Fosdem 2017 Nightly slides and video
FOSDEM is a two-day event organised by volunteers to promote the widespread use of free and open source software. Every year in February, Mozillians from all over the world go … Read more
These Weeks in Firefox: Issue 10
Highlights The Sidebar WebExtension API (compatible with Opera’s API) has been implemented ? Preferences reorg and search project is fully underway. jaws and mconley lead a “hack-weekend” this past weekend … Read more
These Weeks in Firefox: Issue 9
Highlights Firefox 51 was released! Includes the new Zoom Indicator in the URL bar when zoom level is non-default Improved e10s tab-switching! Whitelist of ~700 addons for e10s Tested with … Read more
These Weeks in Firefox: Issue 8
The first Firefox Desktop Engineering meeting for 2017 took place this morning! Here are the interesting bits: Highlights past wrote a blog post about some upcoming privacy and security features … Read more
These Weeks in Firefox: Issue 7
The last Firefox Desktop Engineering meeting for 2016 recently occurred! Here are the relevant tidbits. Highlights If you haven’t already seen it, a Very Important blog post from the Add-ons … Read more
Upcoming Community Efforts Around Nightly
I have been speaking with several community members about Activate Mozilla, a new campaign that the Participation team has launched. I believe there are some potential tasks around Nightly that … Read more
These Weeks in Firefox: Issue 6
Highlights A reminder that Firefox ESR 52 will be the last version to support WinXP Relevant mailing list thread. past reports that the new permission doorhanger UI has landed! Permission … Read more
These Weeks in Firefox: Issue 5
Highlights The async and await operators have landed in Nightly 52, and are scheduled to ride the trains! Here’s a blog post about it. jryans added a Network Throttling tool … Read more
Simulate slow connections with the network throttling tool
Firefox DevTools has now a network throttling tool to simulate slow connections, so you can get a rough idea of the user experience under different connection types (bug #1283453). This … Read more
async/await support in Firefox
Support for async/await has been added in the Nightly build from the 31st of October (bug #1185106). Great stuff! Time to start removing those JavaScript transpilers from your experimental projects, … Read more
These Weeks in Firefox: Issue 4
The Firefox Desktop engineering team met together last Tuesday to chat about what they’re working on. Here are some juicy tidbits from that meeting: Highlights mikedeboer wants to draw attention … Read more
These Weeks in Firefox: Issue 3
The Firefox Desktop team met yet again last Tuesday to share updates. Here are some fresh updates that we think you might find interesting: Highlights The add-ons team is landing … Read more