Open Bug 1835323 Opened 11 months ago Updated 11 months ago

[meta] Measure and reduce the impact of antivirus software on CPU usage when browsing with Firefox

Categories

(External Software Affecting Firefox :: Other, task)

Product:
External Software Affecting Firefox
Component:
Other
Platform:
Desktop
Windows
Type:
task

Tracking

(Not tracked)

People

(Reporter: yannis, Unassigned)

References

(Depends on 1 open bug, Blocks 1 open bug)

Details

(Keywords: meta)

When browsing with Firefox, active monitoring from antivirus products results in additional CPU usage. This active monitoring can take place in the antivirus product's own processes (e.g. MsMpEng.exe for Microsoft Defender), but also in firefox.exe processes themselves for antivirus products that rely on code injection. This meta bug lists work related to measuring and/or reducing the extra CPU usage that originates from antivirus products, referring to the two kinds of impact respectively as "out-of-process impact" and "in-process impact".

Depends on: 1441918, 1823634
Depends on: 1822650
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