Johnathan Nightingale
This week’s release of Firefox includes the beginning of a pretty cool feature. The Firefox Health Report is a new system we’ve built to log basic health information about your browser (time to start up, total running time, number of … Continue reading
Johnathan Nightingale
Social integration in Firefox is here and ready for Firefox Beta testing! For the last few months we’ve been building the Social API – a way to allow you to plug your favorite social sites into Firefox – and we … Continue reading
Johnathan Nightingale
From the Mozilla Roadmap: The Web has become inherently social. The browser is not yet playing a significant role in enabling the social experience. Firefox will begin to enable easy sharing and a more social browsing experience. At the beginning … Continue reading
Johnathan Nightingale
One of my favourite features in the next version of Firefox, which just hit the beta channel, is the one you’ll never see. In the new Firefox Beta for Windows, we’ve introduced a standalone update service to apply updates in … Continue reading
Johnathan Nightingale
UPDATE: The security bug reported by ZDI is one we had already identified and fixed through our internal processes. This eliminates the need for us to delay this week’s releases, and we will be shipping them later today. However, in … Continue reading
Johnathan Nightingale
I like trains. Last year, we put Firefox on a train-based release model: every six weeks, another train leaves the station. When a feature catches the train it moves through iterative testing on our Nightly, Aurora and Beta channels and, … Continue reading
Johnathan Nightingale
Last week we released a new version of Firefox. We shipped on time, 6 weeks after the last update, making it our first true rapid release milestone. There was cake. Now that we know that we’re capable of this velocity, … Continue reading