{"id":8759,"date":"2019-03-21T16:10:50","date_gmt":"2019-03-21T16:10:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/?p=8759"},"modified":"2019-03-21T16:10:50","modified_gmt":"2019-03-21T16:10:50","slug":"mozilla-firefox-66-0-released-sound-auto-play-block","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/2019\/03\/mozilla-firefox-66-0-released-sound-auto-play-block\/","title":{"rendered":"Mozilla Firefox 66.0 Released with Sound Auto-Play Blocked"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/firefox_logo_white.jpg\" alt=\"Mozilla Firefox\" width=\"250\" height=\"250\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-4973\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/firefox_logo_white.jpg 250w, https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/firefox_logo_white-150x150.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 250px) 100vw, 250px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Mozilla Firefox 66.0 was released two days ago. Now it&#8217;s available in main repositories of Ubuntu 16.04, Ubuntu 18.04, Ubuntu 18.10.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.mozilla.org\/en-US\/firefox\/66.0\/releasenotes\/\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Firefox 66.0<\/a> release highlights:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><b>Block sound auto-play.<\/b> You can add exceptions, or turn the feature off.<\/li>\n<li>Easier search via a redesigned new tab in Private Windows<\/li>\n<li>Basic <b>support for macOS Touch Bar<\/b><\/li>\n<li>Title bar is hidden by default in Linux (Unfortunately I still see it in Ubuntu build).<\/li>\n<li>Search from the tab overflow menu<\/li>\n<li>Scroll anchoring keeps content from jumping as images and ads load at the top of the page<\/li>\n<li>Redesigned certificate error pages<\/li>\n<li>Improved extensions to load web page faster<\/li>\n<li>Enabled AV1 support on 32-bit Windows and MacOS.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/firefox66-600x385.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"385\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-8760\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/firefox66-600x385.jpg 600w, https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/firefox66-450x289.jpg 450w, https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/firefox66-768x493.jpg 768w, https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/firefox66.jpg 1051w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/p>\n<h4>Upgrade to Firefox 66 in Ubuntu:<\/h4>\n<p>For all current Ubuntu releases, simply open <b>Software Updater<\/b> and install the updates after checking for updates.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/upgrade-firefox66-450x340.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"450\" height=\"340\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-8761\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/upgrade-firefox66-450x340.jpg 450w, https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/upgrade-firefox66-600x453.jpg 600w, https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/upgrade-firefox66.jpg 654w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 450px) 100vw, 450px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>If you don&#8217;t see the Firefox updates, go to <b>Software &#038; Updates<\/b> and make sure the <code>security<\/code> and <code>updates<\/code> repositories are enabled in <b>Updates<\/b> tab.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/bionic-securityupdates-600x401.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"401\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-8288\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/bionic-securityupdates-600x401.jpg 600w, https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/bionic-securityupdates-450x301.jpg 450w, https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/bionic-securityupdates.jpg 733w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mozilla Firefox 66.0 was released two days ago. Now it&#8217;s available in main repositories of Ubuntu 16.04, Ubuntu 18.04, Ubuntu 18.10. Firefox 66.0 release highlights: Block sound auto-play. You can add exceptions, or turn the feature off. Easier search via a redesigned new tab in Private Windows Basic support for macOS Touch Bar Title bar [&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-8759","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-firefox"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8759","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=8759"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8759\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8759"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8759"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8759"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}