{"id":6267,"date":"2016-09-21T06:01:45","date_gmt":"2016-09-21T06:01:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/?p=6267"},"modified":"2016-09-21T06:01:45","modified_gmt":"2016-09-21T06:01:45","slug":"firefox-49-released-with-html5-reader-mode-improvements-how-to-install","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/2016\/09\/firefox-49-released-with-html5-reader-mode-improvements-how-to-install\/","title":{"rendered":"Firefox 49 Released with HTML5, Reader Mode Improvements [How-to Install]"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/firefox_icon245x250.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/firefox_icon245x250.png\" alt=\"Firefox 49\" width=\"245\" height=\"250\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-5840\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Mozilla Firefox browser has now reached the 49 release, features HTML5, Reader Mode, and video performance improvements, and Firefox Hello removement.<\/p>\n<p>Mozilla <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mozilla.org\/en-US\/firefox\/49.0\/releasenotes\/\" target=\"_blank\">Firefox 49<\/a> release highlights:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Removed Firefox Hello<\/li>\n<li>Add features to Reader Mode:\n<ul>\n<li>Controls that allow users to adjust the width and line spacing of text<\/li>\n<li>Narrate, which reads the content of a page out loud<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>Improved video performance for users on systems that support SSSE3 without hardware acceleration<\/li>\n<li>Added context menu controls to HTML5 audio and video<\/li>\n<li>Other Windows, Mac improvements and various security fixes.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/firefox49.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/firefox49-600x349.jpg\" alt=\"Firefox 49\" width=\"600\" height=\"349\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-6268\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/firefox49-600x349.jpg 600w, https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/firefox49-450x262.jpg 450w, https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/firefox49.jpg 1173w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<h4>How to upgrade to Firefox 49 in Ubuntu:<\/h4>\n<p>For all current Ubuntu releases, including Ubuntu 16.04, Ubuntu 14.04, Ubuntu 12.04, and their derivatives. The new firefox release will be made into the official Ubuntu updates &#038; security repositories, check the <a href=\"https:\/\/launchpad.net\/ubuntu\/+source\/firefox\" target=\"_blank\">launchpad page<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>At that time, you can easily upgrade Firefox browser using the <b>Software Updater<\/b> (or Update Manager in Mint) utility:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/upgrade-firefox.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/upgrade-firefox-600x418.jpg\" alt=\"upgrade firefox 46\" width=\"600\" height=\"418\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-5841\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/upgrade-firefox-600x418.jpg 600w, https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/upgrade-firefox-450x313.jpg 450w, https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/upgrade-firefox.jpg 684w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mozilla Firefox browser has now reached the 49 release, features HTML5, Reader Mode, and video performance improvements, and Firefox Hello removement. Mozilla Firefox 49 release highlights: Removed Firefox Hello Add features to Reader Mode: Controls that allow users to adjust the width and line spacing of text Narrate, which reads the content of a page [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,6],"tags":[1194],"class_list":["post-6267","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-howtos","category-news","tag-firefox"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6267","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=6267"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6267\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6267"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6267"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6267"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}