Firefox engineers discover a Windows Defender bug that causes high CPU usage

Post by thewataccount » Fri, Apr 07, 2023, 6:35 PM UTC

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> You don't need "run as administrator" for that. This is what makes it so doable since you don't need any privilege escalation. The reason why this is a big deal for a lot of people is your ssh keys will give you access to your git repos and other servers unless you have them password protected or use gpg/sk ssh keys which I think a lot of people don't do. And of course if you can see the known hosts file/bash_histo…

Plenty of dangerous things stored in `~/`, they don't even need password for ssh-key if there is ssh-agent running (this is in case of dangerous process running, not just upload). This is why I store keys on a hardware key that requires me to touch it when used and manually start ssh-agent when doing a lot of `git push`.

Post by zamadatix » Sat, Apr 08, 2023, 9:24 PM UTC

mindigmarton wrote: post #220

rascul wrote: post #53

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I just ran a test at https://browserbench.org/Speedometer2.1/ Firefox scored 89.5 ±1.7 Chromium scored 87.3 ±2.9 I guess that means Firefox did faster for those tests. I don't use Chrome or Chromium based browsers in general so I don't know how they compare in "feel". I am on Linux.

That's interesting. M1 Pro 8 core Safari: 133 Firefox: 221 Chromium: 339