Safe to use FF4 without Norton Toolbar 5.5?

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With the current iteration of the Norton Toolbar being incompatible with and disabled automatically by Firefox 4, is it safe to use the browser without the toolbar? I personally do not use the login-storage capabilities of the toobar, but I do miss the reassurance provided by the SafeWeb icons next to my web searches.

 

Am I less protected without the toolbar??

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Hi HamsterJam,

 

Please see this post which indicates that Norton will have an update available in the May time frame for Firefox 4 and IE 9.

 

Best wishes.

Allen

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Allen, I am aware that Symantec will push an update to users to solve this compatibility issue whenever they are ready to do so. What I am interested to know is whether it is safe to use Firefox 4 right now for everyday things in the meantime with the Norton Toolbar disabled.

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The fact that the toolbar isn't present does not mean that Norton is inactive.

NAV/NIS works all of the time, unless you deactivate it, so enjoy. Just don't go down some of those very dark streets avter dark :)

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With the current iteration of the Norton Toolbar being incompatible with and disabled automatically by Firefox 4, is it safe to use the browser without the toolbar? I personally do not use the login-storage capabilities of the toobar, but I do miss the reassurance provided by the SafeWeb icons next to my web searches.

 

Am I less protected without the toolbar??