Mozilla Firefox reached the new stable 59.0 release last night. The new release focus on improvements to page loading time, firefox screenshots, and more.

Changes in Firefox 59.0 include:

• Faster load times for content on the Firefox Home page
• Faster page load times by loading either from the networked cache or the cache on the user’s hard drive (Race Cache With Network)
• Improved graphics rendering using Off-Main-Thread Painting (OMTP) for Mac users (OMTP for Windows was released in Firefox 58)
• Drag-and-drop to rearrange Top Sites on the Firefox Home page, and customize new windows and tabs in other ways
• Added tools to annotate and crop your Firefox Screenshots
• Enhanced WebExtensions API including better support for decentralized protocols and the ability to dynamically register content scripts
• Improved Real-Time Communications (RTC) capabilities.
• Implemented RTP Transceiver to give pages more fine grained control over calls
• Implemented features to support large scale conferences
• Added support for W3C specs for pointer events and improved platform integration with added device support for mouse, pen, and touch screen pointer input
• Added the Ecosia search engine as an option for German Firefox
• Added the Qwant search engine as an option for French Firefox
• Added settings in about:preferences to stop websites from asking to send notifications or access your device’s camera, microphone, and location, while still allowing trusted websites to use these features
• And various security fixes.

Upgrade to Firefox 59 in Ubuntu:

The distribution builds will be available in a few days, check the link before doing following steps.

For Ubuntu 14.04, Ubuntu 16.04, and Ubuntu 17.10, simply launch Software Updater (Update Manager) and you’ll see Firefox in the update list after checking for updates.

If you don’t see the Firefox update, make sure “security” and “updates” repositories are enabled by Software & Updates utility:

That’s it. Enjoy!

Mozilla Firefox reached new stable 58.0 release hours ago. Ubuntu Mozilla team has built the packages for Ubuntu 14.04, Ubuntu16.04, Ubuntu 17.10, and their derivatives.

Changes in Firefox 58.0 include:

• Loading pages faster by changing how Firefox caches and retrieves JavaScript
• Rendering graphics for Windows users by using Off-Main-Thread Painting (OMTP)
• Firefox Screenshots now works in Private Browsing mode
• Copy and paste screenshots directly to your clipboard
• Add support for Progressive Web Apps (PWAs) in Firefox on Android.
• Added Nepali (ne-NP) locale
• Read the release note for more details.

Upgrade to Firefox 58 in Ubuntu:

For Ubuntu 14.04, Ubuntu 16.04, and Ubuntu 17.10, simply launch Software Updater (Update Manager) and you’ll see Firefox in the update list after checking for updates.

If you don’t see the Firefox update, make sure “security” and “updates” repositories are enabled by Software & Updates utility:

That’s it. Enjoy!

Mozilla Firefox has reached the 53.0 release. It features two new ‘compact’ themes and separate process for graphics compositing.

Firefox 53.0 release highlights:

• Graphics stability for Windows users with compositor process separation (Quantum Compositor)
• Two new ‘compact’ themes available, dark and light
• Reader Mode now displays estimated reading time for the page
• New visual design for audio and video controls
• Drop Windows XP, Vista, and 32-bit Mac OS X support.
• Drop Linux support for processors older than Pentium 4 and AMD Opteron
• Various security fixes. See the release note

Install Firefox 53 in Ubuntu:

The new release will be made into official Ubuntu repository soon, available for Ubuntu 12.04, Ubuntu 14.04, Ubuntu 16.04, Ubuntu 16.10, Ubuntu 17.04, and derivatives.

Just keep your Ubuntu up-to-date by installing regular updates via Software Updater, and you’ll get Firefox 53 once it’s published in THIS PAGE.

For non-install version, go to the official FTP download page:

Download Firefox 53

Grab the Linux package, extract and run executable file to launch Firefox 53.

Mozilla Firefox web browser has reached the 51 stable release today, features FLAC playback, WebGL 2, video performance improvements, security fixes and other enhancements.

Firefox 51 release highlights:

• Users can view passwords in the save password prompt before saving them
• Added a zoom button in the URL bar
• less CPU usage and a better full screen experience for users without GPU acceleration
• Added support for FLAC (Free Lossless Audio Codec) playback
• Added support for WebGL 2, with advanced graphics rendering features like transform feedback, improved texturing capabilities, and a new sophisticated shading language
• An even faster E10s! Tab Switching is better!
• Use 2D graphics library (Skia) for content rendering on Linux
• Various security fixes and more.

How to upgrade to Firefix 51 in Ubuntu:

Ubuntu Mozilla Team is maintaining the latest Firefox packages, and will soon build and publish the 51 release via Ubuntu’s main security & updates repositories (check this page).

At that time, you can launch Software Updater and upgrade Firefox after checking for updates.

Mozilla Firefox browser has now reached the 50 release, with updated keyboard shortcuts, other new features, various security fixes and more.

According to the release note, Firefox 50 features:

• Updates to keyboard shortcuts
  • Set a preference to have Ctrl+Tab cycle through tabs in recently used order
  • View a page in Reader Mode by using Ctrl+Alt+R (command+alt+r on Mac)
• Added option to Find in page that allows users to limit search to whole words only
• Increased availability of WebGL to more than 98 percent of users on Windows 7 and newer
• Added download protection for a large number of executable file types on Windows, Mac and Linux
• Improved performance for SDK extensions or extensions using the SDK module loader
• Playback video on more sites without plugins with WebM EME Support for Widevine on Windows and Mac
• Fixed rendering of dashed and dotted borders with rounded corners
• Added a built-in Emoji set for operating systems without native Emoji fonts (Windows 8.0 and lower and Linux)

Download / Install Firefox 50 in Ubuntu:

For the portable non-install version, please go to mozilla.org.

For Ubuntu 16.10, Ubuntu 16.04, Ubuntu 14.04, Ubuntu 12.04, and derivatives, Canonical will soon offer the new Firefox 50 updates via the updates/security repository. Check out the build page.

At that time, just launch Software Updater and upgrade Firefox after checking for updates.