{"id":7453,"date":"2018-01-24T13:08:49","date_gmt":"2018-01-24T13:08:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/?p=7453"},"modified":"2018-01-24T13:08:49","modified_gmt":"2018-01-24T13:08:49","slug":"mozilla-firefox-58-released-how-to-upgrade","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/2018\/01\/mozilla-firefox-58-released-how-to-upgrade\/","title":{"rendered":"Mozilla Firefox 58 Released! How to Upgrade"},"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 new stable 58.0 release hours ago. Ubuntu Mozilla team has built the packages for Ubuntu 14.04, Ubuntu16.04, Ubuntu 17.10, and their derivatives.<\/p>\n<p>Changes in Firefox 58.0 include:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Loading pages faster by changing how Firefox caches and retrieves JavaScript<\/li>\n<li>Rendering graphics for Windows users by using Off-Main-Thread Painting (OMTP)<\/li>\n<li>Firefox Screenshots now works in Private Browsing mode<\/li>\n<li>Copy and paste screenshots directly to your clipboard<\/li>\n<li>Add support for Progressive Web Apps (PWAs) in Firefox on Android.<\/li>\n<li>Added Nepali (ne-NP) locale<\/li>\n<li>Read the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mozilla.org\/en-US\/firefox\/58.0\/releasenotes\/\" target=\"_blank\">release note<\/a> for more details.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h4>Upgrade to Firefox 58 in Ubuntu:<\/h4>\n<p>For Ubuntu 14.04, Ubuntu 16.04, and Ubuntu 17.10, simply launch <b>Software Updater<\/b> (Update Manager) and you&#8217;ll see Firefox in the update list after checking for updates.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/upgrade-firefox-600x418.jpg\" alt=\"upgrade firefox\" 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>If you don&#8217;t see the Firefox update, make sure &#8220;security&#8221; and &#8220;updates&#8221; repositories are enabled by 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>\n<p>That&#8217;s it. Enjoy!<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mozilla Firefox reached new stable 58.0 release hours ago. Ubuntu Mozilla team has built the packages for Ubuntu 14.04, Ubuntu16.04, Ubuntu 17.10, and their derivatives. Changes in Firefox 58.0 include: Loading pages faster by changing how Firefox caches and retrieves JavaScript Rendering graphics for Windows users by using Off-Main-Thread Painting (OMTP) Firefox Screenshots now works [&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-7453","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\/7453","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=7453"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7453\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7453"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7453"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7453"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}