Mozilla released through an announcement the launch of its new payment service, mdn plus which will complement commercial initiatives such as Mozilla VPN and Firefox Relay Premium.
MDN Plus is an improved version of the MDN site (Mozilla Developer Network) that provides a collection of documentation for web developers which covers the technologies supported by modern browsers, including JavaScript, CSS, HTML, and various web APIs.
MDN main archive It will remain, as before, free. Of the features of MDN Plus, the customization of work with materials and the provision of tools for working with offline documentation stand out.
Of the possibilities related to personalization, highlight the adaptation of the site design to your own preferences, the creation of collections with personal collections of articles and the possibility to subscribe to notifications about changes in API, CSS and articles of interest. To access information without a network connection a PWA application is proposed (Progressive Web Application) that allows you to store a documentation file on a local medium and periodically synchronize its status.
The subscription price is $5/month or $50/year for the basic package and $10/100 for the package with direct feedback from the MDN team and early access to new site features.
Currently, MDN Plus is only available for users of USA and Canada. In the future, it is planned to provide the service in the United Kingdom, Germany, Austria, Switzerland, France, Italy, Spain, Belgium, the Netherlands, New Zealand and Singapore.
Si Are you interested in learning more about it?, you can check the details In the following link.
It is also worth noting that for several days now a fix version of Firefox 98.0.2 is available which fixes several bugs:
- Resolved issues that caused Linux and macOS to break compatibility with some plugins that use the browser.pkcs11 API.
- Fixed a regression change in the session history handler that caused a crash when trying to load some sites using iframes (the iframe content was being loaded from the session history even if another block was waiting to load).
- We fixed an issue where macOS was unable to type in the address bar after opening a new tab and pressing Cmd + Enter.
- Fixed a bug that caused Windows to crash due to running out of available memory.
If you want to know more about this new corrective version, you can consult the details in the following link
How to install or update the new version of Firefox on Linux?
Firefox users who have not disabled automatic updates will receive the update automatically. Those who don't want to wait for that to happen can select Menu> Help> About Firefox after the official launch to initiate a manual update of the web browser.
The screen that opens displays the currently installed version of the web browser and runs a check for updates, provided the functionality is enabled.
Another option to update, is yes you are a user of Ubuntu, Linux Mint or some other derivative of Ubuntu, You can install or update to this new version with the help of the browser's PPA.
This can be added to the system by opening a terminal and executing the following command in it:
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:ubuntu-mozilla-security/ppa -y sudo apt-get update sudo apt install firefox
In the case of Arch Linux users and derivatives, just run in a terminal:
sudo pacman -Syu
Or to install with:
sudo pacman -S firefox
In the case of those who prefer the use of Snap packages, they can install the new corrective version of the browser by opening a terminal and typing the following command:
sudo snap install firefox
Finally, you can get the browser with the latest installation method that was added "Flatpak". To do this, they must have support for this type of package.
Installation is done by typing:
flatpak install flathub org.mozilla.firefox
For all other Linux distributions can download the binary packages from the following link.