How to disable virus scanning in Firefox 3
On Windows, Firefox 3 uses the installed antivirus software to scan the fully downloaded files. This might be a good idea, but it can be the source of some annoying complications: freezes, delays an so on.
Considering the fact that almost every decent antivirus software offers a real time protection for your system I would say that this “feature” in Firefox is not so useful.
Anyway, if you want to disable it, type in the address bar of Firefox:
about:config
and search for:
browser.download.manager.scanWhenDone
Now, all you have to do is to change the value from True to False and you’re done.
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December 10th, 2008 at 5:59 pm
it works ! thanks… my laptop always freezes.. very annoying thanks man.
December 16th, 2008 at 9:12 am
HI,
Thanks you for your valuable comment, till today I was facing the problem of slow process in firefox but on I got it.
December 16th, 2008 at 6:17 pm
I disabled the scan, no more slowdowns during downloads! Thank you!!
December 17th, 2008 at 5:56 am
You know… I had never thought about disabling the virus scanning in my Firefox browser, but it turned out to be a great idea!
January 9th, 2009 at 12:54 pm
i using NoScript. it is good to anti auto download trojan
February 3rd, 2009 at 10:01 am
well, its useful and i prefer not to un-install it.
March 30th, 2009 at 5:50 am
This is great tips my computer always freeze while surfing and I don’t know why. You make me know that and solve it. thanks this really nice tips
May 4th, 2009 at 8:26 am
Thank you. This is word to my pc.
John M
August 20th, 2009 at 10:05 am
thanks for the tips; I was looking to make firefox faster and this helped
December 14th, 2009 at 12:18 pm
Hi…!!
Thanks for this information it works ! it is really make my browsing fast. keep it up…:)
February 4th, 2010 at 2:47 am
Nice tips, never know the AV on FF3 can be de-activated. works good on my browser, thanks.
February 28th, 2010 at 8:51 pm
it’s really a nice Tip,Can you suggest me ho can i deactivate AVG in Vista,Acutally i am unable to download firefox from internet due to Avg antivirus,I am really confuse how can i deactivate it,I hope top get a good tip from you..Thanks in advance.