

A reminder that Firefox 49 release is scheduled for September 20th.Stay tuned for official word from the team. To help with porting / transitioning, andym reports that the Add-ons Team is landing the ability for WebExtension APIs to be used from SDK and bootstrap.js extension.After analyzing performance and stability data, mconley and felipe report that we are green-lit to ship e10s to release users that have the add-ons on this whitelist installed, as well as WebExtensions.Development kick-off and mailing list coming soon!.The current plan is to design and implement this as a System Add-on.MattN announced that the Form Autofill project has been kicked off!.And a blog post that interprets those results.In an effort to replace XUL themes with something better, jaws and mikedeboer sent out a survey to gather data on how people want to theme their browser.Thanks for using Nightly, and keep on rocking the free web! Highlights To that end, we’re taking a page out of the Rust and Servo playbook, and offering you handpicked updates about what’s going on at the forefront of Firefox development!


We feel that the bleeding edge development state captured in those meeting notes might be interesting to our Nightly blog audience. Details on how to join, as well as meeting notes, are available here. Every two weeks, engineering teams working on Firefox Desktop get together and update each other on things that they’re working on.
