{"id":1666,"date":"2013-09-18T12:36:44","date_gmt":"2013-09-18T12:36:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/?p=1666"},"modified":"2013-09-18T12:36:44","modified_gmt":"2013-09-18T12:36:44","slug":"firefox-24-released-upgrade-in-ubuntu-13-04-12-04-12-10","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/2013\/09\/firefox-24-released-upgrade-in-ubuntu-13-04-12-04-12-10\/","title":{"rendered":"Firefox 24 Released, Upgrade in Ubuntu 13.04 \/ 12.04 \/ 12.10"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Mozilla Firefox 24 has been released with bug fixes and improvements. The easiest way to upgrade Firefox in Ubuntu is using the Synaptic Package Manager, here&#8217;s how to do it in Ubuntu 13.04 Raring, Ubuntu 12.10 Precise.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/firefox24.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/firefox24.jpg\" alt=\"Firefox 24 in Ubuntu\" width=\"468\" height=\"249\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1667\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/firefox24.jpg 468w, https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/firefox24-300x159.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 468px) 100vw, 468px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>What&#8217;s new in Firefox 24:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Support for new scrollbar style in Mac OS X 10.7 and newer<\/li>\n<li>Implemented Close tabs to the right<\/li>\n<li>Social: Ability to tear-off chat windows to view separately by simply dragging them out<\/li>\n<li>Accessibility related improvements on using pinned tabs<\/li>\n<li>Removed support for Revocation Lists feature<\/li>\n<li>Performance improvements on New Tab Page loads <\/li>\n<li>Major SVG rendering improvements around Image tiling and scaling<\/li>\n<li>Improved and unified Browser console for enhanced debugging experience, replacing existing Error console<\/li>\n<li>Removed support for sherlock files that are loaded from application or profile directory<\/li>\n<li>Replace fixed-ratio audio resampler in webrtc.org capture code with Speex resampler and eliminate pseudo-44000Hz rate<\/li>\n<li>24.0: Security fixes can be found <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mozilla.org\/security\/known-vulnerabilities\/firefox.html\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>Upgrade Firefix in Ubuntu:<\/h3>\n<p>Some web tutorials lead the readers to install Firefox via the PPA repository which indeed is not neccessary because Canonical will update Ubuntu universe repository as soon as a new stable release of Firefox comes out.<\/p>\n<p>1.) Open Ubuntu Software Center, search for and install the <i>Synaptic Package Manager<\/i><\/p>\n<p>2.) Open Synaptic Package Manager from Unity Dash. <\/p>\n<p>3.) Click on <b>Reload<\/b> button to update package lists.<\/p>\n<p>4.) Search for Firefox in <i>Quick filter<\/i> box<\/p>\n<p>5.) Right click on the language version you want, click Mark for Upgrade<\/p>\n<p>6.) Finally click on <b>Apply<\/b> to start upgrading.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/upgrade-firefox-ubuntu.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/upgrade-firefox-ubuntu.jpg\" alt=\"upgrade firefox ubuntu\" width=\"500\" height=\"233\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1668\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/upgrade-firefox-ubuntu.jpg 500w, https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/upgrade-firefox-ubuntu-300x139.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Mozilla Firefox 24 has been released with bug fixes and improvements. The easiest way to upgrade Firefox in Ubuntu is using the Synaptic Package Manager, here&#8217;s how to do it in Ubuntu 13.04 Raring, Ubuntu 12.10 Precise. What&#8217;s new in Firefox 24: Support for new scrollbar style in Mac OS X 10.7 and newer [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[610,401],"class_list":["post-1666","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-howtos","tag-firefox-24","tag-upgrade-firefox-in-ubuntu"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1666","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=1666"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1666\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1666"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1666"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1666"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}