14 DAY TRIAL // The Solus developers announced a few moments ago on their project's official Twitter account that the latest Mozilla Firefox 49.0 web browser landed in the main software repositories.
Mozilla didn't yet officially announced the Mozilla Firefox 49.0 web browser, which is used by default in the majority of the Linux-based operating systems, including Solus. As you might know, Firefox 49.0 was delayed by a week because of a critical certificate pinning issue, and it should now launch tomorrow, September 20, 2016.
There aren't any major new features included in Mozilla Firefox 49.0, so you shouldn't get all that excited. Probably the most important ones are the improvements to HTML5 video and audio support, as everybody surfs YouTube these days, but we can all see some updates to the Reader Mode and Firefox Login Manager.
Other changes include the removal of the useless Firefox Hello chat-like feature, support for SSE processors on Microsoft Windows platforms, better font shaping based on the Graphite2 font system, a web speech synthesis API for devs, as well as many improvements for Mac OS X users. An in-depth story with all the new features will be published on Softpedia soon.
Solus users can now update to Mozilla Firefox 49.0
If you're using the Solus Linux-based operating system, you're in luck, because the new Mozilla Firefox 49.0 web browser has just landed in its repositories, which means that you can update from Mozilla Firefox 48.0.2 as we speak. To update, simply open the Software Center and install all available updates.
In the meantime, if you're using a different GNU/Linux distribution, you have two choices: either wait for the maintainer to add the Mozilla Firefox 49.0 packages or download the 64-bit and 32-bit binaries right now via our website. Yes, that's right, Mozilla already uploaded the final release of Firefox 49.0 for all supported platforms.
#Firefox 49.0 is now in the stable #Solus repositories. Please update at your earliest convenience. pic.twitter.com/qeLFFmhB56 — Solus (@SolusProject) September 19, 2016