{"id":7734,"date":"2018-05-09T15:24:53","date_gmt":"2018-05-09T15:24:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/?p=7734"},"modified":"2018-05-09T15:24:53","modified_gmt":"2018-05-09T15:24:53","slug":"firefox-60-released-yubikey-support","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/2018\/05\/firefox-60-released-yubikey-support\/","title":{"rendered":"FireFox 60 Released with YubiKey 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=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-5840\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Mozilla Firefox 60 was released a few hours ago with new enterprise features, Web Authentication \/ YubiKey support, and new tab enhancements.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><i>&#8220;Firefox 60 offers something for everyone and a little something extra for everyone who deploys Firefox in an enterprise environment. This release includes changes that give you more content and more ways to customize your New Tab\/Firefox Home. It also introduces support for the Web Authentication API, which means you can log in to websites in Firefox with USB tokens like YubiKey.&#8221;<\/i><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.mozilla.org\/en-US\/firefox\/60.0\/releasenotes\/\" target=\"_blank\">Firefox 60<\/a> release highlights:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Added a policy engine that allows customized Firefox deployments in enterprise environments.<\/li>\n<li>Enhancements to New Tab \/ Firefox Home.<\/li>\n<li>Redesigned Cookies and Site Storage section in Preferences<\/li>\n<li>Added support for Web Authentication API.<\/li>\n<li>Applied Quantum CSS to render browser UI<\/li>\n<li>Added an option for Linux users to show or hide page titles in a bar at the top of the browser.<\/li>\n<li>Improved WebRTC audio performance and playback for Linux users<\/li>\n<li>Enhanced camera privacy indicators.<\/li>\n<li>And various security fixes.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><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\" \/><\/p>\n<h4>Install \/ Upgrade in Ubuntu:<\/h4>\n<p>Ubuntu offers the latest Firefox packages though the updates and security repositories.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/security-repo-bionic-450x231.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"450\" height=\"231\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-7735\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/security-repo-bionic-450x231.jpg 450w, https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/security-repo-bionic-600x309.jpg 600w, https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/security-repo-bionic.jpg 737w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 450px) 100vw, 450px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Once Firefox 60 packages (check the <a href=\"https:\/\/launchpad.net\/ubuntu\/+source\/firefox\" target=\"_blank\">build page<\/a>) are published in the repositories, you can install or upgrade it 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>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mozilla Firefox 60 was released a few hours ago with new enterprise features, Web Authentication \/ YubiKey support, and new tab enhancements. &#8220;Firefox 60 offers something for everyone and a little something extra for everyone who deploys Firefox in an enterprise environment. This release includes changes that give you more content and more ways to [&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-7734","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-howtos","category-news","tag-firefox"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7734","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=7734"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7734\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7734"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7734"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7734"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}