Firefox now uses tab-modal prompt dialogs for HTTP authentication.
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On Mac Firefox, users can now use the "undo close window" keyboard shortcut even after the last window is closed.
A regression that caused some content to not render after scrolling, breaking many sites, was quickly fixed.
Previously, the screen reader would read only line at a time, regardless of the user's settings.
Firefox now properly supports the paragraph resolution for braille displays and mouse tracking with the screen reader NVDA.
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.
The previously experimental MediaSession API has been enabled by default.
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 "".
about:processes got a significant clean-up.
Firefox 82 was in the Nightly channel for the last week and during that time it received about 350 changes, including these notable one:.
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.
Firefox 81 is in the Beta channel and hits our stable release channel tomorrow, September 22nd.
Firefox 80.0.1 is our current stable release.
Firefox 82 moved to Beta and Nightly became Firefox 83.
Today is Merge Day and the beginning of a new cycle.
The updates there aren't quite as frequent as here but they're comprehensive and detailed, often with screenshots and other examples.
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.
If you're on Nightly, you can find the on/off switch for Warp in the Experimental Features section of Preferences/Options. For example, loading Google Docs is about 20% faster with Warp enabled. Turning on Warp for Nightly has already shown a large improvement for web performance there. Warp will let us improve security, performance, memory usage and maintainability of the whole 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 is the name of a significant update to SpiderMonkey, our JavaScript Engine. The most intersting change this week was enabling Warp.
Firefox 83 is in the Nightly channel and over the last week it received about 350 changes.
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 81 arrived with, among other enhancements, a new theme called Alpenglow. This release has been in the wild since last Tuesday.
Firefox 81 is our current stable release.
Tab-to-search has been enabled in Nightly.
The Protections Dashboard now has a card for VPN.
Firefox now has UI for disabling sponsored top sites.
WebRender has been enabled for more users.
The global mute feature did not make this cut but was added to the Experimental Features section in Firefox Preferences.
The new global WebRTC indicators are now set to ride the trains to release.
'beforeinput' event and 'InputEvent.getTargetRanges()' have been enabled for Nightly and early Beta.
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The Bookmarks Toolbar got a keyboard shortcut (Ctrl+Shift+B on Linux and Windows and Cmd+Shift+B on macOS).
Over the last week about 335 issues have been resolvd in Nightly including these notable changes: Over the last week 41 bug fixes have been uplifted to the Beta channel. This update to Firefox 81 shipped on October 1st.