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
Katherine Patenio
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
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
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
“URL” Gonna Want To Check This Out – These Weeks in Firefox: Issue 150
Highlights URL Paste Suggestions The URL Paste Suggestion feature is now enabled by default in the Nightly version of Firefox. This enhancement provides a convenient way for users to quickly … Read more
More WebExtensions! Coming to an Android near you soon – These Weeks in Firefox: Issue 147
Highlights Extensions process support in Firefox Android is going to ride the Gecko 120 release train (tracked by Bug 1859533). This has been one of the many things blocking full … Read more
Unboxing More DevTools Powers, and Reusable Delights – These Weeks in Firefox: Issue 144
Highlights Several Developer Tools updates landed thanks to the DevTools team and fellow contributors. Be sure to check out the DevTools section for more details. Nicolas enabled the shape highlighter … Read more
The Firefox Unleashed – These Weeks in Firefox: Issue 141
Highlights We were able to disable some Spectre / Meltdown JIT mitigations! Nightly-only for now. These were mitigations we deployed years ago to protect users against various timing attacks. With … Read more
A Bountiful Blend of Browser Betterments – These Weeks in Firefox: Issue 138
Highlights WebExtensions In Firefox 114, extension widgets listed in the extensions panel can be reordered through the menu “Move up” / “Move down” context menu actions (Bug 1805924) Support for … Read more
Jam-packed with Updates – These Weeks in Firefox: Issue 135
Highlights In Firefox >= 113 users can now move the extensions button within the navigation toolbar while in Customize Mode (App Menu > More tools > Customize Toolbar) Hubert added … Read more
A Variety of Improvements At January’s End – These Weeks in Firefox: Issue 131
Highlights Issam and Micah have updated about:logins with some new UI improvements! Issam made it so search input is aligned with the logins list Micah added a new timeline component … Read more
WebExtensions Mv3, WebMIDI, OpenSearch, PiP updates and more! – These Weeks in Firefox: Issue 128
Highlights Initial WebExtension Manifest Version 3 support is riding the 109 release train For more information, please read this blog post Again, a reminder that Mozilla plans to continue support … Read more