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
Preview Storage API in Firefox Nightly
We are happy to announce that the Storage API feature is ready for testing in Firefox Nightly Desktop! Storage API The Storage API allows Web sites to find out how … Read more
These Weeks in Firefox: Issue 19
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 … Read more
Resolved: Fixed – A short story about a community-reported bug
Firefox Nightly users, thanks to the telemetry and crash reports they send to Mozilla, are an amazing help to Firefox developers. The aggregated data sent by our community is extremely … Read more
Date/Time Inputs Enabled on Nightly
Exciting! Firefox is now providing simple and chic interfaces for representing, setting and picking a time or date on Nightly. Various content attributes defined in the HTML standard, such as … Read more
Using mozregression on Windows
I already blogged about using mozregression in a terminal for Linux/Mac users so this is a follow-up post with specific instructions presented as a video tutorial for Windows users. If … Read more
These Weeks in Firefox: Issue 18
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. … Read more
These Weeks in Firefox: Issue 17
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 … Read more