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Project Updates

Add-ons

Context menu sub items can now have their own icons thanks to Swapnesh.

Moz-extension URLs are now supported in the webRequest API.

browsingData API can now remove cookies by hostname.

Print preview can now be accessed from a WebExtension API. Thanks to dw-dev!

Activity Stream

Electrolysis (e10s)

We recycle short-lived content processes now

Pre-allocated content process no longer spawns before first paint

e10s-multi team is now planning phase 2 now that 4 content processes are out the door

We have a sample of top crashers (by signature) from FF53 release crash pings (not reports), for 5/19-5/25, broken down by process type. Some interesting things there, sent to the stability@ list for further investigation.

Updates to 64-bit begin in FF56 (stub installer introduced this in FF55).

About to land: LZMA compression and SHA384 support for update downloads for FF56, reducing the size of the download and improving its security.

Mobile

We’re working hard to ship Android Activity Stream in Firefox for Android 57! Here’s our list of blockers

We’ve got a working draft of an open-source Android library that will allow you to log into your Firefox Sync account and download your bookmarks, history, and passwords. Check it out here.

Firefox Focus for Android v1.0 shipped one week before the all hands and v1.1 will be coming shortly, featuring full screen videos! Here’s the full v1.1 bug list

We are working on some UI refresh in Firefox for Android 57 to align the Firefox Desktop! Follow along in this bug.

We are also planning to phase out the support of Android 4.0 (API 15). Hoping to do this in Fennec 56. Here’s the tracking bug.

Photon

Performance

Structure

Animation

Pin to Overflow animation landed, try it now! Right-click on a toolbarbutton and use “Pin to Overflow Menu” to see the awesome animation!

The Stop/Reload animation landed also! We’ve got great feedback about speeding it up and making it less distracting, will be working on that soon.

The Save to Pocket animation is going through review and should land soon. Once this lands, we should get the Bookmark animation quickly since they will be similar implementations.

New arrow-panel animations are being worked on. Working through test failures right now.

Work on the new Download notifications animation is in review

The new tab loading/progress indicator is going through feedback passes with UX right now

Visuals

Onboarding

Preferences

Sync / Firefox Accounts

Removed most of the nested loops in the Sync code. We hope it will make profiling easier without Sync polluting stacktraces.

Page Shot, Activity Stream, Tab center, Pulse all graduated from Test Pilot

New experiments coming next week

We started a new blog to publish experiment results. Watch https://medium.com/firefox-test-pilot for new posts soon

Web Payments

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

Want to help us build Firefox? Get started here!

Here’s a tool to find some mentored, good first bugs to hack on.