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John Loeffler

FOUND: Microsoft finally gets around to fixing half decade old firefox cpu bug | Mind Blowing Facts

Firefox logo on a macOS taskbar next to photos and Apple music

Better late than never, I guess, but Microsoft finally got around to fixing a five-year-old high-CPU usage bug in Mozilla Firefox.

The bug, which is tied to Windows Defender's Antimalware Service Executable process, has been known to produce high-CPU usage when running Firefox compared to Google Chrome and Microsoft Edge. Fortunately, the issue looks like it is resolved at long last.

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