Difference between revisions of “Firefox/Roadmap/Updates” From MozillaWiki ! colspan=”2″ | 2020 Firefox Roadmap/Updates ! colspan=”2″ | 2020 Firefox Roadmap/Updates + * [https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/74.0/releasenotes/ Firefox 74.0] is our latest stable release.74 shipped last Tuesday and included reverse sort in the logins manager, easy import from the new Edge on Mac and Windows, and protections from add-on sideloading.+ * [https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/75.0beta/releasenotes/ Firefox 75] is in the Beta channel and it goes to our stable release audience on Tuesday, April 7th.This is the second week of our cycle and Beta 4, 5, and 6 go out today, Wednesday, and Friday.Just a reminder, in this new four week cycle, we have three weeks of three betas, then RC week, then release.+ * Firefox 76 is in the Nightly channel.76 is due to hit our stable release channel Tuesday May 5th.
Over the last week there have been over 400 fixes landed in Nightly including these fixes I thought were worth mentioning.+ ** [https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1618956 Fathom has been added to mozilla-central] and will initially be used to help recognize password fields.Fathom is a supervised-learning system for recognizing parts of web pages.+ ** The macOS [https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1620311 Touchbar is considerably more accessible] now that we set an explicit accessibility label for the image-only buttons.** The [https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1430907 Windows Volume Mixer no longer creates multiple sliders for content processes.] + ** [https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=675428 Firefox is now set up to handle mailto URLs in Windows] (and it won’t open infite tabs like it did last time we enabled this feature on Nightly.) + ** Firefox will now [https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1194529 ask the user for their OS account password before showing the passwords] in the password manager.
* [https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/73.0.1/releasenotes/ Firefox 73.0.1] is our current stable release.* [https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/73.0.1/releasenotes/ Firefox 73.0.1] is our current stable release.Latest revision as of 21:23, 13 March 2020
Here you’ll find weekly Firefox browser news and headlines, as shared at Mozilla’s Weekly Updates meeting .
2020 Firefox Roadmap/Updates 6th , 13th , 20th 2020-03-16 Firefox 74.0 is our latest stable release.74 shipped last Tuesday and included reverse sort in the logins manager, easy import from the new Edge on Mac and Windows, and protections from add-on sideloading.Firefox 75 is in the Beta channel and it goes to our stable release audience on Tuesday, April 7th.This is the second week of our cycle and Beta 4, 5, and 6 go out today, Wednesday, and Friday.Just a reminder, in this new four week cycle, we have three weeks of three betas, then RC week, then release.Firefox 76 is in the Nightly channel.
76 is due to hit our stable release channel Tuesday May 5th.Over the last week there have been over 400 fixes landed in Nightly including these fixes I thought were worth mentioning.Fathom has been added to mozilla-central and will initially be used to help recognize password fields.Fathom is a supervised-learning system for recognizing parts of web pages.
The macOS Touchbar is considerably more accessible now that we set an explicit accessibility label for the image-only buttons.2020-03-09 Firefox 73.0.1 is our current stable release.Firefox 74 is in the Beta channel and it goes to our stable release audience tomorrow, Tuesday, March 10th.Firefox 74 users will enjoy: Improved login management with the ability to reverse alpha sort (Name Z-A) in Firefox Lockwise.Easy importing of bookmarks and history from the new Microsoft Edge browser on Windows and Mac.
Add-ons installed by external applications can now be removed using the Add-ons Manager and going forward, only users can install add-ons; they cannot be installed by an application.Firefox 75 was in the Nightly channel this last week.
Firefox 75 hits our stable release audience on April 7th.Today is Merge Day and Nightly just became version 76.Over the last week there have been about 440 bugs resolved as Fixed including these notable changes: On Linux and Mac, Firefox’s session restore will now restore windows to their correct Virtual Desktop or work Space.2020-03-02 Firefox 73.0.1 is our current stable release.
Firefox 74 is in the Beta channel.We’re three weeks in to a four week Beta cycle and this final week is RC week.Next Tuesday, 74 goes out to our stable release audience.Firefox 75 is in the Nightly channel.
This Wednesday is “feature complete”, Thursday is the “soft code freeze”, and Friday is the string freeze.Firefox 75 will move to the Beta channel a week from today and ships to our stable Release audience on April 7th.
Over the last week there have been about 400 bugs resolved as Fixed including these notable ones: Cookies sameSite=lax has been enabled by default.2020-02-24 Firefox 73.0.1 is our current stable release.The dot release addressed a crash with third-party security software, and a loss of browser functionality running in Windows compatibility mode or having custom anti-exploit settings.
Firefox 74 is in the Beta channel.We’re two weeks in to a four week Beta cycle (after a 5 week Nightly cycle.) Beta 7 goes out today, 8 on Wednesday, and 9 on Friday.Next week is RC week, and 74 goes live on Tuesday, March 10th.
So far, the Beta contains changes to support importing profile data from Edgium on Windows and Mac, the OS compositor has been enabled for macOS when WebRender is enabled, TLS 1.0 and TLS 1.1 have been disabled, and Dev Tools has a new Application panel where Service Workers and Web App Manifests can be easily inspected.Firefox 75 is in the Nightly channel.
This is our first 4 week Nightly cycle.Our feature complete milestone for this Nightly cycle is next Wednesday March 4th; the soft code freeze on Thursday March 5th; and string freeze on Friday March 6th.75 moves to the Beta channel on March 9th and becomes the stable release about a month later on April 7th.Over the last two weeks there have been about 800 bugs resolved as fixed in Nightly including these notable ones.Firefox now has support for lazy loading of images.Images are often the heaviest part of a page and some or all can be off-screen when the page first loads.
Avoiding loading off-screen images is a nice win because it means the content in the view port loads faster, bandwidth is saved, and browser memory usage is reduced.When a web author specifies and then the user scrolls the bring the image into view, the image is downloaded and rendered.Firefox’s about:support information now includes the user’s Linux desktop environment.This should make it easier to triage issues that are specific to Gnome, KDE, etc.
Firefox now has support for the ‘all’ value of text-decoration-skip-ink.With text-decoration-skip-ink: auto, ink-skipping is applied to most content, but not to CJK text.text-dectoration-skip-ink: all allows an author to pecify that they actually do want skip-ink behavior to be used with CJK text.The socket process now has Windows Sandboxing.This is part of ongoing work to deliver WebRTC on an isolated process.Firefox now supports CSS conic-gradient with backends for WebRender and Skia .
With conic gradients, the colors transition as as if spun around the center of a circle, starting at the top and going clockwise (as compared to a a radial gradient, where the colors transition from the center of a circle, outward, in all directions.) 2020-02-10 Firefox 72.0.2 is still our current stable release.Firefox 73 ships tomorrow and with that release, users will be enjoying the availability of a new globally applied default zoom setting and a new “backplate” when text is over images in Windows High Contrast Mode.Firefox 73 is in the Beta channel with its final Release Candidate build.Firefox 74 was in the Nightly channel until this morning when Nightly became 75.Over the last month or so, Firefox Nightly has seen over 1200 fixes including these notable ones: about:debugging now has RTL support.input type=”number” is now accessible to JAWS screen reader users.
2020-01-20 Firefox 72.0.2 is our current stable release.This dot release shipped on Monday, January 20th and addressed several regressions.Firefox 73 is in the Beta channel and hits our stable release on February 11th.
Firefox 74 is in the Nightly channel.
Over the last week there have been about 350 bugs resolved as fixed including these notable changes: input type=”number” is now accessible to JAWS screen reader users.2020-01-13 Firefox 72.0.1 is our current stable release.The major release shipped last Tuesday, and delivered fingerprinting script blocking by default for all users, less annoying notification request indication, and picture-in-picture for Mac and Linux users.The major release was followed a day later by a security update for a type confusion bug in our JS engine that was being actively exploited.
Firefox 73 is in the Beta channel and hits our stable release on February 11th.Firefox 74 is in Nightly and saw about 400 bugs resolved as fixed in this first week of the cycle.Here are some of the notable changes landed in the last week: A couple of pinned tabs regressions, one that caused pinned tabs reordering and one that lost pinned tabs, have been fixed.2020-01-06 Firefox 71.0 is our current stable release.
Firefox 72 is in the Beta channel, as the final release candidate.72 goes to our stable release channel tomorrow, January 7th.Firefox 73 is in the Nightly channel.Today is merge day.
As of about an hour ago, the soft freeze has ended and 74 development can begin.Firefox 73 hits our stable release on February 11th.
Over the last three weeks there have been about 650 bugs resolved as fixed including these notable changes: Global default zoom has landed.This allows users to set a default zoom level for all pages.The tab overflow menu, which used to only appear when you had more tabs than fit in the tab strip, can now be made permanent with the about:config flag browser.tabs.tabmanager.enabled In this configuration, it’s called the Tab Manager.In Dev Tools, the “Omniscient Browser Toolbox” has been enabled by default.This should allow you to inspect and debug any resource of Firefox, no matter in which thread or process this resource is.2019-12-16 Firefox 71.0 is our current stable release.
Firefox 72 is in the Beta channel.Beta 7, 8, and 9 go out today, Wednesday, and Friday.72 hits our stable channel on January 7th.Firefox 73 is in the Nightly channel.73 will hit our stable channel on February 11th.Over the last week, there have been about 380 bugs resolved as Fixed including these notable changes: Find no longer fails when you enter text with diacritics or accented characters.
2019-12-09 Firefox 71.0 is our current stable release.This release shipped last Tuesday and includes picture in picture support on Windows and CSS sub-grid in Gecko.
Firefox 72 is in the Beta channel.
Beta 4, 5, and 6 go out today, Wednesday, and Friday.72 hits our stable channel on January 7th.Firefox 73 is in the Nightly channel.73 will hit our stable channel on February 11th.Over the last week, there have been about 370 bugs resolved as Fixed including these notable changes: Firefox 70.0.1 is our current stable release.Firefox 71 in the Beta channel and ships to our stable release tomorrow, December 3rd.Firefox 72 is in the Nightly channel.
Today is merge day.Over the last week there have been about 320 bug fixes landed in Nightly including these notable changes: 2019-11-25 Firefox 70.0.1 is our current stable release.Firefox 71 is in the Beta channel and ships to our stable release next Tuesday, December 3rd.
We’re building the release candidate today so, unless something unexpected surfaces, we’re nearly wrapped on this one.Firefox 72 is in the Nightly channel and ships to our stable release on January 7th.This friday, November 29th, is string freeze for Firefox 72 and next week the 72 Betas begin.Over the last week there have been about 370 fixes landed in Nightly including these notable ones: 2019-11-18 Firefox 70.0.1 is our current stable release.Firefox 71 is in the Beta channel and ships to our stable release on December 3rd.
Our final Betas, 11 and 12, go out this week.Firefox 72 is in the Nightly channel and ships to our stable release on January 7th.Over the last week there have been about 400 fixes landed in Nightly including these notable ones: For improved performance and memory usage, we’ve replaced libhyphen with a new library that supports sharing hyphenation data across processes.Firefox now registers itself as a webp handler.2019-11-11 Firefox 70.0.1 is our current stable release.
There are currently no drivers for a 70.0.2.
Firefox 71 is in the Beta channel and ships to our stable release on December 3rd.Betas 9 and 10 (of 12) go out this week.Firefox 72 is in the Nightly channel and ships to our stable release on January 7th.Over the last week there have been about 440 fixes landed in Nightly including these notable ones: The “megabar” now behind an about:config pref, has improved selection highlighting.The font weight of the page title and address is now heavier.The megabar also received a change to spacing between results.
To see the changes, go to about:config and enable the megabar by setting browser.urlbar.megabar to true.The Pocket proxy server is now open source.The proxy service sits between Firefox and the Adzerk ad server.Its purpose is to preserve the privacy of Firefox clients when they request sponsored content for the Firefox New Tab.
A bug was fixed that allowed malicious sites to use auth prompts steal focus and make it difficult to close the website or browser.As we do every two weeks, last Tuesday the Firefox team met and discussed a wide range of Firefox changes that happened over the previous two weeks.You can read the “These Weeks in Firefox” blog posts which summarize these Firefox meetings at Firefox Nightly News and the raw meeting notes for the latest meeting are available in this document.I’d like to highlight several items from this latest Firefox meeting that weren’t previously mentioned in my Firefox Weekly Update: Support for Fission in DevTools started with enabling the Browser Toolbox to inspect/debug multiple processes.
This work is happening behind the pref devtools.browsertoolbox.fission.This new “Omniscient” Browser Toolbox will be enabled by default once the dependencies of bug 1588050 are resolved.Also in DevTools, the Debugger’s new Watchpoints feature, which lets you pause on an object property get/set, is on by default in Nightly and Dev Edition.There’s a new Track IPC feature (off by default) that can be enabled from the Firefox Profiler’s capture panel to track async IPC.
For a perf boost, we no longer animate restored windows from the last session.
We launched a couple of “Relationship” CFRs in Nightly and Beta channels that recommends Firefox Send and and recommends Send Tab when viewing an article or a recipes website.2019-11-04 Firefox 70.0.1 is our current stable release.The dot release was driven by a need to fix a localstorage bug causing some sites or page elemets to fail to load.
Firefox 71 is in the Beta channel and ships to our stable release on December 3rd.Beta 7 and Beta 8 go out this Tuesday and Friday.
There are only 12 betas scheduled for this cycle.Over the last week, we’ve seen nearly 70 fixes uplifted to the Beta channel.
Firefox 72 is in the Nightly channel and ships to our stable release on January 7th.Over the last week there have been about 400 fixes landed in Nighlty including these notable ones: Zoom and fullscreen buttons in the hamburger menu have accessible labels.2019-10-28 Firefox 70 is our current stable release.Firefox 70 shipped last Tuesday, October 22nd.
70 users are enjoying the new Privacy Protections report, the new password manager called Firefox Lockwise, reduced power consumption on macOS, and in Developer Tools an audit for keyboard accessibility, a color deficiency simulator for systems with WebRender enabled, and an inactive CSS indicator with tooltips explaining why the CSS isn’t used.Firefox 71 is in the Beta channel and ships to our stable release on December 3rd.Firefox 72 is in the Nightly channel.Over the last week Nightly has seen approximately 400 fixes including these notable one: A couple of macOS 10.15 Catalina regression fixes: 2019-10-21 Firefox 69.0.3 is our current stable release.Firefox 70 is in the Beta channel as a Release Candidate and ships to our stable release audience tomorrow, October 22nd.Our Firefox 70 users will enjoy the new Privacy Protections report, Firefox Lockwise, the new password management tool, macOS that reduce power consumption reductions, and in Developer Tools an audit for keyboard accessibility, a color deficiency simulator for systems with WebRender enabled, and an inactive CSS indicator with tooltips explaining why the CSS isn’t used.
Firefox 71 is in the Nightly channel and is uplifting to Beta today.Over the final week of Nightly 71 development, we’ve seen about 500 fixes including these notable ones: The awesomebar/megabar got some improvements including less padding of results, not overlapping toolbar buttons, and not overlapping other toolbars.2019-10-14 Firefox 69.0.3 is our current stable release.
This dot release shipped on October 10th to fix a pair of regressions.Firefox 70 is in the Beta channel with the first release candidate build happening today.Firefox 70 ships to our stable release audience on October 22nd, a week from tomorrow.
Firefox 71 is in the Nightly channel.Today marks the beginning of the soft code freeze and string freeze is this Friday.Over the last week there have been about 400 bugs resolved as fixed including these notable ones: A couple of visible regressions were fixed: Gecko now has a DOM implementation of the Web Share API.2019-10-07 Firefox 69.0.2 is our current stable release.
This version was released on October 3rd and fixed a crash when editing files on Office 365 websites ( bug 1579858 ) and fixed detection of the Windows 10 Parental Controls feature being enabled ( bug 1584613 ).Firefox 70 is in the Beta channel with Beta 13 going out tomorrow and Beta 14 going out Friday.These are our final two betas before the release candidate.Firefox 70 ships to our stable release audience on October 22nd.
Firefox 71 is in the Nightly channel and over the last week there have been about 380 bugs resolved as fixed including these notable ones: First, and most obvious to anyone that’s been using Nightly this last week, the Megabar pref has been enabled so you’ll be seeing the new addressbar implementation which expands when you click in it.2019-09-30 Firefox 69.0.1 is our current stable release.Firefox 70 is in the Beta channel with Beta 11 going out tomorrow and Beta 12 going out Friday.There are 14 betas scheduled for this cycle.
Firefox 70 ships to our stable release audience on October 22nd.Firefox 71 is in the Nightly channel and over the last week there have been about 375 bugs resolved as fixed including these notable ones: Several Linux picture-in-picture issues have been resolved.2019-09-23 On this day, 17 years ago, Phoenix 0.1 was released.This marked the first public availability of the browser that would come to be known as Firefox.Firefox 69.0.1 is our current stable release.The dot release shipped last week on September 18th with several bug fixes including one to make the Add-ons Manger accessible to screen reader users.
Firefox 70 is in the Beta channel with Beta 9 going out tomorrow and Beta 10 going out Friday.There are 14 betas scheduled for this cycle.Firefox 70 ships to our stable release audience on October 22nd.Firefox 71 is in the Nightly channel and over the last week there have been about 400 bugs resolved as fixed including these notable ones.
2019-09-16 Firefox 69.0 is our current stable release.Firefox 70 is now in Beta with Beta 75 going out tomorrow and Beta 8 going out Friday.Firefox 70 ships to our stable release audience on October 22nd.Firefox 71 is in the Nightly channel and over the last week there have been about 375 bugs resolved as fixed including these notable ones.A handful of Picture-in-picture bugs got fixes.
2019-09-09 Firefox 69.0 is our current stable release.The release shipped last Tuesday and since then Firefox users have been enjoying Enhanced Tracking Protection (ETP) enabled by default, block auto-play that can block all videos from autoplaying, not just those with sound.Firefox 70 is now in Beta with Beta 5 going out tomorrow and Beta 6 going out Friday.Firefox 70 ships to our stable release audience on October 22nd.Firefox 71 is in the Nightly channel and over the last week there have been about 350 bugs resolved as fixed including these notable ones.
Firefox 68.0.2 is our current stable release.Firefox 69 is complete and ships to the stable release tomorrow, September 3rd.Firefox 70 in now in Beta.It ships to the stable release on October 22nd.Over its last week on mozilla-central, Firefox 70 got another 450 or so bug fixes including these notable changes: Fingerprinting protection has moved to the Standard mode of content blocking.DevTools new Event Listener Breakpoints let you debug which code a page executes in response to browser events.You can pick specific types, such as click or keydown, or whole categories of events, like all mouse input.DevTools’ new DOM Breakpoints let you diagnose when code in a page changes a specific DOM node, including the node’s children.
The DevTools Accessibility panel now has color blindness simulation functionality.2019-08-26 Firefox 68.0.2 is our current stable release.
Firefox 69 is in the Beta channel and ships to the stable release on September 3rd.The Release Candidate is happening today so we’re pretty much done with 69.Firefox 70 is in the Nightly channel and ships to the stable release on October 22nd.Nightly soft code freeze starts today.Developers are strongly urged not to land any fixes that are deemed risky and not to enable (pref-controlled) features.It’s recommended to wait until after Merge day next week to land such fixes on mozilla-central.
Over the last week, there have been about 450 bugs resolved as fixed including these notable changes: CoreAnimation has been enabled by default for macOS users.2019-08-19 Firefox 68.0.2 is our current stable release.This dot release shipped on August 14 and addresses several minor regressions and one security issue.Firefox 69 is in the Beta channel and ships to the stable release on September 3rd.
Beta 15 and 16 go out this Tuesday and Friday.Firefox 70 is in the Nightly channel and ships to the stable release on October 22nd.Nightly soft freeze is one week from today.Over the last week there have been about 450 bugs fixed in Nightly including these notable changes: There’s a blue dot on the Firefox lock icon when a user has granted the site permissions.
It looks like this: Media:Permissions-dot.png The bar chart and legend in the Firefox Protections Report are now screen reader accessible.2019-08-12 Firefox 68.0.1 is our current stable release.Firefox 69 is in Beta and ships to the stable release on September 3rd.Over the last week, about 15 bugfixes have been uplifted to Beta.Beta 13 (of 16 scheduled) ships tomorrow and Beta 14 goes out Friday.Firefox 70 is in the Nightly channel and ships to the stable release on October 22nd.Over the last week there have been about 420 bugs fixed in Nightly including these notable changes: Behind an about:config pref, Gecko now supports text-decoration-skip-ink.The text-decoration-skip-ink CSS property specifies how overlines and underlines are drawn when they pass over glyph ascenders and descenders.
You can see an example here: Media:Skip-ink.png The about:config pref is layout.css.text-decoration-skip-ink.enabled Last but not least, all three channels for Firefox got updated logos.Here’s the new about screen for Nightly: Media:Nightly-about-new-log0.png 2019-08-05 Firefox 68.0.1 is our current stable release.Firefox 69 is in Beta and ships to the stable release on September 3rd.
Over the last week, about 65 bugfixes have been uplifted to Beta.
Beta 11 (of 16 scheduled) ships tomorrow and Beta 12 goes out Friday.Firefox 70 is in the Nightly channel and ships to the stable release on October 22nd.We’ve got four weeks left in 70 Nightly development and only three weeks until the soft freeze.Over the last week there have been about 400 bugs fixed in Nightly including these notable changes: The Protections panel is now keyboard accessible and better matches the design spec.
Social tracking protection has begun to land behind preferences.There’s a social tracking protection doorhanger that appears the first couple of times that Firefox blocks social trackers and the beginnings of social tracking protection integration with ETP.The new logins manager got some improvements: A “no logins” view for when users encounter the manager and don’t yet have any logins.2019-07-29 Firefox 68.0.1 is our current stable release.Firefox 69 is in Beta and ships to the stable release on September 3rd.Over the last week, about 55 bugfixes have been uplifted to Beta.
Beta 9 (of 16 scheduled) ships tomorrow and Beta 10 goes out Friday.Firefox 70 is in the Nightly channel and ships to the stable release on October 22nd.Over the last week there have been about 400 bugs fixed in Nightly including these notable changes: A regression that caused blurry fonts was fixed.And we got a new animated shield icon for tracking protection.2019-07-22 Firefox 68.0.1 is our current stable release.The point release came out last Thursday, July 18th and fixes several minor regressions.
Firefox 69 is in Beta and ships to the stable release on September 3rd.Over the last week, about 50 bugfixes have been uplifted to Beta.Beta 7 (of 16 scheduled) ships tomorrow and Beta 8 goes out Friday.Firefox 70 is in the Nightly channel and ships to the stable release on October 22nd.
Over the last week there have been about 420 bugs fixed in Nightly including these notable changes: The Firefox Dev Tools color picker now shows color contrast information.Mac Firefox now has native fullscreen support behind the preference full-screen-api.macos-native-full-screen The site identity “i” icon has been removed and the Protections shield icon is now persistant.
The new protections panel is anchored on the persistent shield icon and the identity panel is now anchored on the lock icon.The Firefox Protections Report now shows Monitor content including the number of emails being monitored, the number of data breaches involving those emails, and the number of passwords exposed.
It also shows Lockwise information including the number of stored passwords, and the number of synced passwords.Finally, it also shows how many trackers total have been blocked since the feature was enabled.The new logins manager is now on by default.You can access it at about:logins or by clicking the Logins and Passwords item in the Firefox menu.
Behind the pref security.aboutcertificate.enabled, showing a certificate now opens the new certificate viewer.2019-07-15 Firefox 68 is our current stable release.68 shipped to our release audience on July 9 and offers users useful new features like optional cryptomining and fingerprinting protection in the browser, a full page color contrast audit in dev tools, and WebAuthn support in Fennec.Firefox 69 is in Beta and ships to the stable release on September 3rd.Firefox 70 has been in the Nightly channel for one week and in that time there have been about 450 fixes landed including these notable ones: Content Blocking information now shows up in the Protections Panel which you can see by Alt clicking the site identity area of the address bar.2019-07-08 Firefox 67.0.4 is our current stable release.
Firefox 68 is in the Beta channel and it ships to the stable release tomorrow, July 9th.Users of the released version of 68 will enjoy cryptomining and fingerprinting protection choices, the “enterprise roots” fix for anti-virus software breaking Firefox connections, WebRender for AMD users, a full page accessibility color contrast audit in Dev Tools, and WebAuthn support in Fennec.It’s also worth noting that 68 is an ESR.Today is Merge Day and the end of the Nightly soft code freeze as Nightly becomes Firefox 70.Over the last week, developers have fixed about 340 bugs in Nightly 69, including these notables: Firefox now has a what’s new button and panel that can be used to let users know what’s new in a Firefox update.
2019-07-01 Firefox 67.0.4 is our current stable release.
Firefox 68 is in the Beta channel, they’re building RC today, and it ships to the stable release on July 9th.Firefox 69 is in the Nightly channel ans ships to release on September 3rd.Today is the soft code freeze for Nightly.Developers are strongly urged not to land any fixes that are deemed risky or enable (pref-controlled) features a week before Merge day.
Over the last week there have been about 400 bugs resolved as Fixed, including these notable ones: It’s now clear in about:performance that you can sort columns.The column headers highlight on hover and have a sort order indicator.
If an DOES NOT have autocomplete=”new-password” we don’t offer to generate a strong password in the pop-up.Users should still be able to generate a strong password so Firefox now has a context menu item to fill a password field with a generated password.We fixed update & launch failures on macOS 10.15 due to quarantine changes at bug 1556733 The Protection Report at about:protections is coming along with addition of a chart and footer.It’s still using dummy data until bug 1557058 is fixed.ESR will get security.enterprise_roots.enabled set to true by default.This enables Firefox to read the Windows or Mac root store.
Gecko now supports text-decoration:width which sets the stroke thickness of underlines, overlines, and line-throughs.We moved cryptomining blocking to the Standard mode of content blocking for Firefox 69.2019-06-24 Firefox 67.0.4 is our current stable release.Last week we shipped two security updates, 67.0.3 and 67.0.4, to address an exploit targeting a crypto currency exchange.Firefox 68 is in the Beta channel and ships to the stable release on July 9th.Firefox 69 is in the Nightly channel ans ships to release on September 3rd.Over the last week there have been about 460 bugs fixed including these notable ones: 2019-06-17 Firefox 67.0.2 is our current stable release.67.0.2 shipped last Monday and fixes a handful of bugs.
Firefox 68 is in the Beta channel and ships to the stable release on July 9th.Firefox 69 is in the Nightly channel and ships to the stable release on September 3rd.Over the last week there have been about 445 bugs fixed including these notable ones: 2019-06-10 Firefox 67.0.1 is our current stable release.(67.0.2 is due this morning.) This significant set of releases shipped last week and brings the first steps at integrating our Firefox family of products.Firefox now means Enhanced Tracking Protection on by default for new users, an updated Monitor with support for watching multiple emails, an updated Facebook Container which blocks Facebook Likes and Logins from tracking you around the web, and Lockwise — now available as a synced Firefox extension as well as mobile apps.
You can read more about the release at Gizmodo, Engadget, ComputerWorld, c|net, PCMag, PCWorld, TechCrunch, The Verge, Tom’s Hardware, USA Today, Forbes, Bloomberg, and Fox News.Firefox 68 is in the Beta channel and ships to the stable release on July 9th.Firefox 68 includes about:compat, where website-specific workarounds are listed and may be toggled, automatic fix for HTTPS errors caused by antivirus software, WebRender for more platforms, and a full-page color contrast audit in the Developer Tools.Firefox 69 is in the Nightly channel and ships to the stable release on September 3rd.Over the last week there have been about 460 bugs fixed including these notable ones: about:support now has an install directory listing to make it easier to determine which install is running.2019-06-03 Firefox 67.0 is our current stable release.Firefox 68 is in the Beta channel and ships to the stable release on July 9th.
There have been nearly 60 bugfixes uplifted to beta in the last week.Firefox 69 is in the Nightly channel and ships to the stable release on September 3rd.Over the last week there have been about 425 changes landed including these notable ones: Firefox now syncs the run studies and make extension recommendations settings.2019-05-27 Firefox 67.0 is our current stable release.
Firefox 67 users are currently enjoying improvements to Firefox startup and pageload speed, and optional cryptominer and fingerprinter blocking, among the many improvements.Firefox 68 is in the Beta channel and ships to the stable release on July 9th.Since Beta opened to 68 development, there have been about 35 bug fixes uplifted from mozilla-central.Firefox 69 is in the Nightly channel and ships to the stable release on September 3rd.
Since Nightly opened to 69 development, there have been about 500 bugs resolved as fixed including these notable changes: 2019-05-20 Firefox 66.0.5 is our latest stable release.Firefox 67 ships to the stable release tomorrow, May 21st.Firefox 67 brings some great features and fixes including these: Performance improvements including to start-up and pageload.Optional cryptominers and fingerprinter blocking.WebRender enabled for some Windows users.The FIDO U2F API including registrations for Google Accounts.
New Pocket New Tab experience for some users.And for Android users, there’s a new Firefox Search widget with voice input.Today is merge day.
Beta will see the continuation of Firefox 68 development and Nightly will see the beginning of Firefox 69 development.Today is also the end of the soft code freeze on Nightly and the floodgates are open for all 69 work.Over the last week there have been 445 bugs resolved as fixed including these fixes of note: Firefox Lockwise (formerly Lockbox) integration has begun.Still behind the about:config pref signon.management.page.enabled and the about page about:logins, the new HTML-based login manager page is starting to take shape.WebRender is enabled for more machines.
Now we support Broadwell GT2+.The new about:addons, behind the about:config pref extensions.htmlaboutaddons.enabled, now has a release notes and a permissions section.2019-05-13 Firefox 66.0.5 is our latest stable release.Oh dot five shipped last Tuesday to provide further improvements to re-enable web extensions which had been disabled for users with a master password set (Bug 1549249 ).Firefox 67 is in the Beta channel and goes to the stable release on May 21st.That’s a week out from what I told you all last week.
Firefox 68 is in the Nightly channel and ships to our stable release users on July 9th.Over the last week there have been about 560 bugs resolved as fixed in Nightly including these notable changes: The Add-ons discovery pane in Firefox now shows ratings and user counts.2019-05-06 On Friday evening we started receiving feedback that extensions were failing for Firefox users and the Firefox team quickly identified that we had a certificate chain issue.We are extremely sorry to all Firefox users affected by this issue.The TL;DR is that one of the certificates used to authenticate add-ons expired, causing the signatures on all add-ons to break.The fix was to deploy a new certificate to Firefox users.A fix was developed Friday night and initially pushed out to desktop Firefox users through the Normandy infrastructure on Saturday.The fix was rolled out in a full QA’d dot release to both Desktop and Android users on Sunday.
There are still some outstanding issues actively being worked on and a list of those unresolved issues can be found in the Firefox 66.0.4 release notes.We will providing a full post mortem on the incident as soon as possible and for now you can also learn more about it at blog dot mozilla dot org slash addons.Firefox 67 is in the Beta channel and ships to our stable release a week from tomorrow on May 14th.Firefox 68 is in the Nightly channel and ships to our stable release on July 9th.Over the last week there have been approximately 475 bugs resolved as fixed.There was one notable change this week: GetUserMedia now requires secure origins.
This brings Firefox in line with Chrome and Safari.See the dev platform post for technical details.
2019-04-29 Firefox 66.0.3 is our currently stable release and came out on April 10th.Firefox 67 is in the Beta channel and moves to Stable on May 14th, two weeks from tomorrow.Beta 15 and 16 go out this week.
These are our final betas.Firefox 68 is in the Nightly channel and ships to Stable on July 9th.68 is the next ESR base.Next week we begin the Nightly soft code freeze.Last week saw about 500 bug fixes land on Nightly including these notable changes: We’ve streamlined the “default browser” flow for Fennec and udpated the onboarding.
As more users find their way to Fennec as a result of the Android browser choice screen in the EU, we want to make it easier to get started.The new “discovery stream” has landed with a new New Tab layout.The layout moves the snippets up under the search box and includes 4 general interest Recommended by Pocket stories and then 4 stories for each of several categories.The Accessibility color contrast auditor is considerably faster on pages with lots of text.
Gecko now has support for the Resize Observer API.This API can be used to detect when elements are resized, and run some javascript in response, all between layout & paint.
From mozilla.dev.platform “Fennec will be following the 68 train to ESR68-based release.We want to provide users with a secure and supported legacy Firefox for Android until Fenix has matured enough for users to migrate to it.
Therefore, starting from Gecko 68, we plan to use the ESR68 repository as a stable base for managing Fennec engineering, testing, and release of builds going forward.” 2019-04-22 Firefox 66.0.3 is our currently stable release.Firefox 67 is in the Beta channel and moves to Stable on May 14th.Beta 13 and 14 go out this week.Our final betas go out next week.
Firefox 68 is in the Nightly channel and ships to Stable on July 9th.Last week saw about 500 bug fixes land on Nightly including these notable changes: An early version of picture in picture mode for video has been enabled.On hover, videos now have a small button labeled “Picture-In-Picture” and when clicked, the video pops out to an always-on-top video docked on the lower corner of the screen.Firefox now pins its shortcut on the taskbar for Windows 10 users.
Before we would put an icon on the Desktop and in the Start Menu.Now we also put an icon on the Taskbar.
Dev Tools now has a full-page color contrast audit feature.This helps you quickly identify any contrast shortcomings, with badging and filtering of the accessibility tree.
Simply click the contrast button in the Accessibility toolbar to run the audit.Don’t miss These Weeks In Firefox: Issue 57 for an in-depth look at what’s happening with Firefox development.These Weeks In Firefox offers details from across the Firefox development effort for the last couple of weeks.2019-04-15 Firefox 66.0.3 is our currently stable release.
It shipped last Wednesday and fixes several minor issues.
Firefox 67 is in the Beta channel and ships to our stable release users on May 14th.Beta 11 and 12 go out this week.Firefox 68 is in the Nightly channel and ships to our stable release on July 9th.Over the last week there have been about 535 bugs resolved as Fixed including these notable changes.Qualified Linux machines now get WebRender.
These include Linux machines using Intel graphics with Mesa drivers being at least v18.2.8.0, excluding 4k displays.A significant portion of Nightly users are now seeing the new Quantumbar which should behave the same as the Awesomebar but lays the foundation for making improvements easier over time.
Dev Tools got a button for toggling print styles.This makes debugging print output much simpler.Dev Tools console can now be filtered by regular expressions.Any text enclosed between forward slashes is considered as a regex search.Accessibility of PanelMultiView has been improved.Elements that are initially disabled and enabled later will be navigable.Also, the toolbar overflow menu with search will be properly navigable.
2019-04-08 Firefox 66.0.2 is our currently stable release.
The gradual roll-out for blocking auto-play of media with sound has completed.Firefox 67 is in the Beta channel and moves to the stable release on May 14th.
Beta 9 and 10 (of 16 planned) ship this week.Over the last week we’ve uplifted about 60 changes to the Beta channel including an updated dav1d decoder which should bring dramatic performance improvements to AV1 decoding for many of our users.Firefox 68 is in the Nightly channel and ships to our Stable release on July 9th.Over the last week there have been 493 changes landed in Nightly including these notable ones: Firefox now requires user interaction for push notification prompts.This means a site cannot simply pop up the request on page load.Retained Display List has been enabled for Android.
You can read more about RDL (a performance optimizatio which landed in Desktop 61, almost a year ago) at this blog post.CodeMirror is now more accessible.CodeMirror is a JS text editor used in Firefox Developer Tools.This makes edit as HTML work for screenreaders.A regression that was causing pinned tabs to shift left putting the left-most one off-screen has been fixed.A crash that lots of macOS users of New Twitter were seeing is now fixed.
Picture in Picture, still behind the about:config flag media.videocontrols.picture-in-picture.enabled now has a toggle to enable and play, pause, close, and un-pip controls.2019-04-01 Firefox 66.0.2 is our currently stable release.This second dot release shipped last Wednesday to fix a web compatibility issues with Office 365, iCloud and IBM WebMail caused by recent changes to the handling of keyboard events ( Bug 1538966 ) Firefox 67 is in the Beta channel and moves to the stable release on May 14th.Beta 7 and 8 (of 16 planned) ship this week so we’re coming up on the half way mark for this cycle.Over the last week we’ve uplifted about 60 fixes to the Beta channel including the new Accounts toolbar button.Firefox 68 is in the Nightly channel and ships to the stable release on July 9th.
Over the last week there have been 525 fixes landed on Nightly including these notable changes: We fixed a regression where Windows Preview per Tab was broken (and uplifted the fix to Beta.) (Device Pairing Phase 1) Desktop Auth was enabled for pairing the Reference Browser to Desktop using the QR code experience.(This has also been uplifted to Beta.) A 16 year old Gecko feature request, support for the ::marker pseudo-element on list items was resolved FIXED! the ::marker CSS pseudo-element selects the marker box of a list item, which typically contains a bullet or number.This allows list item markers to be styled or have their content value customized.Thanks, Mats Palmgren (:mats) for the new Gecko feature and Emilio Cobos Álvarez (:emilio) for the code reviews! 2019-03-25 Firefox 66.0.1 is our current stable release.The new version shipped last week.We had a quick point release for a couple of security issues disclosed at the pwn2own contest.
Firefox 66 users are enjoying these new features: Blocking of auto-play media with sound.Scroll anchoring.Basic touchbar support for macOS.Default of 8 content processes up from 4.Redesigned certificate error pages.Support for Windows Hello on Windows 10.
Firefox 67 is in the Beta channel and moves to the stable release on May 14.Tomorrow the 5th Beta (of 16 planned) goes out.Firefox 68 is in the Nightly channel and moves to the stable release on July 9th.Over the last week there have been about 490 bugs resolved as Fixed including these notable changes: We’ve adjusted the available memory tracker thresholds to minimize out of memory crashes.Now that Firefox can smartly unload tabs when short on memory, we’re updating the definition of short on memory to be a bit higher to avoid even more out of memory crashes.The dav1d decoder has been enabled for Linux.
Last week it was enabled for Mac and the week before it was enabled for Linux.We now have dav1d decoding on all three of our desktop platforms! We’ve updated the dav1d decoder to version 0.2.1 for some serious performance improvements.
This fixes a couple of crashes and makes decoding about 3 times faster for many users on old CPUs.If all goes well in testing, this update will be pushed to 67 Beta so our users get the perf win even sooner.Another eviltraps bug is squashed.With the changes at Bug 1532338 – Stronger auth dialog abuse enforcement we now make the block apply to the domain of the top-level frame (i.e.what’s in the URL bar) instead of the sub-resource, and we reduce the number of allowed cancellations to 2.This should help users encountering evil sites that used the authentication dialog to attack users.Firefox now has an entry point to access saved logins from the main menu providing even easier access to existing saved logins.This change was also uplifted to Beta 67.
Firefox now has an avatar toolbar button with menu in the main toolbar for easier discovery of Firefox accounts and Sync capabilities.From the menu, you can quickly access your Firefox account and sent tabs; you can view synced tabs and synced tabs sidebar; and connect to another device, manage your account, and change your sync settings.We have enabled WebRender for a whole class of AMD GPUs.These are the Cayman (Northern Islands) graphics chips release starting in 2010.
We fixed a regression causing Office365 PowerPoint text to vanish after typing.This change is being evaluated for uplift to Beta and stable Release.It’s a pref flip so should be safe.
GeckoView has support for Web App Manifests which is a step along the way to PWA support in Fenix.We now require a user gesture to enable push notifications.This means that a site can’t pop up the “want notifications” dialog until a user has interacted with the page.This change applies to desktop Firefoxen as well as Android Firefox.Firefox for ARM64 devices now have Ion JIT support.
This applies to both the Windows on Snapdragon laptops as well as Firefox for Android.We now have Live Region support on Android.
This accessibility feature allows screen readers to know when content has updated.Last but not least, we got a nice fix to the Reader Mode from a volunteer contributor.The Reader Mode toolbar no longer zooms when you zoom the content with Ctrl/Cmd + and -.
2019-03-18 Firefox 65.0.2 is our current stable release.Firefox 66 is in the Beta channel and ships to our stable release tomorrow, March 19th.Firefox 66 users will enjoy the new block auto-play feature that blocks media with sound from automatically playing.Users can add exceptions for sites they want to auto-play (gradual roll-out.) We’ve also got a new feature called scroll-anchoring which prevents the page from jumping up and down as new content loads in while you’re scrolling.macOS users will get basic touchbar support.And all users will enjoy improved performance and stability as we’ve doubled the number of default Firefox processes from 4 to 8.Today is merge day.
Beta becomes Firefox 67 and Nightly becomes Firefox 68.The Nightly channel received about 450 bug fixes over the last week including these notable changes:.