{"id":37367,"date":"2022-02-09T16:47:31","date_gmt":"2022-02-09T16:47:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/?p=37367"},"modified":"2022-02-09T16:47:31","modified_gmt":"2022-02-09T16:47:31","slug":"firefox-97-0-released","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/2022\/02\/firefox-97-0-released\/","title":{"rendered":"Firefox 97.0 Released! Support New Overlay Scrollbars in Windows 11"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/firefox-icon-feature.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/firefox-icon-feature-250x250.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"250\" height=\"250\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-34790\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/firefox-icon-feature-250x250.png 250w, https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/firefox-icon-feature-300x300.png 300w, https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/firefox-icon-feature-600x600.png 600w, https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/firefox-icon-feature-768x768.png 768w, https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/firefox-icon-feature.png 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 250px) 100vw, 250px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Mozilla Firefox web browser 97.0 was released a day ago with few new features and various bug-fixes.<\/p>\n<p>The release does not include any exciting new features for Linux, but only <b>adds new minimal overlay scrollbar support for Windows 11.<\/b> As well, system font loading on macOS has been improved to make opening and switching to new tabs faster in certain situations.<\/p>\n<p>Other changes in Firefox 97 include:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The 18 colorway themes introduced in Firefox 94 expires! Though, enabled colorway will persist in add-on manager forever.<\/li>\n<li>Remove support for directly generating PostScript for printing on Linux. However, printing to PostScript printers still remains a supported option<\/li>\n<li>Various security fixes and new policies implemented in Enterprise 97.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<div id=\"attachment_37369\" style=\"width: 610px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/firefox97-nocolorways.webp\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-37369\" src=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/firefox97-nocolorways-600x331.webp\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"331\" class=\"size-large wp-image-37369\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/firefox97-nocolorways-600x331.webp 600w, https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/firefox97-nocolorways-300x166.webp 300w, https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/firefox97-nocolorways-768x424.webp 768w, https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/firefox97-nocolorways.webp 1255w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-37369\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">colorways has gone<\/p><\/div>\n<h3>How to Install Firefox 97 in Ubuntu Linux:<\/h3>\n<p>For <b>Ubuntu 21.10+<\/b> using the pre-installed Firefox as Snap, it updates automatically and user should now have v97.0.<\/p>\n<p>For those using the classic <code>.deb<\/code> version, the best choice is wait! The <a href=\"https:\/\/launchpad.net\/ubuntu\/+source\/firefox\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">official Ubuntu build<\/a> will be available in next few days. At that time, open &#8220;Software Updater&#8221; to upgrade the Firefox package.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/upgradefirefox83.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/upgradefirefox83-600x435.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"435\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-32984\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/upgradefirefox83.png 600w, https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/upgradefirefox83-450x326.png 450w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Firefox website also provides official Linux package via a portable tarball. Extract and run the executable file within the tarball will launch the web browser without installation:<\/p>\n<div class=\"wp-block-buttons aligncenter\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-button is-style-fill\"><a class=\"wp-block-button__link has-vivid-cyan-blue-to-vivid-purple-gradient-background has-text-color has-background\" href=\"https:\/\/www.mozilla.org\/en-US\/firefox\/97.0\/releasenotes\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Firefox 97.0 Release Note &#038; Download<br \/>\n<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mozilla Firefox web browser 97.0 was released a day ago with few new features and various bug-fixes. The release does not include any exciting new features for Linux, but only adds new minimal overlay scrollbar support for Windows 11. As well, system font loading on macOS has been improved to make opening and switching to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":34790,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[1194],"class_list":["post-37367","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-howtos","tag-firefox"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37367","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=37367"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37367\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/34790"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=37367"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=37367"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=37367"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}