Reviews for Malwarebytes Browser Guard
Malwarebytes Browser Guard by Malwarebytes
Review by VenD
Rated 5 out of 5
by VenD, 2 years agoUpdate 22 November 2023:
Apparently, YouTube have been slowing down Firefox users and especially users with adblockers enabled.
I thought it was a weird coincidence that both my Firefox and Mercury (a fork) browser experienced massive slowdown on YouTube. It wasn't just loading the YouTube pages, both of the browsers can't even load YouTube videos as fast as they should.
Both browsers were able to load YouTube videos at normal speeds again after disabling this plugin. I've tried disabling and enabling multiple times to be sure. Some Firefox users reported that they did not experience any of the slowdowns regardless of the news. It could be the usual experimental rollout that YouTube always do and perhaps my browsers' fingerprints changed the moment I disabled this addon.
As of now, YouTube is fast again even with this addon enabled.
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It has been a great companion to my Malwarebytes Premium. However, recent updates have killed its efficiency and performance, making Firefox extremely slow.
I've noticed huge slowdowns every time I open Firefox. Not only that, I lost the ability to watch videos above 1080p with this extension enabled as it is simply killing Firefox behind the scenes for no apparent reason.
I only found out this extension to be the cause of it by using Firefox's troubleshooting mode. As soon as I enabled this extension, Firefox became very sluggish and slow.
I'll write them an email about this but for now, avoid it at all costs. If you already have Malwarebytes Premium installed on your PC, I don't see a reason why anyone would need this companion extension.
Apparently, YouTube have been slowing down Firefox users and especially users with adblockers enabled.
I thought it was a weird coincidence that both my Firefox and Mercury (a fork) browser experienced massive slowdown on YouTube. It wasn't just loading the YouTube pages, both of the browsers can't even load YouTube videos as fast as they should.
Both browsers were able to load YouTube videos at normal speeds again after disabling this plugin. I've tried disabling and enabling multiple times to be sure. Some Firefox users reported that they did not experience any of the slowdowns regardless of the news. It could be the usual experimental rollout that YouTube always do and perhaps my browsers' fingerprints changed the moment I disabled this addon.
As of now, YouTube is fast again even with this addon enabled.
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It has been a great companion to my Malwarebytes Premium. However, recent updates have killed its efficiency and performance, making Firefox extremely slow.
I've noticed huge slowdowns every time I open Firefox. Not only that, I lost the ability to watch videos above 1080p with this extension enabled as it is simply killing Firefox behind the scenes for no apparent reason.
I only found out this extension to be the cause of it by using Firefox's troubleshooting mode. As soon as I enabled this extension, Firefox became very sluggish and slow.
I'll write them an email about this but for now, avoid it at all costs. If you already have Malwarebytes Premium installed on your PC, I don't see a reason why anyone would need this companion extension.
Developer response
posted 2 years agoPossibly related, https://www.androidauthority.com/youtube-reportedly-slowing-down-videos-firefox-3387206/ .
Please reach out via support.malwarebytes.com so we can gather more details.
Please reach out via support.malwarebytes.com so we can gather more details.
888 reviews
- Rated 3 out of 5by Merriska Carrier, a day agoNormally works very well, unfortunately even after the mid July patch it was still making watching Youtube incredibly sluggish and with pop ups so I've had to temporarily disable it.
- Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 18760669, 13 days ago
- Rated 3 out of 5by SuperCuek, 14 days agoHagezi TIF better than this extension. Many Github links are incorrectly marked as malware. Useless continue button
Developer response
posted 14 days agoSorry to hear you had a bad experience, if you can, it would be helpful to get those links that were causing issues so we can improve. Best place to reach us is at support.malwarebytes.com. - Rated 5 out of 5by Wayne Wilson, 16 days ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 19153722, 17 days ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 13292878, 17 days ago
- Rated 4 out of 5by Firefox user 12730009, 18 days agoIt's great i actually only run MBBG these days but its certainly got some slowdown issues happening at the moment, I look forward to the next update as even on pages i have whitelisted get bogged down.
Developer response
posted 18 days agoThanks for the review!
Can you verify that you are running the latest 3.0.23?
If you are, and are still seeing this issue, can you reach out at support.malwarebytes.com please? - Rated 5 out of 5by Robert Deshotels, 20 days ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by SRF, 20 days agoExcellent add-on for safer browsing, without all the annoying bloat that other AV-providers implement in similar products.
- Rated 5 out of 5by LCLGram, 21 days ago
- Rated 3 out of 5by Firefox user 16351663, 21 days agoI'm running the latest version of FireFox. This has warned me about entering two or three potentially malicious sites, but I get multiple occurences daily of pages virtually freezing and a warning pop-up that the plugin is slowing FF down. I've therefore disabled it for now. When I next remember, I'll give it another try to see if the issue (if there is one) has been addressed.
Edit: VERY impressed by the speed of Malwarebytes' response! Have added a diary reminder to turn it back on in a week's time to see if the fix has been implemented. In the meantime, I'll try very hard not to visit sites I shouldn't. :-)Developer response
posted 21 days agoThank you for reporting, we have a fix for this pending for review by the Firefox team.
This should resolve the issue. - Rated 3 out of 5by Firefox user 18201410, 22 days agoThis extensions been good for quite some time now, but recently, due to the bug that's been slowing down my browser, it's starting to get unbearable, I upload content on YouTube and browse the internet, and constantly getting a popup from my browser that its being slown down for long periods of time every 5 - 10 minutes is pretty annoying.
Until this bug's fixed, I do not recommend this extension to anyone, despite how good its features are.Developer response
posted 21 days agoThank you for your review! We’re aware of this issue and have already released a hotfix, which is currently under review by the Mozilla store. The update will be automatically rolled out to our users very soon. - Rated 1 out of 5by Steve M, 22 days agoI used to enjoy this Add-on until recently. I am using Firefox, and lately I have been getting the error message that Malwarebytes Browser Guard is slowing down my browser and that I should consider removing it. Not good.
Developer response
posted 21 days agoThank you for your review! We’re aware of this issue and have already released a hotfix, which is currently under review by the Mozilla store. The update will be automatically rolled out to our users very soon. - Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 19130057, 22 days ago
- Rated 1 out of 5by Firefox user 18492162, 22 days ago
- Rated 1 out of 5by Firefox user 14428622, 22 days ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by OtaldoJao, 22 days ago
- Rated 3 out of 5by Firefox user 19124330, 22 days agoDecent App. but with latest update. Utterly Broken. causes Firefox to lag and slow down /freeze. Which it never did in the past.
Developer response
posted 21 days agoThank you for your review! We’re aware of this issue and have already released a hotfix, which is currently under review by the Mozilla store. The update will be automatically rolled out to our users very soon. - Rated 5 out of 5by retired in NH 1949, 23 days ago
- Rated 5 out of 5by Firefox user 17641317, 23 days ago
- Rated 3 out of 5by Firefox user 19129248, 23 days agoAll of sudden it keeps causing firefox to slow down to a stop when watching youtube, its always been great before this recent update..by reading others reviews their seems to be a fix incoming! hope so, i'll checking back here.. edit: 3 days and still no fix even though the devs have said these is a fix incoming...
- Rated 2 out of 5by Karagin, 24 days agoThe current July 9th Update keeps causing FireFox to lag or slow down to the point of it's not working. Please fix this.
Developer response
posted 24 days agoThanks for reporting, the fix is currently being reviewed by the Firefox team. Hang tight! - Rated 1 out of 5by RandomDudeOnline25, 25 days agofirefox says your slowing youtube.com down. Might want to fix that. I'm leaving it up in case i'm getting scammed. edit : It's still not working. I have contacted youtube about the issue as well now.
- Rated 5 out of 5by Alaukik Tripathi, 25 days ago
- Rated 2 out of 5by TheGuiltyJoker, 25 days agoI've been using this for a few months now, and I love that it blocks and alerts me to unsafe websites.
However, recently I've been getting alerts from FireFox telling me that this addon is slowing down the browser.
I have no idea why this is happening as I haven't changed anything, so I don't know if it's an update that has caused it, but it needs to be investigated otherwise it's likely people could disable the addon.Developer response
posted 25 days agoThank you for reporting, we are currently working on a fix; this is indeed a bug in the addon. We will get this out as fast as we can.