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Firefox Nightly @firefoxnightly.bsky.social · 6d

[Nightly Blog] Smarter Search, Smoother Tools – These Weeks in Firefox: Issue 190 blog.nightly.mozilla.org/2025/10/06/s...

Smarter Search, Smoother Tools – These Weeks in Firefox: Issue 190 – Firefox Nightly News

Highlights Google Lens support has been turned on by default in the latest nightly builds. When Google is your default search engine, and you right click an image ...

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Firefox Nightly @firefoxnightly.bsky.social · 6d

We are woking on this regression,thttps://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1992436
Thanks!

Mastodon

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Firefox Nightly @firefoxnightly.bsky.social · 20d

[Nightly Blog] Firefox 144 Highlights: Faster Add-ons, Smarter DevTools, and Tab Group Boosts – These Weeks in Firefox, Issue 189 blog.nightly.mozilla.org/2025/09/22/f...

Firefox 144 Highlights: Faster Add-ons, Smarter DevTools, and Tab Group Boosts – These Weeks in Firefox, Issue 189 – Firefox Nightly News

Highlights Leo Liu [:leoliu] added a panel for AntiTracking debugging (#1972771) behind devtools.anti-tracking.enabled Alexandre Poirot [:ochameau] added a User-defined badge in the markup view ...

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Firefox Nightly @firefoxnightly.bsky.social · 20d

[Nightly Blog] Add-ons, Fixes, and DevTools Snacks – These Weeks in Firefox: Issue 188 blog.nightly.mozilla.org/2025/09/19/a...

Add-ons, Fixes, and DevTools Snacks – These Weeks in Firefox: Issue 188 – Firefox Nightly News

Highlights The Timer and TODO List widget are now available to be enabled in Firefox Labs on Nightly and Beta: Firefox Desktop about:addons add-on card view ...

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Firefox Nightly @firefoxnightly.bsky.social · 20d

[Nightly Blog] Webcam previews and more! – These Weeks in Firefox: Issue 187 blog.nightly.mozilla.org/2025/09/12/w...

Webcam previews and more! – These Weeks in Firefox: Issue 187 – Firefox Nightly News

Highlights Nicolas Chevobbe added presentational hints in the Inspector's rule-view (#1212289)

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Firefox Nightly @firefoxnightly.bsky.social · 26d

Mozilla - Ask a Fox event
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Mozilla - Ask a Fox event - Mozilla Community Portal

The Mozilla Support platform (a.k.a. SUMO) receives over 20 million visits each month. It’s the go-to place for Firefox users to

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Firefox Nightly @firefoxnightly.bsky.social · Sep 2

Firefox Security & Privacy newsletter 2025 Q2 | Attack & Defense
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Firefox Security & Privacy newsletter 2025 Q2

Welcome to the Q2 2025 edition of the Firefox Security and Privacy newsletter!

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Pascal Chevrel @pascalchevrel.bsky.social · Aug 19

Fast, private and secure (pick three): Introducing CRLite in Firefox
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Fast, private and secure (pick three): Introducing CRLite in Firefox | The Mozilla Blog

We are pleased to announce that Firefox 142 will begin production usage of our brand new certificate revocation system known as CRLite. CRLite makes your b

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Firefox Nightly @firefoxnightly.bsky.social · Aug 5

[Nightly Blog] Custom Profile Avatars Arrive in Nightly – These Weeks in Firefox: Issue 186
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Custom Profile Avatars Arrive in Nightly – These Weeks in Firefox: Issue 186 – Firefox Nightly News

Highlights Custom avatar picker (and more icon choices) now available in Nightly Tab Groups: 1971230 - [meta] Preview collapsed tab group on hover coming to ...

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Firefox Nightly @firefoxnightly.bsky.social · Jul 29

[Nightly Blog] Copy Link to Highlight in Nightly – These Weeks in Firefox: Issue 185
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Copy Link to Highlight in Nightly – These Weeks in Firefox: Issue 185 – Firefox Nightly News

Highlights The Text Fragments creation UI was just activated in Firefox Nightly allowing you to share/reference a link anchor to any text snippet in a page https://mastodon.social/@firefoxnightly/...

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Firefox Nightly @firefoxnightly.bsky.social · Jul 25

As of bugzilla.mozilla.org/1944719 this is now possible

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Firefox Nightly @firefoxnightly.bsky.social · Jul 25

Happy sysadmin day!
xkcd.com/705/

Devotion to Duty

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Bag of Tricks for View Transitions @vtbag.dev · Jul 14

Just spotted: Firefox Nightly already supports view-transition-class from the Level 2 spec.

A test page that shows which features of the View Transition API your browser supports, here showing Firefox Nightly (142).
It supports not only same-document view transitions but also the view-transition-class property that is specified in the Level 2 specification.

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firefoxbeta.bsky.social @firefoxbeta.bsky.social · Jul 16

Shipping WebGPU on Windows in Firefox 141 – Mozilla Gfx Team Blog
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Shipping WebGPU on Windows in Firefox 141

After years in development, we will be releasing WebGPU on Windows in Firefox 141! WebGPU gives web content a modern interface to the user’s graphics processor, enabling high-performance comp…

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Firefox Nightly @firefoxnightly.bsky.social · Jul 7

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Firefox Nightly @firefoxnightly.bsky.social · Jul 7

Please file a bug to ask for this feature, thanks:

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Firefox Nightly @firefoxnightly.bsky.social · Jul 6

It's already possible.

Sidebar settings where you can disable extensions

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Firefox Nightly @firefoxnightly.bsky.social · Jul 6

The Text fragments creation UI was just activated in Firefox Nightly allowing you to share/reference a link anchor to any text snippet in a page bugzilla.mozilla.org/1970641

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Firefox Nightly @firefoxnightly.bsky.social · Jul 1

[Nightly Blog] Highlights from Volunteer Contributors – These Weeks in Firefox: Issue 184 blog.nightly.mozilla.org/2025/07/01/h...

Highlights from Volunteer Contributors – These Weeks in Firefox: Issue 184 – Firefox Nightly News

Highlights Some Picture-in-Picture improvements have landed recently from some volunteer contributors, and should be going out in Firefox 141 on July 22nd: Thanks to new contributor nrcrast for .....

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Firefox Nightly @firefoxnightly.bsky.social · Jun 20

A foxfooding campaign was just launched by Paul, one of our core community members to help us find bugs and rough edges to the new Drag to Pin feature. Everybody is welcome to join us do some testing and report bugs!

discourse.mozilla.org/t/foxfooding...

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Firefox Nightly @firefoxnightly.bsky.social · Jun 19

[Nightly Blog] Absolute Unit of an Update – These Weeks in Firefox: Issue 183
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Absolute Unit of an Update – These Weeks in Firefox: Issue 183 – Firefox Nightly News

Highlights Henrik removed all the code related to our experimental CDP (Chrome DevTools Protocol) implementation for browser automation. We also published a fxdx.dev blog post to explain what this ....

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Firefox Nightly @firefoxnightly.bsky.social · Jun 16

You can now drag a tab to your pinned tabs tray to pin it, or drag it out to unpin it.
bugzilla.mozilla.org/1944907

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firefoxdevtools.bsky.social @firefoxdevtools.bsky.social · Jun 13

State of CSS 2025 is now open: stateofcss.com

Browser vendors use the results of 'State of' surveys to help prioritize the features to work on.

If you care about CSS, please take some time to answer it, and help shape the future of the language

Redirecting to: /en-US

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Firefox Nightly @firefoxnightly.bsky.social · Jun 12

[WebRTC] One-time permissions are here to stay! blog.mozilla.org/webrtc/one-t...

One-time permissions are here to stay! - Advancing WebRTC

One-time camera and microphone permissions are now in Chrome (since M116), joining Firefox and Safari. This means that per-session permissions are now available to use cross-browser. Chrome calls the ...

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Firefox Nightly @firefoxnightly.bsky.social · Jun 8

[Nightly Blog] Smarter Searches – These Weeks in Firefox: Issue 182
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Smarter Searches – These Weeks in Firefox: Issue 182 – Firefox Nightly News

Highlights The Search team has enabled the new URL bar search experience by default 🎉 and fixed action mode layout. See bugs: 1967857, 1967721 Check out this blog ...

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