Firefox Releases Articles
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How we built Picture-in-Picture in Firefox Desktop with more control over video
A behind-the-scenes look at the evolution of the Picture-in-Picture player for the Firefox Desktop browser. This feature is now available for MacOS, Linux and Windows users. From the beginning, it's been shaped by your feedback and inputs, with user agency as a core principle of our design and development.
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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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Debugging Variables With Watchpoints in Firefox 72
Have you ever wanted to know where properties on objects are read or set in your code, without having to manually add breakpoints or log statements? Watchpoints are a type of breakpoint that provide an answer to that question. They are new in the updated Debugger, available now in the Firefox 72 Developer Edition release.
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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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Upcoming notification permission changes in Firefox 72
Earlier this year we decided to reduce the amount of unsolicited notification permission prompts people receive as they move around the web using the Firefox browser. This is an intrinsic part of Mozilla's commitment to putting people first when they are online. In preparation, we ran a series of studies and experiments to understand how to improve the user experience and reduce annoyance. Now we're making some changes to the workflow for how sites ask users for permission to send them notifications.
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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!
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Moving Firefox to a faster 4-week release cycle
Building and releasing a browser is complicated and involves many players. To optimize the process, and make it more reliable for all users, over the years we’ve developed a phased release strategy that includes ‘pre-release’ channels: Firefox Nightly, Beta, and Developer Edition. Starting Q1 2020, we're making a change. We plan to start shipping a major Firefox release every 4 weeks!
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Firefox 69 — a tale of Resize Observer, microtasks, CSS, and DevTools
For our latest excellent adventure, we’ve gone and cooked up a new Firefox release. Version 69 features a number of great new additions including JavaScript public instance fields, the Resize Observer and Microtask APIs, CSS logical overflow properties (e.g. overflow-block) and @supports for selectors.
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New CSS Features in Firefox 68
Firefox 68 landed earlier this month with a bunch of CSS additions and changes. In this blog post Rachel Andrew takes a look at some of the things you can expect to find, like Scroll Snapping done right, the
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Firefox 68: BigInts, Contrast Checks, and the QuantumBar
Firefox 68 is available today, sporting support for big integers, whole-page contrast checks checks for accessibility, and a completely new implementation of a core Firefox feature: the ever-awesome URL bar. Dan Callahan also reports on updated CSS scroll-snapping and other features, DOM API updates, next steps in the WebRender implementation, and more.
