Firefox is a popular web browser
Okay guys, it's been a few days now. the launch of Firefox 120 was announced and for reasons of time and because I completely forgot to publish the post about this launch, until today we are releasing the publication about it, an apology in advance and we move on to the point of the article.
The new version of Firefox 120 stands out by introducing new anti-tracking protection features and blocking cookie dialogs, because with the new “Copy link without site tracking” function in the context menu, Mozilla wants to ensure that copied links no longer contain tracking information in the Firefox browser.
Another new feature that Firefox 120 presents is a setting (in Settings → Privacy & Security, or via the “cookiebanners.service.mode” parameter in about:config) to enable global privacy controls (0 – disable auto-closing cookie banners; 1 – reject permission requests in all cases and ignore consent-only banners; 2 – when possible, reject the permission request, and when it is impossible to reject, accept the storage of Cookies). With this function Opt-in, Firefox tells websites that the user does not want their data shared or sold. Unlike a similar mode provided in the Brave browser and ad blockers, Firefox does not hide the blocking, but automates the user's actions with it.
For users in Germany, automatic closing of pop-up dialogs is enabled (Cookie Banner Blocker) displayed on the sites to obtain confirmation that identifiers can be stored in Cookies in accordance with the requirements for the protection of personal data in the European Union (GDPR) by default. Because these pop-up banners are distracting, obstruct content, and require users to waste time closing them, Firefox developers have seen fit to automatically reject these requests.
Besides that, added support for new HTTP response code: 103 ("First Suggestions"), which can be used to display headers in advance. code 103 allows informing the client about the content of certain HTTP headers immediately after the request, without waiting for the server to complete all operations related to the request and start serving the content.
Of the other changes that stand out from this new version:
- New size units lh and rlh have been added to CSS, allowing you to specify a size that corresponds to the linear height (CSS line-height property) of an element.
- The light-dark() function has been added to CSS to set colors for both light and dark color schemes without using the preferred color scheme media query.
- New DevTools feature simulates browser tabs being offline
- Provides support for the media attribute on the element nested within elements , and .
Solution for capturing poor quality WebRTC audio on Linux - WasmGC adds new types of structures and arrays that can use non-linear memory allocation.
Improved fingerprint protection in the Canvas API - Added support for additional date formatting options to the JavaScript Date.parse() function.
Global Privacy Control Request Header Settings - Support for the WasmGC extension is enabled by default, making it simple to migrate programs written in programming languages that use a garbage collector (Kotlin, Dart, etc.) to WebAssembly.
Finally if you are interested in knowing more about it of this new version of the browser, you can check the details In the following link.
How to install or update the new version of Firefox on Linux?
As always, for those who already use firefox, they can simply access the menu to update to the latest version, that is, Firefox users who have not disabled automatic updates will receive the update automatically.
While for those who do not want to wait for that to happen they can select Menu> Help> About Firefox after the official launch to initiate a manual update of the web browser.
The screen that opens displays the currently installed version of the web browser and runs a check for updates, provided the functionality is enabled.
Another option to update, is if you are a user of Ubuntu, Linux Mint or some other derivative of Ubuntu, you 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 sudo apt install firefox
The last installation method that was added “Flatpak”. To do this, they must have support for this type of packages and the browser installation is done by typing the following command in the terminal:
flatpak install flathub org.mozilla.firefox
As for those who already have the browser installed, it is enough to execute the following command to not only update Firefox, but also all its applications that are in Flatpak format:
flatpack update
In the case of those who prefer the use of Snap, the installation of the browser can be done by typing the following command:
sudo snap install firefox
And to update the applications that we have installed in Snap format, just type the following in the terminal:
sudo snap refresh