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Mozilla Firefox 51.0.1 and Thunderbird 45.7 Land in All Supported Ubuntu OSes

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Marius Nestor
Jan 27, 2017

Canonical today released both Mozilla Firefox 51.0.1 and Thunderbird 45.7.0 to the stable channels of the Ubuntu 12.04 LTS (Precise Pangolin), Ubuntu 14.04 LTS (Trusty Tahr), Ubuntu 16.04 LTS (Xenial Xerus), and Ubuntu 16.10 (Yakkety Yak), allowing users to enjoy the latest new features and security improvements that landed in these updates. Yes, you’re reading that right, Mozilla Firefox 51.0 already received its first minor security update, versioned 51.0.1, which made the multiprocess incompatibility to correctly register with various add-ons, as well as to fix geolocation support on Windows systems.

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Marius Nestor

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