Articles by Chris Mills
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Firefox 79: The safe return of shared memory, new tooling, and platform updates
Firefox 79 offers a new Promise method, more secure
target=_blanklinks, logical assignment operators, tooling improvements for better JavaScript debugging, and many other updates of interest to web developers. In addition, shared memory is back at last, with a safer implementation. -
MDN Web Docs: 15 years young
MDN Web Docs turns 15 years old! This celebratory article highlights fifteen big wins of the last five years. With initiatives like the browser compatibility data project, learning areas and new pathways for beginning devs, interactive examples, as well as the Product Advisory Board, the Web DNA Report, and the MDN Swag Store, the MDN community has been busy sharing knowledge with the people who build the web.
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Introducing the MDN Web Docs Front-end developer learning pathway
The MDN Web Docs Learning Area teaches fundamentals of modern web development, beginning with HTML, CSS, and JavaScript essentials. In feedback this year, readers asked for a more opinionated, structured approach. They asked for coverage of client-side tooling, frameworks, transformation tools, and deployment tools widely used in today's workplace. Meet the Front-end developer learning pathway from MDN.
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Firefox 76: Audio worklets and other tricks
Firefox 76 delivers great new features for web platform support, such as Audio Worklets and
Intlimprovements, on the JavaScript side. Also, we’ve added a number of topnotch improvements to Firefox DevTools to make JavaScript debugging and development easier and quicker. -
Firefox 75: Ambitions for April
Firefox 75 is chock full of handy new dev tooling: instant evaluation in the web console, event breakpoints for WebSockets, and more. New web platform features include HTML lazy loading for images, the CSS min(), max(), and clamp() functions, public static class fields, and additions to Web Animations API support.
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Security means more with Firefox 74
The release of Firefox 74 is focused on security enhancements: Feature Policy, the Cross-Origin-Resource-Policy header, and removal of TLS 1.0/1.1 support. We’ve also got some new CSS text property features, the JS optional chaining operator, and additional 2D canvas text metric features, along with the usual wealth of DevTools enhancements and bug fixes.
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Firefox 73 is upon us
Today we’ve released Firefox 73, with useful additions that include CSS and JavaScript updates, and numerous DevTools improvements. We’ve added to CSS logical properties, pushed performance forward in the Console and the Debugger, and improved the WebSocket inspector. Thanks to all for the ongoing DevTools feedback.
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Firefox 72 — our first song of 2020
Though we are moving to a more frequent four-week browser release cycle, the Firefox 72 release is feature-rich and full of goodies. It includes many requested DevTools' updates and improvements. We also introduce Shadow Parts and the CSS Motion Path, and useful new JavaScript features. Plus, Picture-in-picture for video is now enabled for Mac and Linux users too!
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Firefox 71: A year-end arrival
Please welcome Firefox 71 to the stage! This time around, we have a plethora of new developer tools features including the web socket message inspector, console multi-line editor mode, log on events, and network panel full text search! And as if that wasn’t enough, there are important new web platform features available, like CSS subgrid, column-span, Promise.allSettled, and the Media Session API.
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Firefox 70 — a bountiful release for all
Firefox 70 is released today, and includes great new features such as secure password generation with Lockwise and the new Firefox Privacy Protection Report, as well as cool additions for developers. These include DOM mutation breakpoints and inactive CSS rule indicators in the DevTools, several new CSS text properties, two-value display syntax, and JS numeric separators. In this article, we’ll take a closer look at some of the highlights!
