These Weeks in Firefox: Issue 55
Highlights We published a blog post about student contributions to Firefox! A reminder that Outreachy applications are now open, and Mozilla has a number of projects listed Also, a reminder … Read more
Firefox Student Projects in 2018: A Recap
Firefox is an open-source project, created by a vibrant community of paid and volunteer contributors from all over the world. Did you know that some of those contributors are students, … Read more
These Weeks in Firefox: Issue 54
Highlights Firefox Account is experimenting with putting an avatar next to the hamburger menu. It will give users visibility on their account, sync status as well as links to manage … Read more
These Weeks in Firefox: Issue 53
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
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