These Weeks in Firefox: Issue 95
Headlines Firefox 89 released this week! This version includes a major UI redesign and thoughtful touches throughout. See the release notes here. We launched ideas.mozilla.org, a new platform for the … Read more
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These Weeks in Firefox: Issue 94
Highlights On macOS, scrollbars now squish during rubber-banding. We’re working on supporting native fullscreen on macOS. Turn it on by enabling the pref full-screen-api.macos-native-full-screen. This will (among other things) create … Read more
These Weeks in Firefox: Issue 89
Highlights Visualization of the CPU utilization is landing soon! Example profile (currently deploy preview) You can toggle the new/old visualization from the “graph type” radio button on the top left … Read more
These Weeks in Firefox: Issue 88
Highlights Firefox 86 went out on February 23rd! Here are the release notes. The new, modern printing UI is rolling out to 100% of our release users in Firefox 86! … Read more
These Weeks in Firefox: Issue 82
Highlights Urlbar Update 2 enabled on Firefox Beta. This work includes Search Mode, refreshed one-offs, and tab-to-search results. We recently introduced tab-to-search results that are shown when a search engine’s … Read more
These Weeks in Firefox: Issue 80
Highlights We now show three recommended articles when saving a webpage to Pocket. To enable this, set extensions.pocket.onSaveRecs to true, and restart. This is an enhancement and thus will be … Read more
These Weeks in Firefox: Issue 76
Highlights Call for testing: turn on the devtools.netmonitor.features.sse pref, which provides support for Server Side Events (SSE) ready in 80 and a visualization for text/event-stream content types (bug). Use this … Read more
Reducing Notification Permission Prompt Spam in Firefox
Permission prompts are a common sight on the web today. They allow websites to prompt for access to powerful features when needed, giving users granular and contextual choice about what … Read more
Moving to a Profile per Install Architecture
With Firefox 67 you’ll be able to run different Firefox installs side by side by default. Supporting profiles per installation is a feature that has been requested by pre-release users … Read more
Firefox Nightly Secure DNS Experimental Results
A previous post discussed a planned Firefox Nightly experiment involving secure DNS via the DNS over HTTPS (DoH) protocol. That experiment is now complete and this post discusses the results. … 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