Recently, Mozilla Firefox users began to suspect that Google was up to something when they noticed that YouTube seemed to load slower when it detected that the browser was not Chrome. The tech giant later explained why this was not intentional and linked it to the use of ad blockers.
Although unrelated to this, the latest version of the Firefox browser, 120.0.1, fixes a bug that caused slower startup times. Mozilla explains that the issue is caused by unoptimized use of cache quota information. While this is a reported issue on Windows, Mozilla also added that a slow startup bug has been fixed on Linux as well.
The update also fixes an issue that caused CPU usage to reach 100% on certain websites such as Google Maps. This is related to a conflict with GCC compiled code.
A fairly common problem with the Firefox browser that we mentioned in this article happens to be related to the hardware acceleration support of the Mozilla browser. The company said that a hardware acceleration bug that produced a green screen when decoding YouTube videos has been fixed. Another video-related issue has also been fixed, where the status bar remains visible when watching videos in full-screen mode.
The complete change log for version 120.0.1 is as follows:
Fixed a bug that caused constant startup slowdowns. (Bug 1867095)
Fixed an issue causing 100% CPU usage on sites like Google Maps. (Bug 1866409)
Fixed an issue that caused YouTube videos to display a green screen when hardware acceleration was enabled. (Bug 1865928)
Fixed an issue where the status bar remained visible when watching full-screen videos. (Bug 1853896)
Fixed a startup crash affecting Linux users on some aarch64 systems with page sizes less than 4KB. (Bug 1866025)
You can download the browser from Mozilla’s official website:
https://archive.mozilla.org/pub/firefox/releases/120.0.1/