Firefox Releases Articles
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Firefox 54: E10S-Multi, WebExtension APIs, CSS clip-path
The release of Firefox 54 completes the transformation of Firefox into a fully multi-process browser, running many simultaneous content processes in addition to a UI process and, on Windows, a special GPU process. This design makes it easier to utilize all of the cores available on modern processors and, in the future, to securely sandbox web content. This release also offers new support for the CSS clip-path property, and updates to the WebExtensions APIs.
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Firefox 53: Quantum Compositor, Compact Themes, CSS Masks, and More
Firefox 53 includes the first significant piece of Project Quantum, the Quantum Compositor for Windows. Dig in to features and under-the-hood improvements such as compact themes, new WebExtension features, the CSS mask property, and more.
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Developer Edition 54: New inspector and debugger features, MDN help in the netmonitor, and more
A roundup of great new developer tool features and fixes released in Firefox Developer Edition 54 - for debugging, inspecting, monitoring, and generally making your workflow smarter and better.
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WebGL 2 lands in Firefox
With the release of Firefox 51, WebGL 2 support has landed! WebGL is a standard API to render 3D graphics in the Web. WebGL 2 is based on the OpenGL ES 3.0 specification, and introduces new features – many of them aimed at increasing performance and visual fidelity.
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Developer Edition 49: Network Request Stack Traces and more
This week marks the release of Firefox Developer Edition 49! This post covers some of the big changes that landed in this release. Request stack traces in Network Monitor The Network Monitor now has a new “Cause” column that shows how a given network request is initiated. The column shows the type of the request, […]
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Developer Edition 47 – User agent emulation, popup debugging and more
This week marks the release of Firefox Developer Edition 47! In recent weeks, we’ve covered the DevTools reload add-on and service worker tooling, so be sure to check out those posts. In this post, we’ll cover the rest of the updates and changes in this Developer Edition release. User Agent emulation We have added the ability […]
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Trainspotting: Firefox 45
Trainspotting is a series of posts highlighting what’s new in release versions of Firefox. A new version of Firefox is shipped every six weeks – we at Mozilla call this pattern “release trains.” March winds bring April showers, and also the latest and greatest version of Firefox! Let’s take a look at some of the […]
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Smoother scrolling in Firefox 46 with APZ
Have you ever been on Facebook or Twitter, merrily scrolling down the page, when all of a sudden, the browser appears to freeze? For several long seconds it just hangs there, and you’re not sure if it’s going to crash or not. Then, finally, something gives way, and the page jumps to catch up to […]
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Trainspotting: Firefox 44
Trainspotting is a series of articles highlighting features in the lastest version of Firefox. A new version of Firefox is shipped every six weeks or sometimes eight– we at Mozilla call this pattern “release trains”. It’s a new year, and of course there’s a new Firefox! Let’s take a look at some of the goodies […]
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Login Forms over HTTPS, Please
Update: This feature is now also enabled in Firefox Beta, starting with Firefox Beta 50. Pretty much everyone who uses the web has used a password to log into something. And pretty much everyone who has used a password has put that password at risk by entering it into an insecure form. In Firefox 46 […]
