Less than 48 hours ago, Mozilla He launched Firefox 78.0, the latest major update that, in addition to arriving with the usual news, was also news for being the new ESR version. Firefox 68 ESR users will then make the jump to Firefox 78 ESR and will receive all the updates that the fox company has included in the last 10 months or so. A day later, the first maintenance release landed, a Firefox 78.0.1 that, if they don't publish more information in the next few hours (UPDATED: also correct 11 security flaws), has come to correct a single fault.
As we see in the note of your news, Firefox 78.0.1 was launched yesterday July 1 and in the changes section we only see one: «Fixed an issue that could cause installed search engines to not appear visible when updating from a previous release«. The search engines They can be added from the box specially designed for it, as it appears in the header image, by clicking on the plus symbol. According to Mozilla, the engines added in Firefox 77 or earlier were not working in Firefox 78, and for that reason they had to release a corrective update in less than a day.
Firefox 78.0.1 now available from its official website
Firefox 78.0.1 is now available for all supported systems from its official website, which we can access from this link. Linux users can download the binary version, but the version of the official repositories of most distributions is still in the browser v77. If there are no surprises, v78.0.1 should appear as an update between today and tomorrow.
The latest version of Firefox also introduced news regarding minimum requirements, leaving aside some versions of macOS and Linux users who cannot install GNU libc 2.17, libstdc ++ 4.8.1, and GTK + 3.14 or later. In any case, it should work on Ubuntu 16.04 and later and any Linux distribution released about 5 years ago.