Highlights The Photon structure pref has been flipped on Nightly. Photon menus / customization etc. are now the default configuration on Nightly. See dolske’s blog post. We populated the onboarding overlay on about:newtab according to the UI spec. There are … Continue reading
Highlights The datetime picker has been enabled by default on Nightly! Please test and report bugs Firefox Screenshots is in Nightly and enabled by default! Take a shot of something. Report bugs if you find them please. Firefox 54 will … Continue reading
Highlights Form Autofill is enabled-by-default in Nightly! Give it a try by manually creating an address profile in about:preferences. Photon Engineering Newsletter #1 went out last week, #2 coming later today! Flash is now Click-to-Play by default on Nightly! It … Continue reading
An early version of the new Form Autofill feature is ready for testing by early adopters with U.S. addresses and websites using Firefox Nightly on desktop. Form Autofill helps you fill out addresses in online forms. You can give the … Continue reading
For some categories of crashes, we are automatically able to pinpoint the patch which introduced the regression. The issue Developers make mistakes, not because they’re bad but most of the time because the code is complex and sometimes just because … Continue reading
Highlights about:addons now has a legacy tag to show when an extension is not a WebExtension and addons.mozilla.org now specifically tags WebExtensions as compatible on Firefox 57! The Activity Stream Test Pilot now shows recommended stories from Pocket, and you … Continue reading
A big thank you goes out to Johann Hofmann who put these headlines together while I was away on vacation! Highlights Kevin Jones made sessions restore using lazy tabs & browsers which means restoring any session becomes almost instant! The … Continue reading
Every day, multiple changesets are merged or backed out on mozilla-central and every day we compile a new version of Firefox Nightly based on these changes so as to provide builds that our core community can use, test and report … Continue reading
Highlights Volunteer contributor Kevin Jones has been doing amazing work on the lazytabs project Initial measurements suggest the potential for epic session restoration time wins if and when this is enabled 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥 A reorganization of the Preferences page has landed, … Continue reading
Highlights We’ve now got 4 content processes on by default on Nightly! Background tabs are being restored in the content process by default now, improving perceived session restore performance, especially for users with a large number of tabs. Netflix just … Continue reading
