Firefox Releases Articles
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January brings us Firefox 85
To wrap up January, we are proud to bring you the release of Firefox 85. In this version we are bringing you support for the :focus-visible pseudo-class in CSS and associated devtools, , and the complete removal of Flash support from Firefox. We’d also like to invite you to preview two exciting new JavaScript features in the current Firefox Nightly — top-level await and relative indexing via the .at() method. Have fun!
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And now for … Firefox 84
As December ushers in the final curtain for this rather eventful year, there is time left for one more Firefox version to be given its wings. Firefox 84 includes some interesting new features including tab order inspection, complex selector support in :not(), the PerformancePaintTiming API, and more!
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Coming through with Firefox 82
As October ushers in the tail-end of the year, we are pushing Firefox 82 out the door. This time around we finally enable support for the Media Session API, provide some new CSS pseudo-selector behaviours, close some security loopholes involving the Window.name property, and provide inspection for server-sent events in our developer tools.
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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. -
New in Firefox 78: DevTools improvements, new regex engine, and abundant web platform updates
Firefox 78 heads heads out the door with a new regex engine, updates to the ECMAScript Intl API, new CSS selectors, enhanced support for WebAssembly, some important WebExtensions API updates, and many improvements to the Firefox Developer Tools.
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New in Firefox 77: DevTool improvements and web platform updates
Firefox 77 is now available with a variety of developer tool updates and new web platform features. With your feedback, we've removed performance bottlenecks, resulting in faster, leaner JavaScript debugging. We also report on some changes to Firefox extensions, including fewer permission requests.
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High Performance Web Audio with AudioWorklet in Firefox
Earlier this week, Audio Worklets landed in the release of Firefox 76. We’re ready to start bridging the gap between web audio and native. Developers can now leverage
AudioWorkletto write arbitrary audio processing code. This exciting new functionality raises the bar for emerging web experiences like 3D games, VR, and music production. -
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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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.
