{"id":5189,"date":"2015-08-12T15:51:56","date_gmt":"2015-08-12T15:51:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/?p=5189"},"modified":"2015-08-12T15:51:56","modified_gmt":"2015-08-12T15:51:56","slug":"upgrade-firefox-40-ubuntu-15-04-14-04","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/2015\/08\/upgrade-firefox-40-ubuntu-15-04-14-04\/","title":{"rendered":"Upgrade to Firefox 40 in Ubuntu 15.04, 14.04"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/firefox_logo_white.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/firefox_logo_white.jpg\" alt=\"Firefox 38\" width=\"250\" height=\"250\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-4973\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/firefox_logo_white.jpg 250w, https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/firefox_logo_white-150x150.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 250px) 100vw, 250px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Mozilla Firefox 40 was released yesterday and available for upgrade in Ubuntu 15.10, Ubuntu 15.04, Ubuntu 14.04 and Ubuntu 12.04 repositories.<\/p>\n<p>Release highlights according to the official release note:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Support for Windows 10<\/li>\n<li>Added protection against unwanted software downloads<\/li>\n<li>User can receive suggested tiles in the new tab page based on categories Firefox matches to browsing history (en-US only).<\/li>\n<li>Hello allows adding a link to conversations to provide context on what the conversation will be about<\/li>\n<li>New style for add-on manager based on the in-content preferences style<\/li>\n<li>Improved scrolling, graphics, and video playback performance with off main thread compositing (GNU\/Linux only)<\/li>\n<li>Graphic blocklist mechanism improved: Firefox version ranges can be specified, limiting the number of devices blocked<\/li>\n<li>Add-on extensions that are not signed by Mozilla will display a warning<\/li>\n<li>NPAPI Plug-in performance improved via asynchronous initialization<\/li>\n<li>Smoother animation and scrolling with hardware vsync (Windows only)<\/li>\n<li>JPEG images use less memory when scaled and can be painted faster<\/li>\n<li>Sub-resources can no longer request HTTP authentication, thus protecting users from inadvertently disclosing login data<\/li>\n<li>IndexedDB transactions are now non-durable by default<\/li>\n<li>Implemented AudioBufferSourceNode.detune to modulate playback rate in cents, a logarithmic unit of measure used for musical intervals<\/li>\n<li>Improved Performance tools in the developer tools: Waterfall view, Call Tree view and a Flame Chart view<\/li>\n<li>New rules view tooltip in the Inspector to tweak CSS Filter values<\/li>\n<li>Console API messages from SharedWorker and ServiceWorker are now displayed in web console<\/li>\n<li>New page ruler highlighting tool that displays lightweight horizontal and vertical rules on a page<\/li>\n<li>Inspector now searches across all content frames in a page<\/li>\n<li>Fix that Kannada text does not display properly in built-in pdf viewer<\/li>\n<li>security fixes.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><b>How to upgrade:<\/b><\/p>\n<p>The packages has been made into Ubuntu updates and security repositories. Just search for and launch <b>Software Updater<\/b> and install the updates after checking for updates:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/upgrade-firefox40.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/upgrade-firefox40-600x431.jpg\" alt=\"upgrade-firefox40\" width=\"600\" height=\"431\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-5190\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/upgrade-firefox40-600x431.jpg 600w, https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/upgrade-firefox40-450x323.jpg 450w, https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/upgrade-firefox40.jpg 872w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mozilla Firefox 40 was released yesterday and available for upgrade in Ubuntu 15.10, Ubuntu 15.04, Ubuntu 14.04 and Ubuntu 12.04 repositories. Release highlights according to the official release note: Support for Windows 10 Added protection against unwanted software downloads User can receive suggested tiles in the new tab page based on categories Firefox matches to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[1194],"class_list":["post-5189","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-firefox"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5189","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=5189"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5189\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5189"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5189"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5189"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}