These Weeks in Firefox: Issue 52
Highlights Check out this awesome 2018 retrospective post by nchevobbe about all the nice things that made it to the Console panel last year. The initial UI for the new … Read more
These Weeks in Firefox: Issue 51
Highlights We’re moving to profile-per-install, starting in Firefox 67! This will help avoid nasty downgrade bugs See these bugs for more detail WebExtensions’ keyboard shortcuts can now be managed / … Read more
Moving to a Profile per Install Architecture
With Firefox 67 you’ll be able to run different Firefox installs side by side by default. Supporting profiles per installation is a feature that has been requested by pre-release users … Read more
These Weeks in Firefox: Issue 50
Highlights Firefox Monitor doorhanger notifications launched for release-channel users on all locales. We published a blog post detailing our policy for which sites will trigger an alert. The Activity Stream … Read more
These Weeks in Firefox: Issue 49
Highlights The DevTools team has added XMLHttpRequest (XHR) Breakpoints! You can break for any XHR, or for XHR’s to a particular URL. Lots of other goodies coming soon from the … Read more
These Weeks in Firefox: Issue 48
Highlights We’re planning on enabling dedicated profiles per install, as well as downgrade protection We released two blog posts summarizing our Anti-Tracking work for Firefox versions 63, 64 and 65 … Read more
These Weeks in Firefox: Issue 47
Highlights Nightly now has greatly improved DevTools performance – we’re at an all time low for the Inspector open/reload time! New tool in the Accessibility DevTools pane – you can … Read more
These Weeks in Firefox: Issue 46
Highlights James Teh fixed a really annoying accessibility bug where search suggestions were interfering with the focused element. We’re officially launching a new privacy tool called Firefox Monitor. You can … Read more
The Developer Toolbar (or GCLI) is no longer in DevTools
The DevTools GCLI has been removed from the Firefox codebase (bug), which roughly translates into 20k less lines of code to think about, and the associated tests which are not … Read more
These Weeks in Firefox: Issue 45
Highlights We released two blog posts that outline our product and platform strategy against trackers and other annoyances: Changing Our Approach to Anti-tracking Why we need better tracking protection Also … Read more
Developer Tools support for Web Components in Firefox 63
Shadow DOM and Web Components are enabled by default in Firefox 63 and the Developer Tools are ready for them ! If you are using Web Components in your project, … Read more
These Weeks in Firefox: Issue 44
Highlights We added more of an explanation to the Symantec distrust cert errors. Speaking of certificates, April King created an add-on for viewing security certificate details called Certainly Something. Requires … Read more