and then came over here and discovered that it is going to be a while before Symantec catches up; so, I went over to the Firefox forums looking for how to go back to 3.0.11. I found this thread http://support.mozilla.com/tiki-view_forum_thread.php?locale=en-US&forumId=1&comments_threshold=0&co... . Its about 3.5 being slow, but people eventually talk about reverting to 3.0.11 and how to do it. One guy claims to have successfully installed 3.0.11 on top of 3.5. You can get 3.0.11 here: http://www.mozilla.com/en-US/firefox/all-older.html . I had to use IE to get the correct file. Firefox wanted to go to the 3.5 download page.

What I did was uninstall Firefox 3.5 (retaining settings), reboot, install 3.0.11. The result is that everything is back to where it was(including the Norton toolbar) before the adventure began. I'll now wait for Symantec to release its patch before trying Firefox 3.5 again. Firefox 3.5 did seem to start and load pages quite a bit faster.

Message Edited by geneintexas on 07-04-2009 02:13 PM

geneintexas · ‎01-15-2009

I installed today's Norton Toolbar/Firefox 3.5 patch, rebooted as requested, then updated from Firefox 3.0.11 to 3.5 using the update feature within Firefox. The Norton Toolbar came right up with Firefox 3.5 when Firefox was restarted as part of the the update process. The incompatability with Norton warning was still there in the Firefox install screens, but everythings appears to be working fine.