Corrective release of Firefox 80.0.1, which fixes the following issues:
- a performance issue that surfaced in Firefox 80 when processing new intermediate CA certificates.
- GPU reset related crashes.
- problems with text rendering on some sites using WebGL (for example, the problem manifests itself in Yandex Maps).
- issues with the downloads.download() API leading to cookie loss.
Additionally about appearing in nightly builds of Firefox new design of the address bar. The address bar now has the ability to quickly switch to another search engine - the list of icons of available search engines is now displayed at the bottom of the window even before the start of typing a query, and the active search engine is shown in front of the input field. In addition, the user is given the opportunity to define arbitrary aliases for accessing search engines.
You can also note showing the dynamics of the number of active Firefox users. Firefox had 208 million users in August. A year ago it was 223 million, and a year and a half ago - 253 million. At the same time, the average time spent by a user in the browser has increased and is 5.2 hours a day (a year ago - 4.8, a year and a half ago - 4.7). Interestingly, according to visits to Wikipedia, starting from November 2019, the decline was replaced by an increase in the share of Firefox (in November 2019, the share of Firefox was 11.4%, and now it has grown to 13.3%).
Source: opennet.ru