Highlights Starting from Firefox 96, a new “browser.runtime.getFrameId” method allows an extension content script to retrieve the frameId associated to a WindowProxy of an embedder DOM element (e.g. frame, object … Read more
Highlights A big thank you to all the Outreachy applicants who applied for this cycle. We had 38 applicants with approximately 110 contributions between them. Special shout-out to Antonin, a … Read more
Highlights The current plan is to begin the slow rollout of Fission (Site Isolation in Firefox) next week for users on the release channel We enabled the new downloads experience … Read more
Highlights As part of Fission-related changes, browser.tabs.delectLanguage has been migrated away from MessageChannel.jsm and to use the JSWindowActor messaging instead, which has also nicely reduced AWSY’s Base Content JS memory … Read more
Highlights We have begun to roll out fission to a fraction of users on the release channel! Here’s a reminder of what Fission is, and why it matters Telemetry so … Read more
Highlights Firefox 92 was released today! We’re 96% through M1 for Fluent migration! Great work from kpatenio and niklas! [Screenshot] Caption: A graph showing how Fluent strings have overtaken DTD … Read more
Highlights Nightly users on Windows now have the Tab Unloader enabled, which will unload background tabs in low-memory situations The Tab Unloader works hard to only unload tabs it thinks … Read more
Highlights Thanks to volunteer contributor Antonin Loubiere for adding the ability to sort logins by username in about:logins! Lots of bug fixes and improvements to Form Autofill: Thanks to :emilio … Read more
Highlights Background updater has started rolling out on Release! This means users on Windows with Firefox installed that haven’t opened it in a while will get the latest Firefox when … Read more
Highlights Improved dark mode support for macOS is now enabled in Nightly and Early Beta! When Firefox is in dark mode, look out for: Dark Library/Page Info windows Dark tooltips … Read more
Headlines Firefox 89 released this week! This version includes a major UI redesign and thoughtful touches throughout. See the release notes here. We launched ideas.mozilla.org, a new platform for the … Read more
Highlights On macOS, scrollbars now squish during rubber-banding. We’re working on supporting native fullscreen on macOS. Turn it on by enabling the pref full-screen-api.macos-native-full-screen. This will (among other things) create … Read more