The final version of Firefox 75 was released yesterday, with availability for Windows, macOS and Linux operating systems. This new version of Firefox 75 that has around 250 million active users (according to the Foundation) and it comes with a revamped address bar, performance improvements for Windows and a promise from Mozilla linked to the coronavirus pandemic.
Mozilla has accelerated releases this year Firefox at the rate of four weeks (previously, they came every six to eight weeks). Despite the impact of the coronavirus pandemic, Mozilla confirms its ability to maintain its 2020 release schedule for new versions.
Many Firefox employees and collaborators are already working remotely, testing on remote hardware and collaborating. If the timetable remains unchanged, the roadmap will undergo modifications. Mozilla announces that it will avoid submitting changes that could negatively affect or even stop the user experience on government and healthcare websites. The company has also prioritized solving video conferencing problems.
The biggest change in Firefox 75 is the improvement of the address bar which now adapts to the screen size. The address bar has been expanded, the display is unique with a larger font, Shorter URLs and a shortcut to the most popular search sites.
The address bar is smarter to help narrow your results by displaying additional popular keywords to help find what you're looking for.
Now the most visited sites can be accessed with a single click in the address bar. For example, if you already have a site open in another tab but can't find it, Firefox will highlight a text shortcut next to it. It also works for all the pages you are looking for.
In addition, Firefox 75 promises better performance on devices running Windows 10 thanks to the DirectComposition integration, which further improves rendering on laptops with integrated Intel graphics cards using the WebRender GPU-based 2D rendering engine.
That's not all, since for Linux Starting with this release, Firefox is also available in the Flatpak application distribution format, which makes web browser installation much easier and safer on systems running Linux.
In addition to this, Mozilla has also fixed six security holes in Firefox 75, three of which are considered very serious and the other three have a moderate impact on security.
How to install the new version of Firefox 75 on Linux?
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
For all other Linux distributions can download the binary packages from the following link.