A caution about Bitdefender browser add-ons : new tabs can go crazy

According to my research, there is a very strong case to be made that Bitdefender has the best anti-virus program at this point in time. However, their browser add-ons can cause problems.

The other day I was returning to a Mozilla-related browser I hadn't used in a long time, CometBird. I gathered up a bunch of my favorite Mozilla add-ons, including Bitdefender Traffic Light and Bitdefender QuickScan. When I restarted CometBird, the browser went crazy, making new tabs at the rate of about one per second. I had 280 tabs, all but a few new tabs, at one point. It was like a bad science fiction movie to see this out of control multiplication.

I figured out that add-ons were the problem when I put CometBird on add-ons disabled mode, and things settled down. I then tried disabling the add-ons one by one without stopping the new tabs attack until I got to Bitdefender QuickScan. I found it was the problem. I tried to keep Traffic Light without Quick Scan, but the new tabs attack continued that way.

At this point it jogged my memory that quite some time ago I had disabled Bitdefender QuickScan in Comodo IceDragon because it caused me some sort of problem there also.

 

I used Bitdefender total protection on windows 8 pro and it completely messed up my computer and I had to uninstall the product off my computer. I have now switched to mcafee total protection and I am quite happy with it so far.