Archives For June 30, 2020

Mozilla Firefox 78 was released a few days ago with some new features and improvements.

Firefox 78 added “Refresh Firefox” button to the Uninstaller, which also available in about:support page, allows to reset Firefox to its default state, while saving your essential information like bookmarks, passwords, cookies.

Other changes in the release include:

  • Protections Dashboard includes reports about tracking protection, data breaches, and password management.
  • Screen saver will no longer interrupt WebRTC calls on Firefox
  • Firefox 78 is also Extended Support Release (ESR) features:
    • Kiosk mode
    • Client certificates
    • Service Worker and Push APIs are now enabled
    • The Block Autoplay feature is enabled
    • Picture-in-picture support
    • View and manage web certificates in about:certificate
  • Improved Pocket recommendations, and security fixes.

How to Install Firefox 78 in Ubuntu:

Firefox 78 will be made into official Ubuntu security / updates repositories for Ubuntu 16.04, Ubuntu 18.04, Ubuntu 19.10, and Ubuntu 20.04 in a few days!

At that time, you can upgrade Firefox via Software Updater (Update Manager) utility:

For those prefer installing FileZilla ftp client via deb rather than using the flatpak package, there’s an unofficial PPA contains the latest FileZilla 3.48.1 for Ubuntu 20.04 and Linux Mint 20.

The latest FileZilla client so far is v3.48.1 which contains bugfixes and minor changes. See filezilla-project.org for changes.

To install FileZilla 3.48.1 via PPA in Ubuntu 20.04:

Thanks to sicklylife, a member of Gnome Japanese Translation Team, who maintains an unofficial PPA contains most recent FileZilla packages.

1.) Open terminal either from system application menu or by pressing Ctrl+Alt+T on keyboard. When terminal opens, run command to add the PPA:

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:sicklylife/filezilla

Type user password (no asterisk feedback) when it prompts and hit Enter to continue.

2.) After adding the PPA, refresh system package cache and install the ftp client via commands:

sudo apt update

sudo apt install filezilla

To uninstall the PPA as well as remove the ftp client package:

Run command in terminal to remove the PPA repository:

sudo add-apt-repository --remove ppa:sicklylife/filezilla

And remove FileZilla client via command:

sudo apt remove --autoremove filezilla

This simple tutorial shows how to install GnuCash, the personal and small-business financial-accounting software, in all current Ubuntu releases including Ubuntu 24.10, Ubuntu 24.04, Ubuntu 22.04 and Ubuntu 20.04

GnuCash is available in Ubuntu repository, but old. For the latest release, you may install it via either Flatpak package or an Ubuntu PPA.

At the moment of writing, the latest version is GnuCash 5.11, and the changes are available in this page.


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