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• Firefox 52: Introducing Web Assembly, CSS Grid and the Grid Inspector

  Introduction It is definitely an exciting time in the evolution of the web with the adoption of new standards, performance gains, better features for designers, and new tooling. Firefox 52 represents the fruition of a number of features that have been in progress for several years. While many of these ...

  Posted March 07, 2017 by Dan Callahan

• Previewing the WebAssembly Explorer

  WebAssembly is a new, cross-browser format for programs on the Web. You can read all about it in Lin Clark‘s six-part Cartoon intro to WebAssembly. Unlike JavaScript, WebAssembly is a binary format, which means developers need new tools to help understand and experiment with WebAssembly. One such tool is Mozilla’s ...

  Posted March 06, 2017 by Dan Callahan

• Containers Come to Test Pilot

  The Containers feature in Firefox Nightly gives users the ability to place barriers on the flow of data across sites by isolating cookies, indexedDB, localStorage, and caches within discrete browsing contexts. If you’re interested in the history and technology behind Containers, please read this blog post outlining the rationale for ...

  Posted March 02, 2017 by John Gruen

• Web Games Platform: Newest Developments

  In July of 2015 we announced our Games Technology Roadmap, and have been working on addressing those pain points as shared by developers. Games are an important part of the web experience. Mozilla and other browser vendors have been working hard to find alternative paths that developers can migrate to. ...

  Posted March 01, 2017 by Andre Vrignaud

• Doubling Down on Cross-Browser Testing

  As the trends for web access via desktop and mobile converge, it is more important than ever for developers to test their code wherever users choose to access content on the web. This is why Mozilla has partnered with BrowserStack to offer free testing on mobile Firefox for Android (iOS ...

  Posted March 01, 2017 by Arcadio Lainez