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 * [https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/74.0beta/releasenotes/ Firefox 74] is in the Beta channel. We're two of four weeks in to the Beta 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 Applications panel where Service Workers and Web App Manifests can be easily inspected.
 * Firefox 75 is in the Nightly channel. 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 including these notable ones.
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+** Firefox now has [https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1542784 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 <img loading="lazy"> and then the user scrolls the bring the image into view, the image is downloaded and rendered.
+** Firefox now [https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1614957 strips the www. prefix in address bar results] for improved readability. This behavior matches other browsers.
+** A [https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1610193 significant memory leak was fixed in bug 1610193]. This leak happened when users reloaded Youtube, Facebook, and possibly other pages.
+** Firefox's [https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1602819 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 [https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1611965 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 [https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1611290 socket process now has Windows Sandboxing.] This is part of ongoing work to deliver WebRTC on an isolated process.
+** Firefox now [https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1614202 supports CSS conic-gradient] with backends for [https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1614890 WebRender] and [https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1616587 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 ==