New Year New Tab – These Weeks in Firefox: Issue 175
Highlights Firefox 134 went out earlier this month! A refreshed New Tab layout is being rolled out to users in the US and Canada, featuring a repositioned logo and weather … Read more
Firefox on macOS: now smaller and quicker to install!
Firefox is typically installed on macOS by downloading a DMG (Disk iMaGe) file, and dragging the Firefox.app into /Applications. These DMG files are compressed to reduce download time. As of … Read more
Key Improvements – These Weeks in Firefox: Issue 174
Highlights Nicolas Chevobbe [:nchevobbe] Added $$$ , a console helper that retrieve elements from the document, including those in the ShadowDOM (#1899558) Thanks to John Diamond for contributing changes to … Read more
Learning and Improving Every Day – These Weeks in Firefox: Issue 173
Highlights Firefox 133 releases today! Lots of goodies in there, including Bounce Tracking Protection, GPU-accelerated canvas on Windows and more! Nicolas Chevobbe Enabled High Contrast Theme support (devtools.high-contrast-mode-support) on Nightly … Read more
Announcing Faster, Lighter Firefox Downloads for Linux with .tar.xz Packaging!
We’re excited to announce an improvement for our Linux users that enhances both performance and compatibility with various Linux distributions. Switching to .tar.xz Packaging for Linux Builds In our ongoing … Read more
New Address Bar Updates are Here – These Weeks in Firefox: Issue 172
Highlights Our newly updated address bar, also known as “Scotch Bonnet”, is available in Nightly builds! 🎉 See this Connect thread to find more details and share your feedback. We … Read more
Celebrating 20 years of Firefox – These Weeks in Firefox: Issue 171
Highlights Firefox is turning 20 years old! Here’s a sneak peek of what’s to come for the browser. We completed work on the new messaging surface for the AppMenu / … Read more
Experimental address bar deduplication, better auto-open Picture-in-Picture, and more – These Weeks in Firefox: Issue 170
Highlights A new messaging surface for the AppMenu and PXI menu is landing imminently so that we can experiment with some messages to help users understand the value of signing … Read more
Search Improvements Are On Their Way – These Weeks in Firefox: Issue 169
Highlights The search team is planning on enabling a series of improvements to the search experience this week in Nightly! This project is called “Scotch Bonnet”. We would love to … Read more
From ESR to Address Bar – These Weeks in Firefox: Issue 168
Highlights ESR115 EOL was extended for Win 7-8.1 and macOS 10.12-10.14 to March 2025. See the firefox-dev post for more details. This doesn’t impact next month’s planned migration to ESR128 … Read more
Fantastic Firefox Fixes – These Weeks in Firefox: Issue 167
Highlights Firefox 130 goes out today! Check out some interesting opt-in early features in Firefox Labs! Puppeteer v23 released with official Firefox support, using Webdriver BiDi. Read our announcement on … Read more
Streamline your screen time with auto-open Picture-in-Picture and more – These Weeks in Firefox: Issue 166
Highlights Special shout-out to Daniele (egglessness) who landed a new experimental Picture-in-Picture feature that can be enabled in Firefox 130! This feature automatically triggers Picture-in-Picture mode for any playing video … Read more