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In a nutshell – These Weeks in Firefox: Issue 162

Katherine Patenio
June 3, 2024

Highlights The final patch for the new and improved text and layout menu in Reader Mode has landed. Try it out the full feature by flipping the improved_text_menu.enabled pref to … Read more

Today’s Forecast: Browser Improvements – These Weeks in Firefox: Issue 161

Niklas Baumgardner
May 17, 2024

Highlights Volunteer contributor tamas.beno12 has fixed a 5 digit (25 year old) bug! The patch for the bug makes it easier to create transparent windows The newtab team is experimenting … Read more

A panel in Firefox's Reader Mode is shown for controlling layout and text on the page. The panel lets users control the content width, line spacing, character spacing, word spacing, and text alignment of the text in reader mode.

Screenshots++ – These Weeks in Firefox: Issue 160

Mike Conley
May 9, 2024

Highlights The screenshots component pref just got enabled and is riding the trains in 127! This is a new implementation of the screenshots feature with a number of usability, accessibility … Read more

Firefox's New Tab page with a beautiful image of the aurora borealis set as the background wallpaper

Wall to Wall Improvements – These Weeks in Firefox: Issue 159

Katherine Patenio
April 23, 2024

Highlights The team is in the early stages of adding wallpaper support! This is still very preliminary, but you can test what they’ve currently landed on Nightly: Set browser.newtabpage.activity-stream.newtabWallpapers.enabled to … Read more

Firefox Nightly Now Available for Linux on ARM64

Gabriel Bustamante
April 19, 2024

We’re excited to share an update with people running Linux on ARM64 (also known as AArch64) architectures. ARM64 Binaries Are Here After launching the Firefox Nightly .deb package, feedback highlighted … Read more

Exploring improvements to the Firefox sidebar

Ania Safko
April 15, 2024

What are we working on?  We have long been excited to improve the existing Firefox sidebar and strengthen productivity use cases in the browser. We are laying the groundwork for … Read more

Customizing Reader Mode – These Weeks in Firefox: Issue 158

Niklas Baumgardner
April 15, 2024

Highlights Irene has just landed a patch supporting custom color themes! You can flip the pref ​​reader.colors_menu.enabled to preview this feature in Nightly. Bug 1876432 – Add support for custom … Read more

The Firefox URL bar is open with the characters "stea" entered. One of the suggestions is for an Amazon page for the Steam Deck console, which is opened in a Shopping container tab. A "Switch to Tab - Shopping" item is displayed next to the search result.

Switch to Container Tabs – These Weeks in Firefox: Issue 157

Mike Conley
April 2, 2024

Highlights After fixing some bugs discovered in Nightly, Marco has enabled cross-container tab search on beta and release. This should go out with Firefox 125! Daisuke fixed a 22-year old … Read more

The Screenshots feature in Firefox functioning within the about:config page

A Better Screenshots Tool and More – These Weeks in Firefox: Issue 156

Katherine Patenio
March 11, 2024

Highlights The new Screenshots component (which replaces the Screenshots built-in extension) is now enabled by default on Nightly (bug 1789727)! This improves upon the extension version of the feature in … Read more

Inspector Performance and Other Improvements – These Weeks in Firefox: Issue 155

Niklas Baumgardner
February 26, 2024

Highlights Alex added added a new option to log frame return to the nascent JS Tracer feature (bug) This can be really useful paired with the “Log function arguments and … Read more

A screenshot of the Mozilla Monitor Plus dashboard for US customers. The dashboard shows that 16 exposures of user data have been manually fixed, and that 240 are in progress. At the bottom, a list of data brokers are listed for which data scrubbing is in progress. Those data brokers are "arivify.com" and "beenverified.com", and the user data is listed as being for sale.

Monitor, Plus More Improvements – These Weeks in Firefox: Issue 154

Mike Conley
February 15, 2024

Highlights Mozilla Monitor Plus has been launched! This is a new subscription product (available only in the US for now) that will search for and scrub your personal information from … Read more

A tab preview showing the page contents of another background tab

A Preview of Tab Previews – These Weeks in Firefox: Issue 153

Katherine Patenio
February 6, 2024

Highlights Tab Previews! Congratulations to DJ for getting these landed. Currently disabled by default, but you can test them by setting `browser.tabs.cardPreview.enabled` to true sfoster landed a patch that improves … Read more

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