Celebrating 20 years of Firefox – These Weeks in Firefox: Issue 171
Highlights Firefox is turning 20 years old! Here’s a sneak peek of what’s to come for the browser. We completed work on the new messaging surface for the AppMenu / … Read more
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Experimental address bar deduplication, better auto-open Picture-in-Picture, and more – These Weeks in Firefox: Issue 170
Highlights A new messaging surface for the AppMenu and PXI menu is landing imminently so that we can experiment with some messages to help users understand the value of signing … Read more
Search Improvements Are On Their Way – These Weeks in Firefox: Issue 169
Highlights The search team is planning on enabling a series of improvements to the search experience this week in Nightly! This project is called “Scotch Bonnet”. We would love to … Read more
From ESR to Address Bar – These Weeks in Firefox: Issue 168
Highlights ESR115 EOL was extended for Win 7-8.1 and macOS 10.12-10.14 to March 2025. See the firefox-dev post for more details. This doesn’t impact next month’s planned migration to ESR128 … Read more
Fantastic Firefox Fixes – These Weeks in Firefox: Issue 167
Highlights Firefox 130 goes out today! Check out some interesting opt-in early features in Firefox Labs! Puppeteer v23 released with official Firefox support, using Webdriver BiDi. Read our announcement on … Read more
Streamline your screen time with auto-open Picture-in-Picture and more – These Weeks in Firefox: Issue 166
Highlights Special shout-out to Daniele (egglessness) who landed a new experimental Picture-in-Picture feature that can be enabled in Firefox 130! This feature automatically triggers Picture-in-Picture mode for any playing video … Read more
Concise and compact – These Weeks in Firefox: Issue 165
Highlights Thanks to Alexandre Poirot for the latest DevTools Toolbox JS tracer improvements. The tracer will likely evolve in the next few weeks, so stay tuned for more updates. You … Read more
100% WebDriver BiDi and 101% more! – These Weeks in Firefox: Issue 164
Highlights Many Firefox DevTools updates (seriously!) Alexandre massively improved performance through the whole browser toolbox (-50% on Webconsole reload, -20% on heavy console logging, -15% on Debugger step-in) by throttling … Read more
Experimenting with AI services in Nightly
Ed Lee and Ania Safko
In the coming months, we will experiment with providing easy access to optional AI services in Nightly to improve productivity as you browse. This work is part of our improvements … Read more
CSS Rules in your Firefox DevTools – These Weeks in Firefox: Issue 163
Highlights Lots of great Firefox DevTools updates! Alex tweaked our server to client communication which should bring significant performance improvement across the whole toolbox Nicolas improved performance of the Inspector … Read more
In a nutshell – These Weeks in Firefox: Issue 162
Highlights The final patch for the new and improved text and layout menu in Reader Mode has landed. Try it out the full feature by flipping the improved_text_menu.enabled pref to … Read more
Today’s Forecast: Browser Improvements – These Weeks in Firefox: Issue 161
Highlights Volunteer contributor tamas.beno12 has fixed a 5 digit (25 year old) bug! The patch for the bug makes it easier to create transparent windows The newtab team is experimenting … Read more