Firefox Nightly: More Kit, More Control – These Weeks in Firefox: Issue 203

Highlights

• James to match the latest approved designs, giving users more polished artwork when the browser encounters connection or security errors!

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  • Added exhaustive test coverage for tabs.move() against additional edge cases related to split-view tabs –, )
  
  
  
  


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WebDriver

• Amin Amir cleaned up an in our documentation about Marionette.


• Sameem improved the Marionette and WebDriver BiDi .


• Henrik Skupin fixed an issue in Marionette where , avoiding up to 60 seconds of unnecessary connection attempts.


• Henrik Skupin updated the (e.g. file-whitespace, test-manifest-toml, license, file-perm, rejected-words & more) to Rust to help improve the runtime of the code review bot.


• Dale has been working on migration to moz-src for and

New Tab Page

• We did our first region-specific trainhop on May 11th (just 15% of the US), and turned on HNT Nova (and sometimes Widgets) for those clients to get some advance-data of its behaviour in the wild! A note that HNT Nova gets turned on for everybody when Firefox 151 ships on May 19th.
  
  
  
  • We’ll be launching a similar experiment in the DE, probably on May 12th, also at 15% population.
  
  
  
  


• Most of the team is heads down building out a sports-tracking widget, attempting to get that ready in time to be generally available for the upcoming World Cup event.


• Dre landed a new world clock widget, which is currently off by default, but pretty snazzy!

Search and Urlbar

• Nova (URL Bar Design Refresh)
  
  
  
  • Drew and Daisuke continued their work on and another to .
  
  
  • Standard8 updated Ecosia favicons to the latest branding, including QA testing and publishing.
  
  
  
  


• Settings Redesign (SRD)
  
  
  
  • Stephanie landed a test to in search.mjs, and is adding test coverage to , and a fix to and .
  
  
  
  


• Standard8 finalized the .


• Moritz landed a fix for URL bar abandonment telemetry being recorded when clicking an engine in the unified search button popup (, and made it so that with expandable action log and markdown table and suggestions and keyboard focus and caching

Settings Redesign

• Settings redesign is being tested and will hopefully go out in Firefox 152!