I use Webroot Antivurs on my computer. My browser of choice is Pale Moon, initially a Firefox fork which has branched into something of its own.
Upon installation, Webroot began interefering with the browser in the way that all sites would load, BUT:
- they would load incompletely (CSS was missing wholly [rarer] or partially [often])
- images would get mixed up (images A and B would switch places, of course breaking page design [often])
- pages were slow to load [often]
The interesting thing is, the problem wasn't consistent in the sanse that after 1 - 5 refreshes, the page would usually load fully and completely. Not all pages were affected, though. And otherwise, the browser was as fast and as stable as ever.
I have identified the culprit to be "Enable Web Filtering driver" feature. When I disabled it, Pale Moon begun loading pages normally.
Note: I did not have the Webroot web extension installed in the browser. The Pale Moon process has been whitelisted in the firewall. Pale Moon add-ons weren't the problem since the problems persisted even in safe mode.
At the same time, this problem did not affect my alternate browser Vivaldi. The built-in MS Edge was also not affected.
I am on a HP ProBook 4740s laptop with Win 10 x64, 6GB RAM, Intel i5 3210M. No other active security software besides Webroot.
I would like to know why would Web Filtering driver be interefering with Pale Moon in this way?
Thanks!
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