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** [https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1567293 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.
** [https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1567293 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 [https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1571003 bug was fixed that allowed malicious sites to use auth prompts steal focus] and make it difficult to close the website or browser.
** A [https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1571003 bug was fixed that allowed malicious sites to use auth prompts steal focus] and make it difficult to close the website or browser.
* As they 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 [https://blog.nightly.mozilla.org/ Firefox Nightly News] and the raw meeting notes for the latest meeting are available [https://docs.google.com/document/d/1hM9bmIdIe0PeQEB4SbU7NG3m7MmjgLJjUB7Fzr7fGEU/edit 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:
* 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 [https://blog.nightly.mozilla.org/ Firefox Nightly News] and the raw meeting notes for the latest meeting are available [https://docs.google.com/document/d/1hM9bmIdIe0PeQEB4SbU7NG3m7MmjgLJjUB7Fzr7fGEU/edit 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 [https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1588050 bug 1588050] are resolved.  
** 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 [https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1588050 bug 1588050] are resolved.  
** Also in DevTools, the Debugger’s new Watchpoints feature, which lets you pause on an object property get/set, is [https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1592718 on by default in Nightly and Dev Edition.]
** Also in DevTools, the Debugger’s new Watchpoints feature, which lets you pause on an object property get/set, is [https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1592718 on by default in Nightly and Dev Edition.]
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