Search persistence, a new migrator and more! – These Weeks in Firefox: Issue 129
Highlights James from the Search team has been working on persisting the search term in the address bar after you do a search in it. It is now enabled on … Read more
Highlights James from the Search team has been working on persisting the search term in the address bar after you do a search in it. It is now enabled on … Read more
Highlights Initial WebExtension Manifest Version 3 support is riding the 109 release train For more information, please read this blog post Again, a reminder that Mozilla plans to continue support … Read more
Highlights Screenshots is getting an overhaul for Nightly! Check it out by flipping the `screenshots.browser.component.enabled` We’re starting to assemble and line up ideas for next steps for Screenshots. If you … Read more
Highlights Firefox 106 went out today! Here are some blog posts talking about what is new, as well as the release notes! The Unified Extensions toolbar button (part of the … Read more
Highlights Highlights and updates are a little thin this week since a lot of the team is still recovering from All Hands. cmkm added support for Picture-in-Picture subtitles for Frontend … Read more
Highlights Firefox 105 is released today! Lots of goodies in there, as well as performance and stability improvements. WebExtension Manifest Version 3 support has been enabled by default in Nightly … Read more
Highlights We have a brand new batch of students from CalState LA working with us on improving the Migrator component as part of a Capstone course! They’re just getting ramped … Read more
August 23rd, 2022 Highlights Starting from Firefox 106, popups related to WebExtensions browserAction widgets that are moved inside the overflow panel will open in their own separate panel, instead of … Read more
Highlights Check out this blog post featuring interviews with Niklas, kpatenio and jmaher about mentoring for Outreachy PDF annotating support is being worked on, and can be tested in Nightly … Read more
Highlights Dale Harvey implemented an experimental Quick Actions feature in the Address Bar Demo video: directly open privacy preferences, view source, take screenshot Enable browser.urlbar.quickactions.enabled and browser.urlbar.shortcuts.quickactions This is en-US … Read more
Highlights Allow the browser toolbox to enable/disable multiprocess behavior on-demand (bug). The user can switch between two modes. Parent process only (fast) – observing only the parent process and useful … Read more
Highlights Firefox 101 releases today! Here are the release notes. We’ve been refactoring the Screenshots feature. You can help us test this by setting `screenshots.browser.component.enabled` to `true` in about:config New … Read more