{"id":8286,"date":"2018-10-24T15:22:50","date_gmt":"2018-10-24T15:22:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/?p=8286"},"modified":"2018-10-24T15:22:50","modified_gmt":"2018-10-24T15:22:50","slug":"firefox-63-released-install-ubuntu","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/2018\/10\/firefox-63-released-install-ubuntu\/","title":{"rendered":"Firefox 63 Released! How to Install it in Ubuntu"},"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 63.0 was released one day ago. All current Ubuntu releases can install it through security &#038; updates repositories.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.mozilla.org\/en-US\/firefox\/63.0\/releasenotes\/\" target=\"_blank\">Firefox 63.0<\/a> release highlights:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Performance and visual improvements for Windows users.<\/li>\n<li>Faster tab switching, reactivity improvements for macOS users.<\/li>\n<li>Opt to block third-party tracking cookies or block all trackers and create exceptions for trusted sites<\/li>\n<li>WebExtensions now run in their own process on Linux<\/li>\n<li>Added search shortcuts for Top Sites: Amazon and Google appear as Top Sites tiles on the Firefox Home (New Tab) page.<\/li>\n<li>The Ctrl+Tab shortcut now displays thumbnail previews of your tabs<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h4>Upgrade to Firefox 63 in Ubuntu:<\/h4>\n<p>The Ubuntu Mozilla Team has published the new Firefox packages for Ubuntu 18.10, Ubuntu 18.04, Ubuntu 16.04, Ubuntu 14.04, and their derivatives.<\/p>\n<p>Simply open <b>Software Updater<\/b> (Update Manager), and install the updates after checking for updates:<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/updatefirefox-bionic-600x402.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"402\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-8287\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/updatefirefox-bionic-600x402.jpg 600w, https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/updatefirefox-bionic-450x301.jpg 450w, https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/updatefirefox-bionic.jpg 714w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>If you don&#8217;t see the Firefox updates, go to <b>Software &#038; Updates -> Update<\/b> and make sure <i>security &#038; updates<\/i> repositories are enabled.  <\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/bionic-securityupdates-450x301.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"450\" height=\"301\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-8288\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/bionic-securityupdates-450x301.jpg 450w, https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/bionic-securityupdates-600x401.jpg 600w, https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/bionic-securityupdates.jpg 733w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 450px) 100vw, 450px\" \/><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mozilla Firefox 63.0 was released one day ago. All current Ubuntu releases can install it through security &#038; updates repositories. Firefox 63.0 release highlights: Performance and visual improvements for Windows users. Faster tab switching, reactivity improvements for macOS users. Opt to block third-party tracking cookies or block all trackers and create exceptions for trusted sites [&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-8286","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\/8286","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=8286"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8286\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8286"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8286"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8286"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}