Available for Ubuntu 12.04, 14.04, 16.04, and 16.10 systems

Mar 8, 2017 01:25 GMT  ·  By

Canonical announced a few moments ago that the recently released Mozilla Firefox 52.0 web browser landed in the stable software repositories of all supported Ubuntu Linux operating systems.

Mozilla officially released the Firefox 52.0 web browser on March 7, 2017, as the newest ESR (Extended Support Release) branch, which will be supported with security updates until spring 2018. We've already informed you about all of the new features and improvements implemented in the Firefox 52.0 release, so don't hesitate to read our previous report. The new version also addresses multiple security issues.

"Multiple security issues were discovered in Firefox. If a user were tricked in to opening a specially crafted website, an attacker could potentially exploit these to bypass same origin restrictions, obtain sensitive information, spoof the addressbar, spoof the print dialog, cause a denial of service via application crash or hang, or execute arbitrary code," reads today's security notice.

Firefox 52.0 is now available for Ubuntu 12.04, 14.04, 16.04, and 16.10

As mentioned before, the Mozilla Firefox 52.0 web browser is now available in the official repositories of the Ubuntu 12.04 LTS (Precise Pangolin), Ubuntu 14.04 LTS (Trusty Tahr), Ubuntu 16.04 LTS (Xenial Xerus), and Ubuntu 16.10 (Yakkety Yak) operating systems, which means that you can simply update your installations to receive the new version. To do that, you can use either the Software Update tool or run the following command in the Terminal app.

sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get install firefox Canonical also provides in-depth details on how to update your Ubuntu Linux operating system, so please follow these instructions: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Security/Upgrades. Once the new Firefox version has been installed, please make sure that you restart any running instance of the web browser for the latest release to take effect, and remember to always keep your operating systems up to date if you want to have a secure and safe computing experience.