14 DAY TRIAL // Mozilla's latest Firefox 71 web browser is now finally available for installation from the software repositories of all supported Ubuntu Linux releases.
Officially announced by Mozilla last week, the Firefox 71 web browser introduces native MP3 decoding, a much-improved built-in password manager that can now recognize subdomains and automatically fill domain logins or warn users with screen readers about breaches from Firefox Monitor, and a new kiosk mode that allows the use of Firefox in kiosk terminals by running it exclusively in full-screen.
Firefox 71 also comes with a redesigned internal configuration page (about:config) rewritten in HTML, an improved Enhanced Tracking Protection feature to offer users more information about the actions it takes by displaying notifications when Firefox blocks cryptominers, and new locales for Catalan (Valencian) (ca-valencia), Tagalog (tl), and Triqui (trs).
Firefox 71 is now available for Ubuntu users
If you're running Ubuntu Linux on your personal computer, you can now update Firefox, which is the default web browser for all supported releases, including Ubuntu 19.10 (Eoan Ermine), Ubuntu 19.04 (Disco Dingo), and Ubuntu 18.04 LTS (Bionic Beaver). Firefox 71 has landed in the stable software repositories of these Ubuntu releases as of December 9th, 2019. However, Canonical didn't release Firefox 71 packages for Ubuntu 16.04 LTS (Xenial Xerus) at the moment of writing.
To update, all you have to do is run the command below in the Terminal app, or you can just run the Ubuntu Software or Synaptic package managers and install it from there. It is important to update as soon as possible as Firefox 71 also brings fixes for several security issues that could be used to trick users in to opening a malicious website, allowing attackers to obtain sensitive information.
sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get install firefox