A look at Windows Defender Application Guard extension for Firefox and Chrome

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Microsoft released the extension Windows Defender Application Guard for Google Chrome and Mozilla Firefox recently.

Windows Defender Application Guard is a security feature designed to load untrusted sites and services in a lightweight virtual machine. It requires Windows 10 Professional or Enterprise at the time of writing, and works in standalone and Enterprise-managed modes. It requires at least Windows 10 version 1803.

The new browser extension brings Application Guard functionality to the third-party browsers Google Chrome and Mozilla Firefox.

Windows Defender Application Guard extension

nstallation is slightly more complicated than installing another browser extension. The main reason for that is that you need to make sure that Application Guard is turned on as a feature on the device, and that you have installed the Microsoft Store companion app as well.

In other words: you may need to install three different applications before you can make use of it.

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