Please don't post duplicates for well known issues.
There is nothing Ubuntu MATE can do about this.
A fix might eventually come from upstream, but the firefox devs apparently aren't very motivated: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1391802
Upstream for a development project refers to places where the software is maintained upwards in the software stack.
For Firefox (ubuntu), Upstream is Firefox (debian)
For Firefox (debian), Upstream is Firefox (mozilla)