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Firefox 101 is now available for download
And Firefox 101 is already available for download before the official release.
Check out the news and see how to install on Linux.
Mozilla Firefox is the default browser on Ubuntu and other Linux systems, and generally,
the latest version of Firefox is available as a security update on all supported versions
of major Linux distributions shortly after a few hours of Mozilla's announcement, to
the delight of its users.
Firefox 101 is now available for download ahead of official release for Linux, Android,
macOS, iOS and Windows platforms.
Yup.
Mozilla Firefox 101 is now available for download as a small update that features a handful
of changes and several improvements.
But Firefox 101 is a much smaller update, so don't expect any major changes.
Probably the most interesting change in Firefox 101 is the fact that Mozilla has re-implemented
the dialog prompt for saving or opening files, which was removed in Firefox 98 when Mozilla
implemented an optimized download flow.
Users will now be able to re-enable this dialog prompt via a new option added right after
the General > Applications section in Settings.
There are actually two new options added namely “Save files” (default) and “Ask if you
want to open or save files”.
Of course, users will be able to configure Firefox to handle MIME types for different
files, such as saving a file or opening it with an application installed on their computer.
Mozilla details this change in a support article .
Other changes in Firefox 101 version include support for the prefer-contrast media query
to allow websites to detect whether the user has requested that web content be displayed
with higher or lower contrast, the ability to use the magnifying glass in Firefox for
Android to position the cursor in forms on web pages on Android 9 or later, as well as
the latest security fixes .
For web developers, Firefox 101 also introduces three new CSS viewport sizes i.e. small (s),
large (l) and dynamic (d), proper parsing of AV1 codec parameters in media support queries
, and enabling the WebDriver BiDi protocol by default.
How to install Firefox As stated before, Mozilla will officially
announce Firefox 101 on May 31, 2022, but if you want to try it out on your GNU/Linux
distribution, you can download the binaries for 64-bit or 32-bit systems, as well as the
source tarball.
, now from Mozilla's FTP server .
If you installed Firefox from your Linux distribution's software repositories, you'll have to wait
a little longer for the new version to appear there, depending on how quickly your distro's
maintainers will compile the browser from sources, most likely in the end of this week.
As usual, you can download the latest version of Firefox from the official website, but
as always, I recommend that you update your installations from the stable software repositories
of your favorite Linux distribution when the Firefox packages appear.
To install the stable version of Firefox Flatpak, use this tutorial:
Want to try the Flatpak version of Firefox?
See how!
Linux users from distros that don't support flatpak will have to wait for this version
of Firefox to arrive in the stable software repositories of their favorite Linux distributions.
The new version will be in the official Ubuntu repository and other distros soon.
Until then, anyone who wants to get ahead (or not), should use one of the options below.
:: More ::
Mozilla Firefox 101.0 announced
The 101.0 version of Mozilla Firefox , a fast, functional and open source internet browser,
has been announced.You will be able to review the release notes for detailed information
about version 101.0 . The browser, which continues on its way with the principle of "security,
stability, speed and more; It has a protection shield developed against spyware, viruses
and unintentional pop-ups, phishing protection, and can be personalized as desired with thousands
of useful Mozilla Firefox , which has some stability problems fixed, comes with capabilities
such as hardware accelerated graphics and HTML5 technologies for web and plug-in developers,
and significantly improved JavaScript performance.
Firefox; It is available in more than 90 languages ​​with the contributions of Mozilla community
members around the world.
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