Firefox 60 has already been released and arrives with sponsored content

A couple of days ago the Mozilla browser development team Firefox released a new update for your Firefox web browser, reaching its new version Firefox 60, which includes several new features for personal, business and mobile users.

This new release of the Firefox web browser tIts main feature is the introduction of sponsored content, in addition to other news related to the business version.

What's New in Firefox 60

As previously mentioned, this new version of Firefox integrates sponsored content (Sponsored Stories) in the "Recommended by pocket" section.

This content will occasionally be shown, according to what Mozilla communicated and that also at the moment this function is only available to US users at the moment.

This is Mozilla's latest effort to find a new source of revenue for web browser development and this is not the first time the company has tried to put ads on the new tab page.

How to disable sponsored stories in Firefox 60?

But don't be alarmed this function can be disabledThey simply have to open a new tab and in the upper right part of the open page, they can see that there is a gear they must click on it and they will enter the settings, now only must of look for the section "Recommended by Pocket" uncheck the box It says "Show sponsored stories."

Firefox 60 for business

In addition, the new update presents some new features for the version Firefox 60 dedicated to business, because in this new release now allows IT administrators customize browser settings employees use.

This allows them use Windows Group Policy to block specific sites and block user access to settings, add-ons, profile settings, and restrict access to other features for security or productivity purposes.

Firefox 60 is also the first version of ESR (Extended Support Release) since Firefox 52. Therefore, it brings more than a year of new features (and restrictions).

Firefox 60 already has support for WebAuthn

In this release the browser implements support for the WebAuthn API (Web authentication).

This is a new authentication standard, which facilitates users login without Need to use a username or password If not, it will be done through multi-factor authentication with devices like YubiKey.

Firefox 60 also provides a responsive layout to the Ne Tab page to display more content on widescreen displays.

How to install Firefox 60 on Ubuntu 18.04 and derivatives?

Ubuntu includes the Firefox web browser by default in the system for several versions already, although it usually has a delay in including new versions of software within its repositories.

So that if you want to update to this new version you must add the Mozilla repository where they offer us the most recent version of the browser almost immediately.

For this we must open a terminal (Ctrl + Alt + T) and run the following command:

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

sudo apt-get update

Now to update to the new version we just have to execute the command update:

sudo apt upgrade

If you are using a derivative and you do not have Firefox installed, to add it to your system you just have to execute this command instead of the previous one:

sudo apt install firefox

You just have to wait for it to download the packages, install them and configure them on your system.

Once this is done, you only have to go to your applications menu and in the Internet section (generally) you will find the browser icon which you can start using on your system.

To verify if you installed version 60 of Firefox on your system, having the browser open you go to the browser menu and click on the list of options that shows you almost to the end in the option "Help> about Firefox" A new window will open and show you the installed version.