{"id":45329,"date":"2024-01-24T12:01:29","date_gmt":"2024-01-24T12:01:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/?p=45329"},"modified":"2024-01-24T12:01:29","modified_gmt":"2024-01-24T12:01:29","slug":"firefox-122-0-released","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/2024\/01\/firefox-122-0-released\/","title":{"rendered":"Firefox 122.0 Released with new .deb package for Debian\/Ubuntu"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/firefox-icon-feature.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-34790\" src=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/firefox-icon-feature-250x250.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"250\" height=\"250\" 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 announced new 122.0 release for its free open-source Firefox web browser this Tuesday!<\/p>\n<p>This is a new monthly release that include minor new features. For <b>Debian<\/b>, <b>Ubuntu<\/b>, <b>Linux Mint<\/b>, and their based systems, Firefox now provides official <code>.deb<\/code> packages through an <a href=\"https:\/\/support.mozilla.org\/en-US\/kb\/install-firefox-linux\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">apt repository<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Meaning now, there are <b>5 official ways<\/b> to install Firefox in Ubuntu Linux:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><b><a href=\"http:\/\/snapcraft.io\/firefox\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Snap<\/a> package<\/b> (pre-installed in Ubuntu 22.04+)<\/li>\n<li><b>New apt repository<\/b> (maintained by Mozilla)<\/li>\n<li><b><a href=\"https:\/\/launchpad.net\/~mozillateam\/+archive\/ubuntu\/ppa\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">MozillaTeam PPA<\/a><\/b> (maintained by Ubuntu Team members)<\/li>\n<li><b>Portable <a href=\"https:\/\/ftp.mozilla.org\/pub\/firefox\/releases\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Linux tarball<\/a><\/b> (maintained by Mozilla)<\/li>\n<li><b><a href=\"https:\/\/flathub.org\/apps\/org.mozilla.firefox\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Flatpak<\/a> package<\/b> (verified by Mozilla)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Besides providing <code>.deb<\/code> package for the Stable release, the apt repository also includes the packages for <b>Beta<\/b>, <b>Nightly<\/b>, and <b>Dev<\/b> versions of the popular web browser.<br \/>\n<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>In addition, Firefox 122.0 now displays images and descriptions for search suggestions provided by the search engine, and supports creating and using passkeys stored in the iCloud Keychain on macOS.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/firefox-122.webp\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-45330\" src=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/firefox-122-700x460.webp\" alt=\"\" width=\"610\" height=\"401\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/firefox-122-700x460.webp 700w, https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/firefox-122-300x197.webp 300w, https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/firefox-122-768x505.webp 768w, https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/firefox-122.webp 1280w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 610px) 100vw, 610px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Other changes include:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Improve the quality of translated webpages<\/li>\n<li>MDN Web Docs article suggestions from Firefox Suggest available in address bar.<\/li>\n<li>Improve Web Browser compatibility for line breaking.<\/li>\n<li>Proper language-aware word selection for languages including Chinese, Japanese, Burmese, Lao, Khmer, and Thai.<\/li>\n<li>Various security fixes.<\/li>\n<li>See <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mozilla.org\/en-US\/firefox\/122.0\/releasenotes\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">release note<\/a> for more details.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>How to Get Firefox 122.0<\/h3>\n<p>For Ubuntu 22.04 and higher, you may already have Firefox 122.0. Just, go Firefox menu &#8220;\u2261&#8221; -&gt; Help -&gt; About Firefox to verify.<\/p>\n<p>If you don&#8217;t like Snap package, then just go check the links above for the 4 alternative methods.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mozilla announced new 122.0 release for its free open-source Firefox web browser this Tuesday! This is a new monthly release that include minor new features. For Debian, Ubuntu, Linux Mint, and their based systems, Firefox now provides official .deb packages through an apt repository. Meaning now, there are 5 official ways to install Firefox in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":34790,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[1194,2057],"class_list":["post-45329","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-firefox","tag-web"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45329","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=45329"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45329\/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=45329"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=45329"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=45329"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}