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 The next ESR will be Firefox 60, and will come with the Policy Engine to make it easier to configure mass Firefox installs in an enterprise environment. Firefox for … 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 We turned on Pocket local personalization by default which takes the generic story feed and adjusts the ordering based on client-side computation of history / impressions. The Flash Click-to-Play … Read more
Highlights Data preference changes have been streamlined in 58, and segmented into release and prerelease data. Nihanth enabled the vibrancy effect from the default theme in the light theme on … 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 Prathiksha added site permission settings for Location, Camera, Microphone and replaced the old permission dialog for Notifications in about:preferences. jkt has improved the WebExtensions contextualIdentities APIs to the point … 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