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These Weeks in Firefox: Issue 49

Highlights The DevTools team has added XMLHttpRequest (XHR) Breakpoints! You can break for any XHR, or for XHR’s to a particular URL. Lots of other goodies coming soon from the … Read more

These Weeks in Firefox: Issue 48

Highlights We’re planning on enabling dedicated profiles per install, as well as downgrade protection We released two blog posts summarizing our Anti-Tracking work for Firefox versions 63, 64 and 65 … Read more

These Weeks in Firefox: Issue 47

Highlights Nightly now has greatly improved DevTools performance – we’re at an all time low for the Inspector open/reload time! New tool in the Accessibility DevTools pane – you can … Read more

These Weeks in Firefox: Issue 46

Highlights James Teh fixed a really annoying accessibility bug where search suggestions were interfering with the focused element. We’re officially launching a new privacy tool called Firefox Monitor. You can … Read more

These Weeks in Firefox: Issue 45

Highlights We released two blog posts that outline our product and platform strategy against trackers and other annoyances: Changing Our Approach to Anti-tracking Why we need better tracking protection Also … Read more

These Weeks in Firefox: Issue 44

Highlights We added more of an explanation to the Symantec distrust cert errors. Speaking of certificates, April King created an add-on for viewing security certificate details called Certainly Something. Requires … Read more

These Weeks in Firefox: Issue 43

Highlights Today is the last day for Outreachy interns and GSoC students. Thank you for all your contributions! 🎉 The Tracking Protection UI has been replaced with our new “Content … Read more

These Weeks in Firefox: Issue 42

Highlights New Onboarding experience in Firefox 62 currently only as an experiment. The new about:policies helps administrators verify if they have configured policies correctly, learn more about the different policies, … Read more

These Weeks in Firefox: Issue 41

Highlights Multi-select tabs have been enabled by default on Nightly! Use Ctrl/Cmd-Click to select individual tabs, or Shift-Click to select a range, and then right click to perform operations on … Read more

These Weeks in Firefox: Issue 40

Highlights Nightly builds of Focus / Klar (with GeckoView) are now available! Introducing Firefox Monitor, a new security tool we’re testing to help keep track of data breaches on the … Read more