After a year, Firefox finally stops crashing on Intel's Raptor Lake CPUs — Mozilla releases new version patch critical flaw on Intel 13th-gen and 14th-gen CPUs

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Mozilla released Firefox 151.01 to fix long-running crashes on Intel Raptor Lake desktop systems.
The issue was traced to instability in certain Intel 13th- and 14th-gen CPUs, not Firefox itself.
Mozilla spent about a year investigating the problem before linking it to faulty CPU behavior and microcode-related instability.
The fix addresses a major browser crash issue for affected users and shows how hardware defects can look like software bugs.

