Backup for a Rainy Day – These Weeks in Firefox: Issue 202
Highlights The profile backup mechanism has been enabled by default for all desktop platforms in Nightly, as well as Beta! The current plan is to have this ride out to … Read more
Mike Conley
QR Codes, Speed Calculators, Better RAM Usage – These Weeks in Firefox: Issue 199
Highlights Thanks to overholt, macOS Nightly now has support for sharing the current tab’s URL via QR Code (Right-click tab, Share > Generate QR Code). This is held to Nightly … Read more
AI Controls – These Weeks in Firefox: Issue 196
Highlights Shout out to mstriemer for getting the AI Controls work landed and uplifted! We’ve also enabled New Tab with Sections by default in the UK! Friends of the Firefox … Read more
Take note – Split View is ready for testing! – These Weeks in Firefox: Issue 194
Highlights Shout-out to new contributor Lorenz A, who fixed almost 70 bugs over the past few weeks! Most of this work was modernizing some of our DevTools code to use … Read more
Getting Better Every Day – These Weeks in Firefox: Issue 192
Highlights Collapsed tab group hover preview is going live in Firefox 145! Nicolas Chevobbe added a feature that collapses unreferenced CSS variables declarations in the Rules view (#1719461) Alexandre Poirot … Read more
Copy Link to Highlight in Nightly – These Weeks in Firefox: Issue 185
Highlights The Text Fragments creation UI was just activated in Firefox Nightly allowing you to share/reference a link anchor to any text snippet in a page https://mastodon.social/@firefoxnightly/114805708639661562 This is held … Read more
Smarter Searches – These Weeks in Firefox: Issue 182
Highlights The Search team has enabled the new URL bar search experience by default 🎉 and fixed action mode layout. See bugs: 1967857, 1967721 Check out this blog post on … Read more
Putting up Wallpaper – These Weeks in Firefox: Issue 178
Putting up Wallpaper – These Weeks in Firefox: Issue 178 Highlights Custom Wallpapers for New Tab are undergoing further refinement and bugfixing! Amy just fixed an issue which would cause … Read more
High Profile Improvements – These Weeks in Firefox: Issue 176
Highlights Multiple profiles are now enabled by default in Nightly! Preffed on in Nightly only – upcoming 0.5% rollout in Beta and Release will be done via Nimbus File bugs … Read more
New Year New Tab – These Weeks in Firefox: Issue 175
Highlights Firefox 134 went out earlier this month! A refreshed New Tab layout is being rolled out to users in the US and Canada, featuring a repositioned logo and weather … Read more
Key Improvements – These Weeks in Firefox: Issue 174
Highlights Nicolas Chevobbe [:nchevobbe] Added $$$ , a console helper that retrieve elements from the document, including those in the ShadowDOM (#1899558) Thanks to John Diamond for contributing changes to … Read more
Search Improvements Are On Their Way – These Weeks in Firefox: Issue 169
Highlights The search team is planning on enabling a series of improvements to the search experience this week in Nightly! This project is called “Scotch Bonnet”. We would love to … Read more