Highlights Picture-in-Picture captions/subtitles support is now enabled by default on Nightly! Supported sites include YouTube, Netflix, Prime Video, and others that use WebVTT The Firefox Profiler supports date format changes … Read more
Highlights The Firefox Profiler team has added a dynamic language switcher! (#3905, #3910) Volunteer contributor aminomancer changed the default seek time for video and audio elements (and for when using … Read more
Highlights Several new updates for DevTools CSS Property Value: Colin Cazabet added the ability to increase/decrease a CSS property value (e.g. dimensions) by dragging the mouse over the CSS property … Read more
Highlights Since the compatibility panel is also riding the 98 train, we polished it a bit: we added support for Internet Explorer 11 data (bug), reworked the tooltip for compatibility … Read more
Highlights Reminder: FOSDEM 2022 is happening the week after (February 5 & 6), and is free to (virtually) attend! Lots of great talks from Mozilla and others. Infrastructure for site-specific … Read more
Highlights DevTools now supports an “auto” theme (now the default). It follows the browser’s color scheme, so if you have a dark theme for your browser, DevTools will also have … Read more
Highlights We’re planning on shipping Credit Card Autofill to the UK, France, and Germany in Firefox Nightly 97! (bug) MSU students just wrapped up a capstone project to improve high … Read more
Highlights Starting from Firefox 96, a new “browser.runtime.getFrameId” method allows an extension content script to retrieve the frameId associated to a WindowProxy of an embedder DOM element (e.g. frame, object … Read more
Highlights A big thank you to all the Outreachy applicants who applied for this cycle. We had 38 applicants with approximately 110 contributions between them. Special shout-out to Antonin, a … Read more
Highlights The current plan is to begin the slow rollout of Fission (Site Isolation in Firefox) next week for users on the release channel We enabled the new downloads experience … Read more
Highlights As part of Fission-related changes, browser.tabs.delectLanguage has been migrated away from MessageChannel.jsm and to use the JSWindowActor messaging instead, which has also nicely reduced AWSY’s Base Content JS memory … Read more
Highlights We have begun to roll out fission to a fraction of users on the release channel! Here’s a reminder of what Fission is, and why it matters Telemetry so … Read more