Firefox 14.01 and AVG safesearch

I am being asked to update to Firefox 14.01 but am afraid I will not be able to use AVG safesearch.
Can anyone tell me if I can enable AVG Safesearch in the new version?

Let me be more explicit for the benefit of others. I was reading a kindle book on my computer when the Firefox 14.01 update popped up saying it would install as soon as I restarted Firefox. I've never had trouble with Firefox and restarted it to install the update while continuing to read. The update never installed. Instead, I got an off white circle with a line through it. My computer started to become very slow. I couldn't get out of kindle. I tried another program and it took almost 5 minutes to download. In tried to restart the computer and couldn't. I shut it down manually and took my computer to The Orchard, a MAC repair facility here in Lafayette. I was told my hard drive would not respond and that none of my installed programs would activate. I had to install a new hard drive and re-install microsoft office. A coincidence perhaps, but all of this happened when your 14.01 update was sent to me.

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