Smarter Searches – These Weeks in Firefox: Issue 182
Highlights The Search team has enabled the new URL bar search experience by default 🎉 and fixed action mode layout. See bugs: 1967857, 1967721 Check out this blog post on … Read more
Keep on Rolling with Profile Improvements – These Weeks in Firefox: Issue 180
Highlights Profile Management is rolling out as an experiment in Firefox 138 Notice any issues? Help us out by filing a bug report! Do you have any suggestions for improvements … Read more
A Tab Groups Scoop – These Weeks in Firefox: Issue 179
Highlights The WebExtensions team is fast-tracking support for “tab groups”-related updates to the tabs API (the updates have landed in Nightly 139 and been uplifted to Beta 138) Bug 1959713 … Read more
Putting up Wallpaper – These Weeks in Firefox: Issue 178
Putting up Wallpaper – These Weeks in Firefox: Issue 178 Highlights Custom Wallpapers for New Tab are undergoing further refinement and bugfixing! Amy just fixed an issue which would cause … Read more
Turn Tabs To Their Side – These Weeks in Firefox: Issue 177
Highlights Firefox 135 goes to release today (Feb 4th)! Lots of great changes in this release! We’ve landed Bug 1936379 – Add Sidebar and Vertical Tabs checkboxes in about:preferences and … Read more
High Profile Improvements – These Weeks in Firefox: Issue 176
Highlights Multiple profiles are now enabled by default in Nightly! Preffed on in Nightly only – upcoming 0.5% rollout in Beta and Release will be done via Nimbus File bugs … Read more
New Year New Tab – These Weeks in Firefox: Issue 175
Highlights Firefox 134 went out earlier this month! A refreshed New Tab layout is being rolled out to users in the US and Canada, featuring a repositioned logo and weather … Read more
Firefox on macOS: now smaller and quicker to install!
Firefox is typically installed on macOS by downloading a DMG (Disk iMaGe) file, and dragging the Firefox.app into /Applications. These DMG files are compressed to reduce download time. As of … Read more
Key Improvements – These Weeks in Firefox: Issue 174
Highlights Nicolas Chevobbe [:nchevobbe] Added $$$ , a console helper that retrieve elements from the document, including those in the ShadowDOM (#1899558) Thanks to John Diamond for contributing changes to … Read more
Learning and Improving Every Day – These Weeks in Firefox: Issue 173
Highlights Firefox 133 releases today! Lots of goodies in there, including Bounce Tracking Protection, GPU-accelerated canvas on Windows and more! Nicolas Chevobbe Enabled High Contrast Theme support (devtools.high-contrast-mode-support) on Nightly … Read more
Announcing Faster, Lighter Firefox Downloads for Linux with .tar.xz Packaging!
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
New Address Bar Updates are Here – These Weeks in Firefox: Issue 172
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