14 DAY TRIAL // Just a few moments ago, Mozilla started seeding the binary and source packages of the final release of the Firefox 50.0 web browser for all supported platforms, including GNU/Linux, macOS, and Microsoft Windows.
Believe it or not, the popular Mozilla Firefox web browser has hit the 50.0 milestone, and we have to admit that we expected to see some major features and improvements, but that didn't happen. The biggest new feature of the Firefox 50.0 release appears to be emoji for everyone.
That's right, the web browser now ships with built-in emoji for GNU/Linux distributions, as well as other operating systems that don't include native emoji fonts by default, such as Windows 8.0 and previous versions. Also new, Firefox 50.0 now shows lock icon strikethrough for web pages that offer insecure password fields.
Users can now cycle through tabs in recently used order using Ctrl+Tab
Another interesting change that landed in the Mozilla Firefox 50.0 web browser is the ability to cycle through tabs in recently used order using the Ctrl+Tab keyboard shortcut. Moreover, it's now possible to search for whole words only using the "Find in page" feature.
Last but not least, printing was improved as well by using the Reader Mode, which now uses the accel-(opt/alt)-r keyboard shortcut, the Guaraní (gn) locale is now supported, the rendering of dotted and dashed borders with rounded corners (border-radius) has been fixed.
Web developers received a bunch of new features as well, so check out the changes for devs in Firefox 50.0 reference. In the meantime, you can download Mozilla Firefox 50.0 for GNU/Linux, macOS, and Microsoft Windows operating systems right now from our website.
Mozilla will officially announce the release of Firefox 50.0 tomorrow, November 15, 2016, and there might be more interesting features than the ones mentioned in this article. In the meantime, if you're using Solus, check its repos in the next couple of hours for the new Firefox 50.0 update.