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2026 22

  1. Three Cheers for Volunteers! – These Weeks in Firefox: Issue 211
  2. Shoutout to More Layouts – These Weeks in Firefox: Issue 210
  3. High-speed Release Trains – These Weeks in Firefox: Issue 209
  4. The Need for Speed Controls – These Weeks in Firefox: Issue 208
  5. Motion, Colour, Captions, Kit – These Weeks in Firefox: Issue 207
  6. Icons! Lots of them! – These Weeks in Firefox: Issue 206
  7. Try the New Firefox Design in Nightly
  8. Eyedropper Quick Action, geckodriver 0.37, and Tighter File Permissions – These Weeks in Firefox: Issue 205
  9. Giving You More Control – These Weeks in Firefox: Issue 204
  10. More Kit, More Control – These Weeks in Firefox: Issue 203
  11. Backup for a Rainy Day – These Weeks in Firefox: Issue 202
  12. Settings Are Getting a New Look!
  13. Import-ant Updates – These Weeks in Firefox: Issue 201
  14. VPN, Split View, and Other Goodies – These Weeks in Firefox: Issue 200!
  15. QR Codes, Speed Calculators, Better RAM Usage – These Weeks in Firefox: Issue 199
  16. Extension Theming Improvements and More – These Weeks in Firefox: Issue 198
  17. Firefox Profiler Dark Mode and Updated Smart Window Prompts – These Weeks in Firefox: Issue 197
  18. AI Controls – These Weeks in Firefox: Issue 196
  19. Profile, search and wallpaper bug fixes plus more! – These Weeks in Firefox: Issue 195
  20. Take note – Split View is ready for testing! – These Weeks in Firefox: Issue 194
  21. Introducing Mozilla’s Firefox Nightly .rpm package for RPM-based linux distributions!
  22. Phasing Out the Older Version of Firefox Sidebar in 2026

2025 20

  1. Closing out 2025 Strong – These Weeks in Firefox: Issue 193
  2. Getting Better Every Day – These Weeks in Firefox: Issue 192
  3. Extensions UI Improvements and More – These Weeks in Firefox: Issue 191
  4. Smarter Search, Smoother Tools – These Weeks in Firefox: Issue 190
  5. Firefox 144 Highlights: Faster Add-ons, Smarter DevTools, and Tab Group Boosts – These Weeks in Firefox, Issue 189
  6. Add-ons, Fixes, and DevTools Snacks – These Weeks in Firefox: Issue 188
  7. Webcam previews and more! – These Weeks in Firefox: Issue 187
  8. Custom Profile Avatars Arrive in Nightly – These Weeks in Firefox: Issue 186
  9. Copy Link to Highlight in Nightly – These Weeks in Firefox: Issue 185
  10. Highlights from Volunteer Contributors – These Weeks in Firefox: Issue 184
  11. Absolute Unit of an Update – These Weeks in Firefox: Issue 183
  12. Smarter Searches – These Weeks in Firefox: Issue 182
  13. Keep on Rolling with Profile Improvements – These Weeks in Firefox: Issue 180
  14. A Tab Groups Scoop – These Weeks in Firefox: Issue 179
  15. Putting up Wallpaper – These Weeks in Firefox: Issue 178
  16. Turn Tabs To Their Side – These Weeks in Firefox: Issue 177
  17. High Profile Improvements – These Weeks in Firefox: Issue 176
  18. New Year New Tab – These Weeks in Firefox: Issue 175
  19. Firefox on macOS: now smaller and quicker to install!
  20. Key Improvements – These Weeks in Firefox: Issue 174

2024 27

  1. Learning and Improving Every Day – These Weeks in Firefox: Issue 173
  2. Announcing Faster, Lighter Firefox Downloads for Linux with .tar.xz Packaging!
  3. New Address Bar Updates are Here – These Weeks in Firefox: Issue 172
  4. Celebrating 20 years of Firefox – These Weeks in Firefox: Issue 171
  5. Experimental address bar deduplication, better auto-open Picture-in-Picture, and more – These Weeks in Firefox: Issue 170
  6. Search Improvements Are On Their Way – These Weeks in Firefox: Issue 169
  7. From ESR to Address Bar – These Weeks in Firefox: Issue 168
  8. Fantastic Firefox Fixes – These Weeks in Firefox: Issue 167
  9. Streamline your screen time with auto-open Picture-in-Picture and more – These Weeks in Firefox: Issue 166
  10. Firefox Sidebar and Vertical tabs: try them out in Nightly Firefox Labs 131
  11. Concise and compact – These Weeks in Firefox: Issue 165
  12. 100% WebDriver BiDi and 101% more! – These Weeks in Firefox: Issue 164
  13. Experimenting with AI services in Nightly
  14. CSS Rules in your Firefox DevTools – These Weeks in Firefox: Issue 163
  15. In a nutshell – These Weeks in Firefox: Issue 162
  16. Today’s Forecast: Browser Improvements – These Weeks in Firefox: Issue 161
  17. Screenshots++ – These Weeks in Firefox: Issue 160
  18. Wall to Wall Improvements – These Weeks in Firefox: Issue 159
  19. Firefox Nightly Now Available for Linux on ARM64
  20. Exploring improvements to the Firefox sidebar
  21. Customizing Reader Mode – These Weeks in Firefox: Issue 158
  22. Switch to Container Tabs – These Weeks in Firefox: Issue 157
  23. A Better Screenshots Tool and More – These Weeks in Firefox: Issue 156
  24. Inspector Performance and Other Improvements – These Weeks in Firefox: Issue 155
  25. Monitor, Plus More Improvements – These Weeks in Firefox: Issue 154
  26. A Preview of Tab Previews – These Weeks in Firefox: Issue 153
  27. Happy New Year – These Weeks in Firefox: Issue 152

2023 23

  1. Better Searching in Firefox to close out 2023 – These Weeks in Firefox: Issue 151
  2. “URL” Gonna Want To Check This Out – These Weeks in Firefox: Issue 150
  3. Getting Better Every Day – These Weeks in Firefox: Issue 149
  4. I Can :has Browser Improvements – These Weeks in Firefox: Issue 148
  5. Introducing Mozilla’s Firefox Nightly .deb Package for Debian-based Linux Distributions
  6. More WebExtensions! Coming to an Android near you soon – These Weeks in Firefox: Issue 147
  7. Developments Aplenty for 120 – These Weeks in Firefox: Issue 146
  8. All Lights Green for 119 – These Weeks in Firefox: Issue 145
  9. Unboxing More DevTools Powers, and Reusable Delights – These Weeks in Firefox: Issue 144
  10. A View to a Better, Faster Web – These Weeks in Firefox: Issue 143
  11. Full Speed Into The Future – These Weeks in Firefox: Issue 142
  12. The Firefox Unleashed – These Weeks in Firefox: Issue 141
  13. Brief and Blissful – These Weeks in Firefox: Issue 140
  14. Firefox Translations and Other Innovations – These Weeks in Firefox: Issue 139
  15. A Bountiful Blend of Browser Betterments – These Weeks in Firefox: Issue 138
  16. Short but Sweet – These Weeks in Firefox: Issue 137
  17. Harder, Better, Faster, Stronger, Prettier – These Weeks in Firefox: Issue 136
  18. Jam-packed with Updates – These Weeks in Firefox: Issue 135
  19. Dropping the Banner Hammer and More – These Weeks in Firefox: Issue 134
  20. Surf with more Perf(ormance) – These Weeks in Firefox: Issue 133
  21. Let’s Give You More Control(s) – These Weeks in Firefox: Issue 132
  22. A Variety of Improvements At January’s End – These Weeks in Firefox: Issue 131
  23. New year, new updates to Firefox – These Weeks in Firefox: Issue 130

2022 22

  1. Search persistence, a new migrator and more! – These Weeks in Firefox: Issue 129
  2. WebExtensions Mv3, WebMIDI, OpenSearch, PiP updates and more! – These Weeks in Firefox: Issue 128
  3. More improvements than can fit into this title – These Weeks in Firefox: Issue 127
  4. A new release, a new button and much more – These Weeks in Firefox: Issue 126
  5. PiP subtitles, screenshots in ‘about’ pages & more – These Weeks in Firefox: Issue 125
  6. These Weeks In Firefox: Issue 124
  7. These Weeks In Firefox: Issue 123
  8. These Weeks In Firefox: Issue 122
  9. These Weeks In Firefox: Issue 121
  10. These Weeks In Firefox: Issue 120
  11. These Weeks In Firefox: Issue 119
  12. These Weeks In Firefox: Issue 117
  13. These Weeks in Firefox: Issue 116
  14. These Weeks in Firefox: Issue 115
  15. These Weeks In Firefox: Issue 114
  16. These Weeks In Firefox: Issue 113
  17. These Weeks In Firefox: Issue 112
  18. These Weeks In Firefox: Issue 111
  19. These Weeks in Firefox: Issue 110
  20. These Weeks in Firefox: Issue 109
  21. These Weeks in Firefox: Issue 108
  22. These Weeks in Firefox: Issue 107

2021 21

  1. These Weeks in Firefox: Issue 106
  2. These Weeks in Firefox: Issue 105
  3. These Weeks in Firefox: Issue 104
  4. These Weeks in Firefox: Issue 103
  5. These Weeks in Firefox: Issue 102
  6. These Weeks in Firefox: Issue 101
  7. These Weeks in Firefox: Issue 100
  8. These Weeks in Firefox: Issue 99
  9. These Weeks in Firefox: Issue 98
  10. These Weeks in Firefox: Issue 97
  11. These Weeks in Firefox: Issue 96
  12. These Weeks in Firefox: Issue 95
  13. These Weeks in Firefox: Issue 94
  14. These Weeks in Firefox: Issue 93
  15. These Weeks in Firefox: Issue 92
  16. These Weeks in Firefox: Issue 91
  17. These Weeks in Firefox: Issue 90
  18. These Weeks in Firefox: Issue 89
  19. These Weeks in Firefox: Issue 88
  20. These Weeks in Firefox: Issue 87
  21. These Weeks in Firefox: Issue 86

2020 17

  1. These Weeks in Firefox: Issue 85
  2. These Weeks in Firefox: Issue 84
  3. These Weeks in Firefox: Issue 83
  4. These Weeks in Firefox: Issue 82
  5. These Weeks in Firefox: Issue 81
  6. These Weeks in Firefox: Issue 80
  7. These Weeks in Firefox: Issue 79
  8. These Weeks in Firefox: Issue 78
  9. These Weeks in Firefox: Issue 77
  10. These Weeks in Firefox: Issue 76
  11. These Weeks in Firefox: Issue 75
  12. These Weeks in Firefox: Issue 74
  13. These Weeks in Firefox: Issue 73
  14. These Weeks in Firefox: Issue 72
  15. These Weeks in Firefox: Issue 71
  16. These Weeks in Firefox: Issue 70
  17. These Weeks in Firefox: Issue 69

2019 21

  1. These Weeks in Firefox: Issue 68
  2. These Weeks in Firefox: Issue 67
  3. These Weeks in Firefox: Issue 66
  4. These Weeks in Firefox: Issue 65
  5. These Weeks in Firefox: Issue 64
  6. These Weeks in Firefox: Issue 63
  7. These Weeks in Firefox: Issue 62
  8. These Weeks in Firefox: Issue 61
  9. These Weeks in Firefox: Issue 60
  10. These Weeks in Firefox: Issue 59
  11. These Weeks in Firefox: Issue 58
  12. These Weeks in Firefox: Issue 57
  13. These Weeks in Firefox: Issue 56
  14. Reducing Notification Permission Prompt Spam in Firefox
  15. These Weeks in Firefox: Issue 55
  16. Firefox Student Projects in 2018: A Recap
  17. These Weeks in Firefox: Issue 54
  18. These Weeks in Firefox: Issue 53
  19. These Weeks in Firefox: Issue 52
  20. These Weeks in Firefox: Issue 51
  21. Moving to a Profile per Install Architecture

2018 31

  1. These Weeks in Firefox: Issue 50
  2. These Weeks in Firefox: Issue 49
  3. These Weeks in Firefox: Issue 48
  4. These Weeks in Firefox: Issue 47
  5. These Weeks in Firefox: Issue 46
  6. The Developer Toolbar (or GCLI) is no longer in DevTools
  7. These Weeks in Firefox: Issue 45
  8. Developer Tools support for Web Components in Firefox 63
  9. These Weeks in Firefox: Issue 44
  10. Firefox Nightly Secure DNS Experimental Results
  11. These Weeks in Firefox: Issue 43
  12. Screenshots from the Console
  13. These Weeks in Firefox: Issue 42
  14. Symantec Distrust in Firefox Nightly 63
  15. These Weeks in Firefox: Issue 41
  16. These Weeks in Firefox: Issue 40
  17. Protecting Your Privacy in Firefox Pre-Release
  18. Improving DNS Privacy in Firefox
  19. These Weeks in Firefox: Issue 39
  20. These Weeks in Firefox: Issue 38
  21. Deep Dive: New bookmark sync in Nightly
  22. These Weeks in Firefox: Issue 37
  23. These Weeks in Firefox: Issue 36
  24. Improving DevTools’ performance, one iteration at a time
  25. These Weeks in Firefox: Issue 35
  26. These Weeks in Firefox: Issue 34
  27. These Weeks in Firefox: Issue 33
  28. These Weeks in Firefox: Issue 32
  29. These Weeks in Firefox: Issue 31
  30. Creating a Gnome Dock launcher and a terminal command for Firefox Nightly
  31. These Weeks in Firefox: Issue 30

2017 34

  1. These Weeks in Firefox: Issue 29
  2. These Weeks in Firefox: Issue 28
  3. These Weeks in Firefox: Issue 27
  4. These Weeks in Firefox: Issue 26
  5. These Weeks in Firefox: Issue 25
  6. These Weeks in Firefox: Issue 24
  7. These Weeks in Firefox: Issue 23
  8. Developer Tools visual refresh coming to Nightly
  9. These Weeks in Firefox: Issue 22
  10. These Weeks in Firefox: Issue 21
  11. Stylo is ready for community testing on Nightly!
  12. These Weeks in Firefox: Issue 20
  13. Preview Storage API in Firefox Nightly
  14. These Weeks in Firefox: Issue 19
  15. Resolved: Fixed – A short story about a community-reported bug
  16. Date/Time Inputs Enabled on Nightly
  17. Using mozregression on Windows
  18. These Weeks in Firefox: Issue 18
  19. These Weeks in Firefox: Issue 17
  20. Preview Form Autofill in Firefox Nightly
  21. Try to find the patch which caused a crash.
  22. These Weeks in Firefox: Issue 16
  23. These Weeks in Firefox: Issue 15
  24. Guest post: India uses Firefox Nightly: Kick off on May 1, 2017
  25. Release Notes for Nightly
  26. These Weeks in Firefox: Issue 14
  27. Guest post: India uses Firefox Nightly – A Campaign especially for India
  28. These Weeks in Firefox: Issue 13
  29. These Weeks in Firefox: Issue 12
  30. These Weeks in Firefox: Issue 11
  31. Fosdem 2017 Nightly slides and video
  32. These Weeks in Firefox: Issue 10
  33. These Weeks in Firefox: Issue 9
  34. These Weeks in Firefox: Issue 8

2016 19

  1. These Weeks in Firefox: Issue 7
  2. Upcoming Community Efforts Around Nightly
  3. These Weeks in Firefox: Issue 6
  4. These Weeks in Firefox: Issue 5
  5. Simulate slow connections with the network throttling tool
  6. async/await support in Firefox
  7. These Weeks in Firefox: Issue 4
  8. These Weeks in Firefox: Issue 3
  9. Better default bookmarks for Nightly
  10. DevTools now display white space text nodes in the DOM inspector
  11. Found a regression in Firefox? Give us details with mozregression!
  12. These Weeks in Firefox: Issue 2
  13. Firefox Nightly got its “What’s New” page back last week!
  14. These Weeks in Firefox: Issue 1
  15. Getting Firefox Nightly to stick to Ubuntu’s Unity Dock
  16. Get a Nightly that speaks your language!
  17. Nightly discussion forums and some of the tools we use
  18. Crash investigation in Firefox Nightly
  19. A Firefox Nightly blog!