I run AVG Free on several home computers. Lately when AVG does an
update, when it finishes the update it goes on to re-install Firefox
in its latest version (already installed), and leaves me with a "new"
Firefox installed, and two tabs up: one is the "Welcome to Firefox"
page and the other is a marketing page from AVG to buy into their
pay-for version. That's a minor nuisance, but the problem is it
trashes all my bookmarks.
Fortunately, Firefox has bookmarks backed up every which way but
Sunday, so restoring bookmarks is just another damned inconvenience.
The strangest thing about this is apparently I'm the only person in
the world seeing this kind of behavior. I check into alt.computer and
alt.fan.mozilla regularly, and I've seen no mention of such a problem.
AVG Free has a forum that I check into sometimes, but they're very
unfriendly. Most of the people who go there just get scolded for
posting to the wrong subject, or for not including some item of info
about their OS, or some stupid thing.
My question isn't why does AVG do this. (I know why they do it --
because they're marketing geeks, s*** of the earth.) My question is --
Why am I apparently the only person in the world who has seen this
behavior?
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