These Weeks in Firefox: Issue 84
Highlights Nightly users can now manage their homepage and newtab page from about:preferences. This allows them to use the default homepage even if an extension has provided one of its … Read more
Highlights Nightly users can now manage their homepage and newtab page from about:preferences. This allows them to use the default homepage even if an extension has provided one of its … Read more
Highlights Firefox 83 went out yesterday! Started investigation into making BrowserNotification look more part of chrome to eventually use as a UI for remote messages (in addition to CFR and … Read more
Highlights Urlbar Update 2 enabled on Firefox Beta. This work includes Search Mode, refreshed one-offs, and tab-to-search results. We recently introduced tab-to-search results that are shown when a search engine’s … Read more
Highlights Tab-to-search has been enabled in Nightly! When the URL bar autofills an origin having an installed search engine, users can press tab or down to pick a special shortcut … Read more
Highlights We now show three recommended articles when saving a webpage to Pocket. To enable this, set extensions.pocket.onSaveRecs to true, and restart. This is an enhancement and thus will be … Read more
Highlights We’re testing some variations on the Picture-in-Picture toggle Camera and microphone global mutes have landed, but are being held to Nightly Urlbar Design Update 2 is live in Nightly. … Read more
Highlights The tab modal print UI work is still in full swing, and is aiming for Firefox 81. A new and colorful “Alpenglow” theme is included in Firefox 81, and … Read more
Highlights Firefox for Android updates: Edit logins is now available on Nightly, let us know if you find bugs 👀! Swipe to switch tab gestures are now on Nightly as … Read more
Highlights Call for testing: turn on the devtools.netmonitor.features.sse pref, which provides support for Server Side Events (SSE) ready in 80 and a visualization for text/event-stream content types (bug). Use this … Read more
Highlights We’ve added a new section to about:preferences to opt-in to experimental features! Go to about:preferences, and look for “Experiments” on the left-hand side. Firefox Lockwise (about:logins) now supports Login … Read more
Highlights The Network panel is now showing even requests rejected by CORS (Cross-origin resource sharing). All rejected requests are using red color as you can see in the following screenshot. … Read more
Highlights Picture-in-Picture now works across workspaces on macOS! (bug) Firefox now alerts users regarding vulnerable passwords. Bug 1626107 enables this feature after many bug fixes and UI tweaks! Visual redesign … Read more