Firefox Nightly News

Highlights Starting from Firefox 86, WebExtensions will not need to request the broader “tabs” permission to have access to some of the more privileged part of the tabs API (in … Read more

Highlights Some new printing enhancements have recently landed: emalysz added a checkbox to only print the selection if there is one dholbert added support for printing 2 and 6 pages-per-sheet … Read more

Highlights Here’s our Firefox Year in Review! Here’s our Performance Year in Review! We’ve just landed Bug 1553982, which aims to prevent starting an update while another Firefox instance is … Read more

Highlights Nightly users can now manage their homepage and newtab page from about:preferences. This allows them to use the default homepage even if an extension has provided one of its … Read more

Highlights Firefox 83 went out yesterday! Started investigation into making BrowserNotification look more part of chrome to eventually use as a UI for remote messages (in addition to CFR and … Read more

Highlights Tab-to-search has been enabled in Nightly! When the URL bar autofills an origin having an installed search engine, users can press tab or down to pick a special shortcut … Read more

Highlights We’re testing some variations on the Picture-in-Picture toggle Camera and microphone global mutes have landed, but are being held to Nightly Urlbar Design Update 2 is live in Nightly. … Read more

Highlights The tab modal print UI work is still in full swing, and is aiming for Firefox 81. A new and colorful “Alpenglow” theme is included in Firefox 81, and … Read more

Highlights Firefox for Android updates: Edit logins is now available on Nightly, let us know if you find bugs 👀! Swipe to switch tab gestures are now on Nightly as … Read more