Tuesday, December 15, 2020

Mozilla Firefox Version 84.0 Released With Security Updates

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Mozilla sent Firefox Version 84.0 to the release channel today.  The update includes fourteen security updates of which one (1) is rated critical, six (6) are rated high, four (4) moderate and three (3) rated low.

Firefox ESR was updated to Version 78.6.

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New

  • Native support for macOS devices built with Apple Silicon CPUs brings dramatic performance improvements over the non-native build that was shipped in Firefox 83: Firefox launches over 2.5 times faster and web apps are now twice as responsive (per the SpeedoMeter 2.0 test). If you are on a new Apple device, follow these steps to upgrade to the latest Firefox.

  • WebRender rolls out to MacOS Big Sur and Windows devices with Intel Gen 5 and 6 GPUs. Additionally we'll ship an accelerated rendering pipeline for Linux/GNOME/X11 users for the first time, ever!

  • Firefox now uses more modern techniques for allocating shared memory on Linux, improving performance and increasing compatibility with Docker.

  • Firefox 84 is the final release to support Adobe Flash.

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