We’re excited to announce an improvement for our Linux users that enhances both performance and compatibility with various Linux distributions. Switching to .tar.xz Packaging for Linux Builds In our ongoing … Read more
Highlights Our newly updated address bar, also known as “Scotch Bonnet”, is available in Nightly builds! 🎉 See this Connect thread to find more details and share your feedback. We … Read more
Highlights Firefox is turning 20 years old! Here’s a sneak peek of what’s to come for the browser. We completed work on the new messaging surface for the AppMenu / … Read more
Highlights A new messaging surface for the AppMenu and PXI menu is landing imminently so that we can experiment with some messages to help users understand the value of signing … Read more
Highlights The search team is planning on enabling a series of improvements to the search experience this week in Nightly! This project is called “Scotch Bonnet”. We would love to … Read more
Highlights ESR115 EOL was extended for Win 7-8.1 and macOS 10.12-10.14 to March 2025. See the firefox-dev post for more details. This doesn’t impact next month’s planned migration to ESR128 … Read more
Highlights Firefox 130 goes out today! Check out some interesting opt-in early features in Firefox Labs! Puppeteer v23 released with official Firefox support, using Webdriver BiDi. Read our announcement on … Read more
Highlights Special shout-out to Daniele (egglessness) who landed a new experimental Picture-in-Picture feature that can be enabled in Firefox 130! This feature automatically triggers Picture-in-Picture mode for any playing video … Read more
We are excited to share that vertical tabs and a new sidebar experience are now available in Nightly 131. This update has been highly anticipated and requested by the community, … Read more
Highlights Thanks to Alexandre Poirot for the latest DevTools Toolbox JS tracer improvements. The tracer will likely evolve in the next few weeks, so stay tuned for more updates. You … Read more
Highlights Many Firefox DevTools updates (seriously!) Alexandre massively improved performance through the whole browser toolbox (-50% on Webconsole reload, -20% on heavy console logging, -15% on Debugger step-in) by throttling … Read more
In the coming months, we will experiment with providing easy access to optional AI services in Nightly to improve productivity as you browse. This work is part of our improvements … Read more