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Firefox Nightly @firefoxnightly.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
[Nightly Blog] Shoutout to More Layouts – These Weeks in Firefox: Issue 210 blog.nightly.mozilla.org/2026/09/28/s...
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Shoutout to More Layouts – These Weeks in Firefox: Issue 210 – Firefox Nightly News
Highlights Rév O'Conner added a settings popup to control the layout of the Inspector. Auto automatically switches the layout at a given toolbox width. The ...
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Firefox Nightly @firefoxnightly.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
[Community event in Paris] Foxfooding en personne : Nova et fenêtre intelligente - Communauté Mozilla francophone blog.mozfr.org/post/2026/09...
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Foxfooding en personne : Nova et fenêtre intelligente
Au lendemain de la sortie de Firefox 157, nous vous proposons de nous retrouver en présentiel à Mozilla Paris le mercredi 30 septembre pour une soirée dédiée aux nouvelles
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Firefox Nightly @firefoxnightly.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
[Nightly Blog] High-speed Release Trains – These Weeks in Firefox: Issue 209 blog.nightly.mozilla.org/2026/09/17/h...
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High-speed Release Trains – These Weeks in Firefox: Issue 209 – Firefox Nightly News
Highlights Firefox 155 just released! That’s the first release that went through the full 2-week release cycle process. The WebExtensions team added a new backgrounds_area theme property so themes ...
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Firefox Nightly @firefoxnightly.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
[Nightly Blog] The Need for Speed Controls – These Weeks in Firefox: Issue 208 blog.nightly.mozilla.org/2026/09/11/t...
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The Need for Speed Controls – These Weeks in Firefox: Issue 208 – Firefox Nightly News
Highlights Firefox 154 went out today! Lots of goodies in there for our users, including support for NVIDIA GeForce NOW The new 2 week release cycle is now in ...
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Firefox Nightly @firefoxnightly.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Game on: Play, share, and help shape Mozilla – about:community blog.mozilla.org/community/20...
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Game on: Play, share, and help shape Mozilla – about:community
P.S. Apologies for the delay in publishing this edition on the community blog. The original newsletter was sent to subscribers on August 27. Firefox was leveling up in August! GeForce ...
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Firefox Nightly @firefoxnightly.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
[Nightly Blog] Motion, Colour, Captions, Kit – These Weeks in Firefox: Issue 207 blog.nightly.mozilla.org/2026/09/08/m...
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Motion, Colour, Captions, Kit – These Weeks in Firefox: Issue 207 – Firefox Nightly News
Highlights Want some Kit? Check out the store! Sebastian Zartner [:sebo] added a panel to expose @media emulation (#1692434) and provided a way to emulate ...
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Firefox Nightly @firefoxnightly.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
HDR videos encoded as 8bit color formats now properly display as HDR in most cases, this fixes several cases of dull gray looking videos that should have been more vibrant. bugzilla.mozilla.org/2008887
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2008887 - [HDR/Windows] wide-gamut HDR test color swatches are decoding as NV12 for some reason
RESOLVED (ahale) in Core - Graphics: Color Management. Last updated 2026-09-02.
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Firefox Nightly @firefoxnightly.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
Firefox now supports the at-rule() function for @supports. This allows authors to detect for browser support of specific at-rules, such as @supports at-rule(@scope) bugzilla.mozilla.org/2060755
bugzilla.mozilla.org
2060755 - Set layout.css.supports.at-rule.enabled for release (@supports at-rule())
RESOLVED (sajidanwar94) in Core - CSS Parsing and Computation. Last updated 2026-08-31.
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Firefox Nightly @firefoxnightly.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
[Nightly Blog] Icons! Lots of them! – These Weeks in Firefox: Issue 206 blog.nightly.mozilla.org/2026/08/25/i...
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Icons! Lots of them! – These Weeks in Firefox: Issue 206 – Firefox Nightly News
Highlights Starting in Firefox 154, we’ve added a new capability for changing the default browser icon for Windows (Windows-only, for now, and not MSIX / Store installs) in about:settings#appearance...
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Firefox Nightly @firefoxnightly.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
Starting with Firefox 155, Nightly builds now support the at-rule() function for @supports. This allows authors to detect for browser support of specific at-rules, such as @supports at-rule(@scope). bugzilla.mozilla.org/2060754
bugzilla.mozilla.org
2060754 - Implement @support at-rule() behind pref
RESOLVED (sajidanwar94) in Core - CSS Parsing and Computation. Last updated 2026-08-06.
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Firefox Nightly @firefoxnightly.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
Starting with Firefox 155, Nightly builds enable the Audio Session API, letting sites declare how their audio mixes with other applications. bugzilla.mozilla.org/2055710
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2055710 - Enable AudioSession API on Nightly
RESOLVED (alwu) in Core - Audio/Video: Playback. Last updated 2026-08-05.
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Firefox Nightly @firefoxnightly.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
The CSS attr() function now supports values of any type, letting authors use attribute values in any property as opposed to just strings in the content property for the old attr() function. bugzilla.mozilla.org/2038940
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2038940 - Enable new CSS attr() on Release
RESOLVED (descalante) in Core - CSS Parsing and Computation. Last updated 2026-08-04.
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Firefox Nightly @firefoxnightly.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
PDFs can now be scaled up to fill a larger sheet of paper when printing. bugzilla.mozilla.org/1856162
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1856162 - Firefox doesn't offer a way to scale up small PDFs to fill a larger sheet of paper
RESOLVED (emcdonough) in Core - Print Preview. Last updated 2026-08-04.
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Firefox Nightly @firefoxnightly.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
Fixed Firefox preventing Linux systems from sleeping or suspending after a long browsing session. bugzilla.mozilla.org/2057365
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2057365 - Firefox prevent Linux from sleep/suspend
RESOLVED (thinker.li) in Core - Widget: Gtk. Last updated 2026-08-01.
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Firefox Nightly @firefoxnightly.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
Firefox now supports the progress() CSS function. This is a math function that can be used in calculations to compute the position of a value relative to a start and an end. bugzilla.mozilla.org/2047345
bugzilla.mozilla.org
2047345 - Set layout.css.progress-function.enabled for all users
RESOLVED (sajidanwar94) in Core - CSS Parsing and Computation. Last updated 2026-08-01.
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Firefox Nightly @firefoxnightly.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
Starting with Firefox 154, Firefox Nightly now supports QUIC version 2 (RFC 9369) for HTTP/3 connections. Firefox offers both QUIC v1 and v2 using compatible version negotiation (RFC 9368). bugzilla.mozilla.org/2040450
bugzilla.mozilla.org
2040450 - Enable QUIC version negotiation
RESOLVED (mail) in Core - Networking. Last updated 2026-07-21.
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Sajid Anwar @sajidanwar.com · 29/07/2026
Firefox 154 arrives pretty soon and I genuinely can't contain my excitement 😇 text-box-trim was the first "big" feature I wanted to contribute but it felt like it was a bit beyond my reach. So I started on some other layout work, and took a detour to work on sibling-index() and sibling-count() ...
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Firefox Nightly @firefoxnightly.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
Starting with Firefox 154, Firefox Nightly now supports the alpha() CSS function. This is a relative color function that can be used to modify just the alpha component of a given color. bugzilla.mozilla.org/2047437
bugzilla.mozilla.org
2047437 - Implement alpha() function behind pref
RESOLVED (sajidanwar94) in Core - CSS Parsing and Computation. Last updated 2026-07-26.
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Firefox Nightly @firefoxnightly.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
You can now backup your profile locally on macOS devices and restore that profile between windows, macOS and linux. bugzilla.mozilla.org/2033325
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2033325 - Firefox keeps requesting Documents folder permission without explaining why
RESOLVED (hsohaney) in Firefox - Profile Backup. Last updated 2026-07-21.
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Firefox Nightly @firefoxnightly.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
Community Roundup: Project Nova, Tab Groups & more – about:community blog.mozilla.org/community/20...
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Community Roundup: Project Nova, Tab Groups & more – about:community
Firefox keeps evolving, and the community continues to play a big part in shaping what's next. In this edition, you can get an early look at Project Nova through our ...
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Firefox Nightly @firefoxnightly.bsky.social · 27/07/2026
[Nightly Blog] Try the New Firefox Design in Nightly blog.nightly.mozilla.org/2026/07/27/n...
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Try the New Firefox Design in Nightly – Firefox Nightly News
This past May, we shared our vision for the future of Firefox. Starting today, you can try out the next design evolution of Firefox in Nightly. It's still Firefox, now ...
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Firefox Nightly @firefoxnightly.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
Performing a hard reload on a page (holding Shift while clicking the Refresh button) now also clears and updates its cached favicons. bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi...
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418144 - Favicons are not affected by a hard refresh
RESOLVED (mak) in Toolkit - Places. Last updated 2026-07-17.
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Firefox Nightly @firefoxnightly.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
Firefox now gives Windows users the ability to change their default browser icon in Settings (except for MSIX installs). Support for MSIX installs, macOS and Linux is coming soon. bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi...
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2053546 - Move browserIcon.ftl strings into preferences.ftl and enable browser.shell.customIcon.enabled by default to ride the trains
RESOLVED (mconley) in Firefox - Settings UI. Last updated 2026-07-16.
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Firefox Nightly @firefoxnightly.bsky.social · 16/07/2026
Starting with Firefox 154, We’re testing a simpler tab context menu in Firefox Labs. Turn it on in Settings > Firefox Labs > Streamline tab menu and tell us what you think on Mozilla Connect. connect.mozilla.org/t5/discussio...
New context menu for tabs.
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Firefox Nightly @firefoxnightly.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
Firefox now supports the text-box-trim and text-box-edge CSS properties, and the associated text-box shorthand. These properties allow you to control the leading space above and below text, enabling simpler and consistent vertical spacing and alignment. bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi...
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2050141 - [text-box-trim] Set layout.css.text-box.enabled for all users
RESOLVED (sajidanwar94) in Core - Layout: Block and Inline. Last updated 2026-07-15.
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Firefox Nightly @firefoxnightly.bsky.social · 14/07/2026
HDR video in Firefox for Windows tech retrospective – Mozilla Gfx Team Blog mozillagfx.wordpress.com/2026/07/14/h...
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HDR video in Firefox for Windows tech retrospective
HDR video is coming to Firefox for Windows users (and has been available for some time on macOS).  This blog post explains how we developed the feature and gives a retrospective on the technic…
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Firefox Nightly @firefoxnightly.bsky.social · 13/07/2026
Firefox Security & Privacy Newsletter 2026 Q2 | Attack & Defense attackanddefense.dev/2026/07/12/f...
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Firefox Security & Privacy Newsletter 2026 Q2
Welcome to the Q2 2026 edition of the Firefox Security & Privacy Newsletter.
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Firefox Nightly @firefoxnightly.bsky.social · 06/07/2026
[Web Platform] Firefox now supports new Iterator.prototype.chunks and Iterator.prototype.windows methods that allow consuming an iterator as either overlapping or non-overlapping subsequences of configurable size. bugzilla.mozilla.org/2047997
iterator.prototype.windows
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Firefox Nightly @firefoxnightly.bsky.social · 06/07/2026
The address bar now includes a "Manage AI" quick action that opens the AI section of Settings. bugzilla.mozilla.org/2038834
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2038834 - Quick Action for turning off AI Mode
VERIFIED (dharvey) in Firefox - Address Bar. Last updated 2026-07-06.
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Firefox Nightly @firefoxnightly.bsky.social · 06/07/2026
[Community newsletter] A new Firefox look, hidden features, and more – about:community blog.mozilla.org/community/20...
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A new Firefox look, hidden features, and more – about:community
Hi Mozillians, welcome to another Mozilla community roundup! This month, we’re taking a look at what’s next for Firefox. From an upcoming visual refresh and a peek behind the new ...
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Firefox Nightly @firefoxnightly.bsky.social · 03/07/2026
Firefox's Local Network Access protections now extends to WebSocket connections. Websites that try to open a WebSocket to a device on your local network will now ask for your permission first. bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi...
bugzilla.mozilla.org
2042339 - [LNA] Enable LNA Restrictions for Websockets
RESOLVED (smayya) in Core - DOM: Networking. Last updated 2026-07-02.
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Firefox Nightly @firefoxnightly.bsky.social · 03/07/2026
Added support for the No-Vary-Search HTTP response header for the HTTP disk cache. developer.mozilla.org/docs/Web/HTT... bugzilla.mozilla.org/2038013
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No-Vary-Search header - HTTP | MDN
The HTTP No-Vary-Search response header specifies a set of rules that define how a URL's query parameters will affect cache matching. These rules dictate whether the same URL with different URL parame...
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Firefox Nightly @firefoxnightly.bsky.social · 01/07/2026
Community power in action! 💪 Mozilla volunteer Valery Ledovskoy has released a new Russian dictionary extension. The goal: a modern, MPL-licensed Hunspell dictionary to replace Firefox's aging default. 🧩 Try it: addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefo... 📝 Feedback: habr.com/ru/articles/...
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Russian Spelling Dictionary – Get this Dictionary for 🦊 Firefox (en-US)
Download Russian Spelling Dictionary for Firefox. Modern Russian spell-checking dictionary for Firefox and Thunderbird.
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Firefox Nightly @firefoxnightly.bsky.social · 23/06/2026
[Nightly Blog] Eyedropper Quick Action, geckodriver 0.37, and Tighter File Permissions – These Weeks in Firefox: Issue 205 blog.nightly.mozilla.org/2026/06/22/e...
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Eyedropper Quick Action, geckodriver 0.37, and Tighter File Permissions – These Weeks in Firefox: Issue 205 – Firefox Nightly News
Highlights Dao added a new Eyedropper quick action! Check it out by typing “color” or “eyedropper” in the URL bar (Bug 1803575) on Nightly. Henrik Skupin ...
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Firefox Nightly @firefoxnightly.bsky.social · 17/06/2026
This is your periodic reminder that you can follow the general Mozilla news, team work and individual contributors work on Planet Mozilla (which has a RSS feed you can subscribe to). We have 1 to 2 blog posts per day for you. 🌍️ planet.mozilla.org
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Planet Mozilla
Follow the pulse of the Mozilla project. Aggregated updates from the developers, designers, and volunteers building a better internet.
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Firefox Nightly @firefoxnightly.bsky.social · 16/06/2026
What's new in Firefox this June, and what's next on the Firefox roadmap blog.mozilla.org/en/firefox/f...
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What's new in Firefox this June, and what's next on the Firefox roadmap | The Mozilla Blog
Firefox has been busy introducing updates across productivity, privacy and AI. From Project Nova and browser-wide AI controls to expanded privacy protectio
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Firefox Nightly @firefoxnightly.bsky.social · 15/06/2026
[Nightly Blog] Giving You More Control – These Weeks in Firefox: Issue 204 blog.nightly.mozilla.org/2026/06/15/g...
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Giving You More Control – These Weeks in Firefox: Issue 204 – Firefox Nightly News
Highlights Maxx Crawford added a pref to hide the New Tab logo so users can opt out of branding without altering page layout or resorting to CSS overrides. Harshit ...
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Firefox Nightly @firefoxnightly.bsky.social · 04/06/2026
[Nightly Blog] More Kit, More Control – These Weeks in Firefox: Issue 203 blog.nightly.mozilla.org/2026/06/03/m...
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More Kit, More Control – These Weeks in Firefox: Issue 203 – Firefox Nightly News
Highlights James enabled adaptive autofill in Nightly for testing, which we believe should provide better results in the URL bar when doing autocomplete! Jack updated the illustrations shown on ...
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Firefox Nightly @firefoxnightly.bsky.social · 03/06/2026
The location permission icon in the address bar now turns red while a website is actively accessing your location, making it easier to notice when your location is being shared. bugzilla.mozilla.org/2038194
Address bar with the geolocation icon red, indicating it's used by the website you gave it permission to.
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Firefox Nightly @firefoxnightly.bsky.social · 02/06/2026
Quickly pick and copy a color from any page by typing "pick color", "color picker", or "eyedropper" in the address bar and selecting the "Pick a color" quick action.
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Firefox Nightly @firefoxnightly.bsky.social · 02/06/2026
Firefox now verifies and displays Qualified Website Authentication Certificates (QWACs) in accordance with eIDAS regulations. bugzilla.mozilla.org/2043399
bugzilla.mozilla.org
2043399 - enable QWACs by default on desktop
RESOLVED (dkeeler) in Core - Security: PSM. Last updated 2026-06-01.
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Firefox Nightly @firefoxnightly.bsky.social · 02/06/2026
[Nightly Blog] Backup for a Rainy Day – These Weeks in Firefox: Issue 202 blog.nightly.mozilla.org/2026/06/01/b...
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Backup for a Rainy Day – These Weeks in Firefox: Issue 202 – Firefox Nightly News
Highlights The profile backup mechanism has been enabled by default for all desktop platforms in Nightly, as well as Beta! The current plan is to have this ride out ...
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Firefox for Web Developers @webdevs.firefox.com · 21/05/2026
Web Serial landed in Firefox 151! Here's how it works, and what you can do with it: hacks.mozilla.org/2026/05/web-...
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Announcing Web Serial Support in Firefox – Mozilla Hacks - the Web developer blog
Support for Web Serial in Firefox 151 for Desktop Firefox can now connect directly to microcontrollers, development boards, 3D printers, power meters, and other serial-connected hardware from the…
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Firefox for Web Developers @webdevs.firefox.com · 26/05/2026
Which of the following three CSS features would you prefer Firefox to support first? ❤️ your favorite in the thread:
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Firefox Nightly @firefoxnightly.bsky.social · 22/05/2026
The new JPEG XL image format support was activated today in Firefox Nightly bugzilla.mozilla.org/2040074
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2040074 - enable image.jxl.enabled pref on nightly channel only
RESOLVED (tnikkel) in Core - Graphics: ImageLib. Last updated 2026-05-22.
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Firefox Nightly @firefoxnightly.bsky.social · 21/05/2026
Firefox Labs can now be opened quickly by typing "labs" or "experiment" in the address bar and selecting the Open Firefox Labs quick action. bugzilla.mozilla.org/2023169 Screenshot of the Firefox Labs quick action being triggered from the address bar
Screenshot of the Firefox Labs quick action being triggered from the address bar
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Firefox Nightly @firefoxnightly.bsky.social · 21/05/2026
You can now generate a QR code for a page from the tab context menu (Share -> Generate QR code). bugzilla.mozilla.org/1996422
QR code screenshot
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Firefox Nightly @firefoxnightly.bsky.social · 20/05/2026
[Nightly Blog] Settings Are Getting a New Look! blog.nightly.mozilla.org/2026/05/20/s...
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Settings Are Getting a New Look! – Firefox Nightly News
The redesign of Firefox Settings is now enabled by default in Nightly! With this change, we are making it easier for people to customize Firefox and discover the controls that ...
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Firefox Nightly @firefoxnightly.bsky.social · 11/05/2026
"Behind the Scenes Hardening Firefox with Claude Mythos Preview" (hacks.mozilla.org/2026/05/behi...)
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Behind the Scenes Hardening Firefox with Claude Mythos Preview – Mozilla Hacks - the Web developer blog
New details about what we found, and how agentic harnesses are now able to reproduce real bugs and dismiss false positives.
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Firefox Nightly @firefoxnightly.bsky.social · 30/04/2026
[Nightly Blog] Import-ant Updates – These Weeks in Firefox: Issue 201 blog.nightly.mozilla.org/2026/04/30/i...
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Import-ant Updates – These Weeks in Firefox: Issue 201 – Firefox Nightly News
Highlights Import attributes will be supported for WebExtensions, starting in Firefox 150! This allows WebExtension authors to import CSS module scripts and JSON into their JavaScript modules. Ex...
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