Mozilla developers have announced that in Firefox 45, a new implementation of the API for browser extensions will be added. It is called WebExtensions and uses native HTML technology. WebExtensions will make it possible to create extensions compatible with Google Chrome and vice versa.
Category: Firefox
Force touch keyboard to appear in Firefox
With Firefox 43, Mozilla added detection of touchscreen devices. If Firefox is running on a touchscreen device, every time a text field gets focus via a touchscreen, the touch keyboard appears. If you are interested in testing this feature but you don't have a touchscreen device yet, you can force the Firefox browser to show the on-screen keyboard anyway.
How to disable and uninstall Firefox Hello add-on
Mozilla has made Firefox Hello, its WebRTC-based communication feature as a system addon. This change should come to the stable channel of Firefox with version 45. If you have no use for Firefox Hello, you might want to disable it. However, it is not clear or obvious how to do that so let me show you.
Enable unsigned add-ons disabled by Firefox 43
As I installed Firefox 43 on all my PCs, it disabled some add-ons on my laptop. This is because of the new requirement that all addons be signed by Mozilla. If any of your favorite add-ons stopped working because of this signature enforcement added to Firefox 43, here is what you can do.
Firefox features a new profile manager in Nightly channel
The popular browser, Mozilla Firefox has got another significant UI update. In its Nightly branch, which gets all the new features before other development channels, developers have added an improved Profile Manager.
Firefox 43 is out, here is everything you need to know
Today, Mozilla Firefox 43 became available for all users of the stable channel of the browser. Along with the stable channel, Beta, Nightly and Developer versions are also getting updated. In this article, we will see what notable changes Mozilla brings to the new version of the browser.
Everything you need to know about Firefox 42
Firefox 42 is out for Desktop and for Android. This means that Firefox 43 reached the beta stage, and Firefox 44 will become Developer Edition. Every six weeks, Mozilla releases a new version of Firefox. Here are the main changes in Firefox 42.
Firefox 44 introduces a “Do not disturb” mode
The upcoming Mozilla Firefox 44 web browser, which is available in the Nightly channel at the moment of this writing, features a new option called "Do not disturb". It is a feature intended to postpone pop-up notifications from websites which the user has otherwise allowed to show.
Firefox 44 will inform you about insecure HTTP logins
Mozilla works hard to make the Firefox browser and your web experience more secure. They have implemented a number of changes already for this purpose, but more changes are coming in Firefox 44, which is in the Nightly stage at the moment of this writing. Firefox 44 will include a notification for insecure login forms.
Firefox 41 is out, here are all the major changes
Yesterday, Mozilla rolled out an updated version of its Firefox browser. Mozilla Firefox 41 is available for all supported platforms. In this article, I would like to mention all the major changes available in this release.
