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Fedora 34: FEDORA-2021-578907b183 Moderate: Firefox Stability Fix

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Calendar Grey March 6, 2021
Dist Fedora Esm H88
The latest update for Firefox resolves stability and display concerns in Fedora 34, significantly boosting performance and ensuring better compatibility.
Stability update for hardware accelerated backend (mozbz#1694670)

Summary

Mozilla Firefox is an open-source web browser, designed for standards

compliance, performance and portability.

Stability update for hardware accelerated backend (mozbz#1694670). ---- New

upstream update (86.0). Should also fix some rendering issues in KDE in certain

configurations. Depends on and cannot be pushed stable without

https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2021-bdc10e21fc .

* Wed Mar 3 2021 Martin Stransky - 86.0-7

- Added fix for mozbz#1694670

* Mon Mar 1 2021 Martin Stransky - 86.0-6

- Run xpcshell tests sequential

- Test fixes

* Mon Mar 1 2021 Martin Stransky - 86.0-4

- Enable Wayland backend only when Wayland display is set.

* Mon Mar 1 2021 Martin Stransky - 86.0-3

- Added icecat-78.7.1-fix_error_template_with_C_linkage.patch to

build on F34+

* Fri Feb 26 2021 Martin Stransky - 86.0-2

- Built with system nss

* Tue Feb 23 2021 Martin Stransky - 86.0-1

- Update to 86.0

- Disabled Wayland backend on KDE/Plasma

* Tue Feb 23 2021 Martin Stransky - 85.0.1-2

- Fixed some reftest run in Mock

* Mon Feb 8 2021 Martin Stransky - 85.0.1-1

- Updated to 85.0.1

[ 1 ] Bug #1927972 - Add-on install popover (and possibly others) cut off (maybe only on KDE?)

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1927972

[ 2 ] Bug #1933600 - firefox-86.0-2 crashes on start

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1933600

[ 3 ] Bug #1934161 - update to latest tested firefox-86

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1934161

su -c 'dnf upgrade --advisory FEDORA-2021-578907b183' at the command

line. For more information, refer to the dnf documentation available at

https://dnf.readthedocs.io/en/latest/command_ref.html

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Update Instructions

Product: Fedora 34
Version: 86.0
Release: 7.fc34
Summary: Mozilla Firefox Web browser

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