Articles by Mike Conley

Highlights The DevTools team has added XMLHttpRequest (XHR) Breakpoints! You can break for any XHR, or for XHR’s to a particular URL. Lots of other goodies coming soon from the … Read more

Highlights Nightly now has greatly improved DevTools performance – we’re at an all time low for the Inspector open/reload time! New tool in the Accessibility DevTools pane – you can … Read more

Highlights We added more of an explanation to the Symantec distrust cert errors. Speaking of certificates, April King created an add-on for viewing security certificate details called Certainly Something. Requires … Read more

Highlights Today is the last day for Outreachy interns and GSoC students. Thank you for all your contributions! 🎉 The Tracking Protection UI has been replaced with our new “Content … Read more

Highlights New Onboarding experience in Firefox 62 currently only as an experiment. The new about:policies helps administrators verify if they have configured policies correctly, learn more about the different policies, … Read more

Highlights Nightly builds of Focus / Klar (with GeckoView) are now available! Introducing Firefox Monitor, a new security tool we’re testing to help keep track of data breaches on the … Read more

Highlights A new bookmark sync blog post is up. Want to help us test the new syncing backend? Please flip it on in Beta or Nightly, try it out, and … Read more

Highlights We removed XUL overlays, a legacy add-on technology. This allowed us to get rid of a bunch of old, complex code. We pushed a bunch of updates to the … Read more

Highlights Help us eliminate annoying in-content popups by installing this add-on and reporting when pages display an in-content popup like this: Tab warming has (finally!) been enabled on Nightly This … Read more

Highlights The WebExtension theme API now supports specifying colors for frame_inactive, tab_loading, icons and icons_attention, button_background, button_background_hover and button_background_active, toolbar_field_separator. We’re experimenting with “early blank first paint” to improve perceived … Read more

Highlights A lot of fixes for Activity Stream drag and drop landed, improving the overall experience! The WebExtension tabs API now supports a hide and a show method, to hide … Read more

Highlights Check out the blog post on hacks.mozilla.org on using the new theming API in Firefox evanxd added a spotlight feature to Preferences so that it’s easier for “help” links … Read more