Articles from 2017

These Weeks in Firefox: Issue 14

Highlights Volunteer contributor Kevin Jones has been doing amazing work on the lazytabs project Initial measurements suggest the potential for epic session restoration time wins if and when this is … Read more

These Weeks in Firefox: Issue 13

Highlights We’ve now got 4 content processes on by default on Nightly! Background tabs are being restored in the content process by default now, improving perceived session restore performance, especially … Read more

These Weeks in Firefox: Issue 12

Highlights Turning on the permissions dialog for WebExtensions this week Download progress indication redesign landed and is now in Nightly and Firefox Developer Edition! (UX spec) Special thanks to the … Read more

These Weeks in Firefox: Issue 10

Highlights The Sidebar WebExtension API (compatible with Opera’s API) has been implemented ? Preferences reorg and search project is fully underway. jaws and mconley lead a “hack-weekend” this past weekend … Read more

These Weeks in Firefox: Issue 9

Highlights Firefox 51 was released! Includes the new Zoom Indicator in the URL bar when zoom level is non-default Improved e10s tab-switching! Whitelist of ~700 addons for e10s Tested with … Read more

These Weeks in Firefox: Issue 8

The first Firefox Desktop Engineering meeting for 2017 took place this morning! Here are the interesting bits: Highlights past wrote a blog post about some upcoming privacy and security features … Read more