Firefox Beta Articles
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Testing Picture-in-Picture for videos in Firefox 69 Beta and Developer Edition
Firefox has an experimental new UI feature in Firefox 69 Beta and Developer Edition - and Firefox engineers are looking for feedback on the implementation. Picture in Picture in the browser lets you pop a video out from where it’s being played into a special kind of window that’s always on top. Then you can move that window around or resize it however you need! Let us know what you think.
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Accessibility features in Firefox on Android
One of our principles in the Mozilla Manifesto states that the Internet ”is a global public resource that must remain open and accessible”. Our goal is to remove barriers that traditionally block participation, such as affordability, language and disability. We have been working hard to bring Firefox for Android to everyone on the planet, including […]
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Firefox Beta 15 supports the new Opus audio format
Firefox 15 (now in the Beta channel) supports the Opus audio format, via the Opus reference implementation. What is it? Opus is a completely free audio format that was recently approved for publication as a standards-track RFC by the IETF. Opus files can play in Firefox Beta today. Opus offers these benefits: Better compression than […]
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Getting snappy – performance optimizations in Firefox 13
Back in the fall of 2011, we took a targeted look at Firefox responsiveness issues. We identified a number of short term projects that together could achieve significant responsiveness improvements in day-to-day Firefox usage. Project Snappy kicked off at the end of the year with the goal of improving Firefox responsiveness. Although Snappy first contributed […]
