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Originally Posted by Blossom
I already did a reset that you mentioned I have been rebuilding my system for the past four days. Everything was going good till today with the Cortana crash.
Now my search index has corrupted and now trying to rebuild. All I did was move a 18GB folder from my desktop to my desktop computer's external drive via LAN. I must have a bad file somewhere. I have no clue how to track it down but it's having to index half a million files again.  |
If you move it to an external drive, it
will have to re-index. That should
not be a surprise. It has to, because the location is part of the index entry for every file, and the location changed.
What all was in the 18GB folder? That's an awful lot to be in one folder, unless there were sub-folders beneath.
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I think this is all related to Cortana but how to fix it I've yet to discover.
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It may be, but I wouldn't rule out other causes.
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As for Chrome I've never trusted it due to the extensions, keeping passwords online and other syncing.
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Chrome extensions are pure JavaScript, and limited to what what Chrome allows JavaScript to do. That has been increasingly tightened up. JavaScript is supposed to execute in a sandbox and be unable to affect the underlying system, and Chrome tries hard to enforce that.
A major change in Firefox is that extensions there must be pure JavaScript too. Legacy extensions were mostly combinations of JavaScript and XUL, but XUL is deprecated and going away. Mozilla had security concerns about XUL because it executed in a privileged context. I'd take that more seriously if I had ever heard of a malicious extension using that for an exploit.
But now extension architecture is increasingly the same across Chrome, Edge, and Firefox. A feature of the new Web Extensions API Firefox extensions must now use is that it's possible to write extensions that can be installed in Chrome, Edge,
or Firefox by changing a few lines of code when you build for a specific browser. Raymond Hill's uBlock Origin is an example, and available for all three browsers.
Syncing and passwords in the cloud are
optional in all three browsers, default to
off, and you don't have to turn them on.
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Good thing because the Chrome store is not safe as recent news has been reporting.
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Bitcoin miners?
I believe there have been reports of Firefox extensions doing that too. They're getting pulled from the respective Addon sites as reported. But meanwhile, I don't
care. I know what it is
before I install it.
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Dennis