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== 2017-07-31 ==
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* Firefox 55, now in Beta, ships to release on August 8th, a week from tomorrow.
** [https://screenshots.firefox.com/ Firefox Screenshots] is the major front end feature shipping with 55. It's going to be a gradual roll-out so not everyone will see it on release day. Firefox Screenshots lets you take, save, and share screenshots without leaving Firefox. With Firefox Screenshots, you can easily capture an element on screen, an arbitrary region, the visible page, or the complete page including parts scrolled off screen.
** WebVR is the major platform feature shipping in Firefox 55. Firefox users with an HTC VIVE or Oculus Rift headset will be able to experience VR content on the Web and can explore some exciting demos at [http://vrlist.io/ vrlist.io].
*Firefox 56, now in Nightly, ships to release on September 26.
** Major features coming in Firefox 56 include a new Preferences organization with searching, out of process extensions on Windows, and a new New Tab page powered by Activity Stream.


== 2017-07-24 ==
This document is no longer maintained.  
* Firefox 55, now in Beta, ships to Release on August 8th -- just about two weeks away.
** Firefox Screenshots is active for 20% of Beta users and will be gradually rolled out to Release users to ensure our servers and processes are keeping up.
** Firefox 55 also includes a streamlined Installer that ensures 64-bit Firefox gets delivered to 64-bit Windows users. Also in 55 are Web VR, Search Suggestions enabled by default in the Awesomebar, Ask to Activate Flash, and blazing fast Session Restore. (Check out [https://metafluff.com/2017/07/21/i-am-a-tab-hoarder/ Dietrich's post] on Session Restore for the many tabs use case.)
* Firefox 56, now in Nightly, ships to Release on September 26.
** While there are a lot of changes happening on Nightly during the 56 cycle, many of them are part of the Photon interface update and those won't ship in 56 -- we're holding them for the big 57 release. Features that we believe will ride the trains to Release are the new Preferences reorganization including Preference Searching and migrating 64-bit capable Windows users to a 64-bit Firefox.
** Other changes in Nightly that are worth your attention are out of process extensions for Windows users and a new New Tab Page powered by Activity Stream.


== 2017-07-10 ==
{| class="wikitable collapsible collapsed"
* Firefox 54.0.1 is our currently released version. The dot release was primarily to fix Netflix for Linux Firefox users.
! colspan="2" | 2020 Firefox Roadmap/Updates
* Firefox 55, now in beta, ships to release on August 8th.
|-
** The major front end feature of 55 is Firefox Screenshots. Screenshots will be gradually rolled out so not all users will see it on the day 55 ships. This is because we need to gauge usage and ensure our servers and processes are keeping up. Right now, Screenshots are enabled for 10% of Beta users.  
! colspan="2" | '''Latest''': [[#2020-10-05|2020-10-05]]
** Other Firefox 55 front end features include a radically streamlined stub installer that makes installing Firefox a breeze and ensures 64-bit Windows users get a 64-bit Firefox. We also have search suggestions in the Awesomebar enabled by default for ease of use, ask to activate Flash for security and performance improvements, and session restore performance improvements that make restoring lots of tabs blazing fast.  
|-
** The major web platform feature for Firefox 55 is WebVR.  
| October
* Firefox 56, now in nightly, ships to release on September 26.
| [[#2020-10-05|5th]]
** The major front end changes in 56 are for the Photon UI in preparation for Firefox 57. Most of these Photon features will *not* ship in 56 though you can test them there now.
|-
** Other nightly features include a new preferences organization, search in preferences, small tiles on the New Tab Page in preparation for Activity Stream, form auto-fill, background tab throttling, paused media in background tabs, on-boarding tours, web extensions in their own process, and migration of 64-bit capable users to 64-bit Firefox.
| September
| [[#2020-09-14|14th]], [[#2020-09-21|21st]], [[#2020-09-28|28th]]
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| August
| [[#2020-08-03|3rd]], [[#2020-08-10|10th]], [[#2020-08-17|17th]], [[#2020-08-24|24th]], [[#2020-08-31|31st]]
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| July
| [[#2020-07-06|6th]], [[#2020-07-13|13th]], [[#2020-07-20|20th]], [[#2020-07-27|27th]]
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| June
| [[#2020-06-01|1st]], [[#2020-06-08|8th]], [[#2020-06-22|22nd]], [[#2020-06-29|29th]]
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| May
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== 2020-10-05 ==
*[https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/81.0.1/releasenotes/ Firefox 81.0.1] is our current stable release. This update to Firefox 81 shipped on October 1st.
* Firefox 82 is in the Beta channel. Over the last week 41 bug fixes have been uplifted to the Beta channel.  
* Firefox 83 is in the Nightly channel. Over the last week about 335 issues have been resolvd in Nightly including these notable changes:
** [https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1328637 The Bookmarks Toolbar got a keyboard shortcut] (Ctrl+Shift+B on Linux and Windows and Cmd+Shift+B on macOS).
** [https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1609291 'beforeinput' event and 'InputEvent.getTargetRanges()' have been enabled for Nightly and early Beta.]
** [https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1665490 The new global WebRTC indicators are now set to ride the trains to release.] The global mute feature did not make this cut but [https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1661474 was added to the Experimental Features section in Firefox Preferences.]
** [https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1668000 WebRender has been enabled for more users.]
** [https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1668473 Firefox now has UI for disabling sponsored top sites.]
** [https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1661756 The Protections Dashboard now has a card for VPN.]
** [https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1667470 Tab-to-search has been enabled in Nightly.]


== 2017-06-19 ==
== 2020-09-28 ==
* Firefox 54 with E10S multi shipped last week and users are impressed.
* [https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/81.0/releasenotes/ Firefox 81] is our current stable release. This release has been in the wild since last Tuesday. Firefox 81 arrived with, among other enhancements, a new theme called Alpenglow. If you haven't checked that out, do. It's quite nice.
** "@firefox as someone who previously switched to Chrome, I'm glad to be back for the only modern independent browser on earth :) #firefox54"
* Firefox 82 is in the Beta channel. Since the merge last week, 82 has received 34 changes including an update to [https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1666265 enable WebRender for more people] and [https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/buglist.cgi?bug_id=1664981,1665779,1663972,1666964,1663920,1665272,1667032 a number of printing fixes.]
** "I am really impressed with the latest Firefox beta. Fast, multiprocess and taking less memory than Chrome, for about the same performance."
* Firefox 83 is in the Nightly channel and over the last week it received about 350 changes. The most intersting change this week was [https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1666417 enabling Warp]. Warp is the name of a significant update to SpiderMonkey, our JavaScript Engine. More precisely, Warp is the project to replace the frontend of our optimizing JIT (IonBuilder) and the engine's Type Inference mechanism with a new MIR builder based on compiling CacheIR to MIR. Warp will let us improve security, performance, memory usage and maintainability of the whole engine. Turning on Warp for Nightly has already shown a large improvement for web performance there. For example, loading Google Docs is about 20% faster with Warp enabled. If you're on Nightly, you can find the [https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1665415 on/off switch] for Warp in the Experimental Features section of Preferences/Options.
** "If you use #Firefox as a web browser, you should update to version 54 just out today. The speed & memory usage improvements are amazing."
* If you enjoy these updates and would like to learn more about what's going on with Firefox Nightly, be sure to check out [https://blog.nightly.mozilla.org/2020/09/23/these-weeks-in-firefox-issue-80/ These Weeks in Firefox] at the [https://blog.nightly.mozilla.org Firefox Nightly News] blog. The updates there aren't quite as frequent as here but they're comprehensive and detailed, often with screenshots and other examples.
** "@firefox The new version is incredibly smooth, fast, and sexy. Congrats for this amazing achievement!
* Firefox 55, now in beta, ships to release on August 8th
** The major front end feature of 55 is Firefox Screenshots. Also in 55 are a refreshed updater experience, default to on search suggestions, one-click search buttons in the Awesomebar, ask to activate Flash, the new form autofill, a performance preference section for tuning e10s and hardware acceleration, super-fast session restore with lots of tabs, a streamlined Windows installer, improved printing from Reader Mode, and WebVR.
* Firefox 56, now in Nightly, ships to release on September 26th
** In Firefox 56 nightly, but not going to release until 57, you can see the beginning of the Photon UI. I've got a few slides to show you some of that work. [https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1Y6vD4QzZOSbrr1-1Fzivr9PEYgQ-4q7pa4WQzrdS4gk/present#slide=id.g1e5da39157_0_5 Photon Slides]


== 2017-06-12 ==
== 2020-09-21 ==
* Firefox 54, currently in beta, releases tomorrow, June 13th.
* Today is Merge Day and the beginning of a new cycle. Firefox 82 moved to Beta and Nightly became Firefox 83.  
** The major feature shipping in 54 is E10S-multi with 4 content processes for improved responsiveness and reliability.  
* [https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/80.0.1/releasenotes/ Firefox 80.0.1] is our current stable release.
* Firefox 55, currently in nightly, goes to release on August 8th.  
* Firefox 81 is in the Beta channel and hits our stable release channel tomorrow, September 22nd. This release brings keyboard or headset control for audio and video, features to save, manage, and auto-fill credit card information, WebRTC changes that improve video conferencing with Jitsi, improved picture-in-picture discoverability, and more accessible audio and video controls.  
** Major new features and changes in nightly include Firefox Screenshots, a refreshed updater experience, an updated preferences organization, default to on search suggestions, one-click search buttons in the Awesomebar, ask to activate Flash, the new form autofill, a performance preference section for tuning e10s and hardware acceleration, super-fast session restore with lots of tabs, a streamlined Windows installer, improved printing from Reader Mode, WebVR, and significant pieces of the Photon UI have landed. Finally, all locales are now available on nightly.
* Firefox 82 was in the Nightly channel for the last week and during that time it received about 350 changes, including these notable one:
** [https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1652784 about:processes got a significant clean-up.] The most prominent change is that threads have been moved out of the default view and are now only avaiable via the about:config pref "toolkit.aboutProcesses.showThreads".
** [https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1665496 The previously experimental MediaSession API has been enabled by default.] This feature, which allows a web authors to provide custom behaviors for standard media playback interactions, is intended to ride the trains to the 82 release.
** [https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1520779 Firefox now properly supports the paragraph resolution for braille displays and mouse tracking with the screen reader NVDA.] Previously, the screen reader would read only line at a time, regardless of the user's settings.
** A regression that caused [https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1664838 some content to not render after scrolling,] breaking many sites, was quickly fixed.
** [https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=492320 On Mac Firefox, users can now use the "undo close window" keyboard shortcut] even after the last window is closed.
** [https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=613785 Firefox now uses tab-modal prompt dialogs for HTTP authentication.]
** [https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1664899 The picture-in-picture button has a new look and position] which should make it easier to find and use.
** [https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1659877 Printing dialog errors for invalid form entries are now reported to screen readers.]
** [https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1656526 The very beginnings of a new startup architecture landed behind a registry switch]. This approach will eventually show a skeleton of the browser before the full browser has loaded.]


== 2017-05-22 ==
== 2020-09-14 ==
* Firefox 54 goes to release on June 13th.
* [https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/80.0.1/releasenotes/ Firefox 80.0.1] is our current stable release. The dot release shipped on September 1st and fixed a performance regression when encountering new intermediate CA certificates, a frequent crash possibly related to GPU resets, rendering on some sites using WebGL, the zoom-in keyboard shortcut on Japanese language builds, and download issues related to extensions and cookies. See the linked release notes for bug IDs for more information on each of those fixes.  
** With Firefox Screenshots slipping to Firefox 55, what we have now in 54 is an upgraded sandbox, E10S-multi with 4 content processes, a downloads panel and badging redesign, and a whole gang of new WebExtension APIs including a Sidebar API, Proxy API, Privacy API, DevTools Panel API, and Protocol Handler API.
* Firefox 81 is in the Beta channel and hits our stable release channel next Tuesday, September 22nd. Two features that were planned for 81, credit card auto-fill, and the new printing interface, have been pulled from this release and will now happen in 82 or later. 
* Firefox 55 goes to release on August 8th.
* Firefox 82 is in the Nightly channel and since we we didn't update last week, I'm sharing two weeks worth of noteworthy changes to Nightly.
** Major new features planned for Firefox 55 include Firefox Screenshots, a refreshed updater experience, an updated preferences organization, default to on search suggestions, one-click search buttons in the Awesomebar, and ask to activate Flash.
** [https://mzl.la/3bWqAVo 33 printing bugs were fixed,] including support for paper size selection and automatically closing the print dialog after the user presses the print button.
** [https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1460499 Firefox now uses DirectComposition for hardware decoded video on Windows.] This should improve CPU and GPU usage during video playback.
** [https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1659537 Top Sites] and [https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1661934 some additional browser settings] are now automatically synced.
** Credit card auto-fill is now more accessible with the [https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1662879 card type,] and the [https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1662876 card number in the card editor] now available to screen readers.
** Picture-in-picture now [https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1599376 has a keyboard shortcut on Mac (Option + Command + Shift + right bracket)] and [https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1603234 puts the close button in the correct place on Mac] and now [https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1596116 works even when you activate it before the video has started playing.]
** Firefox's PDF handling was [https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/buglist.cgi?bug_id=1662118,1662914,1663343,1663803,1664190 updated] including some user interface polish and fixes for form handling.  
** [https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1655124 Firefox now shows recommendations when a user saves to Pocket.]
** [https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1654271 WebRender will be enabled for even more users for Firefox 82.]
** [https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1652785 about:processes now shows the website title and favicon.]


== 2017-05-15 ==
== 2020-08-31 ==
* Firefox 54 release is about a month away, June 13th.
* [https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/80.0/releasenotes/ Firefox 80] is our current stable release. 80 shipped last Tuesday, August 25th. This release was pretty quiet with a change to allow Firefox to be set as the default PDF viewer and a number of accessibility fixes including improvements to the accessibility of the developer tools.  
** Last week, and for several weeks I've been highlighting Firefox Screenshots as a 54 feature. That's changed and Screenshots is now targeted at Firefox 55. Still on track for 54 is E10S-muli with 4 content processes for improved reliability and responsiveness.
* Firefox 81 is in the Beta channel. 81 is a significant release with improvements to printing, pdf handling (including new support for form filling) picture-in-picture discoverability, and credit card autofill. Firefox 81 is scheduled to go live in about three weeks on September 22nd.
* Firefox 55, now in Nightly, moves to Beta on June 13th and then to release on August 8th.
* Firefox 82 is in the Nightly channel and over the last week it has seen about 350 bugs resolved as fixed including these notable changes:
** Major new features in Firefox 55 include Firefox Screenshots, a refreshed updater UI, an updated preferences organization, default to on search suggestions, one-click search buttons in the Awesomebar, and Flash click-to-play
** With several recent fixes, the new printing UI has gone from just "OK accessibility" (with [https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1660363 one severe issue]) to "delightfully accessible".
** [https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1656296 Firefox will now show an indicator when a download is blocked because Firefox determined it was insecure/unwanted.]
** [https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1526820 The color picker is now keyboard accessible.]
** [https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1548753 A high profile list numbering bug in Gecko was fixed.]
** [https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1656494 Firefox will now show a notification bar on the first New Tab of a session to ask if the user wants to set the default browser.]
** Last week Firefox saw a change to speed up mouse wheel scrolling. That change was backed out and the [https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1660933 new approach is to only enable the faster speed for new users and to provide a gradual increase for existing users.]
** [https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1661475 The Send tab menu available from the Firefox Account toolbar button now has an entry to Manage Devices...]


== 2017-05-08 ==
== 2020-08-24 ==
* Firefox 54 release is in about 5 weeks.
* [https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/79.0/releasenotes/ Firefox 79] is our current stable release. Firefox 80 will ship to our stable release audience tomorrow. (Tuesday August 25th.)
** The Major front-end feature coming with 54 is Firefox Screenshots. Screenshots will be a gradual roll-out so not everyone will get it on day one. We'll be shipping it to a subset of release users, looking at all of our quality measures, and rolling it out more broadly assuming all looks good with the metrics.  
* As of this morning, Firefox 81 is now in the Beta channel. In its final week of Nightly changes, Firefox 81 received about 380 fixes including these notable ones:
** The major back-end change coming to 54 is E10S-muli with 4 content processes for improved reliability and responsiveness.  
** [https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1410598 Firefox's PDF viewer was updated to match the Photon look and feel.]
** [https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1652145 Also for PDFs, form filling was enabled on Nightly and early Beta.]
** [https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1418822 Mouse wheel scrolling should feel faster, and more closely match the speed of other browsers.]
** The new printing experience received [https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1653607 a] [https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1653317 bunch] [https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1658173 of] [https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1658450 fixes.]
** The Firefox native video and audio controls are now [https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1622995 accessible to screen reader users.]
** WebRender has been enabled for [https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1660453 more] [https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1659499 systems.]
** [https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1591204 Gecko now supports the forced-colors media feature.]
* Also as of this morning, the Nightly version bump to 82 was completed successfully and the soft freeze is now lifted. mozilla-central is open for business.


* Firefox 55, now in Nightly, moves to Beta on June 13th and then to release on August 8th.  
== 2020-08-17 ==
** Major new features in Firefox 55 include a refreshed updater UI, an updated preferences organization, default to on search suggestions, one-click search buttons in the Awesomebar, and Flash click-to-play.
* [https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/79.0/releasenotes/ Firefox 79] is our current stable release.
* Firefox 80 is in the Beta channel and it will arrive at our stable release channel next Tuesday on August 25th. This is RC week when we test the final "release candidate" builds.  
* Firefox 81 is in the Nightly channel. This Thursday is the soft code freeze, meaning that developers should not land code that is deemed risky for the stability and general quality of Firefox and that features that are controlled by a pref and were not activated during the nightly cycle should not be activated. If you land code that introduces new crashers or lowers the overall quality of Firefox during this period, you will be backed out instead of waiting for a follow-up fix. Over the last week the Nightly channel has received about 320 bug fixes including these notable changes:
** [https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1658326 One-off searches in the Firefox addressbar have been re-designed.] This is a first step in unifying one-off and search shortcuts to provide a more streamlined search experience.
** Firefox will now [https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1656277 show the bookmarks toolbar after migration if there were bookmarks in the other browser's toolbar.] This change means that migrating users won't think they've lost their high priority bookmarks or have to go digging for them in a Firefox bookmarks folder.
** [https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1648100 MediaControl has been enabled for riding the trains to release.] It had previously been restricted to Nightly builds. Among other things, media control allow users to control <audio> and <video> play by pressing hardware control buttons on a keyboard or headset.
** [https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1657521 Gecko now has hardware VP9 support on macOS.] This is only available on macOS 11 (Big Sur.)
** Firefox Developer Tools now has a [https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1590885 setting that exposes line-wrap as an option in the debugger.] The new option is found in the debugger's context menu.


== 2017-05-01 ==
== 2020-08-10 ==
* Firefox 54, now in Beta, ships to release June 13th. If all the testing goes well it will include two exciting new features, Firefox Screenshots and E10S-multi with 4 content processes. Screenshots is preffed off in Beta while the team works out some details around testing. E10S-multi is going through A/B testing in Beta comparing the stability of different numbers of content processes.
* [https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/79.0/releasenotes/ Firefox 79] is our current stable release.
* Firefox 80 is in the Beta channel and it will arrive at our stable release channel on August 25th.  
* Firefox 81 is in the Nightly channel and over the last week the Nightly channel has received about 380 bug fixes including these notable changes:
** [https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1657161 The new printing UI has been enabled on Nightly.] The new experience is still incomplete but we'd love your feedback and bug reports.
** [https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1620055 Desktop pinch zooming has been enabled for Nightly.] This change enable support for smooth pinch zooming on touchscreens and precision touch pads.
** [https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1656575 Credit card auto-fill is now enabled for en-US users] and [https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1657354 credit card syncing is now available in preferences.]
** [https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1647443 Firefox can now install language packs before updates] which should fix the bug where langpack users were being reset to English on updates.
** On linux we now offer the [https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1628742 about:config pref widget.workspace-management as an override to restore windows on particular workspaces.]
** [https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1656554 WebRender has been enabled for more mobile devices.]
** [https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1657428 A regression causing YouTube videos to render pixelated with less anti-aliasing] was fixed.
** Support for JS [https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1652974 private] [https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1652976 fields] has landed in Nightly.
** A high visibility [https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1042151 css flex bug], where content that was supposed to be scrollable was not, has been fixed.
** [https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1581641 Code folding is now enabled in the DevTools console.]
** [https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=917963 Break on first script statement has been implemented for the DevTools debugger.]


* Firefox 55, now in Nightly, ships to release on August 8th. Nightly currently includes a refreshed updater UI that's modernized, less "in your face" than the big dialog, but persistent so hopefully better at keeping users up to date. Nightly also includes a new and simplified, easier to use preferences organization -- including a performance preferences section for controlling e10s multi and hardware acceleration (located at the bottom of the General section). Finally, Nightly now includes a "legacy" badge on XUL/XPCOM add-ons in the Add-ons manager. This is the start of the plan for showing users what add-ons won't make the cut for Firefox 57.
== 2020-08-03 ==
* [https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/79.0/releasenotes/ Firefox 79] is our current stable release. This latest version shipped last Tuesday and, among other things, delivers WebRender to more users. WebRender is replacing Gecko's compositor with one that uses the GPU to draw web content rather than the CPU. Written in Rust, WebRender improves stability and performance.
* Firefox 80 is in the Beta channel and it will arrive at our stable release channel on August 25th.  
* Firefox 81 is in the Nightly channel and over the last week the Nightly channel has received about 300 bug fixes including these notable changes:
** An [https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=558594 initial implementation of <input type='search'>] has landed in Nightly behind the pref layout.forms.input-type-search.enabled
** [https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=546052 CSS cross-fade,] which can be used to blend two images at a defined transparency, has also landed in Nightly.
** [https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1531609 CSS overflow-clip] has been implemented and landed in Nightly.
** [https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1655722 HTML inert] and [https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=921504 inert sub-trees] were implemented and landed in Nightly. The inert attribute makes the browser "ignore" the element from assistive technologies, page search and text selection.
** [https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1654262 WebRender has been enabled for even more users.]
** As part of the new printing work behind the pref print.tab_modal.enabled, [https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1649202 print preview now has a modal UI.]


== 2017-04-24 ==
== 2020-07-27 ==
* Firefox 53 shipped last Wednesday.
* [https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/78.0.2/releasenotes/ Firefox 78.0.2] is our current stable release.
* Firefox 54, currently in Beta, is scheduled to ship to release on June 13th.
* Firefox 79 ships tomorrow, July 28th. The new release includes version 2 of Enhanced Tracking Protection (ETP) which now automatically protects people from unwanted first-party cookies.
** 54 should include Firefox Screenshots, an upgraded sandbox, 4 content processes, downloads panel redesign, a gang of new WebExtension APIs, the ability to create your own custom devices in Responsive Device Mode, and a "Mobile Bookmarks” folder for easier access to bookmarks synced from mobile devices.  
* Today, Firefox 80 moves into our Beta channel. Firefox 80 will hit our stable release in one month on August 25th.  
* Firefox 55, currently in Nightly, is scheduled to ship to release on August 8th.  
* And as of this morning, Nightly is now Firefox 81. Before that happened, Nightly 80 had a rather quiet week of updates but did see these notable changes:
** 55 has a refreshed update UI, a new preferences organization, default to on search suggestions, Flash click to play, geolocation powered by Mozilla Location Service, a performance panel for controlling e10s multi, out of process WebExtensions, localizations, and more.
** Part of the printing overhaul has landed with [https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1652861 new basic UI for printer selection and print settings.]
** As a reminder, Firefox 55 is staying in nightly for an extra cycle as a consequence of removing the Aurora channel. You can read more about the new release process at http://release.mozilla.org/firefox/release/2017/04/17/Dawn-Project-FAQ.html
** [https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1649528 WebRender has been enabled for more users, including Mac.] This is for early Beta testing only.
* A quick note about these Firefox updates: if you have items you'd like me to announce, new features or changes coming to Firefox, or if you've got questions about the Firefox roadmap that you'd like addressed in a Firefox update, please let me know. I'm looking into whether we can use Moderator for this but in the mean time, you can email me at asa@mozilla.com.
** [https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1651511 smooth pinch zooming on touchscreens and precision touch pads has been added to the Nightly Experiments choices in Preferences.]


== 2017-04-17 ==
== 2020-07-20 ==
* Firefox 53 ships on Wednesday, April 19th. That's a one day slip from what I told y'all last week.  
* [https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/78.0.2/releasenotes/ Firefox 78.0.2] is our current stable release.
** 53 includes two new themes, a separate compositor process for stability, support for lightweight themes in private browsing mode, estimated reading time in reader mode, a 64-bit choice in the Windows installer, a visual refresh of the media controls, updated privacy and security permission prompts, better readability for page titles in tabs, support for WebM alpha, and a reduced download and update size on Mac.
* Firefox 79 is in the Beta channel and ships to our stable release channel next week, on July 28th. This is RC week. RCs, or release candidates are our final testing builds that we believe to be complete.  
* Firefox 54 ships on June 13
* Firefox 80 is in the Nightly channel. 80 will reach the stable release channel on August 25th. This Thursday is the soft code freeze for Firefox 80. Soft code freeze means that developers should not land on mozilla-central code that is deemed risky for the stability and general quality of Firefox and that features that are controlled by a pref and were not activated during the nightly cycle should not be activated during this week. Over the last week there have been about 390 fixes landed in mozilla-central including these notable changes:
** The major front-end addition in 54 is Firefox Screenshots, the feature formerly known as pageshots from Test Pilot.  
** [https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1652024 A short-lived regression, causing searches from the addressbar to be truncated, was fixed.]
** The major back-end change is that our security sandbox has been upgraded (to level 2)
** [https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1620467 The standard 'appearance' CSS property is now supported, unprefixed.]
* Firefox 55 ships on August 8
** [https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1636614 A bug causing Google Meet audio to be delayed was fixed.]
** The big changes coming to 55 include a refreshed preferences system, a refreshed update UI, default to on search suggestions, one-click search buttons in the Awesomebar, and Flash click-to-play.
** [https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1644566 AV1 decoding from and dav1d decoder has been enabled by default on Android.]
** [https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1636423 Server sent events in dev tools has been enabled for Nightly.]
** [https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1653685 A regression causing Windows permission prompts for the Nightly updater was fixed.]
** [https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1649292 The new multi-stage about:welcome is now the default experience.]
** [https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=976669 about:webrtc now shows the estimated bitrate for streams.]


* http://release.mozilla.org/firefox/release/2017/04/17/Dawn-Project-FAQ.html
== 2020-07-13 ==
* [https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/78.0.2/releasenotes/ Firefox 78.0.2] is our current stable release. The second dot release for 78 shipped last Thursday and fixed a [https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/security/advisories/mfsa2020-28/ security issue] and several minor regressions.
* Firefox 79 is in the Beta channel and ships to our stable release channel on July 28th. Over the last week there have been about [https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/buglist.cgi?bug_id=1645906,1649040,1649691,1649056,1647167,1649981,1650414,1648240,1645777,1646743,1649503,1649393,1644839,1647200,1627834,1647172,1650189,1647070,1648901,1640369,1649899,1637883,1650922,1649347,1645235,1647846,1648372,1650526,1644891,1650825,1374571,1648854,1646860,1651172,1643613,1651377,1651087,1650444,1651155,1649700,1648553,1649450,1650590,1650104,1649127,1647293,1651682,1326005,1649678,1649455,1624728,1642994,1651185&list_id=15333997 45 fixes uplifted] from Nightly to Beta.
* Firefox 80 is in the Nightly channel. 80 will reach the stable release channel on August 25th. Over the last week there have been about 400 fixes landed in mozilla-central including these notable changes:
** [https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1650590 A frequent crasher impacting JAWS screen reader users was fixed.]
** [https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1651310 On Windows, the Alt+Tab previews number has been increased from 6 to 7.]
** [https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1650414 A regression in the display of Hindi text on macOS was fixed.]
** [https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1644152 HTTPS only mode is now exposed in Firefox preferences] and in [https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1644456 site permissions]. Users can also [https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1647719 set HTTPS only for Private Browsing mode.]
* If you enjoy these updates and would like to get more details about the changes in Firefox Nightly, be sure to check out [https://blog.nightly.mozilla.org/2020/07/08/these-weeks-in-firefox-issue-75/ These Weeks in Firefox] on the [https://blog.nightly.mozilla.org/ Firefox Nightly News] blog. These Weeks in Firefox is updated every couple of weeks and offers a deeper and more expansive dive into Nightly changes.


== 2017-04-10 ==
== 2020-07-06 ==
*Firefox 53 ships next week, on April 18th.
* [https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/78.0.1/releasenotes/ Firefox 78.0.1] is our current stable release. Firefox 78 was released last Tuesday and a [https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1649393 search regression] was quickly identifies and fixed with the dot release. This new release offers users new consolidated reports in the Protections Dashboard, a refresh button in the uninstaller, WebRender for more systems, and a slew of accessibility fixes. Also worth calling out that 78 is also our latest Extended Support Release (ESR.)
** The major front end change in Firefox 53 is the inclusion of two alternate themes, Compact Light and Compact Dark. These "compact" themes offer more space for the web page by shrinking the height of the Firefox toolbars. And as you can guess from the theme names, they come in a light and a dark look.
* Firefox 79 is currently in the Beta channel. 79 will hit stable release on July 28th.
** The most significant back end change is the addition of a compositor (GPU) process which reduces overall crashes by 4% and makes recovering from GPU crashes mostly seamless to the user.  
* And that means that Nightly is now Firefox 80. Over the last week the Nightly channel has received just over 300 fixes including these notable ones.  
** Other changes in 53 include an option in the Firefox for Windows Installer to pick a 64-bit build, a visual refresh of the media controls, updated privacy and security permission prompts, estimated reading time added to Reader Mode, a dramatically reduced download and update size for Mac builds, better readability of page titles in tabs, and support for WebM alpha.
** Support for the CSS [https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1506364 prefers-contrast media-query has landed.]  The prefers-contrast CSS media feature is used to detect if the user has requested that the web content is presented with a higher (or lower) contrast.
** [https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1645046 The HTML5 <dialog> element has been implemented.] This element represents a dialog box or other interactive component, such as a dismissable alert, inspector, or subwindow.
** The [https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1431237 tab loading indicator animations now respect the user's prefer reduced motion settings] and instead of showing an animated circle, shows a static hourglass.


== 2017-03-27 ==
== 2020-06-29 ==
*Firefox 53, now in Beta, ships on April 18th and will include the compact dark and light themes which provide a bit more real estate for content. If you're on Beta, please give these new themes a try and let us know if you find anything not working.  
* [https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/77.0.1/releasenotes/ Firefox 77.0.1] is our latest stable release.
*Firefox 54 ships on June 13th and should include Firefox Screenshots -- that's the new name for the Page Shot feature that debuted in Test Pilot. Firefox Screenshots lets you capture, save, and share screenshots right in the browser.  
* Firefox 78 is in the Beta channel and ships to our stable release audience tomorrow, June 30th.
*Firefox 55 ships on August 8th. Right now it's in nightly and includes e10s multi. We're testing 4 content processes but we've got some bugs to get fixed before this will be uplifted to Aurora/Dev Edition.
* Firefox 79 is in the Nightly channel and over the last week has seen about 385 bugs resolved as fixed including these notable changes:
** [https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1628486 Dynamic first-party isolation has been enabled on Nightly.]
** [https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1642404 Firefox now has an about:config pref, app.update.notifyDuringDownload, that will notify users when an update download is happening.]
** [https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1648223 The experimental features section of Preferences/Options is now enabled by default on Nightly.]
** [https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1648288 WebRender is now enabled for AMD laptops.]


== 2017-03-20 ==
== 2020-06-22 ==
*Firefox 52.0.1 shipped on Friday to fix a security issue that was reported through the Pwn2Own security contest. The fix, in both mainline and ESR, on both Desktop and Mobile, was release less than 24 hours from disclosure.
* [https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/77.0.1/releasenotes/ Firefox 77.0.1] is our latest stable release.
* Firefox 78 is in the Beta channel and ships to our stable release audience on June 30th.
* Firefox 79 is in the Nightly channel and over the last two weeks it has seen over 700 bugs resolved as fixed, including these notable changes.
** [https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1599769 Promise.any support has been enabled in Gecko.]
** [https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1592016 The OS compositor has been enabled for macOS when WebRender is enabled.]
** [https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1646842 WebRender has been enabled for macOS on Nightly.]
** [https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1634765 Firefox no longer supports macOS versions below 10.12.]
** [https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1643032 Nightly has enabled the new WebRTC sharing indicator and notification silencing.]
** DevTools got [https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1645731 several] [https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=977244 accessibility] [https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1242856 improvements.]
** [https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1629303 The addressbar now respects the OS prefers reduced motion setting] and won't inflate when that setting is on.
** [https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1515073 Gecko now prevents abuse of the history push state by only enabling the back and forward buttons for addresses that were user initiated.]
** [https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1644535 Firefox's Options/Preferences now has a section for Experimental Features behind the about:config pref browser.preferences.experimental.]


*Firefox 53, coming up in about a month, includes the light and dark compact themes and a separate compositor process to gracefully recover from GPU crashes. 53 will see AMO policy updated to only accept Web Extensions for new extensions. Updates to classic extensions will still be accepted. And last but not least, 53 will have compact tabs and tab re-ordering on Android.
== 2020-06-08 ==
* [https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/77.0.1/releasenotes/ Firefox 77.0.1] is our latest stable release. 77 shipped last Tuesday and the dot release followed on Wednesday to adjust a DNS over HTTPS setting to let us manage the roll-out in a more controlled way.
* We are now in week two of our 4 week long development cycle.
* Firefox 78 is in the Beta channel and ships to our stable release audience on June 30th. During the first week of Beta 78, we saw about 30 bugs uplifted to the Beta branch including fixes for a missing French spellchecker, reader mode fetching the wrong pages, and a Mac printing bug that caused all pages rather than selected pages to be printed.
* Firefox 79 is in the Nightly channel and over the last week it has seen almost 400 bug fixes including these notable changes.
** [https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1630327 The new certificate viewer now supports dark mode better.]
** And the [https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1641082 old certificate viewer has been removed.]
** [https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1282089 The DevTools responsive design mode now supports mobile gestures.]
** [https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1632277 When a user opts to open a PDF in the default Windows PDF viewer, we now call that viewer in app mode.]
** [https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1569653 About:support now has a button for restarting with a cleared cache.]
** [https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1643052 WebRender has been enabled for more architectures.]


== 2017-03-13 ==
== 2020-06-01 ==
*Firefox 53, now in Beta, ships to release on April 18th
* [https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/76.0.1/releasenotes/ Firefox 76.0.1] is our latest stable release.
**The most visible change coming to Firefox 53, and available for you to test in Beta, Aurora, and Nightly, is the addition of two new themes. The themes are called "Compact Light" and "Compact Dark" and offer as you'd expect, a light and a dark theme that use less space for the UI giving you more space for content.  
* Firefox 77 is in the Beta channel and ready for release tomorrow, June 2nd.
* Firefox 78 was in the Nightly channel and these updates made it in to Nightly before today's merge to Beta. Because we weren't here last week, this update covers two weeks worth of changes -- about 840 fixes.
** [https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1639607 Support for the web performance feature link rel="preload"] and the Link: rel=preload response header for preloading page subresources in advance and with higher priority has been enabled on Nightly.
** [https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1641118 The DevTools Accessibility panel is now enabled by default.]
** [https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1633505 The Firefox uninstaller now has an option to Refresh Firefox.]
** [https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1570266 Searching the addressbar for open tabs with the "%" symbol now also returns sync'd remote open tabs.]
** A [https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1592416 bug that was causing the context menu to open in the wrong monitor on macOS Catalina] has been fixed.
** [https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1636225 WebRender has shipped to more Windows Intel systems with larger screens.]
** Firefox now [https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=887515 restores multiple tab closings using Undo Close Tab(s) after a multiple-tab operation.]
** [https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1627858 Users now have a preference in about:preferences to disable Top Sites on focus]
** [https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1432725 The Library window now supports dark mode.]
** [https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1506416 Firefox can now be set as the default PDF handler on Windows.]


*Firefox 54, now in Aurora, ships to release on June 13th
== 2020-05-18 ==
**54 should include a level 2 (of 3) sandbox for browsing security. It will also enable E10s for Windows accessibility users. 54 gets a handful of new WebExtension APIs including a sidebar API, custom protocol handlers API, privacy API, DevTools panel API, and about:home/about:newtab overrides. Also in 54 we hope to see the Page Shots feature shipping.
* [https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/76.0.1/releasenotes/ Firefox 76.0.1] is our latest stable release.
* Firefox 77 is in the Beta channel. Our final Betas, 7, 8, and 9 go out today, Wednesday, and Friday. Next week is RC week and this version hits our stable release audience on June 2nd.
* Firefox 78 is in the Nightly channel and last week it saw about 430 bugs resolved as fixed including these notable changes:
** [https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1550836 Reader View has been redesigned to match the rest of the Photon user interface.] It has a new horizontal toolbar with clear labels for customization features.
** [https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1447536 Firefox window position can now be set from the command line.]
** [https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1622935 Gecko now supports pushing and splitting flex items for single-line (and some multi-line) flex containers.]
** [https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1634135 Spidermonkey, the Mozilla JavaScript engine, got a new regular expression engine] which is enabled in Nightly only for testing. The new engine includes [https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1225665 support for RegExp lookbehind.]
** [https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=312971 Gecko now supports the :read-only and :read-write pseudoclasses unprefixed.]
** [https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=773942 Firefox now allows viewing of PDFs even if the response HTTP headers include Content-Disposition:attachment.] Set "browser.helperApps.showOpenOptionForPdfJS" to true in about:config (will be enabled by default in tomorrow's Nightly builds)
** [https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1555057 The Firefox DevTools now tells you which extension blocked a resource.]


*Firefox 55, now in Nightly, ships to release on August 8th.  
== 2020-05-11 ==
**If all goes well, we'll be enabling e10s multi with four content processes for this release. We'll be shipping a stub installer that will install 64-bit Firefox for users with 64-bit Windows systems. We'll have a new Themeing API. Flash will become click to play. WebExtensions will run in their own process. And, last but definitely not least, we'll launch Activity Stream on desktop.
* [https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/76.0.1/releasenotes/ Firefox 76.0.1] is our latest stable release. Firefox 76 shipped last tuesday and included improvements to password manager and picture-in-picture. A couple of regressions were quickly identified and fixed. The dot release shipped Friday.
* Firefox 77 is in the Beta channel. This version hits our stable release audience on June 2nd.  
* Firefox 78 has been in the nightly channel for one week and has seen about 360 bug fixes including these notable changes:
** [https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1434601 Firefox will no longer allow the screen saver to interrupt WebRTC calls.]
** Firefox's [https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1164187 WebRTC implementation now has support for RTX.] Jitsi favors RTX over other methods for re-transmission of lost packets so this should help Jitsi support Firefox better.
**  Also for WebRTC, Firefox [https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1625803 Nightly now supports the transport-cc bandwidth estimation extension.] This sender-side bandwidth estimation (originally implemented in bug https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1606823 1606823) is used by Jitsi and so this makes Firefox and Jitsi work better together.
** For performance and privacy improvements to DNS, Gecko now supports [https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1623126 HTTPSSVC.]
** [https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1636482 WebRender is now allowed on all supported versions of Windows] where before it was only allowed on Windows 10.
** [https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1630912 Direct manipulation, a prerequisite to desktop pinch zooming, has landed preffed off in Nightly.]
** [https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1632794 A barebones Process Manager, about:processes, has landed in Nightly.]


== 2017-03-06 ==
== 2020-05-04 ==
* Firefox 52 releases tomorrow, March 7th.  
* [https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/75.0/releasenotes/ Firefox 75.0] is our latest stable release.
** 52 includes Captive Portal Detection, insecure password warnings in-form, and send tab/link/page to another device using push. 52 is the vehicle for CSS Grid and Web Assembly, two of the hottest platform features anyone has shipped in a long time.  52 also brings e10s to Windows users with touchscreens, and all extension users except those with extensions labeled as mpc=false. 52 is the release that Vista and XP users will be transitioned to the ESR channel. It's also the release we disable all plug-ins except Flash.  
* Firefox 76 is in the Beta channel. The last week was RC week and tomorrow Firefox 76 becomes our stable release. 76 users will enjoy improved password features including alerts in the Lockwise password manager for breached websites, prompts to update duplicate passwords for passwords involved in a breach, and OS auth for viewing saved passwords. The new release also makes it quick and easy to full-screen the picture-in-picture window with a double-click.
* Firefox 77 was in the Nightly channel all of last week. With this morning's merge, 77 moves to beta and Nightly became Firefox 78. Before that happened though, 77 got about 440 changes and fixes including these notable ones:
** Gecko got experimental support for [https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1625363 AVIF (the AV1 Image File Format)]
** WebRender was enabled for [https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1633508 a] [https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1628809 whole] [https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1633490 bunch] [https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1633412 of] [https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1633411 additional] [https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1633290 architectures.]
** Firefox DevTools now has a [https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1625134 compatibility panel] that shows potential browser compatibility problems based on MDN data.
** [https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=766661 Taking screenshots of extremely long pages in DevTools no longer silently fails.]
** And Gecko got experimental support for [https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1607954 masonry layout in a grid container.]. See [https://codepen.io/jensimmons/full/QWjqbJj https://codepen.io/jensimmons/full/QWjqbJj] for a demo.


== 2017-02-27 ==
== 2020-04-27 ==
* Firefox 52 ships to release on March 7th, a week from tomorrow.
* [https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/75.0/releasenotes/ Firefox 75.0] is our latest stable release.
** Visible front end changes include captive portal detection, disabling of all NPAPI plugins except Flash, and an in-content warning when submitting login information over an insecure connection.  
* Firefox 76 is in the Beta channel and makes it out to our stable release audience next week on May 5th. We're in RC week now.
** The major Web platform changes for Firefox 52 are Web Assembly and CSS Grid. Along with the CSS grid platform capabilities, we're also shipping Grid Inspector with the Firefox developer tools.
* Firefox 77 is in the Nightly channel and it will arrive for our stable release users on June 2nd. The soft code freeze is this Thursday. If you've got risky changes or want to pref on a new feature, please do so before Thursday. Over the last week there have been about 440 bugs resoved as Fixed including these notable ones:
** The Firefox address bar got a lot smarter. It now uses the Public Suffix List to show search results for lookups with a dot in them that are not actual domains. Putting something like foo.bar in the address bar will now search for the term rather than trying to load it as if it was a web address. This was fixed at [https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1080682 bug 1080682.] Also, entering an email address into the address bar will now perform a search rather than trying to load it as if it was a web login attempt. This was [https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1412985 bug 1412985.] Finally, entering a data:url with a space and a question mark now works as expected, loading it as a data:url rather than a search string. See [https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1613276 bug 1613276] for details.
** We now have an enterprise policy for PDF handling that allows an enterprise manager to disable pdf.js in favor of a system PDF viewer. This was implemented at [https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=792816 bug 792816.]
** There is a new web technology based Firefox Installer. This should be easier to update and maintain than the old native stub installer. All the details at [https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1596812 bug 1596812.]
** Gecko now handles word boundaries properly on Southeast Asian languages without interword spaces. This makes selecting (and other text actions) easier for Thai, Khmer, Lao, and other languages. This was fixed at [https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=425915 bug 425915.]
** Gecko got support fro ARIA reflection at [https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1628418 bug 1628418.] This is part of the Accessibility Object Model which gives web authors the tools to make custom elements accessible.
** Last but not least, XUL Grids were all replaced in Firefox and support was removed from Gecko. This was [https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1520625 bug 1520625.]


== 2017-02-06 ==
== 2020-04-20 ==
* Firefox 52, accompanied by Firefox 52 ESR, will be released in about a month. A major change coming to mainline Firefox 52 is the deprecation the plug-ins API which will disable all plug-ins except Flash. NPAPI Plug-ins will continue to work in the ESR release. Firefox 52 will be the release where Windows XP and Vista users are transferred from mainline Firefox to ESR. The Firefox web platform, on both desktop and mobile, will see the addition of Web Assembly and CSS Grid
* [https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/75.0/releasenotes/ Firefox 75.0] is our latest stable release. 75 shipped about two weeks ago on April 7 and includes, among other things, a totally [https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/search-firefox-address-bar revamped address bar.] 
* Firefox 76 is in the Beta channel and makes it out to our stable release audience in about two weeks on May 5th. Beta 7, 8, and 9 go out today, Wednesday, and Friday. And that means that next week is RC week. As a reminder, our four week release cycle consists of three weeks of three betas each, followed by one week of release candidates.
* Firefox 77 is in the Nightly channel and it will arrive for our stable release users on June 2nd. There are ten more days of active development on Nightly before we hit the soft code freeze, meaning that developers should not land code that is deemed risky and that new features controlled by a pref not be activated during this week. Over the last week there have been about 400 bugs resolved as Fixed including these notable ones:
** Firefox now allows for [https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1462989 merging content-security-policy headers provided by multiple extensions.] Before this change, users could get unexpected results as it was possible for two extensions each setting a content-security-policy to conflict.
** The [https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1628243 padding for bookmark toolbar items has been increased] for easier user with touchscreens. Before this change, the new address bar's expansion made it more difficult than it needed to be to activate bookmarks with touch.  
** Firefox now has [https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1615588 a new prompt type called tab modal system prompts.] Where possible, our current system window prompts will be switched over to these new prompts.
** The last of the [https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1599729 extended validation code and prefs have been removed.] Users can no longer re-enable the EV UI in about:config.
** [https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1547286 The remote Canvas 2D has been enabled in Windows Nightly builds.] This is part of the work to remove GPU access from the content process, so that we can improve the sandbox policy.
** [https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1628743 Cookie purging has been enabled on Nightly.] This is part of Enhanced Tracking Protection phase 2. We now clear cookies from sites on the TP list that you have been redirected to but don’t interact with.
** Fenix for Android [https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1628922 now supports landmark navigation for screen readers] and typing text with a screen reader is [https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1629771 much more usable now.]


* Firefox 53, now in Aurora / Dev Edition, will be shipping to release on April 18th. The major visible change in 53 is the addition of two new "compact" themes. The Dev Edition themes are riding the trains to release! Firefox 53 also marks the end of AMO accepting old-API extensions. From here on out it's all Web Extensions all of the time.
== 2020-04-13 ==
* [https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/75.0/releasenotes/ Firefox 75.0] is our latest stable release. This release shipped last Tuesday.
* Firefox 76 is in the Beta channel with the 4th beta going out today. 76 will hit our stable release channel on May 5th.  
* Firefox 77 is in the Nightly channel. It'll arrive for our stable release channel users on June 2nd. Over the last week there have been about 420 bugs resolved as fixed including these notable ones:
** Firefox [https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1625228 got a preference to enable Dynamic First Party Isolation.]
** [https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=890125 Firefox now restores browser windows to the correct virtual desktops on Windows.]
** Firefox also now has [https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1585620 a standalone page (about:certificate) for the new certificate viewer.]
** Firefox's [https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1622409 built-in support for FTP was moved behind the pref network.ftp.enabled and turned off in Nightly.]
** Users can finally [https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=266985 disable the middle mouse button using the about:config pref middlemouse.openNewWindow.]
** The addressbar about:config prefs [https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1627969 browser.urlbar.update1] and [https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1627988 browser.urlbar.update1.view.stripHttps] have been removed.
** In Gecko, a 20 year old bug was fixed and [https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=40545 the label attribute is now shown for option elements.]
** Also, in Gecko, there's [https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=455077 color management for all CSS/images, not just tagged images.]


* Check out some of the interesting Firefox news for the last week:
== 2020-04-06 ==
** [https://blog.mozilla.org/addons/2017/02/01/new-developer-hub-landing-and-listing-pages/ New Add-ons Developer Hub]
* [https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/74.0.1/releasenotes/ Firefox 74.0.1] is our latest stable release.
** [https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/software/mozilla-to-drop-support-for-all-npapi-plugins-in-firefox-52-except-flash/ Mozilla to drop support for all NPAPI plugins in Firefox 52, except Flash]
* Firefox 75 is in the Beta channel as the final release candidate. 75 will ship to our stable release audience tomorrow, Tuesday, April 7th and users of this new version will enjoy the following improvements:
** a revamped Firefox Awesomebar that features your top sites when you focus it and that works much better on smaller screens.
** an easier way to install and use Firefox on Linux with Flatpak support.
** Direct Composition support for Windows gets us even better performance and closer to our goal of shipping WebRender .
** For web developers, we will now support [https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTML/Element/img#attr-loading the "loading" attribute] which when set to "lazy" will allow for images to only load when they are within the viewport, speeding up page loading for uses and decreasing network bandwidth.
** Another great update for web developers is the new Instant evaluation for Console expressions. The feature lets developers identify and fix errors more rapidly than before. As long as expressions typed into the Web Console are side-effect free, their results will be previewed while you type.


== 2017-01-30 ==
* Firefox 76 was in the Nightly channel until this morning when Nightly because Firefox 77. Over the last week Firefox 76 Nightly received about 430 changes including these notable ones:
* Firefox 51 shipped last Tuesday. Yay! with broken geolocation on Windows. Boo!. 51.0.1 shipped the following day to fix this.  
** [https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1616723 AudioWorklets for the WebAudio API have been enabled in Nightly.]
* Firefox Focus 3 shipped last week with changeable search engines, 27 languages, and more. If you haven't given it a try on your iDevice, head over to the App Store and get it today.
** [https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1626107 The vulnerable password alert feature is enabled by default on the latest Nightly builds] as well.


* Firefox 52, now in Beta, will be released March 7th. Firefox 52 will include a bunch of great new features like CSS Grid, Web Assembly, captive portal detection, and more users getting multi-process Firefox. 52 will also see Windows XP/Vista transition to the ESR train.
== 2020-03-30 ==
* [https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/74.0/releasenotes/ Firefox 74.0] is our latest stable release.
* [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 a week from tomorrow. This is release candidate week.
* Firefox 76 is in the Nightly channel. Over the last week there have been about 350 bugs resolved as Fixed including these notable changes:
** Firefox Lockwise on desktop Firefox (about:logins) will now [https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1569848 alert users to passwords that are shared with an account that was in a known breach].
*** This feature is currently disabled by default. Set signon.management.page.vulnerable-passwords.enabled = true in about:config to enable it.
** [https://github.com/mozilla/fathom Machine learning] is now being used to [https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1595244 look at field labels and attributes to determine new-password field types] so we can suggest strong passwords in more places.
** The Gecko Profiler saw some improvements.
*** [https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1572786 The Profiler add-on is now removed and users are migrated to the profiler pop-up.]
*** [https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1621022 The Profiler menu button enabling work flow has been improved.]
*** [https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1621611 There is now a Profiler preset for media troubleshooting.]
** [https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1622474 The new about:welcome experience has been enabled by default.]
** [https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1625153 Firefox now supports the ARIA 1.2 `code` role]


* To learn more about what's going on in Firefox development, I highly recommend these blogs/pages:
== 2020-03-23 ==
** [https://blog.nightly.mozilla.org/ Firefox Nightly News]
* [https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/74.0/releasenotes/ Firefox 74.0] is our latest stable release.
** [https://hacks.mozilla.org/ Mozilla Hacks]
** To avoid any extra work for sites during this time of corona virus, we've updated Firefox to [https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1623534 no longer disable TLS 1.0.]
** [https://wiki.mozilla.org/Firefox/Roadmap Firefox Roadmap]
* [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 the third and final week of betas for this cycle and next week is RC week.
* 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 470 fixes landed in Nightly including these notable fixes.
** Firefox no longer supports allowing web developers to control toolbars (tabbar, menubar, toolbar, personalbar) in pop-up windows. (bug [https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1507375 1507375])
** WebRender is now enabled for Windows 10 Intel laptops with medium resolution screens. (bug [https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1622959 1622959]) WebRender was previously enabled for Win10 Intel laptops with 1900x1200 or smaller resolution and now it's enabled also for 3440x1440 and smaller.
** Disabled form controls are now selectable. (bug [https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=253870 253870]) 🎉🥳 '''16 year old bug fixed!''' 🥳🎉
** There's a basic implementation of HTTPS-only mode behind the pref dom_security_https_only_mode. (bug [https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1620242 1620242]) This mode upgrades all insecure requests to https:// when the pref is set.
** Firefox now supports CSS4 system colors. (bug [https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1590894 1590894]) This is mostly an unprefixing of the existing implementation.
** The basic profiler has been enabled for Android. (bug [https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1557570 1557570])
** The Media Session API has been enabled on Nightly. (bug [https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1620077 1620077]) This enables web developers to show customized media metadata on platform UI, customize available platform media controls, and access platform media keys such as hardware keys found on keyboards, headsets, remote controls, and software keys found in notification areas and on lock screens of mobile devices
** [https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1620471 Firefox Nightly now uses the Dav1d 0.6.0 version] which brings major improvements in 10/12bit decoding on ARMv8 CPUs, up to 2.5 times faster than 0.5.2. It also brings new AVX-512, AVX2 and SSSE3 optimizations and improves the existing optimizations on all platforms. Finally, it also fixes some decoder mismatches and minor crashes.


* Check out some of the interesting Firefox news for the last week:
== 2020-03-16 ==
** [http://www.zdnet.com/article/how-facebook-helped-tweak-chrome-and-firefox-to-download-pages-faster/ How Facebook helped tweak Chrome and Firefox to download pages faster]
* [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.
** [http://www.ghacks.net/2017/01/27/time-to-make-the-switch-to-64-bit-firefox-on-windows/ Time to make the switch to 64-bit Firefox on Windows]
* [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.
** [http://www.theverge.com/2017/1/25/14376710/walt-mossberg-mozilla-firefox-browser-revived Mossberg: What’s up with Firefox, the browser that time forgot?]
* 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.
*** [http://www.theverge.com/2017/1/26/14335920/ctrl-walt-delete-podcast-mozilla-firefox Can Mozilla Save Firefox? (Mossberg's podcast)]
** [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 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 infinite 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://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1607882 Double-click will now expand a PiP player window to fullscreen.]
* And don't forget to check out [https://blog.nightly.mozilla.org/2020/03/03/these-weeks-in-firefox-issue-70/ These Weeks in Firefox] at the [https://blog.nightly.mozilla.org Firefox Nightly News] blog for additional great updates.


== 2017-01-23 ==
== 2020-03-09 ==
* Firefox 51 ships to release tomorrow, January 24th.  
* [https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/73.0.1/releasenotes/ Firefox 73.0.1] is our current stable release.
** Visible front end changes include an insecure password warning in the addressbar on a login pages that do not have a secure connection, a toggle to view passwords from the prompt before saving them, and a zoom level indicator in the addressbar.  
* [https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/74.0beta/releasenotes/ Firefox 74] is in the Beta channel and it goes to our stable release audience tomorrow, Tuesday, March 10th. Firefox 74 users will enjoy:
** The major Web platform change for Firefox 51 is WebGL2.  
** Improved login management with the ability to reverse alpha sort (Name Z-A) in Firefox Lockwise.
** On the reliability and responsiveness front, even more users will be getting multi-process Firefox as it's enabled for another large group of extensions and our users in Russia who had seen it disabled because of a top crash.
** 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 [https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=372650 Linux] and [https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=440895 Mac,] Firefox's session restore will now restore windows to their correct Virtual Desktop or work Space.
** [https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=555694 Address auto-complete will no longer suggests switching to the current tab.]
** Firefox now [https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1617678 only supports background images from a URL (no gradients, etc.) when in High Contrast Mode.]
** The [https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1618346 Firefox menu now has an "Import from other browsers" menu item] for quick and discoverable access to import.
** [https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1608975 Firefox now supports ARIA annotations.


== 2017-01-09 ==
== 2020-03-02 ==
* Firefox 51, now in Beta, ships to release on January 24th and will include some nice improvements. First is a feature that will warn users when they're on pages that submit passwords insecurelySecond, WebGL 2! Firefox for android will be shipping various security fixes.  
* [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/74.0beta/releasenotes/ 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:
** A longstanding [https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=911444 PDF printing bug] has been fixed.   
** Firefox now [https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1408122 applies prefers-color-scheme: dark to top-level about:blank pages] which prevents a flash of light when using the dark theme.
** [https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1519519 CSS min() / max() / clamp() functions] are now supported by default.
** Gecko now has [https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1617600 a prototype of :focus-visible] behind the flag layout.css.focus-visible.enabled.
** Cookies [https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1604212 sameSite=lax has been enabled by default.]


* Firefox 52, now in Dev Edition / Aurora, releases on March 9th and should include captive portal detection, our first OS X sandbox, multi-process enabled for Windows touchscreens, WebAssembly and CSS Grid support! Android Firefox will be seeing improvements to Sync and a 5+mb reduction in APK size. Firefox 52 will also see us transition our Windows XP and Vista users over to our Extended Support Release. Finally, with 52, Firefox will stop supporting all NPAPI plug-ins except Flash.
== 2020-02-24 ==
* [https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/73.0.1/releasenotes/ 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.
* [https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/74.0beta/releasenotes/ 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 [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.)


* Firefox 53, the nightly channel, ships to release on April 18th and will hopefully include a new site permission interface, E10s multi, the compositor process, and an installer update that will help 64-bit windows users get the 64-bit Firefox version.
== 2020-02-10 ==
* [https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/72.0.2/releasenotes/ 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:
** Where users [https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1520119 manage extension shortcuts, they can now remove shortcuts.]
** There is now [https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=616130 a preferences to disable tab tear-off.] Set the about:config value of false for browser.tabs.allowTabDetach.
** [https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1610993 Picture-in-picture toggle no longer overlaps next button in Instagram videos.]
** [https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1573029 Firefox now has a WindowsShare API.]
** [https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=970802 Gecko now supports the beforeinput event.]
** [https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1592673 The login manager now has reverse alpha sorting.]
** [https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1609356 The Applications Panel in DevTools has been enabled.]
** about:debugging now has RTL support.
** input type="number" is now accessible to JAWS screen reader users.
 
== 2020-01-20 ==
* [https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/72.0.2/releasenotes/ 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:
** Gecko now has [https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=970802 support for the beforeinput event.]
** Firefox now has a [https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=616130 configuration option to allow preventing tab tear off.] The pref is "browser.tabs.allowTabDetach".
** [https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1571240 about:debugging now has RTL support.]
** input type="number" is now accessible to JAWS screen reader users.
 
== 2020-01-13 ==
* [https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/72.0.1/releasenotes/ 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:
** [https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1592016 The OS compositor has been enabled for macOS] when WebRender is enabled.
** [https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1605491 Firefox now has profile data import for Edgium on Windows and Mac.]
** [https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1599585 GeckoView has enable/disable extension support.]
** [https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1516577 GeckoView's about:config got a visual update.]
** A couple of pinned tabs regressions, [https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1607441 one that caused pinned tabs reordering] and [https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1608036 one that lost pinned tabs,] have been fixed.
 
== 2020-01-06 ==
* [https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/71.0/releasenotes/ 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:
** [https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1590485 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, [https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1480542 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, [https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1588050 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.
** [https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1597994 Several Accounts Menu items have been renamed to increase clarity.]
** [https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1516279 about:crashes now has a "submit all crashes" button.]
** [https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1606036 Firefox now has a High Contrast Mode for GTK.]
** [https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1606588 Media control key event on OSX has been enabled on Nightly.]
** [https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1588647 Firefox now has NextDNS as optional TRR provider] (DNS over HTTPS.)
 
== 2019-12-16 ==
* [https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/71.0/releasenotes/ 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:
** The [https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1588780 Contextual Identity indicator has been moved up the tab so it' still visible] with the addressbar's new expanded area.
** [https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1602597 WebRender has been enabled for Adreno 5xx and 6xx] Android systems in Nightly.
** A [https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1594099 significant fix the High Contrast Mode's readability backplate] landed which should allow it to ride the trains.
** [https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=202251 Find no longer fails when you enter text with diacritics or accented characters.]
 
== 2019-12-09 ==
* [https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/71.0/releasenotes/ 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:
** [https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1599784 The URLbar redesign has been re-enabled on Nightly.]
** Gecko now has support for [https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=770780 CSS3 text module text-underline-position.]
** Firefox [https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1543201 no longer sets the User-Agent header for DoH requests.]
** [https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1592509 The OS compositor has been enabled by default on Windows.]
** [https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1535437 Picture-in-Picture window will now resize when the video changes dimensions.]
** [https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1601761 Picture-in-Picture now has an audio toggle.]
** [https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1599580 WebExtension install/uninstall has been implemented for GeckoView.]
 
== 2019-12-02 ==
* [https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/70.0.1/releasenotes/ 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:
** [https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1572677 An accessibility regression in the Bookmarks Manager related to de-XULing Firefox was fixed (and uplifted in time for 71).]
** The Add-ons Recommendation page is now accessible thanks to fixes at bug [https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1593649 1593649]
** [https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1566875 WebRender is now enabled for NVIDIA laptops with small screens.]
** [https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1598477 WebRender is also enabled for Pixel 3 and Pixel 3 XL on nightly.]
** [https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1496380 A bug causing Firefox to open multiple tabs when set as default mail client was fixed.]
** [https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1562667 SharedArrayBuffer has been enabled on Nightly.]
** [https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1594449 Initial link rel="preload", behind the about:config flag network.preload-experimental, and only supporting "script" and "styles" types, has landed on Nightly.]
 
== 2019-11-25 ==
* [https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/70.0.1/releasenotes/ 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:
** A Linux-only regression where [https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1598822 Nightly would open but when clicked on did not respond] was fixed.
** [https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1598455 Picture-in-picture has been readied to ride the trains for Mac and Linux.]
** [https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1598493 Fingerprint blocking has been turned on within the Standard ETP settings.]
** [https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1575905 Firefox now surfaces enable/disable button on theme cards] and [https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1570792 from the meatball menu] in the Add-ons Manager.
** [https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1580944 We now require a user gesture for getDisplayMedia().]
** [https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1594521 Remote settings blocklist has been enabled.]
** [https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1530402 GeckoView now has support for the pageAction extension API.]
** The Remote Data Decoder (RDD) has been enabled for [https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1524049 vorbis,] [https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1598690 wav,] and [https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1598691 opus] on Windows.
** [https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1424900 Gecko now supports the individual transform properties: translate, rotate, and scale.]
** [https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1582554 Gecko now supports 'Motion paths', which allow authors to animate elements along an author-specified path.]
** In Gecko, [https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=371787 the letter-spacing and word-spacing CSS properties now work on SVG text.]
 
== 2019-11-18 ==
* [https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/70.0.1/releasenotes/ 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:
** Firefox now offers an [https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1594173 Ad Privacy Info dialog for sponsored Top Sites tiles.]
** Firefox now has [https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1593290 personalized sponsored content] on the New Tab Page.
** There's a [https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1593965 new drag and drop indicator for the Bookmarks Toolbar and the tab strip.]
** For improved performance and memory usage, we've [https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1590167 replaced libhyphen with a new library] that supports [https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1487212 sharing hyphenation data across processes.]
** Firefox now registers itself as a [https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1570477 webp handler.]
** Firefox [https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1412438 dropped support for HTTP Public Key Pinning] (HPKP) because of the low adoption rate and interoperability risk.
** A [https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1596176 regression causing badging on extension toolbar buttons to obscure the button] has been fixed.
 
== 2019-11-11 ==
* [https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/70.0.1/releasenotes/ 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 [https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1594340 celebration section of the protections panel didn't highlight properly on keyboard focus.] That's now fixed.
** [https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1593665 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 [https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1593959 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. 
** [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.
* 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.
** 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.]
** 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 [https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1519517 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 ==
* [https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/70.0.1/releasenotes/ Firefox 70.0.1] is our current stable release. The dot release was driven by a need to [https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1592136 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:
** Behind the about:config pref network.http.http3.enabled [https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1581637 HTTP/3 has landed in Nightly Firefox.]
** After warnings, the [https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1519103 Scratchpad has been removed from Dev Tools.]
** [https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1402369 GeckoView got WebShare support.]
** [https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1589509 Users now have a button to opt out of feature promotions.]
** [https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1592126 The "megabar" has been temporarily disabled on Nightly.]
** [https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1592719 Zoom and fullscreen buttons in the hamburger menu have accessible labels.]
 
== 2019-10-28 ==
* [https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/70.0/releasenotes/ 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:
*** [https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1587962 "Use keyboard navigation" in system preferences works again.]
*** [https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1587421 The OpenH264 plug-in works again.]
** [https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1587809 CFR appearance is now announced to screen reader users.]
** [https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1590775 Private Browsing's separate search engine has been enabled on Nightly.]
** [https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1588964 Browser support information is now shown in Dev Tools.]
** [https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1550804 Dev Tools inspector now has a color scheme simulator.]
** [https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1584524 The "No Logins" screen offers importing logins from another browser on supported OSes.]
** [https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1589836 There is now a search icon in front of the address bar.]
** [https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1591227 Picture in picture has been enabled for Mac and Linux in Nightly.]
** [https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1248897 Gecko now supports an online speech recognition service for the Web Speech API.]
 
== 2019-10-21 ==
* [https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/69.0.3/releasenotes/ 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:
** [https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1585907 Reader View availability is announced to screen readers.]
** [https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1584312 The Protections Panel] and [https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1579974 a toast notification] will celebrate milestones when certain numbers of tracker are blocked.
** The awesomebar/megabar got some improvements including [https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1587957 less padding of results,] [https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1585958 not overlapping toolbar buttons,] and [https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1561904 not overlapping other toolbars.]
 
== 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.
* 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:
*** [https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1570879 The tab bar appearance was broken in High Contrast Mode with WebRender enabled.]
*** [https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1586671 Creating profiles in about:profiles was broken.]
** [https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1576160 A separate search engine setting is now available for Private Browsing windows.] You can change your Private Browsing search service in the Search section of the Options/Preferences window.
** [https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1563024 Launching a Private Browsing search is now available from the context menu.] You can select some text in a web page and, using the context menu, send it to a Private Browsing search.
** [https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1576509 The Contextual Feature Recommender is now keyboard accessible.] Previously, keyboard users had to press f6 several times to get to the CFR doorhanger.
** [https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1308286 Page up and down scrolling now takes into account position sticky content like it has for position fixed.] When a page has a fixed or sticky header, navigating with page up and down takes that into account so your text doesn't get obscured by the fixed/sticky element.
** [https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1563350 The Mac TouchBar now offers search shortcuts when the addressbar is focused.] For users with a TouchBar Macbook Pro, searching history, bookmarks, open tabs, etc. just because a whole lot easier.
** [https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1456995 E10S Service Workers have been enabled for Nightly.]
** [https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1312422 Gecko now has a DOM implementation of the Web Share API.]
 
== 2019-10-07 ==
* [https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/69.0.2/releasenotes/ 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 ([https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1579858 bug 1579858]) and fixed detection of the Windows 10 Parental Controls feature being enabled ([https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1584613 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, [https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1577541 the Megabar pref has been enabled] so you'll be seeing the new addressbar implementation which expands when you click in it.
** Behind the about:config pref browser.search.separatePrivateDefault.ui.enabled [https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1563021 Firefox now has preferences UI to set a distinct search engine for private browsing windows.]
** Speaking of about:config, [https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1504254 you can now double-click about:config listings to edit their state.]
** [https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=158968 Firefox now has a command line option to start in a kiosk mode.]
** A short-lived [https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1585971 regression which caused light and dark areas in preferences and add-ons manager was fixed.]
** [https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1539212 A readability backplate for high contrast mode was implemented] allowing Firefox to show background images while preserving readability. 
** [https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1540615 GeckoView got the capability to force enable zooming] which should show up in Fenix soon.
** [https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1568453 A bug causing autofill results to be be read twice by screen readers was fixed.]
** [https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1578575 Sponsored Content on the New Tab Page now has a "Our sponsors & your privacy" context menu item] that displays a modal dialog explaining the privacy of sponsored content.
** The browser storage for HTML5 Application Cache [https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1237782 (AppCache), deprecated since Firefox 44, is no longer available in the Nightly and early Beta/DevEdition channels.]
 
== 2019-09-30 ==
* [https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/69.0.1/releasenotes/ 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:
** [https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1581753 One-off search buttons in the awesomebar display better in narrow windows.]
** [https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1579270 Soon to be deprecated TLS 1.0 and 1.1 have been disabled in Nightly.]
** [https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1572212 Synced Tabs sidebar can now be accessed from the Firefox Accounts menu on the main toolbar.]
** [https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1583837 Firefox again supports a more significant increase in font size in reader mode.]
** Several Linux picture-in-picture [https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1565133 issues] [https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1584492 have] [https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1580733 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.
* [https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/69.0.1/releasenotes/ 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.
** [https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1423383 The CSS column-span property has been enabled on Nightly.]
** [https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1423714 Firefox can now import logins from Chrome on macOS.]
** [https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1575995 Firefox supports hardware media keys to control media on macOS.]
** [https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1582265 The Protection Report now has a pretty animation for the main protections chart.]
** [https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1575706 The Firefox Accounts menu on the main toolbar now has an accounts sub-menu.]
** [https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1567423 The Logins Manager now allows for searching by password.]
 
== 2019-09-16 ==
* [https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/69.0/releasenotes/ 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.
** The [https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1532139 JavaScript Debugger has a keyboard shortcut] (again). Cmd-Opt-L or Ctrl-Shift-L
** Monitor [https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1576047 breach alearts are now accessible in the new Logins Manger.]
** In the [https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1546984 Add-ons Manager, scroll position is now remembered when switching views.]
** A [https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/buglist.cgi?bug_id=,1536011,1543027,1543031,1543810,1545924,1546647 handful of Picture-in-picture bugs got fixes.]
 
== 2019-09-09 ==
* [https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/69.0/releasenotes/ 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.
** GeckoView, our mobile browser engine on Android, [https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1343678 now has Web Push support].
** [https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1566183 Picture-in-picture got a keyboard shortcut], Ctrl+Shift+].
** You can now [https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1574430 search in the Dev Tools Network Monitor].
** The Dev Tools [https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1577759 Accessibility keyboard audit now recognizes and warns on mouse-only interactions].
** [https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1567249 Color contrast calculations now work with color blindness simulations] in Dev Tools.
** The [https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1577031 first part of a "shareable protection report"] landed in Firefox.
 
== 2019-09-02 ==
* [https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/68.0.2/releasenotes/ 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:
** Keyboard users can now [https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1575749 navigate between toolbar buttons by typing the first letter or two of the button's name.]
** [https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1560184 Fingerprinting protection has moved to the Standard mode] of content blocking.
** [https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1526082 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.
** [https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1547692 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 [https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1564968 keyboard accessibility audits.]
** The DevTools Accessibility panel now has [https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1564999 color blindness simulation functionality.]
 
== 2019-08-26 ==
* [https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/68.0.2/releasenotes/ 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:
** Last week [https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1542035 Firefox got the ability to inspect WebExtension storage.local data from the "Addon Debugging" toolbox Storage panel] (a feature request tracked by a [https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1292234 3+ years old meta bug]!!!). The feature is currently locked behind the '''devtools.storage.extensionStorage.enabled''' pref, we invite you to give the feature a try in a recent Nighty build by flipping the pref and provide us your feedback. Follow [https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1542035 Bug 1542035] to know when the feature will be enabled by default and when some additional features will be added to it (like the [https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1573201 ability to apply changes to the storage.local data from the DevTools Storage panel]).
** A regression we shipped in Firefox 68 has been fixed and [https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1567600 the extensions list in the add-ons manager is again screen reader accessible.]
** The [https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1570674 notifications prompt now has a "never allow" rather than a "not now" denial button.]
** [https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1573279 Firefox now has prefsUI for the picture-in-picture toggle.]
** [https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1572368 The new certificate viewer has been enabled by default.]
** [https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1565380 Developer Tools' Scratchpad got a deprecation warning.]
** [https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1574538 CoreAnimation has been enabled by default for macOS users.]
 
== 2019-08-19 ==
* [https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/68.0.2/releasenotes/ Firefox 68.0.2] is our current stable release. This dot release shipped on August 14 and addresses several minor regressions and one [https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/security/advisories/mfsa2019-24/ 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:
** On macOS, we've got the beginning of work, preffed off still, to [https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1491442 improve Firefox battery life by using CoreAnimation.]
** Last week we saw the introduction of two new certificate-related prefs in Firefox. This week they've been flipped to on by default. [https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1572936 EV certificate information has been moved out of the addressbar] and [https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1572675 the lock icon is now gray] rather than green. You can see old and new look here: [[Media:Ev-before-after.png]]
** Behind the [https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1573581 browser.urlbar.megabar] pref, [https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1561534 the Firefox addressbar pop-up is anchored to the input] rather than the toolbar. You can see the old and new look here: [[Media:Megabar.png]]
** The Firefox Logins Manager now has [https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1550165 a footer recommending Lockwise mobile apps.] You can see the banner here: [[Media:Lockwise-promo.png]]
** [https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1573063 There's a blue dot on the shield icon in the Firefox addressbar when ETP has been disabled] for a site. It looks like this: [[Media:Disable-tracking-dot.png]]
** There's a [https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1566810 blue dot on the Firefox lock icon when a user has granted the site permissions.] It looks like this: [[Media:Permissions-dot.png]]
** The [https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1573197 bar chart] and [https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1570308 legend] in the Firefox Protections Report are now screen reader accessible.
** The [https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1178765 Gecko CSS feature backdrop-filter has been implemented for the WebRender backend.] It's still behind the layout.css.backdrop-filter.enabled pref.
** The [https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1572800 Gecko CSS feature text-decoration-skip-ink is now enabled by default.]
** The [https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1573725 Gecko CSS feature text-decoration-thickness is now enabled by default.]
** The [https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1573724 Gecko CSS feature text-underline-offset is now enabled by default.]
 
== 2019-08-12 ==
* [https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/68.0.1/releasenotes/ 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:
** [https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1572800 Behind an about:config pref,] Gecko now supports [https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1411922 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
** Firefox's [https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1555233 content blocking panel has been split into two sections, blocking and not blocking] and now shows [https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1567522 a banner explaining ETP right in the Protection panel.] Here's what that looks like: [[Media:Protections-panel.png]]
** [https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1570805 Social Tracking Protection has been enabled in Firefox.] Social trackers are now blocked as part of the Standard protections and [https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1566861 the Tracking Protection preferences panel has been updated.] It now looks like this: [[Media:Tracking-preferences.png]]
** In preparation for [https://mail.mozilla.org/pipermail/firefox-dev/2019-August/007146.html moving the EV indication] from the addressbar to the identity panel, we've got two new about:config prefs, one for [https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1572389 showing a normal lock icon for EV secured sites] and one for [https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1568820 making the lock icon gray.]  You can see the prefs in action here: [[Media:Security-indicator-prefs.png]] The prefs are security.identityblock.show_extended_validation and security.secure_connection_icon_color_gray
** [https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1572118 Breach Alerts have been enabled for the new logins manager] and the [https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1569855 logins manager has a sort by breached websites option.] Also, the new logins manager [https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1549808 now shows favicons next to each login] instead of the default globe icon.
** Last but not least, all three channels for [https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1570397 Firefox got updated logos.] Here's the new about screen for Nightly: [[Media:Nightly-about-new-log0.png]]
 
== 2019-08-05 ==
* [https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/68.0.1/releasenotes/ 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:
** Firefox [https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=630614 now shows an indicator when geolocation is in use.]
** The Protections panel is [https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1552716 now keyboard accessible] and [https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1555231 better matches] the [https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1569182 design spec.]
** Social tracking protection has begun to land behind preferences. There's [https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1567896 a social tracking protection doorhanger] that appears the first couple of times that Firefox blocks social trackers and the beginnings of [https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1566961 social tracking protection integration with ETP.]
** The new logins manager got some improvements:
*** [https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1549806 A "no logins" view] for when users encounter the manager and don't yet have any logins.
*** [https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1562328 A "sign in to sync" button and message] at the top of the window.
*** [https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1564539 A breached login alert] to warn users of breached accounts.
** We now have [https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1568692 the ability to show a what's new page that's not tied to a major version bump.]
** The [https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1562006 Firefox Account toolbar menu is now less sync specific] and shows other Firefox account-based services like Monitor and Send.
** The [https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1563547 Privacy Protections item in the Firefox menu now takes users to the Protections report.]
** We made a significant improvement for screen reader performance on dynamic pages [https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=686400 by avoiding updates to the accessibility tree when layout reframes don't actually change the semantics on screen.]
 
== 2019-07-29 ==
* [https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/68.0.1/releasenotes/ 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 [https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1568841 blurry fonts] was fixed.
** Another regression, one that caused [https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1569180 the addressbar dropdown to appear behind the bookmark toolbar,] was fixed.
** [https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1568371 Headings in about:memory are now sticky.]
** The new logins manager got [https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1568306 a] [https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1568337 bunch] [https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1568339 of] [https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1568375 cleanup] fixes.
** As part of our eviltraps fixing effort, [https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1522120 Firefox now exits fullscreen when a permission prompt is shown to the user.]
** The [https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1561955 protection report now has dark mode support]
** And we got [https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1565816 a new animated shield icon for tracking protection.]
 
== 2019-07-22 ==
* [https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/68.0.1/releasenotes/ 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 [https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1478156 color picker now shows color contrast information.]
** Mac Firefox now has [https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1403085 native fullscreen support] behind the preference full-screen-api.macos-native-full-screen
** The [https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1562881 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 [https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1559424 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 [https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1559421 Lockwise information] including  the number of stored passwords, and the number of synced passwords. Finally, it also shows  [https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1557061 how many trackers total have been blocked] since the feature was enabled.
** The [https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1560431 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.
** [https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1564456 WebRender is enabled for 1920 * 1200 (WUXGA) resolution and below Windows 10 Nvidia laptops.]
** Behind the pref security.aboutcertificate.enabled, [https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1560538 showing a certificate now opens the new certificate viewer.]
 
== 2019-07-15 ==
* [https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/68.0/releasenotes/ 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:
** Firefox's in Windows high contrast mode [https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=697836 now uses system link colors] improving readability greatly.
** [https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1565293 The "What's New" panel has landed] behind a pref.
** [https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1564367 The old Content Blocking UI Tour has been removed.]
** [https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1565407 Firefox can now suggest securely generated passwords] from the context menu and autocomplete (on supported sites)
** [https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1557058 The Protection Report, available at about:protections, now has real data] and a [https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1559418 Lockwise section.]
** [https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1559365 Locally saved browser logins indicate if the login was part of a data breach]
** [https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1498188 About performance now shows a graphic, in addition to the severity and number, for the relative energy impacts of tabs]
** [https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1561385 ETP Cookie tracking restrictions has been enabled for all GeckoView apps as well as Fennec.]
** [https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1564017 The JavaScript Baseline Interpreter has been enabled in Firefox.]
** [https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1562575 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 ==
* [https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/67.0.4/releasenotes/ 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 [https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1561345 what's new button and panel] that can be used to let users know what's new in a Firefox update.
** Firefox now has a [https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1522012 native customization window for the macOS Touchbar.]
 
== 2019-07-01 ==
* [https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/67.0.4/releasenotes/ 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 [https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1553782 now clear in about:performance that you can sort columns.] The column headers highlight on hover and have a sort order indicator.
** If an <input> 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 [https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1548391 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 [https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1556733 bug 1556733]
** The Protection Report at about:protections is coming along with addition of [https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1557049 a chart] and [https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1555230 footer.] It's still using dummy data until [https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1557058 bug 1557058] is fixed.
** ESR will get [https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1541012 security.enterprise_roots.enabled set to true by default.] This enables Firefox to read the Windows or Mac root store.
** [https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1440014 Gecko now supports text-decoration:width] which sets the stroke thickness of underlines, overlines, and line-throughs.
** WebSocket inspection in Dev Tools advances with [https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1559398 table and preview sections in WebSocket side panel.]
** We [https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1559969 moved cryptomining blocking to the Standard mode of content blocking] for Firefox 69.
 
== 2019-06-24 ==
* [https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/67.0.4/releasenotes/ 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:
** The [https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1536285 new New Tab experience sees the return of browsing Highlights.]
** Dev Tools get the [https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1555625 basic skeleton of web sockets frames inspection panel.]
** [https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1557047 The Protection Report is stubbed in.]
** [https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=909760 Finder on macOS now displays download progress] for files being downloaded.
** [https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1213601 Linux gets kinetic/inertial scrolling.]
 
== 2019-06-17 ==
* [https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/67.0.2/releasenotes/ 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:
** Flash now requires click to activate every time. [https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1519434 We have removed "Always Activate" and "Remember this decision" Flash options] in Firefox 69.
** [https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1559284 A WebRender bug that caused choppy videos at YouTube] has been fixed.
** [https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1548387 Password generation can now be disabled with a checkbox in Options/Preferences.]
 
== 2019-06-10 ==
* [https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/67.0.1/releasenotes/ 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 [https://gizmodo.com/firefox-deploys-a-slew-of-new-privacy-features-taking-1835240351 Gizmodo,] [https://www.engadget.com/2019/06/04/firefoxs-latest-privacy-updates-strengthen-tracking-protection/ Engadget,] [https://www.computerworld.com/article/3401138/mozilla-makes-anti-tracking-the-firefox-default.html ComputerWorld,] [https://www.cnet.com/news/mozilla-firefox-now-blocks-websites-advertisers-from-tracking-you/ c|net,] [https://www.pcmag.com/news/368779/firefox-to-block-third-party-tracking-cookies-by-default PCMag,] [https://www.pcworld.com/article/3400083/firefox-beefs-up-security-and-privacy-blocking-third-party-trackers-facebook-cookies-and-more.html PCWorld,] [https://techcrunch.com/2019/06/04/firefox-gets-enhanced-tracking-protection-desktop-password-manager-and-more/ TechCrunch,] [https://www.theverge.com/2019/6/4/18650363/firefox-block-trackers-default-enhanced-tracking-protection The Verge,] [https://www.tomshardware.com/news/mozilla-expands-firefox-privacy-features,39572.html Tom's Hardware,] [https://www.usatoday.com/story/tech/columnist/2019/06/04/firefox-to-help-you-become-more-invisible-to-advertisers-online/1334757001/ USA Today,] [https://www.forbes.com/sites/kateoflahertyuk/2019/06/04/firefox-confirms-new-security-features-heres-how-to-enable-them/#3baa3ceb72fc Forbes,] [https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2019-06-04/firefox-follows-apple-in-blocking-third-party-cookies-online Bloomberg,] and [https://www.foxnews.com/tech/firefox-to-block-third-party-tracking-cookies-by-default 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:
** We have [https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1413546 enabled retained display list for the parent process.] This should bring increased performance to the browser user interface.
** The new browser protections panel in the address bar [https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1551902 now has a toggle for Tracking Protection.]
** The Accessibility section in Developer Tools [https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1552067 now has a Text Label accessibility audit.]
** Now that we have more than one audit (contrast and text labels) in the Accessibility Developer Tools, [https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1552066 add an "all" filter to a11y panel checks toolbar.]
** [https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1555366 about:support now has an install directory listing] to make it easier to determine which install is running.
 
== 2019-06-03 ==
* [https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/67.0/releasenotes/ 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 [https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1478037 allows bookmarklets to run even when the CSP on the page would normally block javascript: execution.]
** A short-lived regression, [https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1555020 Firefox closing when attempting to close the Find bar] was fixed.
** We have [https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1554251 enabled WebRender on nightly for AMD hardware with Linux and Mesa drivers.]
** The [https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1549965 GPU process has been enabled on Linux when using hardware compositing.]
** For add-ons that have them, we now [https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1532724 show inline preferences on add-on details view.]
** The [https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1307227 Firefox Profiler has landed in Nightly]. Enable it from the Web developer menu.
** Firefox now [https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1555170 syncs the run studies and make extension recommendations settings.]
 
== 2019-05-27 ==
* [https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/67.0/releasenotes/ 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:
** Firefox [https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1547795 now hides the picture-in-picture toggle when it doesn't make sense] for example very small or very short videos.
** [https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1553259 WebRender is now enabled for low-resolution AMD laptops]. Low resolution here means 1920 * 1200 (WUXGA) and below.
** [https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1496502 CSS subgrid has been enabled.]
** Firefox will [https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1541233 stop loading userContent.css or userChrome.css by default unless a preference is set] The preference is toolkit.legacyUserProfileCustomizations.stylesheets
** A browser tab will [https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1528459  indicate that a <video> inside of it is being viewed in Picture-in-Picture.]
** [https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1498187 Columns in about:performance are now sortable.]
** [https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=589628 Password manager now supports subdomains with the same password.]
 
== 2019-05-20 ==
* [https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/66.0.5/releasenotes/ 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 [https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1548463 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.
** [https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1551257 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 [https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1547835 release notes] and a [https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1531964 permissions section.]
 
== 2019-05-13 ==
* [https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/66.0.5/releasenotes/ 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 [https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1549249 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:
** [https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1548941 E10S can no longer be disabled with a user pref.] There's still build-time config for disabling should developers need to manually test something.
** [https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1549746 WebRender has been enabled for Intel laptops with screen resolutions of 1900x1200 (WUXGA)and below.]
** [https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=866102 Gecko now supports CSS -webkit-line-clamp] for multi-line text elipses.
** [https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1391438 WebAuthn tokens are now supported on Android Firefox.] This is behind the pref security.webauth.webauthn_enable_android_fido2 until tomorrow when it will be enabled by default. [https://twitter.com/ciphercoffee/status/1127981737240215552 Tweet by J.C.]
** [https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1306054 Dev Tools now shows an indicator on properties with inactive CSS.]
** [https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1546980 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 [https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/66.0.4/releasenotes/ 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 [https://blog.mozilla.org/addons/2019/05/04/update-regarding-add-ons-in-firefox/ 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:
** [https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1335740 GetUserMedia now requires secure origins.] This brings Firefox in line with Chrome and Safari. See the [https://groups.google.com/forum/#!searchin/mozilla.dev.platform/getusermedia%7Csort:date/mozilla.dev.platform/vmO0NRM46l8/NjIdR4huBwAJ dev platform post] for technical details.
 
== 2019-04-29 ==
* [https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/66.0.3/releasenotes/ 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 [https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1543800 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.
** Several picture in picture bugs were fixed including [https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1545554 hiding the PiP button in fullscreen] and [https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1543994 hiding the PiP button except on hover.]
** When in "dark mode" [https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1187696 Reader View's sidebar/toolbar and controls are now dark too.]
** The [https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1546555 Accessibility color contrast auditor is considerably faster on pages with lots of text.]
** Gecko now has support for the [https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1272409 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 [https://groups.google.com/d/msg/mozilla.dev.platform/k-irJtmCcqg/tVNpYNK_BQAJ 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 ==
* [https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/66.0.3/releasenotes/ 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 [https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1527925 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 [https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1538249 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 [https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1543667 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 [https://blog.nightly.mozilla.org/2019/04/20/these-weeks-in-firefox-issue-57/ 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 ==
* [https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/66.0.3/releasenotes/ 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.
** [https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1543217 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 [https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1521838 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 [https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1534984 toggling print styles.] This makes debugging print output much simpler.
** Dev Tools console [https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1441079 can now be filtered by regular expressions.] Any text enclosed between forward slashes is considered as a regex search.
** [https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1477673 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 ==
* [https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/66.0.2/releasenotes/ Firefox 66.0.2] is our currently stable release. The [https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1535667 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 [https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1533559 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 [https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1540088 requires user interaction for push notification prompts.] This means a site cannot simply pop up the request on page load.
** [https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1413567 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 [https://mozillagfx.wordpress.com/2018/01/09/retained-display-lists/ this blog post.]
** [https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=919711 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 [https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1541400 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.
** [https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1527500 Save to Pocket and Add Bookmark have been added to Pocket Recommended Stories' context menu] on the New Tab Page.
** Picture in Picture, still behind the about:config flag media.videocontrols.picture-in-picture.enabled now has a [https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1535354 toggle to enable] and [https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1532773 play, pause, close, and un-pip controls.]
 
== 2019-04-01 ==
* [https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/66.0.2/releasenotes/ 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 ([https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1538966 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 [https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1540171 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 [https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1539311 Windows Preview per Tab was broken] (and uplifted the fix to Beta.)
** [https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1539211 (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, [https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=205202 support for the ::marker pseudo-element on list items] was resolved FIXED! [https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/CSS/::marker 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 ==
* [https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/66.0.1/releasenotes/ 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 [https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1529556 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.
** [https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1536538 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 [https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1533559 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 [https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1532338 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 [https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1534447 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 [https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1524665 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 [https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1536242 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 [https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1536453 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.
** [https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1522451 GeckoView has support for Web App Manifests] which is a step along the way to PWA support in Fenix.
** We now [https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1524619 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.
** [https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1536220 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 [https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1479042 Live Region support on Android.] This accessibility feature allows screen readers to know when content has updated.
** [https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1515208 Firefox on Windows on Snapdragon (ARM64) now supports DRM content like Netflix.]
** Last but not least, we got a nice fix to the Reader Mode from a volunteer contributor. [https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1135593 The Reader Mode toolbar no longer zooms when you zoom the content with Ctrl/Cmd + and -.]
 
== 2019-03-18 ==
* [https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/65.0.2/releasenotes/ 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:
** [https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1531585 the new New Tab page now has a dismiss a story menu option.]
** [https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1535038 dav1d is now the default AV1 decoder in macOS.]
** [https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1429442 Buttons in Reader Mode's "type control" popup now have tooltips] making them more accessible.
** [https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1528622 Send Tab now uses one notification instead of many for sending groups of tabs.]
** [https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1532939 Developer Tools now has the Ctrl/Cmd + K keyboard shortcut to clear the console.]
 
== 2019-03-11 ==
* [https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/65.0.2/releasenotes/ Firefox 65.0.2] is our current stable release.
* Firefox 66 is in the Beta channel and ships to our stable release next week on March 19th. Tomorrow we push RC1 live.
* Firefox 67 is in the Nightly channel and ships to our stable release on May 14th. Today is the beginning of our soft code freeze. Over the last week there have been about 570 bugs resolved as Fixed including these notable ones:
** Any [https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1529394 new extensions added to Firefox won't be enabled in Private Browsing] unless you allow it in settings.
** Dev Tools got the much-requested [https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1358414 column resizer for the request list.]
** [https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1517546 Dynamic module import has been set to ride the trains.]
** Continuing work to make the main toolbar accessible, [https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1515543 it is now possible to activate browser toolbar overflow panels from the keyboard] and the [https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1531246 Download button is also keyboard accessible.]
** The Contextual Feature Recommender template [https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1501815 has been updated with a new UI.]
** The [https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1533742 Dav1d AV1 decoder has been enabled by default on Windows.]
** [https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1215878 Gecko now supports the CSS revert keyword.] This allows authors to ignore all CSS rules in a given cascade origin, while applying rules from other cascade origins.
** The new New Tab page got some improvements including [https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1528953 a pref to opt out of CFR,] [https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1525442 Dark Mode support,] [https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1527642 Context menu support,] and [https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1533832 the CFR for Pinned Tabs.]
** [https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1522856 We've added an "import" option to the file menu] to make browser migration more discoverable.
** [https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1530594 The permission selector for block auto-play is now keyboard accessible.]
 
== 2019-03-04 ==
* [https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/65.0.2/releasenotes/ Firefox 65.0.2] is our current stable release. This dot release went out on Thursday, February 28th and addresses an issue with geolocation services affecting Windows users.
* Firefox 66 is in the Beta channel and ships to our stable release on March 19th. Our final Betas, Beta 13 and 14 go out this Tuesday and Friday. Over the last week we've uplifted over 50 fixes from Nightly to Beta including a frequently reported issue [https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1524640 with PDF printing.]
* Firefox 67 is in the Nightly channel and ships to our stable release on May 14th. Over the last week there have been nearly 600 bugs resolved as fixed including these notable changes:
** [https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=675539 Firefox on Windows will now automatically unload tabs in low memory situations.] Tabs are discarded in least recently used order. First to be discarded are regular tabs, then pinned tabs, then tabs playing audio, then pinned tabs playing audio.
** For quick access to saved logins, the password manager autocomplete pop-up [https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1189618 now has a "View Saved Logins" item.]
** GeckoView [https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1518841 allows embedders to load WebExtensions such as content scripts.] This may be used by GeckoView apps for features like ad blocking and reader mode.
** GeckoView now has [https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1462018 an API for taking screenshots.] This may be used for adding screenshots to the Fenix tabs tray.
** [https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1429432 Push notifications now require a secure context.] This brings Firefox in line with Chrome and helps to advance a more secure web.
** Firefox now [https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1529560 syncs the options to block cryptominers and fingerprinters.] As we bring new preferences online, we need to sync those preferences.
** Gecko now has support for [https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1529836 capping the maximum life-time of client-side cookies.] This is a feature Safari already has and may be useful as sites begin to work around tracker cookie blocking.
** Firefox now includes an [https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1488845 about:compat page which lists active site patches.] These are the patches managed by Firefox's webcompat system addon.
** A 17 year old bug [https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=148794 #148794, document.write into iframe adds entries into session history] was fixed by BZ's patches at [https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1489308 bug 1489308, Align document.open() with overhauled spec.] document.open no longer adds session history entries.
 
== 2019-02-25 ==
* [https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/65.0.1/releasenotes/ Firefox 65.0.1] is our current stable release.
* Firefox 66 is in the Beta channel and ships to our release audience on March 19th. Beta 9 and 10 shipped last week and Beta 11 and 12 ship tomorrow and Friday. Over the last week we've uplifted about 30 bugs from Nightly to Beta including [https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1504766 a change to themes] that I'll go into in the Nightly section, a [https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1524888 fix for PDFs], and a fix for [https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1509847 links from external apps opening in the wrong window.]
* Firefox 67 is in the Nightly channel and moves to Stable on May 14th. Over the last week there have been about 450 bugs resolved as Fixed including these notable ones:
** [https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1504766 Firefox's Dark and Light themes no longer honor the Windows 10 setting for accent colors in the titlebar.]
** [https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1527917 Cryptomining and fingerprinting blocking options are now available in the Custom section of Content Blocking in the Firefox Options/Preferences.]
** [https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1528952 Pin tab is now available in the Page Actions menu.]
* And because we were out last week due to a U.S. holiday, here are some of the 500 bugs resolved as fixed in the previous week:
** [https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1494034 Firefox now supports the CSS prefers-color-scheme media feature.]
** [https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1436086 Behind the pref browser.toolbars.keyboard_navigation the main Firefox toolbar is now keyboard and screen reader accessible.]
** [https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1526945 Firefox now syncs the pref for blocking media with sound from autoplaying.]
** [https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1519891 Behind the pref media.videocontrols.picture-in-picture.enabled Firefox now has rudimentary support for picture in picture.]
** [https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1518487 The Accessibility Inspector sidebar now has color and contrast check information.]
** [https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1508372 GeckoView now has support for D-pad scrolling and navigation.]
** [https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1516214 Firefox for Windows 10 on Snapdragon (ARM64) now has accessibility support working.]
 
== 2019-02-11 ==
* [https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/65.0/releasenotes/ Firefox 65.0] is our current stable release. With Firefox 65, you have an easy way to block third-party content that tracks you around the web and to control how much of your online activity gets stored and shared between websites. There's an updated Language section in Preferences where it's easy to install multiple language packs and order language preferences for Firefox and websites. And, in Firefox 65, you have a revamped Task Manager, found at about:performance that, along with energy usage now reports memory usage for your tabs and add-ons.
* Firefox 66 is in the Beta channel and moves to Stable on March 19th. Beta 7 is due out tomorrow. If all goes well with testing, Firefox 66 is going to deliver tracking protection enabled by default for a percentage of users, and blocking of video autoplay for all users.
* Firerox 67 is in the Nightly channel and moves to Stable on May 14th. Over the last week there have been about 460 bugs resolved as fixed including these notable ones:
** WebRender was enabled for two more architectures, [https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1525929 AMD's Southern Islands] and [https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1525128 Intel's Haswell] on destop.
** Firefox now [https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1189524 provides visual feedback when a password field is autofilled]  bringing password fields in line with autofilled form fields.
** The [https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1523703 new Pocket New Tab experience has been enabled] (though it's not scheduled to ride the trains until 68.)
** [https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1524028 Return to AMO has been enabled.]
** [https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1521168 Screenshots upload has been disabled] and Screenshots now has a keyboard shortcut, Ctrl+Shift+S.
** And you now have [https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1520960 the option to save passwords in Private Browsing mode.]
* Read on for a a quick run down of some of the 540+ bugs resolved during the prior week:
** [https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1474285 Profile per install] landed. With Firefox 67, Firefox uses a dedicated profile for each Firefox version, Nightly, Beta, Developer Edition, and ESR.
** Firefox has [https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1521765 a new about:config].
** WebRender is now enabled in Nightly for [https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1524284 a subset of modern Intel GPUs] and [https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1523823 modern desktop AMD GPUs].
** [https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1523788 WebRender can now be enabled on the Beta channel] with the about:config pref gfx.webrender.all
** Last but not least, we've done some cleanup to the about:support modified prefs section by [https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1286428 removing the noisy printer prefs].
 
== 2019-01-28 ==
* [https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/64.0.2/releasenotes/ Firefox 64.02] is our current stable release.
* Firefox 65 is in the Beta channel and moves to Stable tomorrow, January 29th. We're currently in our release candidate (RC) phase so builds on the Beta channel look a lot like release builds in the About Firefox dialog.
* Firefox 66 was is in the Nightly channel last week. (It just flipped over to 67 today.) Over the last week 560 bugs have been resolved including these notable ones:
** Firefox now has [https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1313429 basic support for the Mac Touchbar.]
** The old style system has been [https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1395112 removed] and we're now using Stylo everywhere.
** [https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1517526 Blocking video auto-play can now be managed from the Control Center.] Users can add individual sites to an exceptions list or turn the blocking off from that UI.
** The [https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1321995 crash reporter now supports high DPI scaling] so text is no longer blurry there on high DPI setups.
** [https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1508364 The home page in a Private Browsing windows now includes a search field] which uses your default search engine.
** [https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1514806 The Windows installer is about twice as fast on ARM64 systems.]
** Firefox Sync now syncs the [https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1521716 "Show tab previews in the Windows taskbar" option], the [https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1521715 "Play DRM-controlled content" option], and the [https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1522424 "Allow Firefox to send backlogged crash reports on your behalf" option.]
* And because we weren't here last week, I'll also share a few of the 540 changes that went in then:
** We now have a [https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1303384 "Manage extensions shortcuts"] item in the gear menu of the Add-ons manager allowing users to change extension keyboard shortcuts.
** Firefox now syncs the [https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1490163 Firefox Home content preferences.]
** [https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1516554 VR now has its own process.]
** We made a change to font weights on Mac because [https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1495282 some fonts were lighter weight after updating from macOS 10.13 to 10.14 Mojave.]
** We fixed a [https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1519541 regression that was causing Gmail scrolling to be jumpy] with scroll anchoring enabled.
** Firefox now hides the [https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1518722 Pocket context menu and library panel items when Pocket is disabled] in about:config.
** On Linux [https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1490344 the Title Bar is now merged with the Tab Bar by default.] This brings linux up to speed with Windows and Mac.
 
== 2019-01-14 ==
* [https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/64.0.2/releasenotes/ Firefox 64.02] is our current stable release. This point release came out on January 9th and addresses several issues including:
** A browser [https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1510058 crash on MacOS]
** [https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1513511 Video stuttering on Youtube]
* Firefox 65 is in the Beta channel and moves to Stable on January 29th. We're currently in our 10th Beta with Beta 11 coming out tomorrow. We only have 12 Betas planned so we're in the end game now. If you've got bug fixes that need to make Firefox 65, time is short so get those uplift requests in today!
* Firefox 66 is in the Nightly channel and moves to Stable on March 19th. Over the last week there have been 500 bugs resolved as fixed including these notable ones:
** We implemented [https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1305957 Scroll anchoring]. As a page is loading, new elements can show up above the scrolled to part of the screen and that causes the page to shift creating a poor user experience. Scroll anchoring attempts to mitigate this and prevent thescreen from shifting when new elements are added above the scroll position.
** We now have [https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1517730 main process crash reporting on ARM64 Windows builds]. We don't have content process crash reporting yet. That's being worked on in [https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1517729 bug 1517729]
** We also have [https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1512039 stub installer support for ARM64 Windows builds]. The standard stub installer now recognizes Windows on Snapdragon and downloads and installs the appropriate bits.
** [https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1507522 WebRender has been moved to mozilla-central]. Before, WebRender was developed on Github and work was transferred to mozilla-central. Now the canonical home for WebRender is in mozilla-central's gfx/wr directory. WebRender's Github is now a downstream mirror of mozilla-central. This also means that WebRender bugs and patches should be filed in Bugzilla rather than Github.
** The en-US dictionary got [https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1518008 and update] and now includes the word "hooptie" among several other additions.
** Last but not least, a 15 year old layout bug was fixed. The bug, [https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=256180 Deeply nested elements are not rendered] was fixed by Henri Sivonen (:hsivonen) 
* In other Firefox news:
** We are now scheduled to [https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1519434 disable Flash in Firefox 69] which moves to the Stable release on August 3rd. The change will land in the 69 Nightly cycle and ride the trains.
** If you haven't yet, check out the great Hacks blog post on the [https://hacks.mozilla.org/2019/01/designing-the-flexbox-inspector/ design and development of the Flexbox Inspector]. The Flexbox inspector is available in the Dev Edition and hits our stable release with Firefox 65 next month.
 
==2019-01-07==
* [https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/64.0/releasenotes/ Firefox 64] is our current stable release.
* Firefox 65 is in the Beta channel and moves to Stable on January 29th. We're currently on our 8th Beta with Beta 9 due out tomorrow. We have 12 Betas scheduled so we're getting into the final quarter. If you've got things that need to make it into 65, time is running short.
* Firefox 66 is in the Nightly channel and moves to stable release on March 19th. It's been three weeks since our last update and in that time we've resolved about 800 bugs including these notable ones:
** Still behind a flag, we've [https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1342012 implemented the dynamic import() proposal]. Enabling dynamic import by default is being tracked in [https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1517546 bug 1517546].
** WebExtensions got a [https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1344410 clipboard api that supports copying arbitrary strings to the clipboard].
** Firefox now supports the [https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1422235 overflow-block and overflow-inline media queries].
** A regression that was causing [https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1513511 YouTube stuttering (frames dropped) on VP9 videos] is now fixed (and uplifted to Beta).
** 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.
 
== 2018 ==
 
==2018-12-17 ==
* The [https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/64.0/releasenotes/ Firefox 64] Stable release came out last week. 64 includes the feature recommender, multi-tab operations, a new task manager, and various other features and fixes. [https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/64.0/releasenotes/ Check it out!]
** The ability to select multiple tabs and then move them, re-window them, close them, bookmark, send to device, etc. was a hit with the press, making appearances in the titles of most articles about 64. This feature was made possible because of Google Summer of Code, mentoring from Mozilla's Jared Wein (:jaws) and the hard work of a student named Abdoulaye O. Ly. If you haven't tried this out, it's really cool for reordering tabs, de-cluttering your tab strip, or sending off a group of tabs to your mobile Firefox.
** You can read more about Firefox 64 at the [https://hacks.mozilla.org/2018/12/firefox-64-released/ hacks] blog, which covers just about everything you'd want to know about the release, and at [https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Mozilla/Firefox/Releases/64 MDN] which deep dives on changes that web developers and add-on developers will care about.
* Firefox 65 is in the Beta channel and moves to the stable Release on January 29th. If you're on the Beta channel, you're probably using the 4th beta and the 5th beta is due tomorrow. Over the last week, we've uplifted about 40 bugs to Beta, including several crash fixes, [https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1452146 enabling the AV1 video format], and fixing [https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1486204 selection color visibility on dark backgrounds on macOS]
* Firefox 66 is in the Nightly channel and moves to the Stable release on March 19th. Over the last two weeks we've resolved about 600 issues including these notable ones:
** [https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1507806 Use level 1 headings for major groups in Preferences] This makes our accessibility in Preferences better. (Fixed before the uplift so present in 65)
** [https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1450784 Add a new error page for MOZILLA_PKIX_ERROR_MITM_DETECTED] This means some of the people who have their browser connection completely broken by AV and other third party software will get a warning that actually explains to them what's going on. (Fixed before the uplift so present in 65)
** [https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1450784 Implement win/osx sandboxing for new RDD process] RDD is Remote Data Decoder which is the new process for media used by AV1 and soon other formats. It's now sandboxed on Windows and macOS (Fixed before the uplift so present in 65)
** Last but not least 17 year old bug [https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=167475 167475 Disable external and returning no data protocol handlers in all cases, excluding <A HREF=>] was fixed. From the patch "This is done in order to block external protocol URLs in iframes, which cannot be used to create documents, and they could exec external apps or show prompt dialogs."
 
== 2018-12-03 ==
* It's #mozlando2018 so this is read-only.
* [https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/63.0.3/releasenotes/ Firefox 63.0.3] is our current Stable release.
* Firefox 64 is in the Beta channel and moves to Stable on December 11th - that's next Tuesday!
* Today is Merge day. The Nightly channel becomes Firefox 66. In the final week of Nightly 65, we had nearly 650 bugs resolved as fixed. That's quite a bit for the final week of a cycle. Notable changes included:
** A change for Linux users where they can [https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1285812 switch tabs with the mouse wheel if there's no overflow.]
** About six weeks ago we introduced the idea of [https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1419947 tab succession] This week, that work has been [https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1500479 extended with APIs that make it useful for extension developers.]
** [https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1286798 A next-generation local storage implementation landed.]
** We fixed a short-lived regression where [https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1511345 extensions weren't loading in Nightly]
** We fixed another regression where users [https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1509711 couldn't drag the window by the titlebar]
** We got a [https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1501992 sub-panel for cookies in the Control Center]
** Firefox users will [https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1490811 now see a permission doorhanger when sites request storage access.]
** [https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1509908 Flexbox highlighter and inspector tools are enabled to ride the trains with 65.]
** [https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1511181 Last but not least, we landed a giant change to reformat the codebase to Google coding style.]
 
== 2018-11-26 ==
* [https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/63.0.3/releasenotes/ Firefox 63.0.3] is our current Stable release.
* Firefox 64 is in the Beta channel and moves to Stable on December 11th. Beta 13 ships tomorrow, and Beta 14, our final beta, goes out Thursday.
* Firefox 65 is in the Nightly channel. Next Monday, December 3rd, is Merge Day and the beginning of the Firefox 66 Nightly cycle. Over the last week, we've resolved about 490 bugs including these notable changes:
** [https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1492549 We now block access to storage from tracking resources by default on all desktop platforms]
** We've fixed an Android web compat issue [https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1423709 by choosing the same initial zoom level as other browsers.]
** The new about:peformance "Task Manager" now has [https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1498190 a memory column.]
** We have implemented a new [https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1501985 preferences design for Content Blocking.]
** We fixed a bug where [https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1508954 pinned tabs showed during fullscreen video playback.]
** There's a new pref for [https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1506947 whitelisting specific domains and URLs from being subject to third-party cookie blocking from trackers only]
** The build team has added aarch64 to automation [https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1503366 so people don't break the build and so that anybody adding features can at least get builds through try]
** Firefox for iOS got a [https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1506989 new library Panel. It's the new home for bookmarks/history/readinglist/downloads.]
 
== 2018-11-19 ==
* [https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/63.0.3/releasenotes/ Firefox 63.0.3] is our current release. It shipped last Thursday and fixes a small collection of bugs including a problem with Unity WebGL games, a few crashes, and disabling HTTP response throttling which was causing problems with video playing in background tabs.
* Firefox 64 is in the Beta channel and moves to Stable on December 11th. Our 10th Beta shipped on Friday and Beta 11 goes out tomorrow. We have 14 Betas scheduled for this cycle so we're getting close to the end game. Over the last week, we've uplifted about 30 fixes to the Beta channel including these notable changes:
** [https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1502083 Move the 'Close Other Tabs' and 'Close Tabs to the Right' back to the main tab context menu] and out of a submenu.
** [https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1503680 RTL support for the new about:performance page]
** [https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1506128 The Share button can again be pinned to the addressbar]
* Firefox 65 is in the Nightly channel. Over the last week, we've resolved about 480 bugs including these notable changes:
** The [https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1389628 Streams API has been enabled by default]
** [https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1471535 We now run all MediaDataDecoder in their own decoder process]
** [https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1503653 WebP image support has been enabled by default]
** [https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1317422 We've implemented the JavaScript globalThis proposal]
** [https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1501991 The Control Center now has a sub-panel for Trackers]
** [https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1506397 We fixed a regression where Pocket icons were displayed multiple times in the addressbar]
** [https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1492036 We've implemented and enabled in Nightly] the [https://w3c.github.io/reporting/ Reporting API]
** [https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1506334 The en-US dictionary got some new words, including "dispositive" "findable" and "headspace"]
* In addition to all these great improvements in Nightly and Beta channels, last week we also released an [https://blog.mozilla.org/blog/2018/11/14/firefox-monitor-launches-in-26-languages-and-adds-new-desktop-browser-feature/ update to our Firefox Monitor service] for users on our Stable release channel. The first version was a service that let you check your email address against a known list of breaches and sign up for email alerts for future breaches. The second version, launched last Wednesday, will give you an alert right in Firefox when you visit a website that's had a breach in the last 12 months. We've also increased Firefox Monitor's global reach by expanding it to 26 languages. Congratulations to the Firefox Monitor team and all the amazing volunteers that helped localize into so many languages.
* And if that wasn't enough, last week we also [https://blog.mozilla.org/blog/2018/11/12/firefox-ups-the-ante-with-latest-test-pilot-experiment-price-wise-and-email-tabs/ launched Price Wise in Test Pilot] in time for the holiday gift buying season. Price Wise gives people using Firefox the ability to track product prices across the major online retailers and get a desktop notification automatically every time the price drops.
 
== 2018-11-12 ==
* [https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/63.0.1/releasenotes/ Firefox 63.0.1] is our current Stable release.
* Firefox 64 is in the Beta channel and moves to Stable on December 11th. Our 8th Beta shipped on Friday and Beta 9 goes out tomorrow. We have 14 Betas scheduled for this cycle.
* Firefox 65 is in the Nightly channel. Over the last week we've resolved about 500 bugs including these notable ones:
** [https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=550559 Warn when quitting and closing multiple tabs] is now available even if you have Firefox set to restore your previous session.
** WhatsApp Web is no longer unusably slow for longer conversations thanks to the Layout fix at bug [https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1505254 1505254]
** eviltraps bug [https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=675574 675574] is fixed which prevents sites from opening multiple pop-ups with one click. Now there's only one window.open() allowed for an event.
** eviltraps bug [https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=685828 685828] is fixed which prevents sites from hanging Firefox with while(true) {window.open(...);} It was fixed by limiting displaying blocked popups in the front-end.
** A [https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1506125 regression in macOS back and forward gestures was fixed.]
** A [https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1505882 regression in playing Amazon Prime videos] was fixed.
** We now have an [https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1475510 MSI installer as an exe wrapper]
** [https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1462233 Gecko on desktop now supports CSS Environment Variables.]
** GeckoView got a [https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1498246 Media API]
** Android scrolling (Gecko and GeckoView) got better by [https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1432019 dispatching vsync notifications on the UI thread]. A special thanks to mark.paxman99 for all the testing and help on this bug.
** The new about:performance [https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1503680 now has RTL support]
 
== 2018-11-05 ==
* [https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/63.0.1/releasenotes/ Firefox 63.0.1] is our current Stable release. It shipped last Wednesday and primarily addressed an issue with snippets not showing up in the new tab page.
* Firefox 64 is in the Beta channel and moves to Stable on December 11th. Beta 7 (of 14 planned) will ship tomorrow.
* Firefox 65 is in the Nightly channel. Over the last week we've resolved about 470 bugs including these notable ones:
** Gecko now has [https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1294490 support for the WebP image format.] It will be [https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1503653 enabled by default] after we've had a chance to fuzz test for security.
** A regression with [https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1503757 sessions timing out too quickly] that crept in on Halloween was quickly fixed.
** [https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1472212 Activity Stream (New Tab Page) now runs in its own process.]
** We got a [https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1502585 fix for vibrancy in WebRender on macOS] that was causing the tab strip to be black with unreadable text even with the light theme.
** GeckoView now has [https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1500541 about:config support.]
** [https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1503022 Dark and Light themes now honor the Windows 10 accent color setting.]
** We've [https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1503354 disabled HTTP response throttling] because it was breaking some videos playing in the background.
 
== 2018-10-29 ==
* [https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/63.0/releasenotes/ Firefox 63] is our current Stable release. It shipped last week and contains opt-in content blocking for all users and improved performance and energy efficiency on Mac.
* Firefox 64 is in the Beta channel and moves to Stable release on December 11th. We're in our 5th of 14 planned betas.
* Firefox 65 is now the Nightly channel. Over the last week, we've resolved more than 460 bug reports in Nightly including these notable changes:
** We now support the [https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1085391 Handoff web browsing activity type on macOS]
** [https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1453367 WebRender is working in GeckoView] thought not enabled by default.
** We are now using the [https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1501461 strict list for default cookie restrictions] on Nightly and early Betas.
 
== 2018-10-22 ==
* [https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/62.0.3/releasenotes/ Firefox 62.0.3] is our current Stable release.
* Firefox 63 is in the Beta channel and moves to the Stable release tomorrow. Web Render is now enabled in the Beta channel but won't be enabled for the Stable release for a few more cycles.
* Firefox 64 is our Nightly release. Over the last week we've resolved more than 500 reports including these:
** Windows Firefox now has [https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1363169 support for the native Windows "Share" feature].
** Firefox now [https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1411700 shows when an extension is controlling the notifications permission].
** [https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1481971 PaymentRequest has been enabled for Mac and Windows for the US and Canada.]
** [https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1498185 about:performance now shows a type and action column] and you can now [https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1498186 access about:performance from the Task Manager item in the More submenu] of the main Firefox menu
** [https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1499052 The Flexbox highlighter and inspector have been enabled in Dev Tools.]
** Dev Tools now has [https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=821610 XHR breakpoints.]
** [https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1492563 Blocking access to storage from tracking resources has been enabled.]
** Firefox now [https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1484873 links to the site's certificate on error pages where it makes sense to do so]
** The [https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1500553 contextual feature recommender] [https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1497967 now has an opt out preference.]
** The [https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1498084 en-us dictionary learned a few new words].
** Firefox will now [https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1479008 install the related dictionaries when a new language pack is installed.]
** Firefox will now [https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1496815 Suggest search engine aliases in the address bar when '@' is typed as the first character]
 
== 2018-10-15 ==
* [https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/62.0.3/releasenotes/ Firefox 62.0.3] is our current stable release. It shipped October 2nd and fixed a macOS Mojave bug that was causing hangs and freezes with native dialogs.
* Firefox 63 is in the Beta channel. Over the last week we've approved and landed about 40 fixes on the Beta channel. We're currently testing our 14th and final Beta build for desktop. Firefox 63 moves to the stable release next week.
* Firefox 64 is our Nightly release. Soft code freeze is today. Over the last week there have been about 420 bugs fixed including these:
** [https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1490366 The add-ons screen has been redesigned]
** [https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1476091 WebVR has been (re)enabled for macOS]
** There's now an option to select audio output device [https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=934425 (implement HTMLMediaElement.setSinkId)]
** Firefox can now [https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=675428 handle system mailto calls by opening a webmail app that is registered within Firefox as mailto handler.]
* And because I wasn't here to mention them, there were a couple notable changes from last week:
** [https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1155505 Implement ToastNotification for Action Center (Notification Center) on Windows 10]
** [https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1474938 Tab multi-select was enabled by default.]
** [https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1494162 Improve the Inspector load speed]
 
== 2018-10-01 ==
* [https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/62.0.2/releasenotes/ Firefox 62.0.2] is our current Stable release.
* Firefox 63 is our current Beta release. Over the last week we've taken approximately 40 fixes into the Beta.
* Firefox 64 is our Nightly release. Over the last week there have been 410 bugs fixed including these:
** We now have [https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1445943 Enterprise policy support on macOS]
** A fix for [https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1489785 Firefox on macOS Mojave hanging with modal dialogs].
** Scrollbar styling ([https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1492012 Enable scrollbar-color and scrollbar-width by default]) has been enabled.
** When you have only the search bar showing on Firefox's new tab page, we now [https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1487772 display the Firefox logo and wordmark above the search].
** To block DLL injections into Firefox, we're making some changes to how Firefox starts up. The [https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1488554 launcher process] is part of that and was just enabled on Nightly.
** We got [https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1316241 WebRTC working in GeckoView] and GeckoView got an [https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1481296 API for pop-up blocking].
 
== 2018-09-24 ==
* [https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/62.0.2/releasenotes/ Firefox 62.0.2] is our current Stable release.
* Firefox 63 is our current Beta release. Over the last week we've taken approximately 60 fixes into the Beta.
* Firefox 64 is our Nightly release and over the last week there have been nearly 500 bugs fixed including these notable ones:
** Support for [https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=462674 auto-completing about: addresses] in the Awesomebar.
** Anti-virus software is removing language packs rendering Firefox unusable. We fixed it by [https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1492459 always checking langpacks for modification at startup.]
 
== 2018-09-17 ==
* [https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/62.0/releasenotes/ Firefox 62.0] is our current Stable release.
* Firefox 63 is our current Beta release. There have been about 43 fixes uplifted to Beta in the last week.
* Firefox 64 is in the Nightly channel and over the last week there have been about 420 fixes including these notable ones:
** [https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1490742 WebRender has been enabled for a subset of Nightly users] on Windows 10 desktops with Nvidia GPUs. If you don't meet the criteria (only about 17% of Nightly users do right now) but you'd nevertheless like to try out WebRender on Nightly, you can flip the about:config pref gfx.webrender.all to true. This is an important milestone for a key performance feature on the [https://wiki.mozilla.org/Firefox/Roadmap Firefox Roadmap]. Congratulations to the Servo and Gecko teams! If you want to learn more about WebRender (and browser engines in general) I highly recommend Lin Clark's [https://hacks.mozilla.org/2017/10/the-whole-web-at-maximum-fps-how-webrender-gets-rid-of-jank/ The whole web at maximum FPS: How WebRender gets rid of jank] on the [https://hacks.mozilla.org/ Mozilla Hacks Blog].
 
== 2018-09-10 ==
* [https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/62.0/releasenotes/ Firefox 62.0] is our current Stable release. 62 shipped last Wednesday and today people all over the world are enjoying more customization of the Firefox home page and a Canadian localized version of Firefox.
* Firefox 63 is our current Beta release. There have been about 28 fixes uplifted to Beta in the last week including the enabling of [https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1488904 tab mulit-select features]. I believe this is for more widespread testing but the features aren't intended to hit the Stable release until Firefox 64.
* Firefox 64 is in the Nightly channel and over the last week there have been about 400 fixes including these notable ones:
** The sidebar is now [https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1385518 styled properly in the dark theme].
** The [https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1408360 erroneous sharp corners on CSD browser windows] are fixed on Linux.
** People can now [https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1401610 easily remove an extension by right-clicking on its toolbar icon].
** [https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1476062 about:crashes got a UI update].
 
== 2018-08-27 ==
* [https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/61.0.2/releasenotes/ Firefox 61.0.2] is our current Stable release.
* [https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/62.0beta/releasenotes/ Firefox 62] is in the Beta channel and hits Stable release on September 5th. There have been about 20 fixes uplifted to Beta in the last week.
* Firefox 63 is in the Nightly channel and graduates to Stable release on October 23. In the last week there have been about 425 fixes including these notable ones:
** The Theme API has been extended to include [https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1418602 browser sidebars].
** A 10 year old bug, [https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=488725 float pushed down one line with white-space: nowrap;] was fixed.
 
== 2018-08-20 ==
* [https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/61.0.2/releasenotes/ Firefox 61.0.2] is our current Stable release.
* [https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/62.0beta/releasenotes/ Firefox 62] is in the Beta channel and hits Stable release on September 5th. Beta 19 (of 20) goes out tomorrow. In the last week there have been about 30 bugs uplifted to Beta.
* Firefox 63 is in the Nightly channel and graduates to Stable on October 23. In the last week there have been about 375 bugs fixed including these notable ones:
** Web Components are enabled. ([https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1471947 Enable Shadow DOM] and [https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1471948 Enable Custom Elements])
** [https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1460062 Enforce Symantec Distrust in Firefox 63]
** Last but not least, [https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1479806 Top Sites Search Shortcuts], a collection of features to make searching easier, has landed.
 
== 2018-08-06 ==
* [https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/61.0.1/releasenotes/ Firefox 61.0.1] is our current Stable release.
* [https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/62.0beta/releasenotes/ Firefox 62] is in the Beta channel and hits Stable release on September 5th. Beta 15 goes out tomorrow. There are 20 betas scheduled for this cycle.
* Firefox 63 is in the Nightly channel and moves to Stable on October 23. Over the last week, there have been about 380 bugs fixed including:
** Firefox has a [https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1476217 new Preferences/Options section for Content Blocking] that includes Tracking Protection. You can find it in the Privacy and Security section of the Options/Preferences window.
** The 6th most voted for bug of all time, [https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1378647 Support the "discarded" property inside browser.tabs.create()] has been fixed.
 
== 2018-07-30 ==
* [https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/61.0.1/releasenotes/ Firefox 61.0.1] is our current Stable release. 61 was first offered on June 26. Users on this release are enjoying faster page rendering thanks to Quantum CSS improvements and the new retained display list feature, and Faster switching between tabs thanks to the "tab warming" feature.
* [https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/62.0beta/releasenotes/ Firefox 62] is in the Beta channel and goes to release on September 5th. Beta users are helping test improvements to the bookmarks panel, the three pane inspector in developer tools, and a new Tracking Protection button in the hamburger menu. Over the last week, the Beta channel has seen 26 bugs uplifted from Nightly.
* Firefox 63 is in the Nightly channel and moves to Stable on October 23. Over the last week, there have been about 400 bugs resolved as fixed including these notable changes:
** Firefox now [https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1365045 supports the CSS prefers-reduced-motion media feature] on Windows. This makes it possible to disable motion effects for those with vestibular disorders or those who simply prefer their experiences without motion effects.
** Firefox now supports [https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1469684 switching to installed locales] from the Options/Preferences window.
** [https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1357487 Out of process extensions for Linux] has been enabled. Mac got this feature in Firefox 61 and Windows got it in 56.
** [https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1367743 About:profiles "launch profile in new browser"] now works for Windows users thanks to the addition of the -no-remote option. Before, for most users, the button would simply launch another window from the current profile.
** [https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1207696 Time Travel Debugging] has landed behind the devtools.recordreplay.enabled pref. Once enabled, it is accessed via the 'Tools -> Web Developer' menu. Time Travel Debugging allows Firefox content processes to record their behavior, replay it later, and rewind to earlier states.  Replaying processes preserve all the same JS behavior, DOM structures, graphical updates, and most other behaviors that occurred while recording.  The browser's JS debugger can be used to inspect and control the replay. This is Mac-only for now.
** Web developers get a new feature with [https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1470111 Clear Site Data] to allow web developers more control over the data stored locally by a user agent for their origins. This was [https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1268889 implemented] in Firefox 62 but behind a pref. Now it's enabled.
** For new profiles, [https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1473595 Ctrl+Tab cycles through tabs in recently used order] is the new default. Instead of tabbing through the tabs on your tab strip in that order, you'll get a pop-up with tiles for the the most recently used 6 tabs. This more closely mirrors the operating system's window switching interface.
** Firefox has a [https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1477677 new and improved about:performance] that's behind the about:config pref dom.performance.enable_scheduler_timing (Be sure to restart after the pref change to avoid a crash).
** Last but not least, Firefox [https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1463759 Certificate Error Pages got new copy] that should be more helpful to users encountering the errors.
 
== 2018-07-23 ==
* [https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/61.0.1/releasenotes/ Firefox 61.0.1] is our current Stable release.
* Firefox 62 is in the Beta channel and goes to Stable release on September 5th. Over the last week, we've had about 40 bugs uplifted to Beta.
* Firefox 63 is in the Nightly channel and moves to Stable release on October 23. Over the last week, Firefox has had more than 350 fixes and changes.
** [https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1474704 Tab multi-select has been enabled.] You can now select a group of tabs to manage, and move them, pin them, bookmark them, etc.
** [https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1476853 Block auto-play has been enabled.] You will now get a permission doorhanger when a site attempts to auto-play.
** The [https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1420514 "Never check for updates" option has been removed] from Options/Preferences. "Check for updates but let you choose to install them" remains, and the default is still "Automatically install updates (recommended)"
** We now [https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1300420 support security.enterprise_roots.enabled on macOS.] If the preference is set to true, Firefox will import trusted TLS root certificates from the macOS keystore.
** We support [https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1349523 Picture in Picture mode for Android Firefox.] This makes watching a video while you surf the web a breeze.
** 12 year old bug [https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=356831 Proxy autodiscovery doesn't check DHCP] was fixed.
 
== 2018-07-16 ==
* [https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/61.0.1/releasenotes/ Firefox 61.0.1] is our current Stable release.
* Firefox 62 is in the Beta channel and becomes our Stable release on September 5th. Over the last week, we've had about 50 bugs uplifted to Beta.
* Firefox 63 is in the Nightly channel and moves to the Stable release on October 23. Over the last week, Firefox has had more than 300 fixes and changes including these notable ones:
** Firefox will now [https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1368808 change to dark or light mode depending on your Windows setting].
** The [https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1471713 Tracking Protection indicator in the addressbar is now animated] to be more visible to users.
** The preferences backend has been [https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1471025 re-designed to better work with our multi-process] architecture.
 
== 2018-07-09 ==
* [https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/61.0.1/releasenotes/ Firefox 61.0.1] is our current release.
* Firefox 62 is in the Beta channel and goes to release on September 5th. Over the last week, we've had about 40 bugs uplifted to beta.
* Firefox 63 is in the Nightly channel and goes to release on October 23rd. Over the last week there have been about 300 bugs resolved as fixed.
** When a user has set search results to open in a new tab but the current tab is blank, we now [https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1455326 re-use the blank tab].
** [https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1432531 OMTP has been enabled for Linux] builds.
** Firefox will [https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1446325 no longer create smart bookmark folders] for new profiles.
** We've also [https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1402890 dropped support for the description field from bookmarks].
** Firefox now has a Restore Defaults button for the home page preferences.
** Platform support for XUL overlays [https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1449791 has been removed].
** For those who have the tab selection about:config pref set, you can now [https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1458061 reload a selection of tabs]
** Last but not least, a 15 year old bug that should help with mobile web compatibility, [https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=218415 add window.event object to the DOM to ease cross browser scripting] has been fixed.
 
== 2018-07-02 ==
* [https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/61.0/releasenotes/ Firefox 61.0] is our current release.
* Firefox 62 is in the Beta channel and goes to release on September 5th. In the last week there have been about a dozen uplifts to beta.
* Firefox 63 is in the Nightly channel and goes to release on October 23rd. In the last week there have been about 350 non-test bugs resolved fixed including these notable changes:
** A fifteen year old bug, [https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=215083 Support CSS3 content property replacement of element], was fixed.
** [https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1398483 column and row gap for flexbox] landed.
** Users can opt out of seeing the editor when they bookmark thanks to the fix at bug [https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1459878 1459878]
** Firefox now has infrastructure to [https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1469072 move Activity Stream into its own process]
** Users who have enabled multi-select tabs can now [https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1458060 pin/unpin a selection of tabs].
** The Open bookmark in sidebar feature [https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1452645 has been removed]
 
== 2018-06-25 ==
* [https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/60.0.2/releasenotes/ Firefox 60.0.2] is our current release.
* Firefox 61 goes to release tomorrow and includes these notable improvements.
** Faster page rendering thanks to parallel CSS parsing and the new retained display list feature
** Faster tab switching thanks to tab warming on Windows and Linux
** You can now add new search engines from the Page Actions menu.
** On Mac you can now share the URL of an active tab from the Page Actions menu.
** TLS 1.3 is enabled by default.
** The Dark theme is darker in more places.
** Web Extensions can now hide tabs and control the order in which new tabs open.
 
== 2018-06-04 ==
* [https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/60.0.1/releasenotes/ Firefox 60.0.1] is our current release.
* Firefox 61 is in the Beta channel and goes to release on June 26th. We're in our 10th Beta with Beta 11 going out tomorrow. In the last week there have been about 40 bugs uplifted to Beta.
* Firefox 62 is in our Nightly channel and goes to release on September 5. In the last week there have been about 360 bugs fixed including these notable changes:
** Users can now set the number of rows for all sections of the New Tab Page. ([https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1400536 bug 1400536])
** Users can now toggle Tracking Protection from the Firefox menu. ([https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1462468 bug 1462468])
** Shadow DOM support has landed in Nightly. ([https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1460069 bug 1460069])
** Race Cache With Network (RCWN) is enabled on Android when cellular data isn't used. ([https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1377570 bug 1377570])
 
== 2018-05-14 ==
* Firefox 60 is our current release.
* Firefox 61 is in the Beta channel and goes to release on June 26th. In the last week there have been 16 uplifts to the Beta channel including the enabling of the [https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1455040 tab hiding API].
* Firefox 62 is in the Nightly channel and goes to release on September 5th. In the last week there have been 360 bug fixes in Nightly including:
** [https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=833098 Remove RDF from Gecko and Firefox]
** [https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=509958 Remove the -moz prefix from ::selection]
** [https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1417133 Reuse blank tab when opening a bookmark in a new tab]
** [https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=625846 Add Heap Snapshot and Analysis tools to Dev Tools]
** [https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1458010 enable tab multi-select behind the pref browser.tabs.multiselect]
** Fixed the regression [https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1460221 where full tabs opened in the middle of your pinned tabs]
 
== 2018-05-07 ==
* Firefox 59.0.3 is our current release. The latest point release shipped last Monday for compatibility with the Windows 10 April 2018 update.
* Firefox 60 is wrapping up in the Beta channel and releases this Wednesday. New to 60 are these features:
** Support for enterprise environments, with a policy engine that allows customized Firefox deployments using Windows Group Policy or a cross-platform JSON file.
** Several enhancements to New Tab/Firefox Home page
*** A responsive layout that shows more content for users with wide-screen displays
*** The Highlights section includes web pages saved to Pocket
*** There are more options to reorder sections and content on the page
*** Pocket Sponsored Stories will appear for a percentage of en-US users
** A faster browser UI thanks to Quantum CSS
** Support for the Web Authentication API, which allows USB tokens for website authentication
** TLS certificates issued by Symantec before June 1st, 2016 are no longer trusted by Firefox
** And, last but not least, Firefox for Android gets Quantum CSS for faster web page rendering.
* Firefox 61 was in the Nightly channel under soft code freeze until this morning. It's now in the Beta channel. In the last week we've seen about 350 bugs fixes including these:
** We now [https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1438363 show a doorhanger] when an extension hides a tab for the first time
** Prevent data: URLs from [https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=255107 being used for XSS]
** Introduce [https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1349559 UI for network throttling] in the Dev Tools Net panel
** Added the remaining [https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1451499 'shape-margin' shape with support for polygon]
** A fix for the [https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1459102 blank windows on Mac with WebRender enabled]
** Not riding the trains to Beta just yet, but we now have a English-Canadian nightly build.
* And finally, the Nightly channel is now Firefox 62.
 
== 2018-04-30 ==
* Firefox 59.0.2 is our current release.
* Firefox 60 is in the Beta channel and releases on May 9th. Our Release Candidate build happens tomorrow so we're basically wrapped up with Firefox 60. Over the last week, we've seen about 20 fixes uplifted to the Beta channel. A reminder, Firefox 60 is an ESR release. Finally, with Firefox 60 we're going to see Pocket sponsored stories coming to the new tab page. You can read all about that [https://blog.mozilla.org/futurereleases/2018/04/30/a-privacy-conscious-approach-to-sponsored-content/ here]
* Firefox 61 is in the Nightly channel and goes to release on June 26th. mozilla-central is currently in a soft freeze until after the version bump to 62 on May 7th. Over the last week we've fixed about 480 bugs including these:
** When there is a hidden tab playing audio there we now have [https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1408062 an audio indicator on the all tabs toolbar button.]
** A 12 year old bug was fixed so [https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=356831 Proxy autodiscovery now checks DHCP]
** [https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1448439 Firefox on Android can now use Chrome's fling physics for scrolling.] with the apz.android.chrome_fling_physics.enabled pref set to true.
** We have much of CSS Shapes Level 1 with the fixes at [https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1353631 bug 1353631, shape-outside] and [https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1265342 bug 1265342, shape-margin]
 
== 2018-04-23 ==
* Firefox 59.0.2 is our release in market.
* Firefox 60 is in the Beta channel and goes to release on May 9th. 60 is an ESR release. We've been trending at about 50 bug fixes per week in beta. One notable change in Beta, we have disabled "retained display list" and it will now likely ship in 61.
* Firefox 61 is in the Nightly channel and goes to release on June 26th. Over the last week, we've fixed about 470 bugs including these notable changes:
** When Firefox starts up, it now [https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1034036 restore windows in reverse z-order], so that the last focused window is restored first and stays in front
** Firefox will [https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1397809 notify users when an extension has updated their home page]
** Firefox on macOS [https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1385403 now has out of process extensions]
** Firefox now includes [https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1433230 recent downloads in Highlights]
** Firefox Option/Preferences now have [https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1432595 a section for managing the different parts of Highlights]
** Firefox on macOS [https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1363168 supports the native OS X "Share" feature]
** Stylo, our parallel CSS engine now supports [https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1455115 parallel CSS parsing] for significant performance wins on some top sites.
** Firefox now has the [https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1449338 Google logo in the search box] of the new tab page where before it was just a magnifying glass icon
** In Firefox devtools users can [https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1226272 drag/drop to reorder devtools tabs]
** Firefox devtools has a new feature in the [https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1449893 Font editor: UI for variable font instances]
* Finally, because I wasn't here for last week's meeting, I wanted to point out that last week an 18 year old bug, [https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=37468 #37468], CSSStyleRule.selectorText setter, was fixed by contributor Kerem Kat.
 
== 2018-04-16 ==
* Firefox 59.0.2 is our current release.
* Firefox 60 is in the Beta channel and goes to release on May 9th. This is an ESR release.
* Firefox 61 is in the Nightly channel and goes to release on June 26th. In the last week we've seen about 460 bugs resolved, including these notable fixes:
** 18 year old bug [https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=37468 bug 37468] was fixed implementing CSSStyleRule.selectorText setter
** The Gecko Profiler uses [https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1436179 less RAM]
** The Dev Tools Browser Console got a new [https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1362023 front end]
** The Dev Tools Font Editor got UI to manage [https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1449885 font-variation-settings]
** Web Components in Firefox made progress with implementing [https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=992245 :host pseudo class]
** Web developers will appreciate that we implemented the DOM [https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1402892 Fetch API RequestDestination and Request.destination]
** Web Assembly moved forward with the implementation of [https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1445272 basic anyref support]
** Highlights in New Tab Page are now sorted [https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1451091 chronologically]
 
== 2018-04-09 ==
* Firefox 59.0.2 is our current released version.
* Firefox 60 is in Beta and is scheduled to hit release May 9th, a month from today. A reminder that Firefox 60 is our next ESR release so it's going to be supported for a while. In the last week Firefox 60 Beta has seen about 50 fixes including uplifts for the memory leak I mentioned last week and a couple of additional policies for the enterprise-facing policy engine.
* Firefox 61 is in the Nightly channel and is due for release on June 26th. In the last week the Nightly channel has seen approximately 460 bugs fixed including a fix for a scroll painting regression. replacing our Emojione implementation with Twitter Emoji (Twemoji) and the addition of about a half a dozen more enterprise policies.
* Mozilla and Firefox have been in the news a lot the last few weeks. Yesterday Mozilla and Firefox were on NBC's Sunday TODAY Show. [https://youtu.be/RTQybYbR1ek Check it out.] The segment features Mitchell Baker and Amy Tsay.
 
== 2018-04-02 ==
* [https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/59.0.2/releasenotes/ Firefox 59.0.2] is our in-market release. It fixes a couple of significant issues:
** A fix for page rendering problems for Windows users with ClearType disabled, ([https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1435472 Bug 1435472])
** A temporary fix for a Windows 7 touchscreen crasher, ([https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1424505 bug 1424505])
** A security issue fixed. Use-after-free in compositor, ([https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/security/advisories/mfsa2018-10/ 10th advisory of 2018])
* Firefox 60 Beta 8 is the latest Beta with Beta 9 due tomorrow. A reminder: Firefox 60 is our next ESR. In the last week we've uplifted about 50 bugs.
* Firefox 61 is in the Nightly channel. Over the last week we've seen 475 bugs fixed including:
** You can now [https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1221539 find and install available search engines from the Page Action menu] (the ... button in your Awesomebar)
** We fixed [https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1446264 a regression] that caused the your browser to start in a smaller window before maximizing to expected size.
** We fixed a [https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1447871 memory leak regression] involving sites using Service Workers that could cause long pauses or freezes on popular sites.
** Users of Firefox's built in Dark theme now have a dark New Tab Page.
* Off the trains, the Facebook Container extension, which isolates your Facebook identity from the rest of your web activity, has seen some dramatic uptake by users (200K downloads in first 3 days,) and garnered great reviews and press. We're working on updates expected soon.
 
== 2018-03-26 ==
* Firefox 59.0.1 is our current release. People have some [https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/17nw78eMw0LHuREKKe6eDiOPQ2haCTFFvyW-SLoM30WQ/edit?usp=sharing nice things to say about it]. Today, if all goes according to plan, we'll have a Firefox 59.0.2 release to fix the [https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1435472 ClearType rendering] regression and the [https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1424505 touchscreen crasher] regression.
* Firefox 60 is in the Beta channel. Beta 7 is due out tomorrow. In the last week, we've uplifted 53 fixes into Beta including these notable fixes:
** A fix for [https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1435472 pages not rendering correctly] for people on Windows with ClearType disabled.
** Fixes to [https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1435472 improve start-up performance] by caching plugin and plugin blocklist information.
* Firefox 61 is in the Nightly channel. In the last week, we've taken just over 500 fixes including these:
** The New Tab Page preferences have been [https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1417155 migrated to the Options/Preferences window] in a new "Home" section.
** Pinned Top Sites on New Tab Page can use thumbnails instead of icons and people can now [https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1402654 set their own images for Top Sites].
** The [https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1408121 dark theme now has dark menus].
** The [https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1294570 new styling engine is now used for the browser's user interface], in addition to web content.
** Firefox now has support for OpenType variation fonts ([https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1447163 CSS font-variation-settings, font-optical-sizing])
* Last but not least, I've published a significant update to the [[Firefox/Roadmap|Firefox Product Roadmap]] and [https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1U1IxTOlsaBcRsnJv0XAaVqQLU4otB6h2lG0NDcvWG-E/edit?usp=sharing Timeline]. The Roadmap document is long-form and attempts to explain what features we're working on and how those features fit into our strategy and the Mozilla mission. The Timeline document is the same information in a spreadsheet for quick viewing. If you haven't, I encourage you all to take a look.
 
== 2018-03-19 ==
* Firefox 59 shipped last Tuesday.
** Firefox 59.01 shipped on Friday to fix a security bug that came out of the annual [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pwn2Own Pwn2Own hacking contest].
** We've got one [https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1435472 significant regression] in this release that causes rendering problems for people who have turned off ClearType font rendering on Windows. The workaround is to re-enable ClearType in Windows or to disable Hardware Acceleration in Firefox. Top people are working on it.
* Firefox 60 is in the Beta channel. Our 5th Beta is scheduled for tomorrow.  In the last week, we've uplifted approximately 15  fixes.
* Firefox 61 is in the Nightly channel. Over the last week there have been approximately 475 fixes landed including these performance improvements:
** A performance improvement to tab switching by [https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1423220 enabling tab warming].
** A performance improvement for file handling by [https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=474043 getting rid of mimetypes.rdf]
** A startup performance improvement by [https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1371888 caching plugin and plugin blocklist information].
 
== 2018-03-12 ==
* Firefox 59 ships tomorrow, March 13th and includes these changes
** Option to stop websites from asking to send notifications or access your device’s

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2020-10-05

2020-09-28

  • Firefox 81 is our current stable release. This release has been in the wild since last Tuesday. Firefox 81 arrived with, among other enhancements, a new theme called Alpenglow. If you haven't checked that out, do. It's quite nice.
  • Firefox 82 is in the Beta channel. Since the merge last week, 82 has received 34 changes including an update to enable WebRender for more people and a number of printing fixes.
  • Firefox 83 is in the Nightly channel and over the last week it received about 350 changes. The most intersting change this week was enabling Warp. Warp is the name of a significant update to SpiderMonkey, our JavaScript Engine. More precisely, Warp is the project to replace the frontend of our optimizing JIT (IonBuilder) and the engine's Type Inference mechanism with a new MIR builder based on compiling CacheIR to MIR. Warp will let us improve security, performance, memory usage and maintainability of the whole engine. Turning on Warp for Nightly has already shown a large improvement for web performance there. For example, loading Google Docs is about 20% faster with Warp enabled. If you're on Nightly, you can find the on/off switch for Warp in the Experimental Features section of Preferences/Options.
  • If you enjoy these updates and would like to learn more about what's going on with Firefox Nightly, be sure to check out These Weeks in Firefox at the Firefox Nightly News blog. The updates there aren't quite as frequent as here but they're comprehensive and detailed, often with screenshots and other examples.

2020-09-21

2020-09-14

2020-08-31

2020-08-24

2020-08-17

  • Firefox 79 is our current stable release.
  • Firefox 80 is in the Beta channel and it will arrive at our stable release channel next Tuesday on August 25th. This is RC week when we test the final "release candidate" builds.
  • Firefox 81 is in the Nightly channel. This Thursday is the soft code freeze, meaning that developers should not land code that is deemed risky for the stability and general quality of Firefox and that features that are controlled by a pref and were not activated during the nightly cycle should not be activated. If you land code that introduces new crashers or lowers the overall quality of Firefox during this period, you will be backed out instead of waiting for a follow-up fix. Over the last week the Nightly channel has received about 320 bug fixes including these notable changes:

2020-08-10

2020-08-03

  • Firefox 79 is our current stable release. This latest version shipped last Tuesday and, among other things, delivers WebRender to more users. WebRender is replacing Gecko's compositor with one that uses the GPU to draw web content rather than the CPU. Written in Rust, WebRender improves stability and performance.
  • Firefox 80 is in the Beta channel and it will arrive at our stable release channel on August 25th.
  • Firefox 81 is in the Nightly channel and over the last week the Nightly channel has received about 300 bug fixes including these notable changes:

2020-07-27

2020-07-20

2020-07-13

2020-07-06

  • Firefox 78.0.1 is our current stable release. Firefox 78 was released last Tuesday and a search regression was quickly identifies and fixed with the dot release. This new release offers users new consolidated reports in the Protections Dashboard, a refresh button in the uninstaller, WebRender for more systems, and a slew of accessibility fixes. Also worth calling out that 78 is also our latest Extended Support Release (ESR.)
  • Firefox 79 is currently in the Beta channel. 79 will hit stable release on July 28th.
  • And that means that Nightly is now Firefox 80. Over the last week the Nightly channel has received just over 300 fixes including these notable ones.

2020-06-29

2020-06-22

2020-06-08

2020-06-01

2020-05-18

2020-05-11

2020-05-04

2020-04-27

  • Firefox 75.0 is our latest stable release.
  • Firefox 76 is in the Beta channel and makes it out to our stable release audience next week on May 5th. We're in RC week now.
  • Firefox 77 is in the Nightly channel and it will arrive for our stable release users on June 2nd. The soft code freeze is this Thursday. If you've got risky changes or want to pref on a new feature, please do so before Thursday. Over the last week there have been about 440 bugs resoved as Fixed including these notable ones:
    • The Firefox address bar got a lot smarter. It now uses the Public Suffix List to show search results for lookups with a dot in them that are not actual domains. Putting something like foo.bar in the address bar will now search for the term rather than trying to load it as if it was a web address. This was fixed at bug 1080682. Also, entering an email address into the address bar will now perform a search rather than trying to load it as if it was a web login attempt. This was bug 1412985. Finally, entering a data:url with a space and a question mark now works as expected, loading it as a data:url rather than a search string. See bug 1613276 for details.
    • We now have an enterprise policy for PDF handling that allows an enterprise manager to disable pdf.js in favor of a system PDF viewer. This was implemented at bug 792816.
    • There is a new web technology based Firefox Installer. This should be easier to update and maintain than the old native stub installer. All the details at bug 1596812.
    • Gecko now handles word boundaries properly on Southeast Asian languages without interword spaces. This makes selecting (and other text actions) easier for Thai, Khmer, Lao, and other languages. This was fixed at bug 425915.
    • Gecko got support fro ARIA reflection at bug 1628418. This is part of the Accessibility Object Model which gives web authors the tools to make custom elements accessible.
    • Last but not least, XUL Grids were all replaced in Firefox and support was removed from Gecko. This was bug 1520625.

2020-04-20

2020-04-13

2020-04-06

  • Firefox 74.0.1 is our latest stable release.
  • Firefox 75 is in the Beta channel as the final release candidate. 75 will ship to our stable release audience tomorrow, Tuesday, April 7th and users of this new version will enjoy the following improvements:
    • a revamped Firefox Awesomebar that features your top sites when you focus it and that works much better on smaller screens.
    • an easier way to install and use Firefox on Linux with Flatpak support.
    • Direct Composition support for Windows gets us even better performance and closer to our goal of shipping WebRender .
    • For web developers, we will now support the "loading" attribute which when set to "lazy" will allow for images to only load when they are within the viewport, speeding up page loading for uses and decreasing network bandwidth.
    • Another great update for web developers is the new Instant evaluation for Console expressions. The feature lets developers identify and fix errors more rapidly than before. As long as expressions typed into the Web Console are side-effect free, their results will be previewed while you type.

2020-03-30

2020-03-23

  • Firefox 74.0 is our latest stable release.
  • Firefox 75 is in the Beta channel and it goes to our stable release audience on Tuesday, April 7th. This the third and final week of betas for this cycle and next week is RC week.
  • 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 470 fixes landed in Nightly including these notable fixes.
    • Firefox no longer supports allowing web developers to control toolbars (tabbar, menubar, toolbar, personalbar) in pop-up windows. (bug 1507375)
    • WebRender is now enabled for Windows 10 Intel laptops with medium resolution screens. (bug 1622959) WebRender was previously enabled for Win10 Intel laptops with 1900x1200 or smaller resolution and now it's enabled also for 3440x1440 and smaller.
    • Disabled form controls are now selectable. (bug 253870) 🎉🥳 16 year old bug fixed! 🥳🎉
    • There's a basic implementation of HTTPS-only mode behind the pref dom_security_https_only_mode. (bug 1620242) This mode upgrades all insecure requests to https:// when the pref is set.
    • Firefox now supports CSS4 system colors. (bug 1590894) This is mostly an unprefixing of the existing implementation.
    • The basic profiler has been enabled for Android. (bug 1557570)
    • The Media Session API has been enabled on Nightly. (bug 1620077) This enables web developers to show customized media metadata on platform UI, customize available platform media controls, and access platform media keys such as hardware keys found on keyboards, headsets, remote controls, and software keys found in notification areas and on lock screens of mobile devices
    • Firefox Nightly now uses the Dav1d 0.6.0 version which brings major improvements in 10/12bit decoding on ARMv8 CPUs, up to 2.5 times faster than 0.5.2. It also brings new AVX-512, AVX2 and SSSE3 optimizations and improves the existing optimizations on all platforms. Finally, it also fixes some decoder mismatches and minor crashes.

2020-03-16

2020-03-09

2020-03-02

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.

2020-02-10

2020-01-20

2020-01-13

2020-01-06

2019-12-16

2019-12-09

2019-12-02

2019-11-25

2019-11-18

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:
  • 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

2019-10-28

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:

2019-10-14

2019-10-07

2019-09-30

2019-09-23

2019-09-16

2019-09-09

2019-09-02

2019-08-26

2019-08-19

2019-08-12

2019-08-05

2019-07-29

2019-07-22

2019-07-15

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:

2019-07-01

2019-06-24

2019-06-17

2019-06-10

2019-06-03

2019-05-27

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:

2019-05-13

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:

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:
  • 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.

2019-04-08

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:

2019-03-25

2019-03-18

2019-03-11

2019-03-04

2019-02-25

2019-02-11

2019-01-28

2019-01-14

  • Firefox 64.02 is our current stable release. This point release came out on January 9th and addresses several issues including:
  • Firefox 65 is in the Beta channel and moves to Stable on January 29th. We're currently in our 10th Beta with Beta 11 coming out tomorrow. We only have 12 Betas planned so we're in the end game now. If you've got bug fixes that need to make Firefox 65, time is short so get those uplift requests in today!
  • Firefox 66 is in the Nightly channel and moves to Stable on March 19th. Over the last week there have been 500 bugs resolved as fixed including these notable ones:
    • We implemented Scroll anchoring. As a page is loading, new elements can show up above the scrolled to part of the screen and that causes the page to shift creating a poor user experience. Scroll anchoring attempts to mitigate this and prevent thescreen from shifting when new elements are added above the scroll position.
    • We now have main process crash reporting on ARM64 Windows builds. We don't have content process crash reporting yet. That's being worked on in bug 1517729
    • We also have stub installer support for ARM64 Windows builds. The standard stub installer now recognizes Windows on Snapdragon and downloads and installs the appropriate bits.
    • WebRender has been moved to mozilla-central. Before, WebRender was developed on Github and work was transferred to mozilla-central. Now the canonical home for WebRender is in mozilla-central's gfx/wr directory. WebRender's Github is now a downstream mirror of mozilla-central. This also means that WebRender bugs and patches should be filed in Bugzilla rather than Github.
    • The en-US dictionary got and update and now includes the word "hooptie" among several other additions.
    • Last but not least, a 15 year old layout bug was fixed. The bug, Deeply nested elements are not rendered was fixed by Henri Sivonen (:hsivonen)
  • In other Firefox news:
    • We are now scheduled to disable Flash in Firefox 69 which moves to the Stable release on August 3rd. The change will land in the 69 Nightly cycle and ride the trains.
    • If you haven't yet, check out the great Hacks blog post on the design and development of the Flexbox Inspector. The Flexbox inspector is available in the Dev Edition and hits our stable release with Firefox 65 next month.

2019-01-07

2018

2018-12-17

  • The Firefox 64 Stable release came out last week. 64 includes the feature recommender, multi-tab operations, a new task manager, and various other features and fixes. Check it out!
    • The ability to select multiple tabs and then move them, re-window them, close them, bookmark, send to device, etc. was a hit with the press, making appearances in the titles of most articles about 64. This feature was made possible because of Google Summer of Code, mentoring from Mozilla's Jared Wein (:jaws) and the hard work of a student named Abdoulaye O. Ly. If you haven't tried this out, it's really cool for reordering tabs, de-cluttering your tab strip, or sending off a group of tabs to your mobile Firefox.
    • You can read more about Firefox 64 at the hacks blog, which covers just about everything you'd want to know about the release, and at MDN which deep dives on changes that web developers and add-on developers will care about.
  • Firefox 65 is in the Beta channel and moves to the stable Release on January 29th. If you're on the Beta channel, you're probably using the 4th beta and the 5th beta is due tomorrow. Over the last week, we've uplifted about 40 bugs to Beta, including several crash fixes, enabling the AV1 video format, and fixing selection color visibility on dark backgrounds on macOS
  • Firefox 66 is in the Nightly channel and moves to the Stable release on March 19th. Over the last two weeks we've resolved about 600 issues including these notable ones:

2018-12-03

2018-11-26

2018-11-19

2018-11-12

2018-11-05

2018-10-29

  • Firefox 63 is our current Stable release. It shipped last week and contains opt-in content blocking for all users and improved performance and energy efficiency on Mac.
  • Firefox 64 is in the Beta channel and moves to Stable release on December 11th. We're in our 5th of 14 planned betas.
  • Firefox 65 is now the Nightly channel. Over the last week, we've resolved more than 460 bug reports in Nightly including these notable changes:

2018-10-22

2018-10-15

2018-10-01

2018-09-24

2018-09-17

  • Firefox 62.0 is our current Stable release.
  • Firefox 63 is our current Beta release. There have been about 43 fixes uplifted to Beta in the last week.
  • Firefox 64 is in the Nightly channel and over the last week there have been about 420 fixes including these notable ones:

2018-09-10

2018-08-27

  • Firefox 61.0.2 is our current Stable release.
  • Firefox 62 is in the Beta channel and hits Stable release on September 5th. There have been about 20 fixes uplifted to Beta in the last week.
  • Firefox 63 is in the Nightly channel and graduates to Stable release on October 23. In the last week there have been about 425 fixes including these notable ones:

2018-08-20

2018-08-06

2018-07-30

  • Firefox 61.0.1 is our current Stable release. 61 was first offered on June 26. Users on this release are enjoying faster page rendering thanks to Quantum CSS improvements and the new retained display list feature, and Faster switching between tabs thanks to the "tab warming" feature.
  • Firefox 62 is in the Beta channel and goes to release on September 5th. Beta users are helping test improvements to the bookmarks panel, the three pane inspector in developer tools, and a new Tracking Protection button in the hamburger menu. Over the last week, the Beta channel has seen 26 bugs uplifted from Nightly.
  • Firefox 63 is in the Nightly channel and moves to Stable on October 23. Over the last week, there have been about 400 bugs resolved as fixed including these notable changes:
    • Firefox now supports the CSS prefers-reduced-motion media feature on Windows. This makes it possible to disable motion effects for those with vestibular disorders or those who simply prefer their experiences without motion effects.
    • Firefox now supports switching to installed locales from the Options/Preferences window.
    • Out of process extensions for Linux has been enabled. Mac got this feature in Firefox 61 and Windows got it in 56.
    • About:profiles "launch profile in new browser" now works for Windows users thanks to the addition of the -no-remote option. Before, for most users, the button would simply launch another window from the current profile.
    • Time Travel Debugging has landed behind the devtools.recordreplay.enabled pref. Once enabled, it is accessed via the 'Tools -> Web Developer' menu. Time Travel Debugging allows Firefox content processes to record their behavior, replay it later, and rewind to earlier states. Replaying processes preserve all the same JS behavior, DOM structures, graphical updates, and most other behaviors that occurred while recording. The browser's JS debugger can be used to inspect and control the replay. This is Mac-only for now.
    • Web developers get a new feature with Clear Site Data to allow web developers more control over the data stored locally by a user agent for their origins. This was implemented in Firefox 62 but behind a pref. Now it's enabled.
    • For new profiles, Ctrl+Tab cycles through tabs in recently used order is the new default. Instead of tabbing through the tabs on your tab strip in that order, you'll get a pop-up with tiles for the the most recently used 6 tabs. This more closely mirrors the operating system's window switching interface.
    • Firefox has a new and improved about:performance that's behind the about:config pref dom.performance.enable_scheduler_timing (Be sure to restart after the pref change to avoid a crash).
    • Last but not least, Firefox Certificate Error Pages got new copy that should be more helpful to users encountering the errors.

2018-07-23

2018-07-16

2018-07-09

2018-07-02

2018-06-25

  • Firefox 60.0.2 is our current release.
  • Firefox 61 goes to release tomorrow and includes these notable improvements.
    • Faster page rendering thanks to parallel CSS parsing and the new retained display list feature
    • Faster tab switching thanks to tab warming on Windows and Linux
    • You can now add new search engines from the Page Actions menu.
    • On Mac you can now share the URL of an active tab from the Page Actions menu.
    • TLS 1.3 is enabled by default.
    • The Dark theme is darker in more places.
    • Web Extensions can now hide tabs and control the order in which new tabs open.

2018-06-04

  • Firefox 60.0.1 is our current release.
  • Firefox 61 is in the Beta channel and goes to release on June 26th. We're in our 10th Beta with Beta 11 going out tomorrow. In the last week there have been about 40 bugs uplifted to Beta.
  • Firefox 62 is in our Nightly channel and goes to release on September 5. In the last week there have been about 360 bugs fixed including these notable changes:
    • Users can now set the number of rows for all sections of the New Tab Page. (bug 1400536)
    • Users can now toggle Tracking Protection from the Firefox menu. (bug 1462468)
    • Shadow DOM support has landed in Nightly. (bug 1460069)
    • Race Cache With Network (RCWN) is enabled on Android when cellular data isn't used. (bug 1377570)

2018-05-14

2018-05-07

  • Firefox 59.0.3 is our current release. The latest point release shipped last Monday for compatibility with the Windows 10 April 2018 update.
  • Firefox 60 is wrapping up in the Beta channel and releases this Wednesday. New to 60 are these features:
    • Support for enterprise environments, with a policy engine that allows customized Firefox deployments using Windows Group Policy or a cross-platform JSON file.
    • Several enhancements to New Tab/Firefox Home page
      • A responsive layout that shows more content for users with wide-screen displays
      • The Highlights section includes web pages saved to Pocket
      • There are more options to reorder sections and content on the page
      • Pocket Sponsored Stories will appear for a percentage of en-US users
    • A faster browser UI thanks to Quantum CSS
    • Support for the Web Authentication API, which allows USB tokens for website authentication
    • TLS certificates issued by Symantec before June 1st, 2016 are no longer trusted by Firefox
    • And, last but not least, Firefox for Android gets Quantum CSS for faster web page rendering.
  • Firefox 61 was in the Nightly channel under soft code freeze until this morning. It's now in the Beta channel. In the last week we've seen about 350 bugs fixes including these:
  • And finally, the Nightly channel is now Firefox 62.

2018-04-30

  • Firefox 59.0.2 is our current release.
  • Firefox 60 is in the Beta channel and releases on May 9th. Our Release Candidate build happens tomorrow so we're basically wrapped up with Firefox 60. Over the last week, we've seen about 20 fixes uplifted to the Beta channel. A reminder, Firefox 60 is an ESR release. Finally, with Firefox 60 we're going to see Pocket sponsored stories coming to the new tab page. You can read all about that here
  • Firefox 61 is in the Nightly channel and goes to release on June 26th. mozilla-central is currently in a soft freeze until after the version bump to 62 on May 7th. Over the last week we've fixed about 480 bugs including these:

2018-04-23

2018-04-16

  • Firefox 59.0.2 is our current release.
  • Firefox 60 is in the Beta channel and goes to release on May 9th. This is an ESR release.
  • Firefox 61 is in the Nightly channel and goes to release on June 26th. In the last week we've seen about 460 bugs resolved, including these notable fixes:

2018-04-09

  • Firefox 59.0.2 is our current released version.
  • Firefox 60 is in Beta and is scheduled to hit release May 9th, a month from today. A reminder that Firefox 60 is our next ESR release so it's going to be supported for a while. In the last week Firefox 60 Beta has seen about 50 fixes including uplifts for the memory leak I mentioned last week and a couple of additional policies for the enterprise-facing policy engine.
  • Firefox 61 is in the Nightly channel and is due for release on June 26th. In the last week the Nightly channel has seen approximately 460 bugs fixed including a fix for a scroll painting regression. replacing our Emojione implementation with Twitter Emoji (Twemoji) and the addition of about a half a dozen more enterprise policies.
  • Mozilla and Firefox have been in the news a lot the last few weeks. Yesterday Mozilla and Firefox were on NBC's Sunday TODAY Show. Check it out. The segment features Mitchell Baker and Amy Tsay.

2018-04-02

  • Firefox 59.0.2 is our in-market release. It fixes a couple of significant issues:
    • A fix for page rendering problems for Windows users with ClearType disabled, (Bug 1435472)
    • A temporary fix for a Windows 7 touchscreen crasher, (bug 1424505)
    • A security issue fixed. Use-after-free in compositor, (10th advisory of 2018)
  • Firefox 60 Beta 8 is the latest Beta with Beta 9 due tomorrow. A reminder: Firefox 60 is our next ESR. In the last week we've uplifted about 50 bugs.
  • Firefox 61 is in the Nightly channel. Over the last week we've seen 475 bugs fixed including:
  • Off the trains, the Facebook Container extension, which isolates your Facebook identity from the rest of your web activity, has seen some dramatic uptake by users (200K downloads in first 3 days,) and garnered great reviews and press. We're working on updates expected soon.

2018-03-26

2018-03-19

  • Firefox 59 shipped last Tuesday.
    • Firefox 59.01 shipped on Friday to fix a security bug that came out of the annual Pwn2Own hacking contest.
    • We've got one significant regression in this release that causes rendering problems for people who have turned off ClearType font rendering on Windows. The workaround is to re-enable ClearType in Windows or to disable Hardware Acceleration in Firefox. Top people are working on it.
  • Firefox 60 is in the Beta channel. Our 5th Beta is scheduled for tomorrow. In the last week, we've uplifted approximately 15 fixes.
  • Firefox 61 is in the Nightly channel. Over the last week there have been approximately 475 fixes landed including these performance improvements:

2018-03-12

  • Firefox 59 ships tomorrow, March 13th and includes these changes
    • Option to stop websites from asking to send notifications or access your device’s