Articles by mconley

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

Highlights Prathiksha moved the pop-up blocked icon/menu from the urlbar to the identity block/identity pop-up (the notification bar for blocked popups is still there). Please read our plans for removing … Read more

Highlights A browser.tabs.tabMinWidth preference has been added to control the minimum tab width before overflow, and the default was then set for 50. More recently, this default has changed to … Read more

Highlights Firefox Quantum (57) is now on Beta! Developer Edition has also gone to 57! Tell everyone you know, tell people you don’t know, test like crazy, file bugs! Firefox … Read more

The team is busy sanding down the last few rough edges, and getting Firefox 57 ready to merge to beta! So busy in fact, that there are no screenshots or … Read more

Highlights The App Updater is now using LZMA compression and SHA384 for signing. The release of builds taking advantage of this should be unthrottled today. So far, complete update files … Read more

Headlines Out of process extensions is now on in Nightly for Windows users. Much excite about this. Please file any bugs you might find with this, we’ve been squashing a … Read more

Highlights The datetime picker has been enabled by default on Nightly! Please test and report bugs Firefox Screenshots is in Nightly and enabled by default!  Take a shot of something. … Read more