These Weeks in Firefox: Issue 57
Highlights We’re running experiments to reduce annoying permission prompts in Firefox The DevTools team is bringing back Print Simulation! The bug to add it back into the inspector has landed … Read more
Highlights We’re running experiments to reduce annoying permission prompts in Firefox The DevTools team is bringing back Print Simulation! The bug to add it back into the inspector has landed … Read more
Permission prompts are a common sight on the web today. They allow websites to prompt for access to powerful features when needed, giving users granular and contextual choice about what … Read more
Firefox is an open-source project, created by a vibrant community of paid and volunteer contributors from all over the world. Did you know that some of those contributors are students, … Read more
Highlights We released two blog posts that outline our product and platform strategy against trackers and other annoyances: Changing Our Approach to Anti-tracking Why we need better tracking protection Also … Read more
Highlights The tab hiding WebExtension API is now enabled by default in 61 If you miss Tab Groups, try this WebExtension mstriemer made it so we show a doorhanger the … Read more
Highlights We turned on Pocket local personalization by default which takes the generic story feed and adjusts the ordering based on client-side computation of history / impressions. The Flash Click-to-Play … Read more
Highlights Data preference changes have been streamlined in 58, and segmented into release and prerelease data. Nihanth enabled the vibrancy effect from the default theme in the light theme on … Read more
Highlights Prathiksha added site permission settings for Location, Camera, Microphone and replaced the old permission dialog for Notifications in about:preferences. jkt has improved the WebExtensions contextualIdentities APIs to the point … Read more
Highlights The Photon structure pref has been flipped on Nightly. Photon menus / customization etc. are now the default configuration on Nightly. See dolske’s blog post. We populated the onboarding … Read more
Highlights about:addons now has a legacy tag to show when an extension is not a WebExtension and addons.mozilla.org now specifically tags WebExtensions as compatible on Firefox 57! The Activity Stream … Read more