{"id":7037,"date":"2017-08-08T12:24:15","date_gmt":"2017-08-08T12:24:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/?p=7037"},"modified":"2017-08-08T12:24:15","modified_gmt":"2017-08-08T12:24:15","slug":"mozilla-firefox-55-released-with-webvr-support","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/2017\/08\/mozilla-firefox-55-released-with-webvr-support\/","title":{"rendered":"Mozilla Firefox 55 Released with WebVR Support"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/firefox_icon245x250.png\" alt=\"Firefox 55\" width=\"245\" height=\"250\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-5840\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Mozilla Firefox 55.0 was released earlier today. The new release features WebVR support, faster start time, updated address bar and more.<\/p>\n<p>Firefox 55.0 release highlights:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Windows support for WebVR.<\/li>\n<li>Option to enable Hardware VP9 acceleration on Windows 10 Anniversary Edition.<\/li>\n<li>Significantly faster startup times when restoring lots of tabs.<\/li>\n<li>Search with any installed one-click search engine directly from address bar.<\/li>\n<li>Added support for stereo microphones with WebRTC<\/li>\n<li>Made the Adobe Flash plugin click-to-activate by default<\/li>\n<li>And see the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mozilla.org\/en-US\/firefox\/55.0\/releasenotes\/\" target=\"_blank\">release note<\/a> for more.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/firefox55-search-improvements.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/firefox55-search-improvements-600x388.jpg\" alt=\"Firefox 55 one-click search\" width=\"600\" height=\"388\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-7038\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/firefox55-search-improvements-600x388.jpg 600w, https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/firefox55-search-improvements-450x291.jpg 450w, https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/firefox55-search-improvements-768x497.jpg 768w, https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/firefox55-search-improvements.jpg 1070w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<h4>How to Install Firefox 55 in Ubuntu:<\/h4>\n<p>Although Mozilla website offers non-install version Linux binaries, the best way to get the latest Firefox in Ubuntu is using <b>Software Updater<\/b> to upgrade it through Ubuntu main (security &#038; updates) repository.<\/p>\n<p><i>NOTE that there will some delay for the new release being published in main repositories, check the <a href=\"https:\/\/launchpad.net\/ubuntu\/+source\/firefox\" target=\"_blank\">build page<\/a>.<\/i><\/p>\n<p><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\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The security and updates repositories are enabled by default. If you don&#8217;t see the Firefox updates even after Ubuntu published it in these repositories, check out the <i>Updates<\/i> tab in Software &#038; Updates utility.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/enable-security-repo-600x241.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"241\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-6098\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/enable-security-repo-600x241.jpg 600w, https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/enable-security-repo-450x181.jpg 450w, https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/enable-security-repo.jpg 858w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mozilla Firefox 55.0 was released earlier today. The new release features WebVR support, faster start time, updated address bar and more. Firefox 55.0 release highlights: Windows support for WebVR. Option to enable Hardware VP9 acceleration on Windows 10 Anniversary Edition. Significantly faster startup times when restoring lots of tabs. Search with any installed one-click search [&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-7037","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\/7037","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=7037"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7037\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7037"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7037"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7037"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}