{"id":7303,"date":"2017-11-14T15:41:11","date_gmt":"2017-11-14T15:41:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/?p=7303"},"modified":"2017-11-14T15:41:11","modified_gmt":"2017-11-14T15:41:11","slug":"firefox-57-released-over-2x-faster-than-before","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/2017\/11\/firefox-57-released-over-2x-faster-than-before\/","title":{"rendered":"Firefox 57 Released! Over 2x Faster Than Before"},"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 reached the 57.0 release earlier today. The new release, Firefox Quantum, features a completely new browsing engine makes it over twice as fast as before.<\/p>\n<p>Mozilla Firefox 57.0 release highlights:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>A completely new browsing engine.<\/li>\n<li>A redesigned interface, and optimizations for touch screens<\/li>\n<li>A unified address and search bar.<\/li>\n<li>A revamped new tab page that includes top visited sites, recently visited pages, and recommendations from Pocket<\/li>\n<li>An updated product tour to orient new and returning Firefox users<\/li>\n<li>AMD VP9 hardware video decoder support for improved video playback with lower power consumption<\/li>\n<li>An expanded section in preferences to manage all website permissions<\/li>\n<li>Also various security fixes and other changes. See <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mozilla.org\/en-US\/firefox\/57.0\/releasenotes\/\" target=\"_blank\">release note<\/a>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/firefox57.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/firefox57-600x402.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"402\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-7304\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/firefox57-600x402.jpg 600w, https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/firefox57-450x302.jpg 450w, https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/firefox57-768x515.jpg 768w, https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/firefox57.jpg 1144w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<h4>How to install Firefox 57 in Ubuntu:<\/h4>\n<p>For Ubuntu 14.04, Ubuntu 16.04, Ubuntu 17.04, Ubuntu 17.10, the latest Firefox 57 will be published through Ubuntu security &#038; updates repository.<\/p>\n<p>Once it&#8217;s published (check <a href=\"https:\/\/launchpad.net\/ubuntu\/+source\/firefox\" target=\"_blank\">Firefox in launchpad<\/a>), you can upgrade Firefox via Software Updater:<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/upgrade-firefox-450x313.jpg\" alt=\"upgrade firefox\" 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\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Can&#8217;t wait? Mozilla offers non-install Linux packages (select i686 for 32-bit, x86_64 for 64-bit os):<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:center;\"><a href='https:\/\/ftp.mozilla.org\/pub\/firefox\/releases\/57.0\/' class='arconix-button arconix-button-medium arconix-button-gray' target=\"_blank\" >Download Firefox (non-install)<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mozilla Firefox reached the 57.0 release earlier today. The new release, Firefox Quantum, features a completely new browsing engine makes it over twice as fast as before. Mozilla Firefox 57.0 release highlights: A completely new browsing engine. A redesigned interface, and optimizations for touch screens A unified address and search bar. A revamped new tab [&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-7303","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\/7303","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=7303"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7303\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7303"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7303"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7303"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}