935669 - Addon removal triggered by another addon installation

Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX

(WebExtensions :: General, defect)

Description

[felix.shnir]

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/31.0.1650.39 Safari/537.36

Steps to reproduce:

https://feedback.avast.com/responses/ghostery-gone-avast-installed

Installing Free and Premium suite seems to do it, but its unclear if its addon or Avast setup.


Actual results:

Apparently, Ghostery is replaced by Avast Online Security


Expected results:

Both addons should have been running side by side

Comment 1

[Jorge Villalobos [:jorgev] (he/him)]

I'm trying to get contacts at Avast.

Comment 2

[Daniel Veditz [:dveditz]]

Short of insider knowledge from Avast... Is the Ghostery code physically gone from the machine? Simply disabled? Or perhaps present but not registering because of GUID-reuse (cut and paste?) by Avast? I guess <em:id>[e-mail]</em:id> makes it somewhat hard to believe that could happen by accident.

Comment 3

[Thomas Wespel]

Attachment: Firefox with Ghostery and avast! 1

Comment 4

[Thomas Wespel]

Tried to reproduce on Windows 7 32 Bit with Firefox 25 and Ghostery installed. After setup of avast! Free both add-ons worked in parallel, but Ghostery blocked only what wasn't blocked by avast! already - so it seemed as if Ghostery didn't work. Both add-ons are offering DNT and if something is blocked by one extension the other doesn't see this. 
Please specify how to reproduce or set to invalid.

Comment 5

[felix.shnir]

This is a user report. Free version sometimes fails to install extension on Firefox, and sometimes succeeds. When its successful, Ghostery is disabled and removed.

I'll request user step-by-step to see if we can reproduce here.

Comment 6

[Jorge Villalobos [:jorgev] (he/him)]

Mass-closing bugs that relate to legacy versions of add-ons or are otherwise no longer worth tracking. Please comment if you think this bug should be reopened.

Sorry for the bugspam. Made you look, though!