Highlights

Friends of the Firefox team

(Give a shoutout/thanks to people for helping fix and test bugs. Introductions)

Project Updates

Add-ons

Activity Stream

Richard has been thinking about syncing. ☜(ﾟヮﾟ☜)

Electrolysis (e10s)

The 58 stub installer supports resuming interrupted downloads.

High-DPI installer assets added in 57.

MVP The gradual rollout of address autofill has started on Fx56 (1%) Tuning site compatibility issues. Improved heuristics algorithm about “cc-exp*” and “tel-national” Polished UI Credit card number deduplication in progress

V2 Enable localization on mozilla-central – Almost done (one bug left) Clear button in the autocomplete dropdown – Patch ready Section (multiple forms in one page) support – Discussed architecture Additional country support – Discussed architecture



Mobile

Photon

Performance

Structure

Animation

Visuals

Platform Audibles

Privacy/Security

We fixed a nasty bug that caused all containers to be removed when upgrading a container extension in Beta.

Address Bar & Search The results mixture (showing Search Suggestions first) has been reverted for now. We’ll proceed differently, experimenting at first with new profiles who get a unified Address Bar experience by default The follow-on search add-on was updated to 0.9.6 for FF 56 users



Sync / Firefox Accounts

More experiments coming in Q1: tab split, voice assistant, theming Here’s the experiment pipeline in Trello

Firefox Screenshots The story so far: Page Shot got lots of usage + interest in Test Pilot Work to graduate into Firefox started in 54 timeframe Screenshots was the first WebExtension system addon Shipped to release in 56 (rolled out Sept 28) Since release: 11 million shots, 5 million unique users Downloads slightly outpacing uploads: SHIELD worked well for rollout:

