Mozilla Firefox or known simply as Firefox is a free and open source web browserDeveloped for Linux, Android, IOS, OS X and Microsoft Windows by the Mozilla Corporation and the Mozilla Foundation.
This web browser makes use of the Gecko engine to render web pages, which implements current and future web standards.
Its features include traditional tabbed browsing, Spell checker (which can be included via Mozilla Addons - Mozilla Addons), progressive search, dynamic bookmarks.
In addition to it has a download manager, RSS reader, private browsing, georeferencing navigation, GPU acceleration, and user-desired search engine integration.
In addition, can be installed both offline and online from the website, The latter is used to download background components, ideal for computers with minimal connections.
New Firefox 63.0.1 update
A few weeks ago the new version of Firefox 63 was received which adds a set of options to manage content blocking.
With which the user is offered the possibility of enabling the blocking of cookies and third-party scripts used to track movements.
For each site in the address bar shows a special icon that shows the blocking status of scripts and cookies.
But recently a new version Firefox 63.0.1 was released, in this new corrective version of Firefox 63.0.1, which corrects several errors, we can find the following:
- The problem with the display of suggestions-recommendations (fragments) on the page that is shown when opening a new tab has been solved;
- The scaling option for the page size was set in the preview interface before printing (designs were only displayed at 30% scale);
- In the multi-window close confirmation dialog for some locales (including ru, fr, and de), the "% 1 $ S" placeholder is displayed.
At the same time, a new version of the Thunderbird 60.3.0 email client was created, in which 19 critical vulnerabilities were fixed (summarized in CVE-2018-12390) and several bugs were fixed.
In particular, issues related to the registry issue, file overwriting when saving, template editing, filtering of headers and attachments were fixed and automatic completion of mailing list addresses.
Improvements for Firefox 64 Beta
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In addition, you can see the inclusion of the Servo WebRender composition system in the beta version of Firefox 64, written in the Rust language and bringing the page content to the side of the GPU.
When using WebRender, instead of the composition system built into the Gecko engine that processes the data using the CPU.
Shaders run on the GPU to perform summary rendering of page elements, allowing you to achieve a significant increase in drawing speed and reduce the load on the CPU.
To date, WebRender has been proposed as the default option to test only NVIDIA video card users running Windows 10.
You can activate WebRender manually on systems with other video cards and operating systems via the "gfx.webrender.all.qualified" variable in about: config.
Of the changes in Firefox 64-beta, tYou can also observe the possibility of simultaneously selecting several tabs to move, mute, add to bookmarks or pin.
Completely redesigned page layout about: failures.
Support for previewing RSS feeds and Live Bookmarks mode has been removed, allowing you to view subscription news as updated bookmarks.
How to get the new Firefox 63.0.1 update?
The fastest way to obtain this new Firefox 63 fix update is by downloading the tarball that Mozilla offers directly from its download site so that it can be compiled and installed on your own.
Otherwise, you will have to wait a few days for the update to be reflected in the browser or in the repositories of your Linux distribution.