Difference between revisions of “Firefox/Roadmap/Updates” From MozillaWiki ! colspan=”2″ | 2019 Firefox Roadmap/Updates ! colspan=”2″ | ”’Latest”’: [[#2019-10-14|2019-10-14]] | [[#2019-09-09|9th]], [[#2019-09-16|16th]], [[#2019-09-23|23rd]], [[#2019-09-30|30th]] | [[#2019-08-05|5th]], [[#2019-08-12|12th]], [[#2019-08-19|19th]], [[#2019-08-26|26th]] | [[#2019-07-01|1st]], [[#2019-07-08|8th]], [[#2019-07-15|15th]], [[#2019-07-22|22nd]], [[#2019-07-29|29th]] | [[#2019-05-06|6th]], [[#2019-05-13|13th]], [[#2019-05-20|20th]] | [[#2019-04-01|1st]], [[#2019-04-08|8th]], [[#2019-04-15|15th]], [[#2019-04-22|22nd]], [[#2019-04-29|29th]] | [[#2019-03-04|4th]], [[#2019-03-11|11th]], [[#2019-03-18|18th]], [[#2019-03-25|25th]] | [[#2019-02-04|4th]], [[#2019-02-11|11th]], [[#2019-02-25|25th]] | [[#2019-01-07|7th]], [[#2019-01-14|14th]], [[#2019-01-28|28th]] == 2019-10-14 == * [https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/69.0.3/releasenotes/ Firefox 69.0.3] is our current stable release.This dot release shipped on October 10th to fix a pair of regressions.* [https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/69.0.3/releasenotes/ Firefox 69.0.3] is our current stable release.This dot release shipped on October 10th to fix a pair of regressions.
Line 481: Line 519: ** We’ve got [https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1508388 “search handoff” on the New Tab Page].So when you start typing in the search box it moves the typing and results to the Awesomebar.** We’ve got [https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1508388 “search handoff” on the New Tab Page].So when you start typing in the search box it moves the typing and results to the Awesomebar.
* In addition to all these great changes in Nightly, we’ve also go the addition of a new platform.We now have untested [https://blog.mozilla.org/nfroyd/2019/01/04/arm64-windows-update-1/ nightly builds for the Windows on Snapdragon platform].This is Windows running on ARM processors which will become a fully supported platform this year.* In addition to all these great changes in Nightly, we’ve also go the addition of a new platform.
We now have untested [https://blog.mozilla.org/nfroyd/2019/01/04/arm64-windows-update-1/ nightly builds for the Windows on Snapdragon platform].This is Windows running on ARM processors which will become a fully supported platform this year.Revision as of 16:42, 18 October 2019 2019 Firefox Roadmap/Updates 7th , 14th , 28th 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:.
