Detecting a serious error on Firefox browser may damage the operating system

A security researcher and software engineer named Sabri Haddouche discovered a serious bug in the Firefox browser that could damage the system, freezing Microsoft Edge, Safari, and Internet Explorer.

Haddouche announced on his Twitter account about a new bug in Firefox. This error is capable of breaking the browser workflow on Windows machines, even freezing the entire operating system, causing hardware startup to be affected.

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New error in Firefox makes the browser hang on the computer.(ZDNet screenshot).

According to Haddouche, this error creates a file containing an extremely long file name and will constantly prompt the user to download every millisecond. IPC (process-to-process communication) of Firefox's main processes and processes is 'overloaded', causing the browser to freeze.

This error causes Firefox to crash on both Mac, Linux and Windows but on Windows is the most affected. However, this error does not seem to work in Firefox for Android and iOS.

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