These Weeks in Firefox: Issue 108
Highlights Reminder: FOSDEM 2022 is happening the week after (February 5 & 6), and is free to (virtually) attend! Lots of great talks from Mozilla and others. Infrastructure for site-specific … Read more
These Weeks in Firefox: Issue 107
Highlights DevTools now supports an “auto” theme (now the default). It follows the browser’s color scheme, so if you have a dark theme for your browser, DevTools will also have … Read more
These Weeks in Firefox: Issue 106
Highlights We’re planning on shipping Credit Card Autofill to the UK, France, and Germany in Firefox Nightly 97! (bug) MSU students just wrapped up a capstone project to improve high … Read more
These Weeks in Firefox: Issue 105
Highlights Starting from Firefox 96, a new “browser.runtime.getFrameId” method allows an extension content script to retrieve the frameId associated to a WindowProxy of an embedder DOM element (e.g. frame, object … Read more
These Weeks in Firefox: Issue 104
Highlights A big thank you to all the Outreachy applicants who applied for this cycle. We had 38 applicants with approximately 110 contributions between them. Special shout-out to Antonin, a … Read more
These Weeks in Firefox: Issue 103
Highlights The current plan is to begin the slow rollout of Fission (Site Isolation in Firefox) next week for users on the release channel We enabled the new downloads experience … Read more
These Weeks in Firefox: Issue 102
Highlights As part of Fission-related changes, browser.tabs.delectLanguage has been migrated away from MessageChannel.jsm and to use the JSWindowActor messaging instead, which has also nicely reduced AWSY’s Base Content JS memory … Read more
These Weeks in Firefox: Issue 101
Highlights We have begun to roll out fission to a fraction of users on the release channel! Here’s a reminder of what Fission is, and why it matters Telemetry so … Read more
These Weeks in Firefox: Issue 100
Highlights Firefox 92 was released today! We’re 96% through M1 for Fluent migration! Great work from kpatenio and niklas! [Screenshot] Caption: A graph showing how Fluent strings have overtaken DTD … Read more
These Weeks in Firefox: Issue 99
Highlights Nightly users on Windows now have the Tab Unloader enabled, which will unload background tabs in low-memory situations The Tab Unloader works hard to only unload tabs it thinks … Read more
These Weeks in Firefox: Issue 98
Highlights Thanks to volunteer contributor Antonin Loubiere for adding the ability to sort logins by username in about:logins! Lots of bug fixes and improvements to Form Autofill: Thanks to :emilio … Read more
These Weeks in Firefox: Issue 97
Highlights Background updater has started rolling out on Release! This means users on Windows with Firefox installed that haven’t opened it in a while will get the latest Firefox when … Read more