We're seeing a spike in Firefox crashes, caused by Avast anti-virus

hoppyhoppy2|3 years ago

>105.0.3

>Firefox Release

>October 7, 2022

>Version 105.0.3, first offered to Release channel users on October 7, 2022

>Fixed:

>* Mitigated frequent crashes for Windows users with Avast or AVG Antivirus software installed (bug 1794064)

https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/105.0.3/releasenotes/

bug report: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1794064

reddit discussion: https://www.reddit.com/r/firefox/comments/xxuxm1/were_seeing...

hyperman1|3 years ago

What is this 'DLL blocking' thing? Has firefox some way to boot unwanted DLLs out of its address space in some way?

shakna|3 years ago

They've had a way to blacklist loading DLLs for a very long time [0], by patching the call that loads DLLs.

That rather basic approach got a little bit more sophisticated in 2019 as well - following an approach that Chrome took.

[0] https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=524904

anm89|3 years ago

My firefox started crashing constantly about 2 weeks ago after years of problem free use and Im on linux and dont use avast

db48x|3 years ago

Load up “about:crashes” and make sure at least one of the crash reports was submitted. Then click the link to view the report; it’ll show you the stack trace, what libraries were loaded, all kinds of information. You can use that, in combination with the Firefox source, to diagnose the crash and figure out why it is happening.

oshout|3 years ago

"Antivirus causing an issue when you browse the web? Uninstall antivirus!" - hackerman

Yiin|3 years ago

I mean when you weigh pros and cons of using 3rd party AV software, that's a pretty reasonable idea.

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