Firefox 122 released

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Let us know what you think, https://www.mozilla.org/en-us/firefox

[bin]

You mean Firefox 122 ???? I hope!

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Whoops! Ill fix that and just shows you how pissed off I am about the password issues with Thunderbird.

[wove]

Firefox for me has always been install it, use it, forget it. I just let it install whatever updates there are. I do not recall the last time I had any problems with it. I use the Firefox sync so once I sign in on any new install it is ready to go. When I looked it had updated to 122 and I never even noticed. I really like it when things go that smoothly.

The Firefox Sync is the only Mozilla software I use. I just never got into using Thunderbird. I have never tried Pocket. My RSS reader handles that type of reading material and the "Reader Mode" and print to pdf handles articles I want to dig into more deeply. I do worry about the longer term future of Mozilla. They are loosing user share. There are very few browsers that still rely on Gecko and none I am aware of that user the current Gecko, most using the ESR version.

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Both Firefox and Thunderbird have been like loyal friends and have served me well over the years. The issue I was having with Thunderbird turned out to be an issue with my email provider and hopefully they will get it fixed.

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The recent 122.01 update causes a strange issue where the screen dissapears for a time and eventually recovers back. You can see the outline of Firefox but no print or content shows on the screen.

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Confirmed the issue is with 122.01 as Chrome and Edge are unaffected.

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Also it has issues playing some videos with freezing and popping out and starting you over. Tested Chrome and Edge and both did fine on the same videos.

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Tested on a HP Victus 15L system that uses a Ryzen 5600g/Geforce GTX 1660 super video card with recent drivers in Win11 and had no issues at all. The Dell Optiplex 7010 uses a i5 3470 cpu and a Geforce GT 740 video card, with older drivers in Win10 and has constant problems.

I decided to uninstall 122.0.1 and install Firefox ESR 115.2 and what a difference. No issues whatsoever so far but Ill continue testing. The Dell I use for older gaming and it also runs Win,7 so it uses older hardware and drivers in both Win10/7. Ill post back if further testing shows issues.

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Absolutely no issues with 115.2 ESR and it feels a bit faster than 122.