Firefox is a popular web browser
A few days ago the Mozilla Foundation released the release of the new version of your web browser, “firefox 113” along with the "Firefox ESR 102.11.0" long-term support branch.
Firefox 113 it's a relatively big release, with many security improvements and interface improvements especially when searching the web in the URL bar and using Firefox's picture-in-picture video player.
Main new features of Firefox 113
In this new version that comes from Firefox 113, the first notable change is in the improved search in address bar. At first glance, this is a small improvement, but now when the user performs a search in any of the search services from the address bar from Firefox, the address bar it will still show the search term instead of a URL which makes them much easier to edit. For those who do not have the feature active, they can activate it from “Settings > Search” and they must check the box “Show search terms instead of URLs on the default search engine results page” in “Search bar”.
Another novelty of this new version of Firefox 113 is that it presents a improved Picture-in-Picture mode, with more buttons and controls than previous versions, which adds buttons to scroll the timeline and toggle full screen mode, all from the popup window.
Firefox 113 too features a redesigned accessibility engine which Mozilla says will enable faster, more responsive, and more stable use of screen readers and various other apps that use accessibility frameworks to interact with Firefox.
On the other hand, when starting a tab in private browsing mode, third-party cookie blocking and storage isolation have been strengthened of the browser used in the visit tracking code.
It is also highlighted that the isolation of the test area has been reinforced of the processes that interact with the GPU, which is used in Windows, in addition to the fact that in Windows you can now drag and drop content from Microsoft Outlook. On Windows, the stretch visual effect is enabled by default when you try to scroll past the bottom of the page.
Of the other changes that stand out:
- Added support for AV1 animated image files, while favicons are now included when importing bookmarks from Safari or Chrome based browsers.
- Screen readers, as well as other accessibility software.
- East Asian input methods.
- Single sign-on business software.
- Other applications that use accessibility frameworks to access information.
- Many improvements have been made to the debugger's "Find in Files" (also known as "Find Project") feature.
- The panel has been moved to a normal side panel, allowing you to keep the results list visible while opening scripts in the editor.
- The output for the minified and well-printed tabs is displayed, as well as the output for the node_modules folder.
- The results of the skipped files are hidden.
Finally, if you are interested in being able to know more about it, you can consult the details in the following link.
How to install the new version of Firefox 113 on Linux?
Ubuntu users, Linux Mint or some other derivative of Ubuntu, They can install or update to this new version with the help of the browser's PPA.
This can be added to the system by opening a terminal and executing the following command in it:
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:ubuntu-mozilla-security/ppa -y
sudo apt-get update
Done this now they just have to install with:
sudo apt install firefox
For Arch Linux users and derivatives, just run in a terminal:
sudo pacman -S firefox
Now for those who are Fedora users or any other distribution derived from it:
sudo dnf install firefox
For all other Linux distributions can download the binary packages from the following link.