Five days in the past Mozilla needed to halt the roll-out of their new Firefox 66 browser resulting from a problem with PowerPoint Online.
Reportedly the up to date browser was unable to avoid wasting textual content when typed into the web presentation software program.
Mozilla found greater than PowerPoint was affected resulting from Mozilla “mirroring charCode and keyCode values,” with Apple iCloud and IBM WebMail additionally affected.
Mozilla resolved this difficulty by including these websites to an exclusion record, writing in a bug report:
For Office (bug 1538651, bug 1538652), we determined so as to add some wildcard domains. This relies on this remark, and preliminary conversations we had with Microsoft. It’s most likely the most secure method for us proper now.For IBM Webmail (bug 1538317), this patch solely consists of the one identified area. The area is talked about in IBMs docs, so it’s doubtless a generic endpoint for certainly one of their shared cloud choices. We’re engaged on getting extra info right here, however for now, that’s all we now have. Given we will’t actually inform what else is behind that area, utilizing a wildcard right here could be harmful. We can iterate sooner or later.For iCloud (bug 1537913), Adam confirmed in that bug that this resolves the difficulty. iCloud at all times appears to hard-redirect to the www-subdomain for these paperwork, so I see no cause to make use of a wildcard right here.
These fixes are rolled up in Firefox 66.02, which additionally brings a repair for a bug with “mozilla: :gfx: :DrawTargetD2D1: :CreateBrushForPattern when using Canvas” (Bug 1539118) and in addition a vital reproducible tab crash difficulty impacting customers after updating to Windows 10 1809 (Bug 1521370) first reported two months in the past.
Firefox 66.02 is now accessible to obtain right here.
