Mozilla Firefox 46.0 Beta 9 is released and available PPA for Ubuntu 16.04 Xenial Xerus, Ubuntu 15.10 Willy Werewolf, Ubuntu 15.04 vivid Vervet, ubuntu 14.10 Utopic Unicorn, Ubuntu 14.04 Trusty Tahr (LTS), Ubuntu 13.10/13.04/12.04, Linux Mint 17.1 Rebecca, Linux Mint 17 Qiana, Linux Mint 13 Maya, Pinguy OS 14.04 and other Ubuntu derivative systems

The Mozilla Firefox project is a redesign of Mozilla’s browser component, written using the XUL user interface language and designed to be cross-platform, supporting Linux, Android, Microsoft Windows and Mac OS X operating systems. It is a fast, small and very easy-to-use web browser/navigator/explorer that offers many advantages over other similar products, such as the ability to block pop-up windows and the feature-rich tabbed browsing experience.

Features at a glance

The application offers a well designed graphical user interface that integrates search (powered by Google, Bing, Yahoo, etc.), and industry leading accessibility with Find As You Type – find links and page text by simply typing. As mentioned before, the Firefox browser features comprehensive pop-up controls, which will keep unwanted advertising off your desktop. A tab browsing mode will let you open several pages in a single window, allowing you to load links in the background without leaving the page you’re on.


What’s New:

• New: A set of new improvements to the Firefox user interface
• New: An interactive onboarding tour to guide users through new changes
• New: A redesigned and improved customization mode
• New: The ability to set up Firefox Sync by creating a Firefox account
• New: Gamepad API finalized and enabled
• Changed: navigator.plugins is no longer enumerable, for user privacy
• Developer: ‘box-sizing’ (dropping the -moz- prefix) implemented
• Developer: SharedWorker enabled by default
• Developer: CSS3 variables implemented
• Developer: < input type=number > enabled
• Developer: < input type=color > implemented and enabled
• Developer: Promises enabled by default
• Developer: Console object available in Web Workers
• Developer: Add-on bar has been removed, content moved to navigation bar
• Developer: Enabled ECMAScript Internationalization API
• Fixed Echo cancellation on apprtc.appspot.com fails

How to Install / update Mozilla Firefox 46.0 Beta 9 on Ubuntu Derivative System :

sudo apt-add-repository ppa:mozillateam/firefox-next

sudo apt-get update

sudo apt-get upgrade

The source is available now. Binary packages are in the process of being built, and will appear soon at their respective download locations.