{"id":10662,"date":"2020-07-28T15:32:44","date_gmt":"2020-07-28T15:32:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/?p=10662"},"modified":"2020-07-28T15:32:44","modified_gmt":"2020-07-28T15:32:44","slug":"mozilla-firefox-79-0-released","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/2020\/07\/mozilla-firefox-79-0-released\/","title":{"rendered":"Mozilla Firefox 79.0 Released with Various Security Fixes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/firefox-70icon.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"245\" height=\"250\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-9472\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Mozilla Firefox web browser 79.0 was released a few hours ago with new features and various security fixes.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.mozilla.org\/en-US\/firefox\/79.0\/releasenotes\/\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Firefox 79.0<\/a> release highlights include:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>WebRender for more <a href=\"https:\/\/wiki.mozilla.org\/Platform\/GFX\/WebRender_Where\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Windows users with Intel and AMD GPUs<\/a><\/li>\n<li>More Pocket recommendations for users in Germany.<\/li>\n<li>Various security fixes.<\/li>\n<li>Several crashes while using a screen reader were fixed<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/firefox79-about.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"560\" height=\"289\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-10773\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/firefox79-about.png 560w, https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/firefox79-about-450x232.png 450w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 560px) 100vw, 560px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><b>How to Install Firefox 79 in Ubuntu:<\/b><\/p>\n<p>Firefox 79 will be made into official Ubuntu security \/ updates repositories for Ubuntu 16.04, Ubuntu 18.04, and Ubuntu 20.04 in a few days!<\/p>\n<p>At that time, you can upgrade Firefox via Software Updater (Update Manager) utility:<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/upgrade-firefox74.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"452\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-9870\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/upgrade-firefox74.png 600w, https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/upgrade-firefox74-450x339.png 450w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mozilla Firefox web browser 79.0 was released a few hours ago with new features and various security fixes. Firefox 79.0 release highlights include: WebRender for more Windows users with Intel and AMD GPUs More Pocket recommendations for users in Germany. Various security fixes. Several crashes while using a screen reader were fixed How to Install [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[1194],"class_list":["post-10662","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-firefox"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10662","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10662"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10662\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10662"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10662"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10662"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}