These Weeks in Firefox: Issue 29
Highlights Check out the blog post on hacks.mozilla.org on using the new theming API in Firefox evanxd added a spotlight feature to Preferences so that it’s easier for “help” links … Read more
These Weeks in Firefox: Issue 28
Highlights We turned on Pocket local personalization by default which takes the generic story feed and adjusts the ordering based on client-side computation of history / impressions. The Flash Click-to-Play … Read more
These Weeks in Firefox: Issue 27
Highlights Data preference changes have been streamlined in 58, and segmented into release and prerelease data. Nihanth enabled the vibrancy effect from the default theme in the light theme on … Read more
These Weeks in Firefox: Issue 26
Highlights Prathiksha moved the pop-up blocked icon/menu from the urlbar to the identity block/identity pop-up (the notification bar for blocked popups is still there). Please read our plans for removing … Read more
These Weeks in Firefox: Issue 25
Highlights A browser.tabs.tabMinWidth preference has been added to control the minimum tab width before overflow, and the default was then set for 50. More recently, this default has changed to … Read more
These Weeks in Firefox: Issue 24
Highlights Firefox Quantum (57) is now on Beta! Developer Edition has also gone to 57! Tell everyone you know, tell people you don’t know, test like crazy, file bugs! Firefox … Read more
These Weeks in Firefox: Issue 23
The team is busy sanding down the last few rough edges, and getting Firefox 57 ready to merge to beta! So busy in fact, that there are no screenshots or … Read more
Developer Tools visual refresh coming to Nightly
Good evening, Nightly friends! As the UX designer for DevTools, I’ve been working on fresh new themes for Firefox 57. My colleague Gabriel Luong is handling the implementation and will … Read more
These Weeks in Firefox: Issue 22
Highlights Prathiksha added site permission settings for Location, Camera, Microphone and replaced the old permission dialog for Notifications in about:preferences. jkt has improved the WebExtensions contextualIdentities APIs to the point … Read more
These Weeks in Firefox: Issue 21
Highlights The App Updater is now using LZMA compression and SHA384 for signing. The release of builds taking advantage of this should be unthrottled today. So far, complete update files … Read more
Stylo is ready for community testing on Nightly!
Quantum CSS, aka Stylo, aims to integrate Servo’s parallelized CSS style system written in Rust into Gecko. Stylo is built with Firefox Nightly and is now ready for wider community … Read more
These Weeks in Firefox: Issue 20
Headlines Out of process extensions is now on in Nightly for Windows users. Much excite about this. Please file any bugs you might find with this, we’ve been squashing a … Read more