These Weeks in Firefox: Issue 62
Highlights Just landed in Nightly, and targeted for Firefox 70, there is now an overlay in the content page indicating when the debugger is paused and why In Nightly (and … Read more
These Weeks in Firefox: Issue 61
Highlights OOP iframes somewhat work now on Nightly! For the super-brave, you can test it yourself by creating a boolean preference fission.autostart and setting it to true, and then restarting … Read more
These Weeks in Firefox: Issue 60
Highlights Integrated add-on abuse reporting landed in Firefox 68 You need to enable the HTML-based about:addons by setting extensions.htmlaboutaddons.enabled to true in about:config The abuse reporting UI can be enabled … Read more
These Weeks in Firefox: Issue 59
Highlights Wow, what a weekend! Hopefully your add-ons are all working now. A small set of users are still reporting add-on outages. We suspect that the Master Password and Anti-virus … Read more
These Weeks in Firefox: Issue 58
Highlights New and wonderful DevTools goodies: New CSS debugging feature coming up soon (likely with Firefox 69): Inactive CSS. This will be tremendously helpful to know when certain CSS declarations … Read more
These Weeks in Firefox: Issue 57
Highlights We’re running experiments to reduce annoying permission prompts in Firefox The DevTools team is bringing back Print Simulation! The bug to add it back into the inspector has landed … Read more
These Weeks in Firefox: Issue 56
Highlights Firefox Lockbox now available on Android! Check it out! Responsive Design Mode in Dev Tools supports Meta Viewport, behind the devtools.responsive.metaViewport.enabled pref! There’s now a way to access your … Read more
Reducing Notification Permission Prompt Spam in Firefox
Permission prompts are a common sight on the web today. They allow websites to prompt for access to powerful features when needed, giving users granular and contextual choice about what … Read more
These Weeks in Firefox: Issue 55
Highlights We published a blog post about student contributions to Firefox! A reminder that Outreachy applications are now open, and Mozilla has a number of projects listed Also, a reminder … Read more
Firefox Student Projects in 2018: A Recap
Firefox is an open-source project, created by a vibrant community of paid and volunteer contributors from all over the world. Did you know that some of those contributors are students, … Read more
These Weeks in Firefox: Issue 54
Highlights Firefox Account is experimenting with putting an avatar next to the hamburger menu. It will give users visibility on their account, sync status as well as links to manage … Read more
These Weeks in Firefox: Issue 53
Highlights The need for speed! Using some handy scripts from Florian, mconley was able to do some frame recordings on the 2018 reference hardware to measure start-up performance. Firefox Nightly … Read more