You're entitled to your opinion and so is he, but please don't insult me by telling me to use Google. You don't know me, nor do you know that I've been writing software professionally for a very long time.
According to Wikipedia,
Now please tell me how an application that has stopped functioning properly and exited going to continue to run. That, by definition, is impossible. Maybe he defines "crash" differently than the rest of the computing industry; I don't know, but you seem to think it makes sense, so maybe you can explain it to me.
Anyway, that's all beside the point. I don't care if anyone follows this advice and shoots himself in the foot by disabling the fth without a good reason to do so. I stand by my opinion that it is a bad idea.
You didn't confirm anything. You merely stated "he's right and you're wrong and I know it because I'm a developer." So what?