These Weeks in Firefox: Issue 36
Highlights We removed XUL overlays, a legacy add-on technology. This allowed us to get rid of a bunch of old, complex code. We pushed a bunch of updates to the … Read more
Improving DevTools’ performance, one iteration at a time
Firefox Quantum, released last November, was a very important milestone for Firefox. Huge performance gains were achieved by replacing parts of the engine with bits of Servo, written in Rust. … Read more
These Weeks in Firefox: Issue 35
Highlights Activity Stream now lets you set a custom thumbnail for Top Sites! The doorhanger for an extension-controlled homepage now links to a SUMO article, and the doorhanger for an … Read more
These Weeks in Firefox: Issue 34
Highlights Help us eliminate annoying in-content popups by installing this add-on and reporting when pages display an in-content popup like this: Tab warming has (finally!) been enabled on Nightly This … Read more
These Weeks in Firefox: Issue 33
Highlights Added section context menus to Activity Stream, allowing for more in-page customizations like reordering. Heads up: The Symantec CA distrust policy action is underway in Nightly. This policy is … Read more
These Weeks in Firefox: Issue 32
Highlights The WebExtension theme API now supports specifying colors for frame_inactive, tab_loading, icons and icons_attention, button_background, button_background_hover and button_background_active, toolbar_field_separator. We’re experimenting with “early blank first paint” to improve perceived … Read more
These Weeks in Firefox: Issue 31
Highlights A lot of fixes for Activity Stream drag and drop landed, improving the overall experience! The WebExtension tabs API now supports a hide and a show method, to hide … Read more
Creating a Gnome Dock launcher and a terminal command for Firefox Nightly
About 18 months ago, Wil Clouser wrote a blog post on this very blog titled Getting Firefox Nightly to stick to Ubuntu’s Unity Dock. Fast forward to 2018, Ubuntu announced … Read more
These Weeks in Firefox: Issue 30
Highlights The next ESR will be Firefox 60, and will come with the Policy Engine to make it easier to configure mass Firefox installs in an enterprise environment. Firefox for … Read more
These Weeks in Firefox: Issue 29
Highlights Check out the blog post on hacks.mozilla.org on using the new theming API in Firefox evanxd added a spotlight feature to Preferences so that it’s easier for “help” links … Read more
These Weeks in Firefox: Issue 28
Highlights We turned on Pocket local personalization by default which takes the generic story feed and adjusts the ordering based on client-side computation of history / impressions. The Flash Click-to-Play … Read more
These Weeks in Firefox: Issue 27
Highlights Data preference changes have been streamlined in 58, and segmented into release and prerelease data. Nihanth enabled the vibrancy effect from the default theme in the light theme on … Read more