{"id":4830,"date":"2015-03-31T21:27:08","date_gmt":"2015-03-31T21:27:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/?p=4830"},"modified":"2015-03-31T21:29:16","modified_gmt":"2015-03-31T21:29:16","slug":"firefox-37-released-with-user-rating-system-how-to-upgrade","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/2015\/03\/firefox-37-released-with-user-rating-system-how-to-upgrade\/","title":{"rendered":"Firefox 37 Released with User Rating System [How-to-Upgrade]"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/firefoxlogo.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/firefoxlogo.jpg\" alt=\"Mozilla Firefox 37\" width=\"230\" height=\"230\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1250\" 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><b>A new stable release of Mozilla&#8217;s web browser, Firefox 37, was released today at the end of March.<\/b><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/Heartbeatflow1.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/Heartbeatflow1.png\" alt=\"Heartbeatflow1\" width=\"351\" height=\"92\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-4831\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/Heartbeatflow1.png 351w, https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/Heartbeatflow1-300x78.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 351px) 100vw, 351px\" \/><\/a>According to the release note, Firefox 37 brings a heartbeat user rating system to get user feedback about Firefox. Every day a random subset of users are offered a <b>rating widget<\/b>. After rating Firefox, an ENGAGEMENT page may open in a background tab.<\/p>\n<p>Users can disable this feature by going to <b>about:config<\/b>, search <b>browser.selfsupport.url<\/b> in filter box and set value to &#8220;&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/disable-rating.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/disable-rating.jpg\" alt=\"disable-rating\" width=\"560\" height=\"203\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-4832\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/disable-rating.jpg 560w, https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/disable-rating-300x108.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 560px) 100vw, 560px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Besides that, Firefox 37 comes with below changes:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Yandex set as default search provider for the Turkish locale<\/li>\n<li>Bing search now uses HTTPS for secure searching<\/li>\n<li>Improved protection against site impersonation via OneCRL centralized certificate revocation<\/li>\n<li>Opportunistically encrypt HTTP traffic where the server supports HTTP\/2 AltSvc<\/li>\n<li>Disabled insecure TLS version fallback for site security<\/li>\n<li>Extended SSL error reporting for reporting non-certificate errors<\/li>\n<li>TLS False Start optimization now requires a cipher suite using AEAD construction<\/li>\n<li>Improved certificate and TLS communication security by removing support for DSA<\/li>\n<li>Improved performance of WebGL rendering on Windows<\/li>\n<li>Implemented a subset of the Media Source Extensions (MSE) API to allow native HTML5 playback on YouTube (Windows only)<\/li>\n<li>Added support for CSS display:contents<\/li>\n<li>IndexedDB now accessible from worker threads<\/li>\n<li>New SDP\/JSEP implementation in WebRT<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>See the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mozilla.org\/en-US\/firefox\/37.0\/releasenotes\/\" title=\"Firefox 37 release note\" target=\"_blank\">release note<\/a> for details.<\/p>\n<p><b>How to upgrade Firefox in Ubuntu:<\/b><\/p>\n<p>For Ubuntu 12.04 LTS, Ubuntu 14.04 LTS, and Ubuntu 14.10, Firefox 37 will be available for upgrade very soon through Ubuntu official repositories.<\/p>\n<p>Once <a href=\"https:\/\/launchpad.net\/ubuntu\/+source\/firefox\" title=\"Ubuntu official build of Firefox in launchpad.net\" target=\"_blank\">the official build of Firefox 37 is available<\/a>, you can open <b>Software Updater<\/b> and install available updates after checking for updates.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A new stable release of Mozilla&#8217;s web browser, Firefox 37, was released today at the end of March. 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