It's now available for Ubuntu 17.04, 16.04 LTS and 14.04 LTS

Jun 14, 2017 22:51 GMT  ·  By

Mozilla launched Firefox 54 web browser the other day for all supported platforms and dubbed it as "the best Firefox ever." The release was made available for download from the browser's official website for Linux, Mac, and Windows OSes.

The biggest new feature of Firefox 54, the one that makes it "the best Firefox ever," is support for multiple content processes (also known as e10s-multi). In other words, Firefox 54 is the first release of the web browser to use multiple operating system processes for rendering web page content, making it faster and more reliable.

Apart from shipping with support for multiple content processes, Firefox 54 simplifies the download status panel and button, adds support for the Burmese (my) locale, moves the mobile bookmarks folder to the main bookmarks menu to give user quicker access to their favorite web pages, and fixes security issues.

Now available from the stable repos of Ubuntu Linux, Solus, other distros

While Windows and Mac users can easily update their Firefox instances using the built-in updater system implemented via the About Firefox dialog, most Linux users need to wait until their distribution's packagers update the Firefox packages to the latest release before they can also update their installations.

It usually won't take more than a day or two for the new Firefox release to land in the stable repositories of the most popular Linux-based operating systems, and it turns out that Firefox 54 just landed a few hours in the Ubuntu 17.04 (Zesty Zapus), Ubuntu 16.04 LTS (Xenial Xerus), and Ubuntu 14.04 LTS (Trusty Tahr) repos.

Users of these Ubuntu Linux releases can install Firefox 54 right now if they update their systems via either the default graphical package manager or the command line by running the "sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get dist-upgrade" command. Firefox 54 is also avaiable for Solus users, and it's coming soon to other distros.