Based on the toggling OFF and back ON of the "Enable Protected Mode at startup" in Preferences it looks like there is no bug in the program code, but it is simply a corrupted setting which was fixed by the OFF/ON toggling.
Based on the toggling OFF and back ON of the "Enable Protected Mode at startup" in Preferences it looks like there is no bug in the program code, but it is simply a corrupted setting which was fixed by the OFF/ON toggling.