Mozilla Firefox

  1. Bug #240242
  2. Comment #208

Comment 208 for bug 240242

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Sinistral (theconquerer) wrote :

AVG Safe Search is a add-on installed alongside AVG Anti-Virus. Its purpose is to check links you enter in the URLBar and (at least google) search result links for maliciousness.

In its Chrome/content/overlay.xul there is a line

<textbox id="urlbar" ontextentered="return SearchShield.onURLBarEntered(param);"/>

The function 'onURLBarEntered' should check if the URL is malicious and open it if not. This seems to fail. I didn't dig deeper into that to find out where exactly this function does fail, but just commenting out the line mentioned above to

<!--<textbox id="urlbar" ontextentered="return SearchShield.onURLBarEntered(param);"/>-->

solves at least the problems this add-on is causing to the URLBar while preserving the search result check functionality.

Hope this helps someone.