Highlights
- Just landed in Nightly, and targeted for Firefox 70, there is now an overlay in the content page indicating when the debugger is paused and why
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Now it’s easier to notice that you’ve hit a breakpoint!
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- In Nightly (and targeted for Firefox 70) we now have color-contrast checks in the color-picker tooltip thanks to Maliha, our Accessibility intern!
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Making sure you have a AAA colour contrast rating helps to ensure that everybody can use your website.
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- Heng Yeow is making good progress on the WebSocket panel (now enabled on Nightly), and Florens added sent / received icons
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This is a long awaited feature – thanks, Heng Yeow!
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- We have a new identity UI with the insecure indicator for HTTP pages
- Now also not marking localhost as insecure anymore
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An insecure connection icon means that the webpage was served to you without any encryption. This means that it was vulnerable to eavesdroppers, and could have been tampered with before reaching you.
- Interested in building your own Android Browser? Here’s a GeckoView getting started tutorial by Arturo Mejia!
Friends of the Firefox team
Resolved bugs (excluding employees)
Fixed more than one bug
- Armando Ferreira
- Arun Kumar Mohan
- Florens Verschelde :fvsch
- J
- jaril
- Krishnal Ciccolella
New contributors (🌟 = first patch)
- 🌟 Apratim updated a string in about:telemetry to make the UI less confusing
- Armando Ferreira
- Made it easier to select text in the Web Console on collapsed messages
- Made it possible to copy the link location for Learn More links in the Web Console
- Fixed a misleading tooltip in the Web Console
- Added back / forward buttons to the Web Console when in multi-line editing mode in order to replace the more-troublesome keyboard cursor mechanism
- Alex R made it so that adding a breakpoint to a blackboxed source file in the Debugger un-blackboxes that file
- Bryan Kok [:transfusion] fixed a bug where the Screenshot DevTool would be broken after a page refresh
- 🌟 François Freitag made it so that the clear button on DateTime form inputs is hidden when the form field is required
- 🌟 Chris Muldoon simplified some of our widgetry markup
- 🌟 Dennis van der Schagt [:dennisschagt] fixed a SessionStore issue where the SameSite flag wasn’t correctly restored for session cookies
- Kevin Morehouse made it so that focusing the FindBar in the Debugger causes the current query to be fully selected
- 🌟 msirringhaus made the Unix backend for OSFile work correctly across more platform variations
- Krishnal Ciccolella
- Sonia polished the focused appearance of the conditional breakpoint input in the Debugger
- J re-organized some of the files in the Network Monitor codebase
Project Updates
Add-ons / Web Extensions
- Shane fixed a bug wherein the private browsing access permission was not removed from an extension upgrading (or downgrading) to manifest.incognito: “not_allowed”
- Honza Bambas fixed a bug in the proxy API that prevented extensions from using DIRECT as a failover for proxies.
- Luca applied a small change to prevent installed devtools webextensions from initializing the devtools components before actually needed
- HTML about:addons
- Mark is working with Emanuela on some tweaks to the styling of the HTML about:addons views
- Tom Schuster changed the locale string related to the addon context menu action “More options” to “Manage”
- API notice: deprecated LWT theme aliases are going to be ignored starting from Firefox >= 70
- Rob fixed a host permissions issue with tabs.execute.
Browser Architecture
- Fluent on startup path enabled!
- First patch to migrate some of our primary strings to Fluent will land soon
Developer Tools
- Debugger
- Landed in Fx70: Variables and Scopes now remain expanded while stepping (see bug 1405402).
- In progress: working on a new DOM mutations breakpoint panel that will be shared in the debugger and the inspector.
- Console
- The new Console Editor is progressing nicely: it now has a close button (see bug 1567370), can be resized as you would expect (see bug 1554877), will soon have history navigation buttons (see bug 1558198).
- The entire console layout now uses CSS grid and subgrids (see bug 1565962) and it’s awesome.
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Using modern web technologies to build our own tools feels great!
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- Layout tools
- More work ongoing on a unified smart sidebar panel for the inspector. You can find the latest designs here: https://github.com/firefox-devtools/ux/issues/64#issuecomment-512650220
- In-progress: color blindness simulation in the a11y panel (see bug 1564999), also thanks to Maliha.
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One of our interns is working on this tool. This will make it much easier to ensure that more people can use your site!
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- Remote debugging
Fission
- Gijs updated the Plugin click-to-play code to be Fission-compatible. This also had the side-benefit of getting some more code out of the start-up path.
- mconley has a patch up to make RemotePrompt (prompt, alert, confirm, other dialogs) work with Fission
- Neil has a port of the FindBar almost ready – currently working on getting the modal FindBar code working with it.
- Neil has a local WIP patch to port the LoginManager to be Fission-ready
- Abdoulaye has written a test for subframe crashing (subframe crashing is currently broken, and this test will be enabled once it’s fixed)
- In doing so, he’s added infrastructure to BrowserTestUtils to make it easier to write Fission-ready browser tests!
- Abdoulaye has a patch to make Fullscreen work with Fission
- Abdoulaye also has a patch to make AudioPlayback indicators for tabs Fission-compatible
- Abdoulaye also has a WIP patch to make audio/video controls work with Fission
- Tests with Fission-enabled are running on Ash (jobs ending with -fis). It’s pretty orange, but we’re making progress!
- M-fis (mochitests with Fission enabled) will soon (within a week or so) be running on central.
Lint
- There’s now a Restructured Text linter for our documentation (rstcheck). This is being worked on by Shivam, a GSoC student.
New Tab Page
- Working towards launching remote layouts (aka DiscoveryStream) in Firefox 69.
Password Manager
- Management UI
- Enable about:logins on Nightly and pre-release channels 🎉
- Move Login Autofill checkbox out of old Password Manager modal
- Allow about:logins to use the Privileged About content process even if about:home isn’t ready for that just yet
- RTL fixes
- Update UI of breached login indicator
- Install on Mobile Device button in Ellipsis menu
- Lots of visual polish thanks to ntim!
Performance
- aswan and florian noticed that AdBlock Plus causes us to initialize the DevTools code very early during start-up, and this was fixed very quickly by Luca Greco
- A slew of new start-up related bugs have been filed for testing and measuring
- Mandy has a patch to make creating the crash reporter minidumps directory on startup lazy, but is blocked on some test failures. Waiting on gsvelto to come back from PTO to help advise.
- Mandy also has a patch to stop computing the countryCode for the system too early during start-up, and move fetching it off of the main thread
- aswan got rid of some superfluous main-thread IO during start-up caused by the AddonManager
- mconley has figured out how to use a network proxy to record and replay network packets while during start-up frame recording tests. Hopefully this will reduce the noise from the tests.
Picture-in-Picture
- The Picture-in-Picture toggle no longer opens the player window for non-primary mouse clicks
- The Picture-in-Picture toggle now disappears after 2 seconds of no mouse activity
- Better support for multi-monitor setups has landed
- Better keyboard accessibility for the player window has landed
- Patch up to fix an issue with flickering video inside of the Picture-in-Picture player window
- Coming up next:
Privacy/Security
- Carolina and Danielle have been hard at work adding a new certificate viewer at about:certificate. Once bug 1567561 lands you can flip security.aboutcertificate.enabled and inspect certificates in a tab.
- Please note that it’s very much work-in-progress right now, don’t expect things to work.
- We’ll do another announcement when things are ready for testing.
- Paul is churning through tricky evil traps bugs, such as Bug 1522120 – Exit fullscreen when a permission prompt is shown to the user
- Paul also improved our indicators for geolocation usage to include an in-use indicator and show when geolocation was last accessed by the site
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This user gave the site permission to know their location, and it was accessed 5 seconds ago. If the user changes their mind, they can easily revoke that access.
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- We successfully completed the no-eval-in-system-principal project!
- Thank you very much to everyone who helped out
Search and Navigation
Search
- Fixed encoding of search engine parameters
Quantum Bar
- Modernized the urlbar layout by replacing the results popup with a box and inlining the markup in browser.xhtml
- Fixed an annoying regression where bookmarks may be returned even if they are excluded in preferences
- Fixed an annoying regression where some special characters (#, $, …) may be stripped from the beginning or the end of the search string
- Added new disabled-by-default event telemetry to analyze the results of future experiments
User Journey
- Progress on What’s New Panel (see meta bug) targeted for 70
- Improvements to the First Run onboarding experience, new targeting/triggers for the What’s new Page, and new Firefox Monitor snippet planned for 69 as the result of a recent work week
- Some new potential CFRs (Contextual Feature Recommendations) planned for sync, Firefox Send, Send Tab to Device, and Lockwise
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