TechLobstersabout 5 hours ago
zlib-rs in Firefox
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Firefox 151.0.0 now uses zlib-rs for gzip decompression, delivering performance and safety improvements. The integration required updating tests for exact output bytes and handling symbol prefixing. Crashes traced to an Intel Raptor Lake CPU bug triggered by a specific Huffman coding instruction.
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