A Preview of Tab Previews – These Weeks in Firefox: Issue 153 (blog.nightly.mozilla.org)
Firefox 122.0, See All New Features, Updates and Fixes (www.mozilla.org)
Version 122.0, first offered to Release channel users on January 23, 2024...
Firefox 121.0, See All New Features, Updates and Fixes (www.mozilla.org)
New extensions you’ll love now available on Firefox for Android (blog.mozilla.org)
Today, Mozilla announced more than 450 new extensions (software that adds new features or functionality to the browser) to users on Firefox for Android at Mozilla’s AMO Android page. This milestone marks the launch of a new open extension ecosystem on mobile where developers are now free to create and publish extensions and...
Firefox will support at least 200 new extensions on Android this December (www.androidpolice.com)
Firefox 120 will launch with 200 new Android extensions this December
"We are moving away from native widgets, and the ability to disable non-native widgets will be removed as well" What are your thoughts on this? (bugzilla.mozilla.org)
I really don’t like the psuedo-native look of the element dropdown menu on macOS, and I thought Firefox was trying to embrace native widgets when they added support for macOS right click context menus a few years ago. That issue was open for 20+ years! This sucks....
Say (an encrypted) hello to a more private internet. (blog.mozilla.org)
As web users, what we say and do online is subject to pervasive surveillance. Although we typically associate online tracking with ad networks and other third-party sites, our online communications travel across commercial telecommunication networks, allowing these privileged entities to siphon the names of the websites we visit...
Test Firefox Android extensions and help developers prepare for an open mobile ecosystem in December (blog.mozilla.org)
In August we encouraged developers to start preparing their desktop extensions for Firefox Android open availability on addons.mozilla.org (AMO). The project is progressing well and we’re on track to launch the open mobile ecosystem on AMO in December. We have more infrastructure development and testing to complete in the...
Firefox 118 Has Full-Page Translation, No Servers Required (www.howtogeek.com)
Firefox can now translate web pages without sending the contents to external servers.
Firefox 117 Beta 8 vs. Google Chrome 116 Linux Browser Performance (www.phoronix.com)
Given all the interest this week in Firefox outperforming Google Chrome in SunSpider, I decided to run some fresh Linux desktop web browser benchmarks on my end
Firefox Lands Wayland Fractional Scaling Support (www.phoronix.com)
Mozilla Firefox has merged Wayland fractional-scale-v1 protocol support for handling fractional scaling with the web browser on the Linux desktop.
Firefox 116.0 released (www.mozilla.org)
Firefox 116 Beta Brings Quick Actions in Address Bar, Improves Wayland Support (9to5linux.com)
Firefox 116 open-source web browser is now available for public beta testing with Cookie Banner Reduction, Quick Actions in URL bar, and more.
[Crosspost] Firefox 115 ESR Is Here with Hardware Video Decoding for Intel GPUs on Linux (kbin.social)
This release also lets Linux users open links or search text from clipboard with middle-click on the New Tab button.