Whenever I open an incognito window in Chrome, it opens a Settings tab with the address chrome://settings/incompatibleApplications which says "Update or remove incompatible applications", telling me that an application could prevent Chrome from working properly:
The application in question is my antivirus program. I checked if I can update the antivirus program and I can't, and I obviously don't want to uninstall it. Clicking the "REMOVE..." link just opens a Windows Settings window where I can uninstall my antivirus program.
Also, I haven't noticed the program cause any problems in Chrome, so there isn't really any reason I would uninstall it.
I tried clicking on the "Learn how to update applications" link, but that sent me to a help page which just explained how to open that settings page manually.
I think that it's very annoying that Chrome opens that page automatically. Is there a way I can prevent Chrome from doing so?
Answer
Also got this problem, and so did a bit of digging.
According to this answer from a Chrome Dev, there is nothing you can do about it. They say:
This is related to a new feature that aims to prevent third party software from injecting into Chrome's processes and interfering with its code.
To keep things simple we warn about all injected software, without making value judgments.
Thankfully, they also say:
Note that soon we will actually start blocking software from injecting, at which point this warning will cease to show.
So I guess all that can be done is wait from them to move from warning to blocking. The answer was posted in July 2018, so I imagine soon could be anywhere from the next 2 months to next year.
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