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During the Firefox 120 beta cycle, a new crash signature appeared on our radars with significant volume.

At that time, the distribution across operating systems revealed that more than 50% of the crash volume originates from Ubuntu 18.04 LTS users.

The main process crashes in a CanvasRenderer thread, with the following call stack:

0 firefox std::locale::operator= 1 firefox std::ios_base::imbue 2 firefox std::basic_ios >::imbue 3 libxul.so sh::InitializeStream , std::allocator > > /build/firefox-ZwAdKm/firefox-120.0~b2+build1/gfx/angle/checkout/src/compiler/translator/Common.h:238 3 libxul.so sh::TCompiler::setResourceString…