{"id":8127,"date":"2018-09-06T11:13:12","date_gmt":"2018-09-06T11:13:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/?p=8127"},"modified":"2018-09-06T11:13:12","modified_gmt":"2018-09-06T11:13:12","slug":"mozilla-firefox-62-0-released-with-new-features-and-improvements","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/2018\/09\/mozilla-firefox-62-0-released-with-new-features-and-improvements\/","title":{"rendered":"Mozilla Firefox 62.0 Released with New Features and Improvements"},"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 62.0 was released a day ago with new features, performance improvements, and various security fixes.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.mozilla.org\/en-US\/firefox\/62.0\/releasenotes\/\" target=\"_blank\">Firefox 62.0<\/a> release highlights:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Firefox Home (the default New Tab) allows to display up to 4 rows of top sites, Pocket stories, and highlights<\/li>\n<li>\u201cReopen in Container\u201d tab menu option appears for users with Containers that lets them choose to reopen a tab in a different container<\/li>\n<li>A preference allows users to distrust certificates issued by Symantec. (go to about:config in the address bar and set the preference &#8220;security.pki.distrust_ca_policy&#8221; to 2.)<\/li>\n<li>Added FreeBSD support for WebAuthn<\/li>\n<li>Improved graphics rendering for Windows users without accelerated hardware<\/li>\n<li>Support for CSS Shapes, allowing for richer web page layouts. This goes hand in hand with a brand new Shape Path Editor in the CSS inspector.<\/li>\n<li>CSS Variable Fonts (OpenType Font Variations) support, which makes it possible to create beautiful typography with a single font file<\/li>\n<li>AutoConfig is sandboxed to the documented API by default. You can disable the sandbox by setting the preference general.config.sandbox_enabled to false.<\/li>\n<li>Added Canadian English (en-CA) locale, and various bug-fixes.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/mozilla-firefox-600x361.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"361\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-8128\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/mozilla-firefox-600x361.jpg 600w, https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/mozilla-firefox-450x270.jpg 450w, https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/mozilla-firefox-768x462.jpg 768w, https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/mozilla-firefox.jpg 1050w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/p>\n<h4>Download \/ Install Firefox in Ubuntu:<\/h4>\n<p>As usual, Ubuntu Mozilla Team will publish the new Firefox release packages through Ubuntu security &#038; updates repositories.<\/p>\n<p>So just wait and Firefix 62 will be available for upgrade via <b>Software Updater<\/b> in 2 or 3 days.<\/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 62.0 was released a day ago with new features, performance improvements, and various security fixes. Firefox 62.0 release highlights: Firefox Home (the default New Tab) allows to display up to 4 rows of top sites, Pocket stories, and highlights \u201cReopen in Container\u201d tab menu option appears for users with Containers that lets them [&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-8127","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\/8127","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=8127"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8127\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8127"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8127"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8127"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}