These Weeks in Firefox: Issue 4
The Firefox Desktop engineering team met together last Tuesday to chat about what they’re working on. Here are some juicy tidbits from that meeting: Highlights mikedeboer wants to draw attention … Read more
These Weeks in Firefox: Issue 3
The Firefox Desktop team met yet again last Tuesday to share updates. Here are some fresh updates that we think you might find interesting: Highlights The add-ons team is landing … Read more
Better default bookmarks for Nightly
Because software defaults matter, we have just changed the default bookmarks for the Nightly channel to be more useful to power-users deeply interested in day to day progress of Firefox … Read more
DevTools now display white space text nodes in the DOM inspector
Web developers don’t write all their code in just one line of text. They use white space between their HTML elements because it makes markup more readable: spaces, returns, tabs. … Read more
Found a regression in Firefox? Give us details with mozregression!
One of the most useful things you can do to help improve the quality for Firefox is to warn developers about regressions and give them all the details that will … Read more
These Weeks in Firefox: Issue 2
As is fortnightly tradition, the Firefox Desktop team rallied together last Tuesday to share notes and ramblings on things that are going on. Here are some hand-picked, artisinal updates from … Read more
Firefox Nightly got its “What’s New” page back last week!
Years ago, every time we were releasing a new version of Firefox and bumped the version number for all Firefox channels, nightly builds were also getting a “What’s New” page … Read more
These Weeks in Firefox: Issue 1
Every two weeks, engineering teams working on Firefox Desktop get together and update each other on things that they’re working on. These meetings are public. Details on how to join, … Read more
Getting Firefox Nightly to stick to Ubuntu’s Unity Dock
I installed Ubuntu 16.04.1 this week and decided to try out Unity, the default window manager. After I installed Nightly I assumed it would be simple to get the icon … Read more
Get a Nightly that speaks your language!
Over the last months, Kohei Yoshino and myself worked on improving the discoverability of Firefox Nightly desktop builds and in particular localized builds. Until recently, the only way to get … Read more
Nightly discussion forums and some of the tools we use
I thought it would be useful to publish a brief post regarding the various communication channels that we are using right now for Nightly, as well as a few of … Read more
Crash investigation in Firefox Nightly
One of the areas we have been focusing on lately is getting crashes on file for Nightly. The Platform team created Project Uptime to specifically focus on improving our crash … Read more