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Getting Better Every Day – These Weeks in Firefox: Issue 149

Niklas Baumgardner
November 16, 2023

Highlights The WebExtensions team has been working with other browser vendors to make it easier for extension authors to migrate to Manifest v3 To allow extensions developers to use the … Read more

The content context menu for Firefox is opened over a link to the Wikipedia page for hamsters. An item in the context menu is highlighted: "Copy Link Without Site Tracking"

I Can :has Browser Improvements – These Weeks in Firefox: Issue 148

Mike Conley
November 2, 2023

Highlights The platform team has sent an Intent to Ship for the :has selector! Currently targeting Firefox 121. There’s a new item in the content context menu in Nightly that … Read more

Introducing Mozilla’s Firefox Nightly .deb Package for Debian-based Linux Distributions

Gabriel Bustamante
October 30, 2023

Great news for people using Firefox Nightly on Debian-based Linux distributions (such as Debian, Ubuntu, Linux Mint, and others): installing, updating, and testing the latest Firefox Nightly builds just got … Read more

Illustration of a very adorable fox peeking from a bundle of cardboard boxes.

More WebExtensions! Coming to an Android near you soon – These Weeks in Firefox: Issue 147

Katherine Patenio
October 19, 2023

Highlights Extensions process support in Firefox Android is going to ride the Gecko 120 release train (tracked by Bug 1859533). This has been one of the many things blocking full … Read more

Developments Aplenty for 120 – These Weeks in Firefox: Issue 146

Niklas Baumgardner
October 10, 2023

Highlights Firefox is rolling out worldwide support for Encrypted Client Hello to make your network connections even more private! Learn more about Encrypted Client Hello here Corner snapping a Picture-in-Picture … Read more

The newly revamped Firefox View is shown in a Firefox window. The "Recent browsing" section is selected, showing 1 tab under "Open tabs", 5 tabs under "Recently closed tabs", and a call to sign in to a Firefox Account in order to get tabs from other devices.

All Lights Green for 119 – These Weeks in Firefox: Issue 145

Mike Conley
October 2, 2023

Highlights Some more great work from our performance team means that sites using Vue.js 3.0 will run better in Firefox! We’ve added some new behaviours to session restore, and QA … Read more

Screenshot of the shape highlighter in devtools displaying a circular motion path, as a result of the `offset-path` property

Unboxing More DevTools Powers, and Reusable Delights – These Weeks in Firefox: Issue 144

Katherine Patenio
August 10, 2023

Highlights Several Developer Tools updates landed thanks to the DevTools team and fellow contributors. Be sure to check out the DevTools section for more details. Nicolas enabled the shape highlighter … Read more

A View to a Better, Faster Web – These Weeks in Firefox: Issue 143

Niklas Baumgardner
August 10, 2023

Highlights Mozilla published its standards position on the Web Environment Integrity API proposal draft put forward by the Google Chrome team. A new version of Firefox View is in Nightly … Read more

A graph showing the Speedometer benchmark comparing Firefox, Chromium and Chrome. The graph is inverted, with higher scores appearing lower in the graph. Higher scores are better, therefore appearing lower in the graph is better. The top of the graph shows Chromium at around the 120 mark, with a slight change for the worse towards the end of June at around 110. The middle of the graph shows Firefox, rapidly closing in on Chrome, moving from ~150 to ~170, with it fully converging with the Chrome score around July 6th 2023. The bottom fo the graph shows Chrome fairly steady between ~165 and ~170.

Full Speed Into The Future – These Weeks in Firefox: Issue 142

Mike Conley
July 14, 2023

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

Screenshot of Picture-in-Picture video controls including the brand new volume slider

The Firefox Unleashed – These Weeks in Firefox: Issue 141

Katherine Patenio
July 5, 2023

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

Niklas Baumgardner
June 20, 2023

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

A panel opened from the Firefox Desktop URL bar asking if the user wants to translate the current page. The panel offers to translate the page from German to English.

Firefox Translations and Other Innovations – These Weeks in Firefox: Issue 139

Mike Conley
June 1, 2023

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

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