The new version of the Mozilla Firefox 64 browser is released

Mozilla Firefox is the standard browser for Ubuntu and other Linux systems, and typically the latest version of Firefox is available as a security update on all supported versions of the major Linux distributions, shortly after a few hours from Mozilla's announcement.

The Mozilla Foundation browser has recently been updated with some improvements, new options and small internal changes.

What's new in Firefox 64

Mozilla Firefox announced the release of the new stable 64.0 version a short time ago, with new features and performance improvements.

In this new version a new Task Manager interface has been proposed to track resource consumption, which is available through the "about: performance" service page.

Suggestions can be viewed in normal browsing mode as well as new and relevant extensions, services and resources for Firefox based on how the web is used (for users in the United States).

Besides it added ability to select multiple tabs in tab bar, to be able to close, move, mark or fix them quickly and easily.

On the other hand, Link Time Optimization (Clang LTO) has been activated for Mac and Linux.

Removed support for previewing RSS feeds and Live Bookmarks mode, allowing you to view subscription news as updated bookmarks.

Existing subscriptions can be exported in OPML format to add to third-party RSS readers.

Reasons for removal include low demand among users (0,1% based on telemetry), maintenance issues and a low technical level of implementation, requiring code processing and creation of additional vectors for security breaches.

Users lacking remote capabilities are advised to use plugins.

Among other new features that can be highlighted we find:

• The Share Web Pages for Windows option is added to the Page Actions menu.
• The option to remove add-ons using the context menu is added to the toolbar buttons.
• Various security fixes and many other changes.

How to install Firefox 64 on Linux?

In order to install this new version of Firefox on your Linux distribution just run your package update command from your system.

To do this, you can follow the steps that we share with you below.

If u aresuarios Ubuntu, Linux Mint or any system derived from these we will add the following repository to the system, so we must open a terminal and type:

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:ubuntu-mozilla-security/ppa

We update the list of packages and repositories with:

sudo apt update

And finally, just type the following to update or install the browser:

sudo apt upgrade

While for himUsers of Debian and Debian-based systems, just type in the terminal, if you have the browser installed:

sudo apt update && sudo apt upgrade

Or if they want to install it they must type:

sudo apt install firefox

If they are Arch Linux, Manjaro, Antergos, or any Arch Linux derived system users can install the web browser with the following command:

sudo pacman -S firefox

Finally, For the rest of the Linux distributions, we can install this new version of the Firefox web browser with the help of the Snap packagesWe only have to have the support to install packages of this technology in our system.

To install the browser, we must open a terminal and execute the following command in it:

sudo snap install firefox

And ready with it, we will have the latest version of the Firefox web browser installed.

In addition to the innovations and bug fixes in Firefox 64, 30 vulnerabilities have been fixed, of which 21 (9 in CVE-2018-12405 and 12 in CVE-2018-12406) are marked as critical can lead to the execution of a attacker code when opening specially crafted pages.

In the near future, la version of Firefox 65, which is scheduled to launch on January 29 of the following year, you will go to beta testing phase.