{"id":3417,"date":"2014-06-10T15:02:47","date_gmt":"2014-06-10T15:02:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/?p=3417"},"modified":"2014-06-10T15:02:47","modified_gmt":"2014-06-10T15:02:47","slug":"firefox-30-stable-released","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/2014\/06\/firefox-30-stable-released\/","title":{"rendered":"Firefox 30 Stable Released, How to Upgrade in Ubuntu"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/firefoxlogo.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1250\" alt=\"Firefox 30\" src=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/firefoxlogo.jpg\" width=\"230\" height=\"230\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/firefoxlogo.jpg 230w, https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/firefoxlogo-150x150.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 230px) 100vw, 230px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Mozilla Firefox 30.0 was finally released just a few minutes ago on June 10, 2014. The new release features <b>GStreamer 1.0 support<\/b>, <b>Mac OS X command-E sets find term to selected text<\/b>, and <b>Sidebars button in browser chrome enables faster access to social, bookmark, &amp; history sidebars<\/b>.<\/p>\n<p>More changes in Firefox 30:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Disallow calling WebIDL constructors as functions on the web<\/li>\n<li>With the exception of those bundled inside an extension or ones that are whitelisted, plugins will no longer be activated by default.<\/li>\n<li>Fixes to box-shadow and other visual overflow<\/li>\n<li>Mute and volume available per window when using WebAudio<\/li>\n<li>background-blend-mode enabled by default<\/li>\n<li>Use of line-height allowed for\u00a0&lt;input type=&#8221;reset|button|submit&#8221;&gt;<\/li>\n<li>ES6 array and generator comprehensions implemented <\/li>\n<li>Error stack now contains column number<\/li>\n<li>Support for alpha option in canvas context options <\/li>\n<li>Ignore autocomplete=&#8221;off&#8221; when offering to save passwords via the password manager<\/li>\n<li>TypedArrays don&#8217;t support new named properties<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>For more details, see <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mozilla.org\/en-US\/firefox\/30.0\/releasenotes\/\" title=\"Firefox 30 release note\" target=\"_blank\">the official release note<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><b>Upgrade to Firefox 30 in Ubuntu:<\/b><\/p>\n<p>Canonical, the company behind Ubuntu, will make the Firefox 30 into updates\/security repositories <b>very soon<\/b>, available for Ubuntu 14.04, Ubuntu 13.10 and Ubuntu 12.04.<\/p>\n<p>Just run software updater from Unity Dash:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/software-updater-11.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/software-updater-11.png\" alt=\"software updater in ubuntu\" width=\"525\" height=\"234\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-3418\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/software-updater-11.png 525w, https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/software-updater-11-300x133.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 525px) 100vw, 525px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Firefox 30 will be in the list once it&#8217;s available:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/software-updater-list.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/software-updater-list.png\" alt=\"Firefox in software updater\" width=\"485\" height=\"340\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-3419\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/software-updater-list.png 485w, https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/software-updater-list-300x210.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 485px) 100vw, 485px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Can&#8217;t wait? Download the source or portable version at <a href=\"ftp:\/\/ftp.mozilla.org\/pub\/firefox\/releases\/30.0\/\" title=\"Firefox 30 download page\" target=\"_blank\">ftp.mozilla.org<\/a>.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mozilla Firefox 30.0 was finally released just a few minutes ago on June 10, 2014. The new release features GStreamer 1.0 support, Mac OS X command-E sets find term to selected text, and Sidebars button in browser chrome enables faster access to social, bookmark, &amp; history sidebars. More changes in Firefox 30: Disallow calling WebIDL [&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":[401],"class_list":["post-3417","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-howtos","tag-upgrade-firefox-in-ubuntu"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3417","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=3417"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3417\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3417"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3417"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3417"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}