Firefox Nightly: Eyedropper Quick Action, geckodriver 0.37, and Tighter File Permissions – These Weeks in Firefox: Issue 205

Highlights

• Dao added a new Eyedropper quick action! Check it out by typing “color” or “eyedropper” in the URL bar (, which includes support for several new APIs and various bug fixes. See the ).

Friends of the Firefox team

Volunteers that fixed more than one bug

• :Vincent


• Chris Vander Linden


• DrSeed


• Khalid AlHaddad


• Sam Johnson

New contributors (🌟 = first patch)

• Francis :mckenfra:


• pullmana8:

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 /


• 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 –


• 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 –
  
  
  
  • 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 –

DevTools

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• ) and in the accessibility highlighter ( migrated the markup view to HTML (from XHTML) to fix an issue when editing the markup (CodeMirror 6 does not support XHTML) ( fixed an issue in Netmonitor search where it could appear the the search stalled ( added more connection information (ECH, Delegated Credentials, OCSP, Private DNS, …) in Netmonitor Security tab (.


• Khalid AlHaddad updated our codebase to .


• Alexandra Borovova fixed


• Daisuke and Drew worked on a lot of Nova updates, including ensuring Nova is tested @ , , ,


• Middle click paste replaces content was fixed by Moritz @