Articles by mconley

Highlights Form Autofill is enabled-by-default in Nightly! Give it a try by manually creating an address profile in about:preferences. Photon Engineering Newsletter #1 went out last week, #2 coming later … Read more

A big thank you goes out to Johann Hofmann who put these headlines together while I was away on vacation! Highlights Kevin Jones made sessions restore using lazy tabs & … Read more

Highlights Volunteer contributor Kevin Jones has been doing amazing work on the lazytabs project Initial measurements suggest the potential for epic session restoration time wins if and when this is … Read more

Highlights We’ve now got 4 content processes on by default on Nightly! Background tabs are being restored in the content process by default now, improving perceived session restore performance, especially … Read more

Highlights Turning on the permissions dialog for WebExtensions this week Download progress indication redesign landed and is now in Nightly and Firefox Developer Edition! (UX spec) Special thanks to the … Read more

Highlights Just in case you didn’t get the memo, the add-ons team blogged about their plans up to Firefox 57. New WebExtension APIs have landed in Nightly, including: Sidebar API … Read more

Highlights The Sidebar WebExtension API (compatible with Opera’s API) has been implemented ? Preferences reorg and search project is fully underway. jaws and mconley lead a “hack-weekend” this past weekend … Read more

Highlights Firefox 51 was released! Includes the new Zoom Indicator in the URL bar when zoom level is non-default Improved e10s tab-switching! Whitelist of ~700 addons for e10s Tested with … Read more

The first Firefox Desktop Engineering meeting for 2017 took place this morning! Here are the interesting bits: Highlights past wrote a blog post about some upcoming privacy and security features … Read more

The last Firefox Desktop Engineering meeting for 2016 recently occurred! Here are the relevant tidbits. Highlights If you haven’t already seen it, a Very Important blog post from the Add-ons … Read more

Highlights A reminder that Firefox ESR 52 will be the last version to support WinXP Relevant mailing list thread. past reports that the new permission doorhanger UI has landed! Permission … Read more

Highlights The async and await operators have landed in Nightly 52, and are scheduled to ride the trains! Here’s a blog post about it. jryans added a Network Throttling tool … Read more