These Weeks in Firefox: Issue 103
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
These Weeks in Firefox: Issue 102
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
These Weeks in Firefox: Issue 101
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
These Weeks in Firefox: Issue 100
Highlights Firefox 92 was released today! We’re 96% through M1 for Fluent migration! Great work from kpatenio and niklas! [Screenshot] Caption: A graph showing how Fluent strings have overtaken DTD … Read more
These Weeks in Firefox: Issue 99
Highlights Nightly users on Windows now have the Tab Unloader enabled, which will unload background tabs in low-memory situations The Tab Unloader works hard to only unload tabs it thinks … Read more
These Weeks in Firefox: Issue 98
Highlights Thanks to volunteer contributor Antonin Loubiere for adding the ability to sort logins by username in about:logins! Lots of bug fixes and improvements to Form Autofill: Thanks to :emilio … Read more
These Weeks in Firefox: Issue 97
Highlights Background updater has started rolling out on Release! This means users on Windows with Firefox installed that haven’t opened it in a while will get the latest Firefox when … Read more
These Weeks in Firefox: Issue 96
Highlights Improved dark mode support for macOS is now enabled in Nightly and Early Beta! When Firefox is in dark mode, look out for: Dark Library/Page Info windows Dark tooltips … Read more
These Weeks in Firefox: Issue 95
Headlines Firefox 89 released this week! This version includes a major UI redesign and thoughtful touches throughout. See the release notes here. We launched ideas.mozilla.org, a new platform for the … Read more
These Weeks in Firefox: Issue 94
Highlights On macOS, scrollbars now squish during rubber-banding. We’re working on supporting native fullscreen on macOS. Turn it on by enabling the pref full-screen-api.macos-native-full-screen. This will (among other things) create … Read more
These Weeks in Firefox: Issue 93
Highlights Firefox 89 introduces a fresh new look and feel! Floating tabs! Streamlined menus! New icons! Better dark mode support! Improved context menus on Mac and Windows Improved perceived startup … Read more
These Weeks in Firefox: Issue 92
Highlights Firefox will now update in the background for Windows Nightly users. See details in Bug 1703909 and this firefox-dev post. We plan to stage roll out to Beta users … Read more