These Weeks in Firefox: Issue 8
The first Firefox Desktop Engineering meeting for 2017 took place this morning! Here are the interesting bits: Highlights past wrote a blog post about some upcoming privacy and security features … Read more
These Weeks in Firefox: Issue 7
The last Firefox Desktop Engineering meeting for 2016 recently occurred! Here are the relevant tidbits. Highlights If you haven’t already seen it, a Very Important blog post from the Add-ons … Read more
Upcoming Community Efforts Around Nightly
I have been speaking with several community members about Activate Mozilla, a new campaign that the Participation team has launched. I believe there are some potential tasks around Nightly that … Read more
These Weeks in Firefox: Issue 6
Highlights A reminder that Firefox ESR 52 will be the last version to support WinXP Relevant mailing list thread. past reports that the new permission doorhanger UI has landed! Permission … Read more
These Weeks in Firefox: Issue 5
Highlights The async and await operators have landed in Nightly 52, and are scheduled to ride the trains! Here’s a blog post about it. jryans added a Network Throttling tool … Read more
Simulate slow connections with the network throttling tool
Firefox DevTools has now a network throttling tool to simulate slow connections, so you can get a rough idea of the user experience under different connection types (bug #1283453). This … Read more
async/await support in Firefox
Support for async/await has been added in the Nightly build from the 31st of October (bug #1185106). Great stuff! Time to start removing those JavaScript transpilers from your experimental projects, … Read more
These Weeks in Firefox: Issue 4
The Firefox Desktop engineering team met together last Tuesday to chat about what they’re working on. Here are some juicy tidbits from that meeting: Highlights mikedeboer wants to draw attention … Read more
These Weeks in Firefox: Issue 3
The Firefox Desktop team met yet again last Tuesday to share updates. Here are some fresh updates that we think you might find interesting: Highlights The add-ons team is landing … Read more
Better default bookmarks for Nightly
Because software defaults matter, we have just changed the default bookmarks for the Nightly channel to be more useful to power-users deeply interested in day to day progress of Firefox … Read more
DevTools now display white space text nodes in the DOM inspector
Web developers don’t write all their code in just one line of text. They use white space between their HTML elements because it makes markup more readable: spaces, returns, tabs. … Read more
Found a regression in Firefox? Give us details with mozregression!
One of the most useful things you can do to help improve the quality for Firefox is to warn developers about regressions and give them all the details that will … Read more