Changes to Search in Firefox
Think about what you’ve searched for in the last week: gifts for family, travel ideas, worrying health symptoms, long lost friends. Search is a central part of how we live … Read more
Johnathan Nightingale
New Tab Page Experiments in Firefox Beta
Back in May, I let you know that we were running some experiments with the new tab page. I wanted to share a quick update on our progress and thinking … Read more
New Tab Experiments
A few months ago Darren posted about some experiments we wanted to do with the new tab page. It didn’t go over well. A lot of our community found the … Read more
Update on Metro
Earlier this week, I asked our engineering leads and release managers to take the Windows Metro version of Firefox off the trains. The team is solid and did good work, … Read more
Evolution
We spend more time in our browsers than we do in our cars. Many of us log more hours in a browser than we do in our beds. For a … Read more
Firefox, Heal Thyself
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 … Read more
Help us Test the Social API with Facebook Messenger for Firefox
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 … Read more
Bringing Social to Firefox
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 … Read more
Silencing Updates
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, … Read more
Update on Firefox Release Timing
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, … Read more
Bringing Android Native Firefox to Beta
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 … Read more
Rapidity
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. … Read more