14 DAY TRIAL // Mozilla is releasing a new Firefox version whose purpose is to correct several critical bugs impacting Windows users.
The new version is Firefox 95.0.1, and it is the first revision to the main version 95.0, with Mozilla resolving a problem that prevents some users from connecting to Microsoft’s official website microsoft.com. Furthermore, as per a report from GHacks, the same bug is also hitting other Microsoft subdomains, such as support.microsoft.com.
The glitch was first reported a week ago, and it was exclusive to Firefox 95.0, as everything was working properly in the previous versions of the browser.
Ryan VanderMeulen, Staff Release Manager at Mozilla, confirmed both the problem and the fix on Bugzilla, explaining that a patch has already been bundled with the latest versions of Firefox.
“We expect to ship Firefox 95.0.1, 96.0b6, and 91.4.1esr releases tomorrow which will resolve this bug. New Nightly builds with the fix are also running now and should be available within a few hours,” a message posted a few hours ago reads.
More fixes in this Firefox update
Furthermore, Firefox 95.0.1 also resolves a glitch causing the browser to crash on Windows. Randell Jesup, Senior Staff Software Engineer at Mozilla, explained in a post on Bugzilla that the number of reports pointing to such crashes increased substantially lately.
“The volume jumped from 500-1000/day to multiple thousands per day around Oct 26th or so. We heard there was a Windows update around that time. However there are crashes on win7/8/10 and 11. Just the one most common signature for this issue has had 16000 crashes in the last 7 days, and about 1/4 of the top 50 crash signatures are from this issue, including #2,” he says.
“The volume had gone up from low 100's (from the various signatures) to the 500-1000 level from June to October. About 50% of the crashes are in profile-before-change, and about 50% in quit-application (and a few profile-before-change-qm, and a handful with no shutdown-process attribution).”
As usual, the new Firefox version will be available on all supported desktop platforms, namely Windows, Linux, and macOS.