Corrective release of Firefox 80.0.1, which fixes the following issues:
- A performance issue in Firefox 80 that arose when processing new intermediate certificates from certificate authorities.
- crashes related to GPU resetting.
- issues with text rendering on certain websites using WebGL (for example, this issue appears in Yandex Maps).
- problems with the API downloads.download(), leading to loss of cookies.
Additional Regarding the appearance in the nightly builds of Firefox of the new address bar design. A quick switch to another search engine is now possible in the address bar — a list of available search engine icons is displayed at the bottom of the window even before the query is entered, and the active search engine is shown before the input field. Furthermore, users can define arbitrary aliases to refer to the search engines.
It is also worth noting showing the dynamics of the number of active Firefox users. In August, Firefox had 208 million users. A year ago, it had 223 million, and a year and a half ago — 253 million. Meanwhile, the average time spent by users in the browser increased to 5.2 hours per day (a year ago — 4.8, a year and a half ago — 4.7). Interestingly, according to of visits to Wikipedia, starting in November 2019, the decline was replaced by an increase in Firefox's share (in November 2019, Firefox's share was 11.4%, and it has now grown to 13.3%).
Source: opennet.ru
