Eyedropper Quick Action, geckodriver 0.37, and Tighter File Permissions - These Weeks in Firefox: Issue 205
Katherine Patenio
Hi Firefox fans,
Highlights
- Dao added a new Eyedropper quick action! Check it out by typing “color” or “eyedropper” in the URL bar (Bug 1803575) on Nightly.
- [Screenshot]
- Alt text: Firefox URL bar dropdown with "col" typed in, showing an eyedropper button labeled "Pick a color" below search suggestions.
- Henrik Skupin released geckodriver 0.37.0, which includes support for several new APIs and various bug fixes. See the release page for details.
- Starting from Firefox 153, access to local file: URLs is being restricted by default.
- Extensions now require an explicit "Access local files on your computer" permission, separate from broad host permissions, that users must grant.
- Extensions can call the extension.isAllowedFileSchemeAccess() API to determine whether they have been granted access to file: URLs (Bug 2034168).
Friends of the Firefox team
Resolved bugs (excluding employees)
Script to find new contributors from bug list
Volunteers that fixed more than one bug
:Vincent
Chris Vander Linden
DrSeed
Khalid AlHaddad
Sam Johnson
New contributors (🌟 = first patch)
Francis :mckenfra: tld service for webextensions
any1here: about:preferences#privacy is broken with MOZ_DATA_REPORTING false
pullmana8: Fix protocol/Actor.js to throw an Error instead of an Actor
RAN1: Firefox Crashes on Quit When Running Two Browsers With Separate Profiles
Project Updates
Accessibility
Morgan added a new accessibility-specific, front-end review skill to mozilla central! 🎉 You can read about it, and learn how to use it in the accessibility review source docs.
Add-ons / Web Extensions
Addon Manager & about:addons
Migrated addon-page-header and addon-card action buttons to the reusable moz-button web component as part of the ongoing Nova restyling of about:addons - Bug 2042200 / Bug 2042204
Extended moz-page-nav-button with a forwarded title property to fix an accessibility issue where the component lacked a label in collapsed state; Landed in Firefox 153, and uplifted to Firefox 152 for about:settings which was already riding the 152 release train - Bug 2040971
Fixed a shutdown-timing bug where a pending GMP update-check timer could fire after XPCOMShutdownThreads started, causing a pref write assertion; Fixed in Firefox 153 - Bug 2043803
WebExtensions Framework
Fixed MV2 content scripts incorrectly injecting into guarded hosts because MozDocumentMatcher::MatchesURI was not consulting CheckGuarded when mCheckPermissions was false; Fixed in Firefox 153 - Bug 2041393
Added support for accessing ObservableArray attributes (such as adoptedStyleSheets) from XrayWrappers and extension content scripts, unblocking extensions that rely on this Web API; Fixed in Firefox 153 - Bug 1751346
Wired runtime_blocked_hosts and runtime_allowed_hosts enterprise policy settings through ExtensionSettings to allow administrators to restrict extension host permissions on managed devices, starting in Firefox 153 - Bug 1805205
Thanks to Mike Kaply for implementing this enterprise policy enhancement.
WebExtension APIs
Fixed promiseTabWhenReady blocking indefinitely on discarded tabs, preventing cleanup of associated resources and potentially causing memory leaks; Fixed in Firefox 153 - Bug 1653876
Fixed webNavigation.onCommitted being dispatched twice for cross-origin iframes loaded under Fission, caused by a redundant OnStateChange trigger firing in addition to OnLocationChange; Fixed in Firefox 153 - Bug 1750196
DevTools
Chris Vander Linden made the Search input component shared as we plan to use it in the Netmonitor as well (#2019260, #2027580, #2027582)
pullmana8 improved error management in the DevTools protocol (#2031735)
Chris H-C :chutten removed Legacy Telemetry devtools instrumentation (#2039650)
:glob ✱ fixed an issue in the Inspector where the swatch color for variable in @starting-style rule could have the wrong color (#2016778)
Nicolas Chevobbe [:nchevobbe] exposed heading level more clearly in the accessibility tree (#1588784) and in the accessibility highlighter (#2044904)
Alt text: Accessibility panel in Firefox DevTools showing a selected "heading (level 3)" node named "Backwards compatibility."
Julian Descottes [:jdescottes] migrated the markup view to HTML (from XHTML) to fix an issue when editing the markup (CodeMirror 6 does not support XHTML) (#2028058)
Nicolas Chevobbe [:nchevobbe] fixed an issue in Netmonitor search where it could appear the the search stalled (#2042405)
Hubert Boma Manilla (:bomsy) added more connection information (ECH, Delegated Credentials, OCSP, Private DNS, …) in Netmonitor Security tab (#2036404)
WebDriver
Khalid AlHaddad improved the window manipulation commands in Marionette and WebDriver BiDi to allow individual window geometry properties, such as x, y, width, and height, to be adjusted independently.
Khalid AlHaddad updated our codebase to use constants instead of hardcoded strings for all our session data types.
Alexandra Borovova updated the “emulation.setLocaleOverride” command to also apply a locale emulation in dedicated and shared workers.
Alexandra Borovova fixed a regression when there would be no “script.realmCreated” events after the cross-origin navigation.
Search and Urlbar
Dharma updated context search actions to trigger search instead of entering search mode @ 1945080
Daisuke and Drew worked on a lot of Nova updates, including ensuring Nova is tested @ 2041255, 2030183, 2019168, 2044849, 2033583
Moritz has worked on several refactorings to allow the urlbar to be used in content @ 2039828, 2039298, 2041280
Middle click paste replaces content was fixed by Moritz @ 2042893
Michel added feature to show registrable domain on desktop after its implementation on mobile @ 1986161
Below the fold
General triage
Also note that we’re really just synthesising and humanising the stuff that's on the Wiki, which is freely available from here: https://wiki.mozilla.org/Firefox/Meeting, so check that out if you want the source material. It'll also be posted (minus the Below the Fold stuff) to the Nightly blog.
Finally, if there's a Firefox-ish team that you feel isn't being represented here, please let them know about the above meeting so we can get their updates.
Keep on rockin' the free web,