Mozilla Firefox has reached the 46 release, which features GTK3 integration for GNU/Linux, security improvement for the JavaScript, and some fixes:

• Correct rendering for scaled SVGs that use a clip and a mask
• Various security fixes
• Screen reader behavior with blank spaces in Google Docs corrected
• WebRTC fixes to improve performance and stability

For details, see the release note.

Upgrade Firefox in Ubuntu:

The new release has been made into universe repositories of all current Ubuntu releases and derivatives. Just run Software Updater and install the available update for Firefox after checking for updates.

Mozilla Firefox web browser has reached version 45. Ubuntu 15.10, Ubuntu 14.04, Ubuntu 12.04, and their derivatives can now upgrade it via Software Updater.

Firefox 45 comes with following changes:

• Instant browser tab sharing through Hello
• Tabs synced via Firefox Accounts from other devices are now shown in dropdown area of Awesome Bar when searching
• Synced Tabs button in button bar
• a new preference (network.dns.blockDotOnion) to allow blocking .onion at the DNS level
• Tab Groups (Panorama) feature removed
• HTML5 improvements with ES6 classes, a Web Speech synthesis API, and Push API support
• For more, see the release notes

Upgrade to Firefox 45 in Ubuntu:

Ubuntu Team has made the new release into updates/security repositories for all current Ubuntu releases.

So just launch Software Updater, and you’ll see Firefox 45 available in update list after checking for updates:

If you don’t see it, please launch Software & Updates and do:

• switch to “Main Sever” after “Download from” drop-box in first tab.
• make sure the “important security updates” and “recommended updates” are enabled in Updates tab

Finally, relaunch Software Updater to upgrade Firefox web browser.

Mozilla announced the release of Firefox 44.0 yesterday on January 26, which will be soon available for upgrade in Ubuntu 15.10, Ubuntu 14.04, Ubuntu 12.04 and their derivatives.

Firefix 44 brings several security improvements, bug fixes, and new features include:

• Redesigned warning pages for certificate errors and untrusted connections
• Enable H.264 if system decoder is available
• Enable WebM/VP9 video support on systems that don’t support MP4/H.264
• Support the brotli compression format via HTTPS content-encoding
• Screenshot commands allow user choice of pixel ratio in Developer Tools
• In the animation-inspector timeline, lightning bolt icon next to animations running on the compositor thread

In addition, starting with version 44, Firefox lets you choose to receive push notifications from websites even when they aren’t loaded. This is super useful for websites like email, weather, social networks and shopping, which you might check frequently for updates.

Install Firefox 44 for Ubuntu:

Ubuntu Mozilla Team will made the new release into security & updates repository for Ubuntu 15.10, Ubuntu 14.04, and Ubuntu 12.04. Once available, launch Software Updater and install/upgrade to Firefox 44 after checking for updates.

Mozilla Firefox 42.0 was finally released one day ago. Now it’s available in Ubuntu official repositories for Ubuntu 15.10, Ubuntu 15.04, Ubuntu 14.04, Ubuntu 12.04, and their derivatives, e.g., Linux Mint 13/17, and Elementary OS Freya/Luna.

Firefox 42.0 features:

• Private Browsing with Tracking Protection blocks certain Web elements that could be used to record your behavior across sites
• Control Center that contains site security and privacy controls
• Indicator added to tabs that play audio with one-click muting
• WebRTC improvements:
  • IPV6 support
  • Preferences for controlling ICE candidate generation and IP exposure
  • Hooks for extensions to allow/deny createOffer/Answer
  • Improved ability for applications to monitor and control which devices are used in getUserMedia
• Login Manager improvements:
  • Improved heuristics to save usernames and passwords
  • Edit and show all logins in line, Copy/Paste usernames/passwords from the Context menu
  • Migration imports your passwords to Firefox from Google Chrome for Windows and Internet Explorer; import anytime from the Login Manager
• Improved performance on interactive websites that trigger a lot of restyles
• HTML5
  • Implemented ES6 Reflect
  • Support ImageBitmap and createImageBitmap()
  • Media Source Extension for HTML5 video available for all sites
• DEVELOPER:
  • View HTML source in a tab
  • Remote website debugging over WiFi (no USB cable or ADB needed)
  • Asynchronous call stacks now allow web developers to follow the code flow through setTimeout, DOM event handlers, and Promise handlers.
  • Configurable Firefox OS Simulator in WebIDE, to simulate reference devices like phones, tablets, even TVs
    CSS filter presets in the Inspector
  • Ability to save filter presets inside CSS Filter Tooltip
• And also various security fixes.

How to Upgrade Firefox:

To upgrade the browser in Ubuntu, just launch Software Updater (or Update Manager for Linux Mint).

After checking for updates, you should see Firefox Web Browser available in the list.

Install it and done!

Mozilla Firefox 40 was released yesterday and available for upgrade in Ubuntu 15.10, Ubuntu 15.04, Ubuntu 14.04 and Ubuntu 12.04 repositories.

Release highlights according to the official release note:

• Support for Windows 10
• Added protection against unwanted software downloads
• User can receive suggested tiles in the new tab page based on categories Firefox matches to browsing history (en-US only).
• Hello allows adding a link to conversations to provide context on what the conversation will be about
• New style for add-on manager based on the in-content preferences style
• Improved scrolling, graphics, and video playback performance with off main thread compositing (GNU/Linux only)
• Graphic blocklist mechanism improved: Firefox version ranges can be specified, limiting the number of devices blocked
• Add-on extensions that are not signed by Mozilla will display a warning
• NPAPI Plug-in performance improved via asynchronous initialization
• Smoother animation and scrolling with hardware vsync (Windows only)
• JPEG images use less memory when scaled and can be painted faster
• Sub-resources can no longer request HTTP authentication, thus protecting users from inadvertently disclosing login data
• IndexedDB transactions are now non-durable by default
• Implemented AudioBufferSourceNode.detune to modulate playback rate in cents, a logarithmic unit of measure used for musical intervals
• Improved Performance tools in the developer tools: Waterfall view, Call Tree view and a Flame Chart view
• New rules view tooltip in the Inspector to tweak CSS Filter values
• Console API messages from SharedWorker and ServiceWorker are now displayed in web console
• New page ruler highlighting tool that displays lightweight horizontal and vertical rules on a page
• Inspector now searches across all content frames in a page
• Fix that Kannada text does not display properly in built-in pdf viewer
• security fixes.

How to upgrade:

The packages has been made into Ubuntu updates and security repositories. Just search for and launch Software Updater and install the updates after checking for updates:

A new stable release of Mozilla’s web browser, Firefox 37, was released today at the end of March.

According to the release note, Firefox 37 brings a heartbeat user rating system to get user feedback about Firefox. Every day a random subset of users are offered a rating widget. After rating Firefox, an ENGAGEMENT page may open in a background tab.

Users can disable this feature by going to about:config, search browser.selfsupport.url in filter box and set value to “”.

Besides that, Firefox 37 comes with below changes:

• Yandex set as default search provider for the Turkish locale
• Bing search now uses HTTPS for secure searching
• Improved protection against site impersonation via OneCRL centralized certificate revocation
• Opportunistically encrypt HTTP traffic where the server supports HTTP/2 AltSvc
• Disabled insecure TLS version fallback for site security
• Extended SSL error reporting for reporting non-certificate errors
• TLS False Start optimization now requires a cipher suite using AEAD construction
• Improved certificate and TLS communication security by removing support for DSA
• Improved performance of WebGL rendering on Windows
• Implemented a subset of the Media Source Extensions (MSE) API to allow native HTML5 playback on YouTube (Windows only)
• Added support for CSS display:contents
• IndexedDB now accessible from worker threads
• New SDP/JSEP implementation in WebRT

See the release note for details.

How to upgrade Firefox in Ubuntu:

For Ubuntu 12.04 LTS, Ubuntu 14.04 LTS, and Ubuntu 14.10, Firefox 37 will be available for upgrade very soon through Ubuntu official repositories.

Once the official build of Firefox 37 is available, you can open Software Updater and install available updates after checking for updates.

Mozilla Firefox has reached the 35 release which brings improved “Hello” video chat tool, built-in support for H.264 on OS X via native APIs, improved high quality image resizing performance, support for the CSS Font Loading API, updated PDF.js, and numerous other changes.

Here’s the full list of changes (via the official release note):

• Firefox Hello with new rooms-based conversations model
• New search UI improved and enabled for more locales
• Access the Firefox Marketplace from the Tools menu and optional toolbar button
• Built-in support for H264 (MP4) on Mac OS X Snow Leopard (10.6) and newer through native APIs
• Use tiled rendering on OS X
• Improved high quality image resizing performance
• Improved handling of dynamic styling changes to increase responsiveness
• Implemented HTTP Public Key Pinning Extension (for enhanced authentication of encrypted connections)
• Added support for the CSS Font Loading API
• Resource Timing API implemented
• CSS filters enabled by default
• Changed JavaScript ‘let’ semantics to match the ES6 specification
• Support for inspecting ::before and ::after pseudo elements
• Computed view: Nodes matching the hovered selector are now highlighted
• Network Monitor: New request/response headers view (more info)
• Added support for the EXT_blend_minmax WebGL extension
• Show DOM Properties context menu item in inspector
• Reduced resource usage for scaled images
• PDF.js updated to version 1.0.907
• Non-HTTP(S) XHR now returns correct status code
• Various security fixes

Upgrade Firefox in Ubuntu:

For Ubuntu 12.04, Ubuntu 14.04, and Ubuntu 14.10, Firefox 35 will be soon made into the official Ubuntu repositories, available for upgrade through the Software Updater: