Mozilla Firefox 46.0 Beta 9 is Released, Available PPA on Ubuntu / Linux Mint
Mozilla Firefox 46.0 Beta 9 is released and available PPA for Ubuntu 16.04 Xenial Xerus, Ubuntu 15.10 Willy Werewolf, Ubuntu 15.04 vivid Vervet, ubuntu 14.10 Utopic Unicorn, Ubuntu 14.04 Trusty Tahr (LTS), Ubuntu 13.10/13.04/12.04, Linux Mint 17.1 Rebecca, Linux Mint 17 Qiana, Linux Mint 13 Maya, Pinguy OS 14.04 and other Ubuntu derivative systems
The Mozilla Firefox project is a redesign of Mozilla's browser component, written using the XUL user interface language and designed to be cross-platform, supporting Linux, Android, Microsoft Windows and Mac OS X operating systems. It is a fast, small and very easy-to-use web browser/navigator/explorer that offers many advantages over other similar products, such as the ability to block pop-up windows and the feature-rich tabbed browsing experience.
Features at a glance
The application offers a well designed graphical user interface that integrates search (powered by Google, Bing, Yahoo, etc.), and industry leading accessibility with Find As You Type - find links and page text by simply typing. As mentioned before, the Firefox browser features comprehensive pop-up controls, which will keep unwanted advertising off your desktop. A tab browsing mode will let you open several pages in a single window, allowing you to load links in the background without leaving the page you're on.
What’s New:
The source is available now. Binary packages are in the process of being built, and will appear soon at their respective download locations.
The Mozilla Firefox project is a redesign of Mozilla's browser component, written using the XUL user interface language and designed to be cross-platform, supporting Linux, Android, Microsoft Windows and Mac OS X operating systems. It is a fast, small and very easy-to-use web browser/navigator/explorer that offers many advantages over other similar products, such as the ability to block pop-up windows and the feature-rich tabbed browsing experience.
Features at a glance
The application offers a well designed graphical user interface that integrates search (powered by Google, Bing, Yahoo, etc.), and industry leading accessibility with Find As You Type - find links and page text by simply typing. As mentioned before, the Firefox browser features comprehensive pop-up controls, which will keep unwanted advertising off your desktop. A tab browsing mode will let you open several pages in a single window, allowing you to load links in the background without leaving the page you're on.
What’s New:
- New: A set of new improvements to the Firefox user interface
- New: An interactive onboarding tour to guide users through new changes
- New: A redesigned and improved customization mode
- New: The ability to set up Firefox Sync by creating a Firefox account
- New: Gamepad API finalized and enabled
- Changed: navigator.plugins is no longer enumerable, for user privacy
- Developer: 'box-sizing' (dropping the -moz- prefix) implemented
- Developer: SharedWorker enabled by default
- Developer: CSS3 variables implemented
- Developer: < input type=number > enabled
- Developer: < input type=color > implemented and enabled
- Developer: Promises enabled by default
- Developer: Console object available in Web Workers
- Developer: Add-on bar has been removed, content moved to navigation bar
- Developer: Enabled ECMAScript Internationalization API
- Fixed Echo cancellation on apprtc.appspot.com fails
How to Install / update Mozilla Firefox 46.0 Beta 9 on Ubuntu Derivative System :
To install Mozilla Firefox 46.0 Beta 9 on Ubuntu 16.04 Xenial Xerus, Ubuntu 15.10 Willy Werewolf, Ubuntu 15.04 vivid Vervet, ubuntu 14.10 Utopic Unicorn, Ubuntu 14.04 Trusty Tahr (LTS), Ubuntu 13.10/13.04/12.04, Linux Mint 17.1 Rebecca, Linux Mint 17 Qiana, Linux Mint 13 Maya, Pinguy OS 14.04 and other Ubuntu derivative systems, open a new Terminal window and bash (get it?) in the following commands :
sudo apt-add-repository ppa:mozillateam/firefox-next
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get upgrade
The source is available now. Binary packages are in the process of being built, and will appear soon at their respective download locations.
