Available a maintenance release of Firefox 125.0.3, which fixes several issues:
- Eliminated errordue to which, after upgrading to Firefox 125, some users periodically began spontaneously opening new tabs with a URL “in the address bar. The effect appeared only on the Windows platform. Analysis of the situation showed that tabs appear when trying to launch another copy of Firefox from the command line when Firefox is already running. Users who encounter this problem, if they have not launched new copies of Firefox themselves, are advised to check their systems with antivirus software, as such activity may be the result of malware.
The appearance of the tab with the address ” is caused by mistake in the “Application Launch Prefetcher” handler. In the Firefox 125 branch, when launching an additional process, the nsWinRemoteClient::SendCommandLine method is used with the addition of the “/prefetch:1” option to the command line, which is converted to “-prefetch 1” during parameter parsing. In the future, the “-prefetch” parameter is ignored, and the remaining one is perceived as the URL to open (equivalent to running “firefox.exe 1”), which leads to an attempt to open the site “.
- In builds for Linux eliminated Text damage that occurs when drag&dropping text containing Unicode characters.
- Eliminated error when checking the size of arguments (arguments.length) inside a generator or async function, resulting in an empty object being passed.
- Solved problem with incorrect handling of input focus in ‹select› elements.
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