The Firefox Desktop team met yet again last Tuesday to share updates. Here are some fresh updates that we think you might find interesting:

Highlights

Contributor(s) of the Week

Project Updates

Context Graph

Electrolysis (e10s)

mconley has landed a patch that will annotate hangs that occur in the main thread in the content process during tab switch This should give the team important clues on what kinds of things are causing tab switch spinners

mrbkap has started an etherpad the brainstorm ways in which e10s-multi might accidentally break some add-ons

Platform UI

Privacy / Security

A patch by florian is being reviewed that adds a “Temporarily Blocked” permission state to the permission panel

past has a patch being reviewed to convert our content permission popup notifications to have 2 visible buttons instead of the current drop down menu

Search

mak fixed a regression in how we collect Telemetry on how many searches are completed within the AwesomeBar

Here are the raw meeting notes that were used to derive this list.

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