Highlights As part of Fission-related changes, browser.tabs.delectLanguage has been migrated away from MessageChannel.jsm and to use the JSWindowActor messaging instead, which has also nicely reduced AWSY’s Base Content JS memory … Read more
Highlights We have begun to roll out fission to a fraction of users on the release channel! Here’s a reminder of what Fission is, and why it matters Telemetry so … Read more
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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