How to upgrade to Latest Firefox 40 in Ubuntu - Mozilla Firefox as one of best browser updated to version 40. Bring more features, User Interface improvements, performance and fix critical security issues.
The release notes call out “improved scrolling, graphics, and video playback performance with off main thread compositing” for Linux users.
The release notes call out “improved scrolling, graphics, and video playback performance with off main thread compositing” for Linux users.
What's new on Firefox 40?
- Support for Windows 10
- Added protection against unwanted software downloads
- User can receive suggested tiles in the new tab page based on categories Firefox matches to browsing history (en-US only).
- Hello allows adding a link to conversations to provide context on what the conversation will be about
- New style for add-on manager based on the in-content preferences style
- Improved scrolling, graphics, and video playback performance with off main thread compositing (GNU/Linux only)
- Graphic blocklist mechanism improved: Firefox version ranges can be specified, limiting the number of devices blocked
- Add-on extensions that are not signed by Mozilla will display a warning
- NPAPI Plug-in performance improved via asynchronous initialization
- Smoother animation and scrolling with hardware vsync (Windows only)
- JPEG images use less memory when scaled and can be painted faster
- Sub-resources can no longer request HTTP authentication, thus protecting users from inadvertently disclosing login data
- IndexedDB transactions are now non-durable by default
- Implemented AudioBufferSourceNode.detune to modulate playback rate in cents, a logarithmic unit of measure used for musical intervals
- Improved Performance tools in the developer tools: Waterfall view, Call Tree view and a Flame Chart view
- New rules view tooltip in the Inspector to tweak CSS Filter values
- Console API messages from SharedWorker and ServiceWorker are now displayed in web console
- New page ruler highlighting tool that displays lightweight horizontal and vertical rules on a page
- Inspector now searches across all content frames in a page
- Fix that Kannada text does not display properly in built-in pdf viewer
- security fixes.
How to upgrade Firefox 40 on Ubuntu
Fireox package has been made into Ubuntu updates. To upgrade it, you can using Software Updater then install the updates after checking updates. The screenshot below taken from my Ubuntu 15.04 :
Once installed you might to install some useful Mozilla Firefox extension. Read our previous post at Useful Mozilla Firefox Extension Must Installed.
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