Chromium has no rust and is not built as much for customizability as Firefox is. Sajadi comment “the better Chromium without Blink”įirefox is not chromium. Some things are just more important to prioritize. 29 and 57 Firefox would be thoroughly outdated from a design standpoint and the Gecko engine got an overhaul since then and has improved considerably with quantum/servo technology, the quantum CSS engine is used to take advantage of modern multi core CPU’s. All i see is a tool, do not care about the politics of the organization behind it as long as that tool serves a purpose and is OPEN SOURCE.

Poor you, one who evaluates a browser on ideology alone. Sajadi comment “It is all about ideology.” 29 first and 57 Now You: did you experience startup crashes recently in Firefox? All Firefox users on Windows 7 and 8 devices will be moved to the ESR channel automatically at the time. It marks the beginning of a new ESR version for the browser. The next major Firefox release, Firefox 115 Stable, will be released on July 4, 2023. Mozilla came up with a fix for the issue and after some testing in development versions of Firefox, has now pushed it to the stable version of the browser via the Firefox 114.0.1 update.įirefox users interested in the specifics may follow the link to the bug report on Bugzilla, as it provides links to code changes and other information that are relevant. If it is not, Firefox would fail with a crash, which Mozilla admits is not ideal. The change introduced in Firefox 114 and newer versions introduced checks if the origin is supported by Firefox. Firefox would previously load the metadata file and continue the startup process. Mozilla engineers discovered that the issue was related to 'old metadata files on disk containing origin types' that Firefox no longer supports. Updates are available for all affected versions of the Firefox web browser. The linked bug report provides insight on the issue.Īccording to it, Mozilla noted an increase in startup crashes that affected Firefox 114 and the development versions Firefox 115 and 116.

The official Firefox 114.0.1 release notes lists just a single item: 'Fix a startup crash'. The help page should list Firefox 114.0.1 as the version after the update. A restart of the browser is required to complete the process. Firefox runs a check for updates at the same time and will download any that it finds to the local system. The update is available already and most Firefox installations will be updated automatically thanks to the browser's built-in updating functionality.įirefox users may select Menu > Help > About Firefox to look up the installed version.

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