Time to get your groove on! It’s Photon Newsletter #16! But first. Do you remember the 21st night of September? As of today (September 21st) Firefox 57 has passed its penultimate milestone by entering Beta. This is a pretty big deal, as it means many millions of users on Beta will soon experience all the … Continue reading Photon Engineering Newsletter #16 →

I’m back from a vacation to see the eclipse, so it’s time for Newsletter #15! (It’s taking me some time to get caught up, so this update covers the last 2 or so weeks.) As noted in my previous update, Mike and Jared took over Newsletter duties while I was out. If you somehow missed … Continue reading Photon Engineering Newsletter #15 →

Let’s get straight into update #12! Oh, hey, anyone notice any icon chances recently? Yeah, they’re pretty wonderful. Or maybe I should say funderful? Looking forward to where they end up! Speaking of looking forward, I’m going to be on vacation for the next two weeks. But fear not! Jared and Mike will be covering … Continue reading Photon Engineering Newsletter #12 →

H*ck yeah, it’s time for another Photon newsletter! They now go to #11! It’s Hip To Be Square So… Perhaps you noticed something ever so slightly different in yesterday’s Nightly. Something less curvy, and more rectangular. Look closely, right there at the tabs. That’s right. No more curvy tabs! Behold, rectangular tabs! This is one … Continue reading Photon Engineering Newsletter #11 →

Woo yeah! Time for Photon newsletter #10! Nightly-57 this week Way back in newsletter #2, I talked about the Photon program schedule. Briefly, to save you a click: Photon is shipping with Firefox 57, and to allow time for bugfixes, quality, and polish we’ve been targeting August 7th as the date when we’ll be done … Continue reading Photon Engineering Newsletter #10 →

Well, here we go again with a big update for Newsletter #9! [Since the last update, I took a vacation and ever since have been getting caught up. So this update is terribly overdue. Sorry about that!] Animations Animations for toolbar icons are finally landing! Yaaaaay! :kermithands: The stop/reload and pin-to-overflow animations are in Nightly, … Continue reading Photon Engineering Newsletter #9 →

Oh boy! Do I have some great updates for Newsletter #8! But seriously, this is a huge update… San Francisco All-Hands This past week Mozilla brought together nearly 1300 employees and contributors to San Francisco for an “All-Hands” – 4 days of intense hacking on improving Firefox. We’re a globally-distributed organization (and that works really … Continue reading Photon Engineering Newsletter #8 →

Lucky you, here’s Photon update #7! Let’s start off with a fresh new video that gives an overview of what we’re doing with the Quantum and Photon projects. If you’re not already running Nightly, but are willing to live on the cutting-edge, this would be a great time to give it a spin! Get involved … Continue reading Photon Engineering Newsletter #7 →

More exciting progress this week! Here’s Photon update #6! New Menus Work on the new Photon menus has reached the point where we’re ready to turn them on by default (for Nightly). Bug 1372309 is tracking the last remaining work (mostly test fixes), and you should see this happen in tomorrow’s Nightly. Up until now you’ve … Continue reading Photon Engineering Newsletter #6 →

Time for a solid update #5! So far the Photon project appears to be well on track — our work is scoped to what we think is achievable for Firefox 57, and we’re generally fixing bugs at a good rate. Search Box? If you’ve been paying attention to any of the Photon mockups and design … Continue reading Photon Engineering Newsletter #5 →