Highlights We were able to disable some Spectre / Meltdown JIT mitigations! Nightly-only for now. These were mitigations we deployed years ago to protect users against various timing attacks. With … Read more
Highlights WebExtensions In Firefox 114, extension widgets listed in the extensions panel can be reordered through the menu “Move up” / “Move down” context menu actions (Bug 1805924) Support for … Read more
Highlights In Firefox >= 113 users can now move the extensions button within the navigation toolbar while in Customize Mode (App Menu > More tools > Customize Toolbar) Hubert added … Read more
Highlights Issam and Micah have updated about:logins with some new UI improvements! Issam made it so search input is aligned with the logins list Micah added a new timeline component … Read more
Highlights Initial WebExtension Manifest Version 3 support is riding the 109 release train For more information, please read this blog post Again, a reminder that Mozilla plans to continue support … Read more
Highlights We have a brand new batch of students from CalState LA working with us on improving the Migrator component as part of a Capstone course! They’re just getting ramped … Read more
Highlights Dale Harvey implemented an experimental Quick Actions feature in the Address Bar Demo video: directly open privacy preferences, view source, take screenshot Enable browser.urlbar.quickactions.enabled and browser.urlbar.shortcuts.quickactions This is en-US … Read more
Highlights ESMification is a project to move away from our custom JS module system (JSMs) to the standard ES Module system most are familiar with when writing JavaScript. A prototype … Read more
Highlights Picture-in-Picture captions/subtitles support is now enabled by default on Nightly! Supported sites include YouTube, Netflix, Prime Video, and others that use WebVTT The Firefox Profiler supports date format changes … Read more
Highlights The Firefox Profiler team has added a dynamic language switcher! (#3905, #3910) Volunteer contributor aminomancer changed the default seek time for video and audio elements (and for when using … Read more
Highlights Reminder: FOSDEM 2022 is happening the week after (February 5 & 6), and is free to (virtually) attend! Lots of great talks from Mozilla and others. Infrastructure for site-specific … Read more