In a nutshell – These Weeks in Firefox: Issue 162
Highlights The final patch for the new and improved text and layout menu in Reader Mode has landed. Try it out the full feature by flipping the improved_text_menu.enabled pref to … Read more
Today’s Forecast: Browser Improvements – These Weeks in Firefox: Issue 161
Highlights Volunteer contributor tamas.beno12 has fixed a 5 digit (25 year old) bug! The patch for the bug makes it easier to create transparent windows The newtab team is experimenting … Read more
Screenshots++ – These Weeks in Firefox: Issue 160
Highlights The screenshots component pref just got enabled and is riding the trains in 127! This is a new implementation of the screenshots feature with a number of usability, accessibility … Read more
Wall to Wall Improvements – These Weeks in Firefox: Issue 159
Highlights The team is in the early stages of adding wallpaper support! This is still very preliminary, but you can test what they’ve currently landed on Nightly: Set browser.newtabpage.activity-stream.newtabWallpapers.enabled to … Read more
Firefox Nightly Now Available for Linux on ARM64
We’re excited to share an update with people running Linux on ARM64 (also known as AArch64) architectures. ARM64 Binaries Are Here After launching the Firefox Nightly .deb package, feedback highlighted … Read more
Exploring improvements to the Firefox sidebar
What are we working on? We have long been excited to improve the existing Firefox sidebar and strengthen productivity use cases in the browser. We are laying the groundwork for … Read more
Customizing Reader Mode – These Weeks in Firefox: Issue 158
Highlights Irene has just landed a patch supporting custom color themes! You can flip the pref reader.colors_menu.enabled to preview this feature in Nightly. Bug 1876432 – Add support for custom … Read more
Switch to Container Tabs – These Weeks in Firefox: Issue 157
Highlights After fixing some bugs discovered in Nightly, Marco has enabled cross-container tab search on beta and release. This should go out with Firefox 125! Daisuke fixed a 22-year old … Read more
A Better Screenshots Tool and More – These Weeks in Firefox: Issue 156
Highlights The new Screenshots component (which replaces the Screenshots built-in extension) is now enabled by default on Nightly (bug 1789727)! This improves upon the extension version of the feature in … Read more
Inspector Performance and Other Improvements – These Weeks in Firefox: Issue 155
Highlights Alex added added a new option to log frame return to the nascent JS Tracer feature (bug) This can be really useful paired with the “Log function arguments and … Read more
Monitor, Plus More Improvements – These Weeks in Firefox: Issue 154
Highlights Mozilla Monitor Plus has been launched! This is a new subscription product (available only in the US for now) that will search for and scrub your personal information from … Read more
A Preview of Tab Previews – These Weeks in Firefox: Issue 153
Highlights Tab Previews! Congratulations to DJ for getting these landed. Currently disabled by default, but you can test them by setting `browser.tabs.cardPreview.enabled` to true sfoster landed a patch that improves … Read more