Recently a corrective update was released for Firefox 69.0.3 in which solved the problem of displaying a dialog box to download files by clicking on the email in Yahoo webmail. Also, file download issues were resolved when launching a browser in Windows 10 with parental control enabled.
Furthermore, also with the release of this browser update you can see the continuous development of the WebRender composition system, written in Rust and taking the side of the GPU to display the page content.
When using WebRender instead of the composition system built into the Gecko engine, which processes the data using the CPU, the shaders made on the GPU are used to perform the consolidated rendering operations of page elements, allowing for increased significant in rendering speed and reducing the load on the CPU.
WebRender added to Firefox Preview mobile browser nightly builds (replacing Firefox for Android) and turned on by default for Pixel 2 devices (for other devices in about: config, gfx.webrender.all should be enabled).
WebRender tIt also has advanced caching and image rendering systems. The code for text rasterization was modified, which made it possible to achieve support for sub-pixel text positioning on Linux and Android platforms.
When Firefox runs on Wayland, a new backend was implemented that uses the DMABUF mechanism to draw textures and organize the exchange of buffers with these textures placed in the video memory by different processes.
In addition, optimized image decoding performance has been added, using SIMD instructions to speed up and reduce format conversion time by 5-10%.
How to install the new version of Firefox 69.0.3 on Linux?
To be able to update to this new corrective version of the browser and even install if you do not have it, you can do so by 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.
They just have to open a terminal on their system and type the following command to install or update their browser:
sudo snap install firefox
For all other Linux distributions can download the binary packages from the following link.
Another way to update the browser to the latest version is by opening the browser and clicking the question mark in the menu bar.
Here we are going to select "About Firefox" and this will automatically start the download and installation of the new version.