Firefox 15 is available, with a lot of cool new features and improvements, specially related to 3D performance (compressed textures for better performance, with WebGL) and better memory usage for plugins/add-ons (optimized memory use! vow!!! that’s really a great improvement, memory hungry add-ons makes browsing slow and painful sometimes).
Some of the new features/improvements are –
- silent, background updates
- support for SPDY v2
- WebGL enhancements
- html 5 related improvemens (native support for Opus, audio/video elements etc)
- available in a new Local language – Maithili (it’s my native language 🙂 )
Updating to Firefox 15
In Ubuntu 12.04 or similar distributions such as Linux Mint, you can get the latest version of firefox – with a normal update. So you don’t need to add any external PPA or download/install it manually, unless you also want to try beta versions or daily builds. So just open the Update Manager and click on Install Updates to update all programs (recommended) or just select the Firefox browser from the list and update.
To update Firefox from Terminal, just execute the commands –
sudo apt-get update sudo apt-get install firefox
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