{"id":6515,"date":"2017-01-24T15:47:50","date_gmt":"2017-01-24T15:47:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/?p=6515"},"modified":"2017-01-24T15:47:50","modified_gmt":"2017-01-24T15:47:50","slug":"firefox-51-flac-webgl-2-support","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/2017\/01\/firefox-51-flac-webgl-2-support\/","title":{"rendered":"Firefox 51 Released with FLAC, WebGL 2 Support"},"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 51\" width=\"245\" height=\"250\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-5840\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Mozilla Firefox web browser has reached the 51 stable release today, features FLAC playback, WebGL 2, video performance improvements, security fixes and other enhancements.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.mozilla.org\/en-US\/firefox\/51.0\/releasenotes\/\" target=\"_blank\">Firefox 51<\/a> release highlights:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Users can view passwords in the save password prompt before saving them<\/li>\n<li>Added a zoom button in the URL bar<\/li>\n<li>less CPU usage and a better full screen experience for users without GPU acceleration<\/li>\n<li>Added support for FLAC (Free Lossless Audio Codec) playback<\/li>\n<li>Added support for WebGL 2, with advanced graphics rendering features like transform feedback, improved texturing capabilities, and a new sophisticated shading language<\/li>\n<li>An even faster E10s! Tab Switching is better!<\/li>\n<li>Use 2D graphics library (Skia) for content rendering on Linux<\/li>\n<li>Various security fixes and more.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h4>How to upgrade to Firefix 51 in Ubuntu:<\/h4>\n<p>Ubuntu Mozilla Team is maintaining the latest Firefox packages, and will soon build and publish the 51 release via Ubuntu&#8217;s main security &#038; updates repositories (<a href=\"https:\/\/launchpad.net\/ubuntu\/+source\/firefox\" target=\"_blank\">check this page<\/a>).<\/p>\n<p>At that time, you can launch <b>Software Updater<\/b> and upgrade Firefox after checking for updates. <\/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-450x313.jpg\" alt=\"upgrade firefox 46\" width=\"450\" height=\"313\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-5841\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/upgrade-firefox-450x313.jpg 450w, https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/upgrade-firefox-600x418.jpg 600w, https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/upgrade-firefox.jpg 684w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 450px) 100vw, 450px\" \/><\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mozilla Firefox web browser has reached the 51 stable release today, features FLAC playback, WebGL 2, video performance improvements, security fixes and other enhancements. Firefox 51 release highlights: Users can view passwords in the save password prompt before saving them Added a zoom button in the URL bar less CPU usage and a better full [&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-6515","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\/6515","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=6515"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6515\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6515"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6515"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6515"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}