Firefox Nightly News

Highlights The need for speed! Using some handy scripts from Florian, mconley was able to do some frame recordings on the 2018 reference hardware to measure start-up performance. Firefox Nightly … Read more

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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