Just a week ago today, Mozilla He launched the 80th version of your web browser. It was a major update, although it was not in terms of the number of new features or their importance, and it came after a v79 that did not introduce any maintenance update. Regarding the latter, we cannot say the same about the current version, since it has been available for a few hours Firefox 80.0.1.
As we read in the release note, and how could it be otherwise, this point update has come to correct errors. More specifically, it has introduced 5 patches to improve some things, such as performance that was affected by a regression. Below you have the full list of news that have arrived with Firefox 80.0.1.
What's new in Firefox 80.0.1
- Fixed a performance regression when finding new intermediate CA certificates.
- Fixed unexpected crashes possibly related to GPU reboots.
- Rendering on some sites using WebGL has been fixed.
- Fixed zoom keyboard shortcut in Japanese versions.
- Fixed download issues related to extensions and cookies.
Like every new release, Firefox 80.0.1 It is now available from the author's website, which we can access from this link. What Linux users will download from the previous link will be the self-updating version in binaries, but we can also install it from the Flatpak version, available at this link. Do you know where it has not been updated yet? Exact: on Snapcraft, although Canonical assured us that Snap packages would update instantly. As for the version of the official repositories of the different Linux distributions, Firefox 80.0.1 should arrive in the next few days.
If they don't release another maintenance release, the next news will be the release of Firefox 81, scheduled for September 22.