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 * 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.
 ** UI-parts related items in windowFeatures parameter of window.open() can no longer control the visibility of each UI part separately, but become a condition for whether to open a popup or not. (bug [https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1507375 1507375])
-** WebRender is now enabled for Intel laptops with medium resolution screens. (bug [https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1622959 1622959])
+** 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])
+** 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])
+** 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])
+** 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.