Absolute Unit of an Update - These Weeks in Firefox: Issue 183
Katherine Patenio
Highlights
Henrik removed all the code related to our experimental CDP (Chrome DevTools Protocol) implementation for browser automation. We also published a fxdx.dev blog post to explain what this means for clients and end users.
The unit converter has now been enabled by default in the address bar, starting in Firefox 141!
e.g. 100 cm to inches, 1m to cm, 30 kg to lbs, 38 celsius in f
- alt text: a conversion of two cups into approximately four hundred and seventy three millilitres.
Units include: angle, force, length, mass, temperature, timezone
For other examples, see our automated tests here
We’re rolling out a change to the release channel this week or next which will remove the descriptive text for stories, to reduce clutter and visual noise. This is part of an ongoing effort to refine the look and feel of New Tab
- alt text: the Firefox new tab page showing six stories without descriptive text under their headlines.
Friends of the Firefox team
Resolved bugs (excluding employees)
Volunteers that fixed more than one bug
Gregory Pappas [:gregp]
Jonas Jenwald [:Snuffleupagus]
New contributors (🌟 = first patch)
Anthony Mclamb: Bug 1967827 — Add moz-input-color link to customElements.js
Brian Ouyang: Bug 1841773 — The link displayed after extension migration appears gray instead of blue as in Figma
🌟Chris Vander Linden: Bug 1888847 — DevTools Storage inspector cookie table rendering issue/misalignment with tall characters
🌟 gaastorgano: Bug 1911190 — Write a site-specific wrapper for kick.com that interprets a video duration of 0x40000000 as +Infinity
Jonas Jenwald [:Snuffleupagus]: Bug 1966086 — PDF 2.0 Metatags
Project Updates
DevTools
Chris Vander Linden fixed the Storage inspector table when it contains tall characters (#1888847)
Roke Julian Lockhart changed the extension of exported logs from .txt to .log (#1969599)
Masatoshi Kimura [:emk] fixed an issue in Netmonitor where responses containing multibyte characters would fail to be decoded (#1968766)
Julien Wajsberg [:julienw] made about:debugging more enjoyable by automatically selecting the runtime page after the connection is done (#1968049)
Holger Benl [:hbenl] fixed a few issues in the Responsive Design Mode toolbar (#1964126, #1968675, #1968677, #1968898)
Alexandre Poirot [:ochameau] made "late" breakpoint (i.e. in unload event listener) to work for iframes (#1892411)
Nicolas Chevobbe [:nchevobbe] fixed an issue where closing RDM would override the "Disable cache" setting in Netmonitor, even though the toolbox was still open (#1672473)
Nicolas Chevobbe [:nchevobbe] fixed a couple Netmonitor crashes, when a JSON response was null (#1968257), and using the (re)send request panel (#1970248)
Hubert Boma Manilla (:bomsy) improved performance by throttle some events in the parent process events on the server side (#1959452) (we were already doing it for content process events)
Hubert Boma Manilla (:bomsy) fixed an issue in the webconsole "pinned-to-bottom" feature where the output could exit this state even though the user didn't scrolled up (#1966005)
WebDriver BiDi
Thanks to :anutrix who removed the usage of six in testing/marionette/ directory.
Julian updated the "browsingContext.navigate" and "browsingContext.reload" commands to wait for the `browsingContext.navigationCommitted` event when using the “wait” condition ”none”.
Julian also implemented a new event "browsingContext.historyUpdated" which is emitted when using history.pushState/replaceState or document.open.
Sasha added support for the "proxy" argument of the "browser.createUserContext" command. This allows clients to setup either a “direct” or “manual” proxy when creating a user context (ie Firefox Container). Support for additional proxy types will be added later on.
Lint, Docs and Workflow
We've now upgraded to ESLint v9.6.0. More version bumps coming soon.
Kagami added a file name matching option to ESLint for service workers to set the globals correctly when the filename is *.serviceworker.(m)js
:gerard-majax enabled the rejected words linter on Rust code.
Migration Improvements
New Tab Page
We are planning on performing our first train-hop from Nightly 141 to Beta 140 next week. This train-hop will update Beta 140’s New Tab to use the code from Nightly 141. This will not ride the trains, so Release 140 will still use the Release 140 New Tab.
RelMan / QA is aware and will be testing both modes.
This is mainly a test to ensure that New Tab can be updated this way.
mconley also added some taskcluster jobs (currently Tier 3) that run Nightly New Tab’s XPI and automated tests against Beta (and eventually Release)
We’ve also in the early stages of an experiment for showing trending searches on New Tab
This is one variant we’re in the early stages of developing:
- alt text: a variant of trending searches displayed under the address bar in the new tab page.
This is another variant that’s in its early stages:
- alt text: a variant of trending searches displayed within a card — situated between two other story cards — in the new tab page.
Picture-in-Picture
Thanks to gaastorgano, a volunteer contributor who provided a patch to make it so that kick.com live-streaming videos don’t show outrageous video durations when opened in Picture-in-Picture
Search and Navigation
Address Bar
The search mode indication is now limited in width to avoid issues with search engines with long names.
The search button in the address bar now has support for selection via mouse up.
Places
We transitioned browser/components/places to use the new moz-src: protocol.
Storybook/Reusable Components/Acorn Design System
New component: moz-breadcrumb-group that displays a horizontal navigation trail - storybook link.
- alt text: three "breadcrumb" sample groups, with one on the left for "first page", one at the center for "previous page", and one on the right for "current page".
moz-select got an icon support (in-page button only, not the dropdown) - storybook link.
- alt text: the moz-select component with a gear icon and a label "Option 1" positioned after the icon.
Clear button on search input enabled for chrome documents
Emilio is burning down search-textbox uses and replacing them with moz-input-search Bug 1968916
moz-button size small is now 24px high
- alt text: a before-and-after comparison of two moz-button components, with the "after" photo showing the moz-button being shorter in height.
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Below the fold
General triage
[mconley] Mossop wrote some interesting things about career levels at Mozilla
[mconley] Context ID module
Please don’t access the context ID preference directly (I’ll be adding linting to try to prevent that). Use the module instead.
[Gijs] You can have try record a video screencast of a test run by passing –env MOZ_RECORD_TEST=1 to your mach try command line. This works on macOS and Linux.
[julian] Link to doc https://firefox-source-docs.mozilla.org/testing/automated-testing/index.html#need-to-get-more-data-out-of-your-tests . Also `MOZ_DEVTOOLS_TEST_SCOPES=1` can be interesting
[Mossop] Searchfox supports a number of extended ways to query. For example instead of the limited path filter box you can do a full regular expression search on the path. For example prefix your search with pathre:\.m?jsx?$ to search all JavaScript files.
[gijs] in the same vein, note that the path box supports ^, $ and * and glob syntax ({foo,bar}).
[gijs] General triage got updated! If you’ve not triaged before, have a read through the doc and ask other folks (or worst case, me) questions if you have them.
(update to the bmo triage.json rotation file is pending as well)
- [nchevobbe via jdescottes] Bulk download your glitch apps: https://support.glitch.com/t/glitch-project-bulk-downloading/75872
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,