Mozilla Firefox Version 120.0.1 Released

[Corrine]

Mozilla sent Firefox Version 120.0.1 to the Release Channel.

 

Fixed

• Fixed a bug that was causing persistent startup slowdowns. (bug 1867095)
• Fixed an issue that was causing 100% CPU usage on sites such as Google Maps. (bug 1866409)
• Fixed an issue that was causing YouTube videos to show a green screen when hardware acceleration was enabled. (bug 1865928)
• Fixed an issue where the status bar was still visible when viewing fullscreen video. (bug 1853896)
• Fixed a startup crash affecting Linux users on some aarch64 systems with page sizes other than 4KB. (bug 1866025)
  

Update: To get the update now, select "Help" from the Firefox menu, then pick "About Firefox".  Mac users need to select "About Firefox" from the Firefox menu.  For non-English versions, Fully Localized Versions are available for download.

 

Release Notes

[V.T. Eric Layton]

Upgraded yesterday. Nothing blew up. That's good.

[crp]

On 12/1/2023 at 7:51 AM, V.T. Eric Layton said:

Upgraded yesterday. Nothing blew up. That's good.

You don't use ESR?

[V.T. Eric Layton]

12 hours ago, crp said:

You don't use ESR?

 

Nope. The ESR version in Slackware 14.2 is too old and obsolete. Many websites don't render/work properly with it.