Mozilla Firefox 47.0 Lands in All Supported Ubuntu OSes, and Arch Linux

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  • Post Updated: April 3, 2024

The Mozilla Firefox web browser has landed today, June 9, 2016, in the software repositories of all supported Ubuntu Linux operating systems, and on June 8 on the Arch Linux repos.

Officially released on June 7, 2016, the Mozilla Firefox 47.0 web browser is not a major release, but it does bring various interesting new features, among which we can mention support for playing embedded YouTube videos using the HTML5 technology when Adobe Flash Player is not detected.

Also, the VP9 video codec is now automatically enabled on powerful computers, providing users with top-notch video playback performance. There are also many security fixes and various other improvements, as well as some new tools for web developers, so please check the Firefox 47.0 release notes for more details.

Ubuntu and Arch Linux users can update to Firefox 47.0 now

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