Following part of the release schedule, Mozilla released few hours ago the launch of the new version of your web browser "Firefox 71", as well as the mobile version of Firefox 68.3 for the Android platform. Additionally, an update for long support version 68.3.0 has been released.
In this new version from the web browser a new interface is proposed for the page "About: config" in which the top search bar is saved and it expands with the ability to add new variables. Alsos, support for search is implemented through the mechanism regular, which is also used to search normal pages with step-by-step search for matches.
A button has been added for each setting, allowing you to invert variables with Boolean values (true / false) or edit strings and numeric variables. For user-modified values, a button is added to return the changes to the default value.
After opening about:config, by default items are not displayed and only the search bar is visible.
Another change that stands out is that the new view of the certificates interface has been enabled by default available through a special page. The implementation of the certificate display interface has been completely rewritten using JavaScript and web technologies standard and has been aligned with the Firefox Quantum style design.
The design of the address bar has been modernized. The most notable change was the failure to display a full-width recommendation list in favor of an explicitly marked dropdown box.
Changes proposed continue development of new implementation of address bar from Quantum Bar, which appeared in Firefox 68 and is distinguished by a complete rewrite of the code with the replacement of XUL / XBL with the standard web API.
In the first stage, the Quantum Bar design completely repeated the old address bar and the changes were limited to internal processing only. Now work has begun to improve the appearance.
Moreover, we can find the support for start browser in kiosk mode Internet, which is activated when the option »–kiosk» is specified on the command line and makes it possible to work only in full screen mode.
Display of interface controls, pop-up windows, context menus, and page load status indicators (display of links and current URL) is blocked.
In browser-based system plugin Lockwise, the warning messages Firefox Monitor on Compromising Accounts they are also implemented for users with screen readers.
Builds for Windows, Linux, and macOS use a native MP3 decoder.
In advanced protection mode against tracking of the movement, the output of notifications about the crash has been added of the code for cryptocurrency mining. In the panel that is displayed when you click on the shield images icon in the address bar, the count of blocked trackers is displayed.
How to install the new version of Firefox 71 on Linux?
To be able to update to this new version from the browser, they can do it following the instructions that we share below.
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 -Syu
Or to install the browser, they can do it with the following command:
sudo pacman -S firefox
Now for those who are Fedora users or any other distribution derived from it, just open a terminal and type the following command on it (if you already have a previous version of the browser installed):
sudo dnf update --refresh firefox
Or to install:
sudo dnf install firefox
Finally if they are openSUSE usersThey can rely on community repositories, from which they can add Mozilla's to their system.
This can be done with a terminal and in it by typing:
su -
zypper ar -f http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/mozilla/openSUSE_Leap_15.1/ mozilla
zypper ref
zypper dup --from mozilla
Installing or updating Firefox with the help of the Snap packages
Finally, for distributions that have the support of Snap packages, you can install the browser or update to this new version through this channel.
sudo snap install firefox
For all other Linux distributions can download the binary packages from the following link.