Since 2018 and management changes Firefox lost a lot of users. [1] Firefox has now 3.67% market share.[2] Mozilla is mismanaged, to quote another commenter from HN: >Mitchell Baker (Mozilla CEO) makes $3 million a year, and Mozilla asks you … Read more
Firefox 93 comes with lots of lovely updates including AVIF image format support, filling of XFA-based forms in its PDF viewer and protection against insecure downloads by blocking downloads relying on insecure connections. Web developers are now able to use … Read more
I haven’t been able to release an extension in over a month, and I don’t appear to be the only one. It is affecting both the listed and unlisted versions of my extensions. Moreover, this appears to be affecting many … Read more
Firefox is for everyone Available in over 90 languages, and compatible with Windows, Mac and Linux machines, Firefox works no matter what you’re using or where you are. Make sure your operating system is up to date for the best … Read more
We are pleased to announce a new, major privacy enhancement to Firefox’s cookie handling that lets you fully erase your browser history for any website. Today’s new version of Firefox Strict Mode lets you easily delete all cookies and supercookies … Read more
Version 91.0, first offered to Release channel users on August 10, 2021 We’d like to extend a special thank you to the 210 volunteers who helped resolve more than 1,200 bugs in the Firefox 91 release. Of the 210 volunteers, … Read more
In the last six months the Firefox performance team has implemented changes to improve startup, responsiveness, security (Fission), and web standards. Startup and perceived startup Doug Thayer and Emma Malyz implemented work to improve the perceived startup of Firefox on … Read more
We are pleased to announce that Firefox 90 will support Fetch Metadata Request Headers which allows web applications to protect themselves and their users against various cross-origin threats like (a) cross-site request forgery (CSRF), (b) cross-site leaks (XS-Leaks), and (c) … Read more
Thursday, June 03, 2021 Firefox 89 has a new appearance, removing features (ugh) and annoying some people while delighting others. It can be disabled by setting browser.proton.enabled to false. I mostly like it though, so I want to keep the … Read more
I have started looking into this a bit. I think the outline of the work would be roughly the following: Decide which of our non-native menus we want to be native. I’m aware of the following categories: Context menus popups … Read more