Articles by Mike Conley

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

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