What’s New in Mozilla Firefox 81.0.1

Firefox continues to be one super-popular browser these days, especially on the desktop, but with growing consumer appeal on mobile as well.

But with the browser market currently dominated by Chromium-powered choices, Mozilla Firefox has remained one of the few choices that aren’t using the engine that Google and Microsoft are now fully committed to.

So for Mozilla and its users alike, it’s critical for Firefox to get frequent updates that further polish the experience with the app and add new capabilities.

Earlier this week, Mozilla published Firefox 81.0.1, a new version of the browser that is supposed to introduce a series of fixes on the desktop. And you can tell this is a bug-fixing update just by reading the version number, as it’s the very first revision to Firefox 81.

One of the most important fixes in this update concerns a high memory usage problem that was first reported in Firefox 78 and which was reported no less than two months ago.

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