Mozilla Firefox 48.0 Lands in All Supported Ubuntu OSes, Solus and Arch Linux

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  • Post Updated: April 3, 2024

It took them a couple of days, but the maintainers of the most popular GNU/Linux distributions have pushed the final release of the Mozilla Firefox 48.0 web browser to the stable channels, for users to upgrade from Mozilla Firefox 47.0.1.

Mozilla Firefox 48.0 was officially released on the second day of August 2016, bringing various new features and improvements, such as the long-anticipated multiprocess functionality that similar products like Google Chrome and Internet Explorer had offered for so many years now.

Other enhancements include various extra protection against harmful downloads on Microsoft Windows OSes, better Canvas performance via speedy Skia support for GNU/Linux distributions, multiple WebRTC improvements, as well as Rust language support for the media parser.

Starting with Mozilla Firefox 48.0, add-ons that haven’t yet been signed or verified will no longer load when the web … (read more)

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