Firefox: Terminate DLL Injections from 66

The Firefox browser will soon prevent DLLs from being injected by antivirus and other third-party applications.

Windows antivirus and other third-party applications like PDF tools etc. tend to add DLLs to the program . Αυτό συμπεριφορά είναι γνωστό ότι προκαλεί προβλήματα σταθερότητας στους of the browser.Firefox browser

The Mozilla Foundation appears to be following the example of Google, which began blocking third party injection code in Google Chrome from 2018. Google found that Chrome installations containing third-party DLLs had 15% more problems than Chrome installations that did not contain third-party DLLs.

According to gHacks the Mozilla Foundation has begun to investigate the disabling of third-party DLLs in Firefox in the fourth quarter of 2016, but as the decisions have already been taken.

Firefox Nightly already blocks the addition of third-party DLLs. The feature will later be integrated in the Beta versions and of the Firefox browser, since version 66.

Firefox Beta will reach 66 on 29 January 2019, and Firefox Stable will release the 66 version on 19 2019 March.

How do you know if the security feature has already been activated? It's simple: Open the internal address about: support and check the process entry at the top.

It will indicate whether it is turned on or off.

If it is turned on and you want to disable the new feature (only available in Firefox Nightly), open the following internal address:

about: config? filter = browser.launcherProcess.enabled

Double-click and set the value to False.

Its activation can cause problems for third-party applications, which until Firefox version 66 will have to update their applications to remove the DLLs they add to the browser.

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