Mike Conley

Engineer working on Firefox for Desktop

These Weeks in Firefox: Issue 32

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

These Weeks in Firefox: Issue 26

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

These Weeks in Firefox: Issue 25

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

These Weeks in Firefox: Issue 17

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