Full Speed Into The Future – These Weeks in Firefox: Issue 142
Highlights Firefox 115 was released last week! Firefox 115 ESR also went out, which is the last release series that Mozilla will be supporting for Windows 7 and 8 as … Read more
The Firefox Unleashed – These Weeks in Firefox: Issue 141
Highlights We were able to disable some Spectre / Meltdown JIT mitigations! Nightly-only for now. These were mitigations we deployed years ago to protect users against various timing attacks. With … Read more
Brief and Blissful – These Weeks in Firefox: Issue 140
Highlights The new migration wizard has been enabled by default! It’s being slowly rolled out to the release channel for users on Firefox 114, and will be fully enabled for … Read more
Firefox Translations and Other Innovations – These Weeks in Firefox: Issue 139
Highlights New in Nightly – Firefox Translations! Firefox can now often detect if you’re viewing a page written in a language not matching the one matching your locale, and for … Read more
A Bountiful Blend of Browser Betterments – These Weeks in Firefox: Issue 138
Highlights WebExtensions In Firefox 114, extension widgets listed in the extensions panel can be reordered through the menu “Move up” / “Move down” context menu actions (Bug 1805924) Support for … Read more
Short but Sweet – These Weeks in Firefox: Issue 137
Highlights aminomancer and Negin from the OMC team are making it possible to embed the new migration wizard nicely in about:welcome! This metabug tracks that effort. bnasar added support for … Read more
Harder, Better, Faster, Stronger, Prettier – These Weeks in Firefox: Issue 136
Highlights Itiel improved themes support for the findbar, previously there was very little contrast. Themes with background images have their images used in the findbar. Nicolas added media import condition … Read more
Jam-packed with Updates – These Weeks in Firefox: Issue 135
Highlights In Firefox >= 113 users can now move the extensions button within the navigation toolbar while in Customize Mode (App Menu > More tools > Customize Toolbar) Hubert added … Read more
Dropping the Banner Hammer and More – These Weeks in Firefox: Issue 134
Highlights Cookie Banner Handling can now be enabled in Nightly via about:preferences#privacy. This will enable the feature for both normal and private browsing. For more granular control you can use … Read more
Surf with more Perf(ormance) – These Weeks in Firefox: Issue 133
Highlights The DevTools team has improved Pretty Printing performance in the Debugger by ~30%! This improvement is available in Beta and currently slated to go out in Firefox 111. Mak … Read more
Let’s Give You More Control(s) – These Weeks in Firefox: Issue 132
Highlights Dao has enabled the URL bar result menu in Nightly! This gives you more control over the results that appear. The improved video controls for Picture-in-Picture have been enabled … Read more
A Variety of Improvements At January’s End – These Weeks in Firefox: Issue 131
Highlights Issam and Micah have updated about:logins with some new UI improvements! Issam made it so search input is aligned with the logins list Micah added a new timeline component … Read more