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Anyone know if

also has this critical bug (QT is about Chrome) in malware blocking?

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May 30, 2019

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If it crashes or gets killed for any reason, it stops working and the failure mode is that the requests pass through. I think this applies to all the browsers implementing the web extensions APIs. The webRequest API involves IPC calls to the extension and they're async/fallible.

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I think it's an inherent problem with the extension model and webRequest API, which they adopted from Chromium. I don't think their extensions run out-of-process yet, so they are less likely to be killed, but they can still have an uncaught exception or time out.

2:20 PM · May 31, 2019Twitter Web Client

Jed Davis

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They are out-of-process now; see also searchfox.org/mozilla-centra