Search persistence, a new migrator and more! – These Weeks in Firefox: Issue 129
Highlights James from the Search team has been working on persisting the search term in the address bar after you do a search in it. It is now enabled on … Read more
Highlights James from the Search team has been working on persisting the search term in the address bar after you do a search in it. It is now enabled on … Read more
Highlights Firefox 106 went out today! Here are some blog posts talking about what is new, as well as the release notes! The Unified Extensions toolbar button (part of the … Read more
Highlights Firefox 105 is released today! Lots of goodies in there, as well as performance and stability improvements. WebExtension Manifest Version 3 support has been enabled by default in Nightly … Read more
Highlights Check out this blog post featuring interviews with Niklas, kpatenio and jmaher about mentoring for Outreachy PDF annotating support is being worked on, and can be tested in Nightly … Read more
Highlights Firefox 100 goes out today! A milestone release, but also business as usual! Congratulations to contributors who helped get Firefox 100 out the door! Initial support for subtitles and … Read more
Highlights Since the compatibility panel is also riding the 98 train, we polished it a bit: we added support for Internet Explorer 11 data (bug), reworked the tooltip for compatibility … Read more
Highlights DevTools now supports an “auto” theme (now the default). It follows the browser’s color scheme, so if you have a dark theme for your browser, DevTools will also have … Read more
Highlights Starting from Firefox 96, a new “browser.runtime.getFrameId” method allows an extension content script to retrieve the frameId associated to a WindowProxy of an embedder DOM element (e.g. frame, object … Read more
Highlights Firefox 92 was released today! We’re 96% through M1 for Fluent migration! Great work from kpatenio and niklas! [Screenshot] Caption: A graph showing how Fluent strings have overtaken DTD … Read more
Highlights Nightly users on Windows now have the Tab Unloader enabled, which will unload background tabs in low-memory situations The Tab Unloader works hard to only unload tabs it thinks … Read more
Highlights Improved dark mode support for macOS is now enabled in Nightly and Early Beta! When Firefox is in dark mode, look out for: Dark Library/Page Info windows Dark tooltips … Read more
Highlights Firefox will now update in the background for Windows Nightly users. See details in Bug 1703909 and this firefox-dev post. We plan to stage roll out to Beta users … Read more