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Firefox 78 Available for Download with New Minimal Linux System Requirements

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That’s right, Firefox 78 is an ESR (Extended Support Release), which is perfect for enterprises that want to provide their users with a very stable and well-tested Firefox release. ESR branches are usually supported for 12 months.

It replaces the Firefox 68.0 ESR series. This means that GNU/Linux distributions shipping Firefox ESR, such as Debian GNU/Linux, can now upgrade to the latest 78.0 ESR version to offer their users a newer Firefox release with modern features.

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Firefox 78.0 Released - Also Serves As The Newest ESR Version

  • Firefox 78.0 Released - Also Serves As The Newest ESR Version

    Firefox 78.0 is available this morning as the newest version of Mozilla's web browser. Firefox 78.0 is also significant in being the newest Extended Support Release (ESR) series.

    With Firefox 78 ESR it's a big upgrade over the current Firefox 68.9 ESR release with the many new features introduced over the past number of months. But even if currently on Firefox 77, the Firefox 78 release continues with its WebRender improvements, TLS 1.0/1.1 are retired and disabled, WebRTC handling improvements, the Linux system requirements have been raised to needing Glibc 2.17 / libstdc++ 4.8.1 / GTK+ 3.14 or newer, a new RegExp engine for SpiderMonkey, and other Web API support additions.

Firefox 78 Released, Bumps Linux System Requirements

  • Firefox 78 Released, Bumps Linux System Requirements

    Yeah, can’t say I’ve heard of the last one either.

    Tongue firmly out of my check I once again report that latest change-log for this (rightly) revered browser isn’t loaded with changes.

    There’s are some welcome security patches, a bevy of bug fixes, and a pinch of usability finesse. But major headline additions? Well, I’ll let you decide if any of the ones below qualify as that!

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