What is breakpadinjector.dll?

breakpadinjector.dll is part of Firefox and developed by Mozilla Foundation according to the breakpadinjector.dll version information.

breakpadinjector.dll is digitally signed by Mozilla Corporation.

breakpadinjector.dll is usually located in the 'c:\Program Files\Mozilla Firefox\' folder.

None of the anti-virus scanners at VirusTotal reports anything malicious about breakpadinjector.dll.

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Vendor and version information [?]

The following is the available information on breakpadinjector.dll:

PropertyValue
Product nameFirefox
Company nameMozilla Foundation
Legal copyrightLicense: MPL 1.1/GPL 2.0/LGPL 2.1
Legal trademarkMozilla
Product version16.0
File version16.0

Here's a screenshot of the file properties when displayed by Windows Explorer:

Product nameFirefox
Company nameMozilla Foundation
Legal copyrightLicense: MPL 1.1/GPL 2.0/LGPL 2.1
Legal trademarkMozilla
Product version16.0
File version16.0

Digital signatures [?]

breakpadinjector.dll has a valid digital signature.

PropertyValue
Signer nameMozilla Corporation
Certificate issuer nameThawte Code Signing CA - G2
Certificate serial number6b26c64d4ed9d82aabefde3cf99c0215

VirusTotal report

None of the 42 anti-virus programs at VirusTotal detected the breakpadinjector.dll file.

None of the 42 anti-virus programs detected the breakpadinjector.dll file.

Hashes [?]

PropertyValue
MD598639092f122edd07b5fcd8e55616730
SHA2567768ea2c55d8f670a33a620f92c19bc15cea8a8f010c8cf5ae7f66a06d1f005b

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User vote results: There were 7 votes to remove and 11 votes to keep

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Comments

Please share with the other users what you think about this file. What does this file do? Is it legitimate or something that your computer is better without? Do you know how it was installed on your system? Did you install it yourself or did it come bundled with some other software? Is it running smoothly or do you get some error message? Any information that will help to document this file is welcome. Thank you for your contributions.

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Roger Karlsson writes

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breakpadinjector.dll comes with the Mozilla web browser. It is a legitimate file.

# 22 Sep 2012, 8:46

wolfgang(c)vienna writes

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hmm, do someone or other knows about the function of this file? (I'm @ Firefox 15) thx! :)

# 7 Oct 2012, 10:56

wolfgang(c)vienna writes

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Home ยป Breakpad https://wiki.mozilla.org/Breakpad

Breakpad Integration into Mozilla

Breakpad is a set of libraries for client-side crash reporting.
This page talks about integrating breakpad with Mozilla products.

# 8 Oct 2012, 17:40

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