How to Fix High Windows Defender Disk Activity When Using Mozilla Firefox

Mozilla Firefox is currently one of the leading browsers worldwide, with third-party data showing that despite being well behind Google Chrome, it’s still considerably more popular than the Windows 10 default Microsoft Edge.

And this is basically no surprise. Mozilla has substantially improved Firefox in the last few years, and the browser comes with one of the most compelling feature packages right now. It’s fast, secure, and super-reliable most of the time.

Windows 10 users, however, might have found the hard way what a compatibility issue between Firefox and the operating system means in terms of performance impact. Because as it turns out, a several-months-old bug in Windows Defender antivirus causes high disk activity for Mozilla Firefox, obviously slowing down the system and affecting the browser’s performance.

The glitch was first reported on Bugzilla, Mozilla’s bug tracking platform, 4 mont... (read more)

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