Some users reported in Chrome help forum that Chrome is showing a page on startup (could be after a crash) to update or remove incompatible applications that could prevent the browser from working properly. So far Chrome has detected and shown these as popular applications as incompatible.
- Malwarebytes 3.5.1.252
- WinPatrol
- Dropbox.
Chrome is asking to update or remove incompatible applications
What’s happening?
Back in November 2017, Google has announced starting from Chrome 66, if Chrome crashes due to third-party Windows software that injects code into the browser, users will get a warning to update or remove such software. Chrome 69 will block the software from injecting code into Chrome processes if blocking is unsuccessful, Chrome restarts and allows injection, but the warning will still be shown. Chrome 72 won’t’ show any warning, code injecting will be always blocked.
Currently, Chrome 68 is the stable version and Chrome 69 release is not far away, according to Chromium development Calendar and release info, next Chrome version will be released on September 4.
Chris Hamilton from Chrome Stability team has said in a forum thread “Chrome dev here. This is related to a new feature that aims to prevent third-party software from injecting into Chrome’s processing and interfering with its code. This type of software injection is rampant on the Windows platform and causes significant stability issues (crashes).”
” The Microsoft Edge browser does this kind of blocking, and we are in the process of making Chrome behave similarly. What you are seeing is the warning phase of year-long effort to enable blocking, originally announced in November 2017.”
A user can see or know the list of Windows applications doing code injection by visiting chrome://settings/incompatibleapplications page.
Are you seeing these warnings? Will you remove Malwarebytes or Dropbox if asked by Chrome? Let us know in the comments below.
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