diff --git a/MozillaFirefox.changes b/MozillaFirefox.changes
index 71bd7f2..672e3bc 100644
--- a/MozillaFirefox.changes
+++ b/MozillaFirefox.changes
@@ -18,6 +18,13 @@ Sun Aug 18 17:29:25 UTC 2019 - Andreas Stieger <andreas.stieger@gmx.de>
     copied without master password entry (bmo#1565780)
 - drop fix-build-after-y2038-changes-in-glibc.patch, upstream
 
+-------------------------------------------------------------------
+Fri Aug 16 16:49:24 UTC 2019 - Jonathan Brielmaier <jbrielmaier@suse.de>
+
+- Fix crash when typing in the URL bar on ppc64le (bmo#1512162).
+  The upstream patch doesn't resolve the issue on TW, but compiling
+  with -O1 does. Do this until we have a proper fix.
+
 -------------------------------------------------------------------
 Thu Aug  1 14:25:02 UTC 2019 - Guillaume GARDET <guillaume.gardet@opensuse.org>
 
diff --git a/MozillaFirefox.spec b/MozillaFirefox.spec
index c8ba461..f85bd85 100644
--- a/MozillaFirefox.spec
+++ b/MozillaFirefox.spec
@@ -412,6 +412,10 @@ ac_add_options --with-arch=armv7-a
 %ifarch aarch64 %arm s390x
 ac_add_options --disable-webrtc
 %endif
+# mitigation/workaround for bmo#1512162
+%ifarch ppc64le
+ac_add_options --enable-optimize="-O1"
+%endif
 %ifarch x86_64
 # LTO needs newer toolchain stack only (at least GCC 8.2.1 (r268506)
 %if 0%{?suse_version} > 1500